Connecticut western news., 1907-06-20

If COW kicks she usually has a reason for 1t, as Is very often the case with the human species.
 A rattle In the spokes of the buggy wheel may be call for rain or for visit to the blacksmith shop for need ed repairs.
 The small boy with the slingshot is usually not a discriminating student of birds. To him every feathered thing looks like a bluejay or an English sparrow.
 We once knew a fellow who was keen for spots on the sun, but who seemed to be absolutely oblivlous to the disorder and confusion in his own back yard.
 It is not the financial possession or mental and moral capacities that one finds himself equipped with, but the use he makes of what he is possessed of, that really determines ones stand ing as true man or woman.
 Is not the soft water cistern one Of the improvements that you can afford to make this season for the convent ence of the housewife? It will not cost a large sum, yet will be a con venience the use of which will extend over many years.
 Lawn mowers in the farmers front yard are a pretty good evidence that things are looked after in systematic fashion out behind the house. If light running machine Is bought, the running of it provides healthful out door diversion for the women of the household.
 An ointment that should be always kept on hand and which is excellent for the healing of cuts and bruises, is made by mixing one-half ounce of carbolic acid with five ounces of olive oil or mutton tallow. It is just as eff fcacious as the salves which come in fancy boxes, and costs much less. A western municipality hit upon the plan of compelling all hoboes who ap- applied to the city authorities for as- sistance to dig dandelions in the public parks and streets. It is reported that the Weary Willie company steered as shy of the town as they would have of a community afflicted with a scourge of smallpox.
 While natural instinct seems to serve bird life in good stead in most cases, they now and then seem to manifest entire lack of 1t. This is illustrated l in cases where robins and sparrows | build their nests on the undertimbers of bridges, where the chances are ten to one that when their f1edgelings leave l the nest they will fall into the water | and drown.
 While long spell of dry weather | during the growing season is a source | of anxiety and often results in dam- | age to crops, it is a boom to the farm | CT in his work of weed killing, almost | compensating for the possible damage | to crops as a result of the drought. Moreover, the thorough system of cul- 1 tivation, which means death to the weeds, serves also to conserve in the l largest degree possible the moisture which may be in the soil.
 The need of spreading the gospel of | good roads is the more readily seen when one realizes that during the year | 1905-06 the cost of hauling the twelve leading crops from farm to market-in all 50,000,000 tons-was effected at a cost of about $S5, 100000, or more than , per cent of their value at the local market. Any highway improvement which will enable farmers to haul larger loads and do it more quickly will tend to reduce largely this heavy item of cost in the marketing of agri- cultural produce
 That formalin is not virulent poi son when taken into the internal ani- nal organism we had demonstrated to our own satisfaction two or three weeks ago. The family bossy got out and drank about five gallons of q di- | lute formalin solution made up at the rate of pint of 40 per cent for malin to thirty gallons of water. | When we learned what had happened we were fearful that we might have a case of bovine heart failure on our hands, but boss chewed her cud com- placently and so far as we could learn did not utter a moo of distress or pain.
 Where circumstances are such that considerable manure accumulates dur ing the early summer, 1t Is we'll to scatter 1t liberally In the orchard un- der the trees that are this season set l f,nlI of fruit The Idoo --.il. 4.,