Connecticut western news., 1907-05-02

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 The use of the manure spreader means a maximum of fertilizer value at a minimum of manual labor
 Illinois is at the head of the list with 37,00O rural delivery postal routes, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana and Pennsylvania following not far behind in the order named
 Dairymen in a portion of Denmark report that by means of testing ana selection 5000G cows made an increase of thirty-six pounds of butter fat per COW in one year.
 Feeding tests lately made by an eastern feeder show the production of milk on a ration of cowpea hay at a cost of S3.9S per hundredweight, while with grain ration it wasf60.5 cents.
 It is a more satisfactory as well as more profitable proposition to go through n field of corn and pull out the oyerstand than it is to try to fill up the hills where stalks,are missing.
 1t is. quite likely to be the fellow who Tstarves and robs his titled fields of their fertility who is also in tho habit of turning his cattle on to pasture about three weeks before he; ought to.
 Odd places and corners in the garden may just as well be made to grow to- 1 mato vines or hills of beans as q mess of unsightly weeds. It is quite safe to assume that if something useful is not grown on such places something harmful will. It is law of plant as well as human life.
 While; insecticides will uo good deal | to protect the melons, squashes and | cucumbers from the striped bug. the | safest way Is to construct boxes foot !! square of six inch stuff and tack mosquito netting over the top. This | will effectively protect the tender vines until the bug pest is past.
 A series Of experiments conducted | with some of the alkali soils in the | western states seems to show that | they will grow good crops of sugar beets where they will not produce grasses or legumes. If this proves to be generally true, it will have been an fact worth finding out.
 The blithesome widow of thirty who .marries the foxy widower of sixty in the expectation that she is going ito fall heir to good share Of his prop | erty, but after marrying him finds that his property has all been transferred to a third party, is not entitled to and will not receive very much sympathy.
 Some one has recommended sowing I "a few fiaxseeds in every hill of pota toes, claiming that this will prevent ravages by the Colorado potato beetle. Any of our readers who are of an ,ex- perimenting turn of mind can try the plan and report their success. On the same principle the presence of a toma- to vine in hill of cucumbers is said to ward off the striped squash bug.
 Killing of weeds is but one of the two chief purposes of filling growing crops The other is the stirring and |
  sibie a free circulation of air through ! it and to prevent too rapid evapora- tion of the moisture which 1t contains. \ Although field of corn or other crop may be perfectly clean, one of the most important reasons for cultivation | still exists.
 What a godsend it would be in view of the scarcity of agricultural laborers in almost all sections of the country | if thousands of the surplus population in many of our large cities. who are ! underfed and are suffering for lack of | sunshine and fresh air, could be in | duced to go into the country and in | part supply this demand for labor! | Could such a situation be brought | about everybody concerned would be benefited.
 A tree planting custom is in vogue in the state of Massachusetts that | might be followed with profit by many | of her sister commonwealths. For a number of years past the state high [ way commission has made a practice of setting out along the highways of the state between 5000 and 4,00O trees, their thought being that the shade re- Suitfng not only tends to save the |