Connecticut western news., 1907-07-25

for summer out or BOOTS Ill tue uoNeA garden plot. The asparagus fern does better if kept in the house.
 It is the small saving and prudent during early years that are responsible for the difference between comfort and poverty in old age.
 A cultivation of the potato field after the vines are ripe and even dead will greatly reduce the production of the weed seed which usually natures after the crop is laid by.
 Not all folks can be missionaries, through lack of opportunity or ability, | but there are none whohD talents are so modest that they cannot be kind and | helpful in the home and neighborhood life.
 Kindness shown farm animals is not i only justifiable from the standpoint of | financial profit, but also because 1t ex- erts reflex influence upon the charac- ter and disposition of the person who has the care of them.
 With a little careful training in the first few weeks young turkeys can be taught so that they will keep the cab bage patch free from the green worm which is the worst pest 1t has to con- tend with.
 Only the greatest benignity and leni- ency on the part of the weather man will permit the most belated fields of a uniformly belated corn crop to ma ture ears of sufficient soundness to keep through the winter. ..r
 As a rule, that is the most commenda- ble system of farm management under which a maximum amount of animal fertilizers Is produced. Not only more money is made under such q system, but there is a constant increase in soil fertility a=.-
 Fruit of all kinds is about three weeks late in all of the northern states. In the locality where the writer lives home grown strawberries, which are usually on the market by the 7th of June, did not show up this year until the 2Sth.
 In horsedom the rule also holds good that Ito him that hath shall be given" I for it is usually the horse that has the slimmest bill of fare that has to spend most time and energy fighting flies, | while the we'll fed animal is usually provided with good nets.
 ] WilIiston, Fla, is the center of a dis \ trict which last year produced 56,0O0 baskets of cucumbers to supply north ern markets and this year expects to produce in the neighborhood of 10000 baskets, making it one of the leading { '"cake'' producing centers of the csun- try.
 The terrapin scale, resembling in some respects the destructive San Jose
 scale, is doing considerable damage to orchard and forest trees in states east
 of the Mississippi as well as some in the south While the lime sulphur
 wash is an effective preventive for the San Jose scale, the kerosene emulsion
 is the only spray that will hold the
 new pest in check.
 There is no fruit which is more
 luscious when picked at the proper
 stage than blackberries, and also no
 fruit which appears In more limited
 quantities on the average market. The
 work connected with sse winter cover
 ing of the vines and the disagreeable
 work of picking doubtless account for
 the fact that this prime fruit is not ; more generally raised.
 It is quite apparent that a method : for the proper handling of an orchard in one part of the country, this touch ing whether clean cultivation, should be given or the orchard allowed to run to grass and mulch given the trees, may not be the best for an or chard located in a different section and growing under different meteoro- logical and soil conditions. The care of the orchard is in sense an individ- ual matter, each tract needing q thor ough study and handling in a manner I best suited to its needs.
 I There are localities in some of the western states where instead of killing
 wolves and other predatory animals . farmers have been known to protect them to the extent of leaving them un-
 disturbed so that they might receive a
 bounty on the belts of their young.
 Where such condition of things exists
 it is quite safe to conclude that the :, damage which such animals do by
 preying on stock and poultry is not
 equal to the bounty which the farmer
 hopes to realize from a capture of the
 young. That destruction of predaceous animals which takes place when no ' bounty is offered is not only the most
 economical from the standpoint of tue
 taxpayrs, bat the most effective as
 well.