Connecticut western news., 1907-09-26

One section of California last year received $19S,0O0 for the product of 56O acres of strawberries.
 He is a shortsighted farmer who to save a small amount in the repairing of farm buildings. sacrifices twice or three times the cost of the repairs in the loss of stock.
 We have found nothing better than mellow earth for banking up the house, in the spring and can be used in the hotbed the latter part of March.
 Snow, shelled corn and a barbed wire fence for outdoor shelter are not calculated to superinduce any partic- ular gratitude or response In egg pro duction on the part of one's flock of hens.
 When a single load of wool will bring its owner a check for S7O0 1t ought not to take the farmers of a community very long to realize that not only good but easy money can be made in raising sheep.
 The potato storeroom should be dry, cool, dark and well ventilated. Where large quantities are piled together it Is well to have a double floor beneath, with opportunity for ventilation at the walls and at intervals through the pile.
 It is all too often the fellow who has fooled his summer away and has nci- ther fuel nor food supplies as winter comes on that howls the loudest about his hard luck and unequal opportunity as compared with his more prosperous fellows.
 Things are trif1e out of joint If the good housewife has to go to the horse managers or corncrib of a morning to get kindling for the kitchen fire. A convenient supply of kindling and dry wood should be viewed as a necessity in every household.
 The careful removal of the old weeds from the garden patch before they scatter all their seed will save a whole lot of stick work next spring and sum- mer. The seed In q mature pigwced stands for a wheelbarrow load or so of young weeds next season.
 With a stand of bees netting its owner annually from S5 to $1O way would seem to be indicated for those so inclined to make a snug sum of easy money at beekeeping. A better combination could hardly be had than bees, fruit and poultry, and 1t is one that a good many are following.
 While there Is no Justification what ever for a violation of the law and a disregard of the rights of others by autoists on the country roads, 1t is well for the women folk to take the most docile animal on the place for their trips to town on market day. The fractious or spirited horse would better be kept at work in the field or turned out to pasture. 2.
 Both the hardy catalpa and the black locust make excellent post material, the former making serviceable post in from ten to twelve years and the latter in from eight to ten. In both cases the best results are secured where the tract on which they grow Is given thorough cultivation, which in- sures a rapid and vigorous growth, rI s,, 1p Io+ ,Je +e lessen the damage from the borer, which is its worst enemy.
 Many districts of the western states which make a speciality of growing cantaloupes have been struck with blight which seems to have been to some extent brought on and aggravat- ed by rains and heavy dews and which does not seem to be materially checked by any spray that has yet been tried. Headway in fighting the disease seems to have been made chiefly along the line of a rotation of crops and the planting of disease resistant seed.
 If the boys and girls are to get the best results out of their work at school they should be supplied with all of the required books and other neces- sary equipment. It is to be deplored that many people are handicapped for lack of these things and the work of the teacher greatly increased. It is worth while remembering that the same Providence which created flies provided most of the domestic animals with tails with which to switch them off.
 Experience teaches that as a rule, things are likely to turn out just O little better than one anticipates, Il condition that is especially noticeable in those who are of a somewhat pes simistic state of mind. 4 fact often forgotten Is that optimism is every way better than hessimism, for the op- is-f