Connecticut western news., 1907-07-04


 Where the family COW can be dried up without serious consequence she should be given four or five weeks rest between her periods of lactation. She will be the better for the let-up when she comes fresh.
 One locality in Indiana derives handsome revenue from the culture of peppermint having 1000 acres devoted to the raising of this plant. Another district just across the line in Michi- gan is engaged in the culture of the plant on an even more extensive scale.
 People who bite on fake goods and investment schemes are entitled to a somewhat less degree of respect than the fellows whose suckers they in the end prove to be in that both are trying to get something for nothing, a game in which the latter succeed and the former fail
 The fellow whose seed is good enough so that he doesn't need to give i. scientific testing is quite like ly to be the same one who will be husking thirty-five bushels to the acre next fall, be alarming" Providence and bemoaning his bad luck. There's no hope for this kind
 Recent statistics as to the number of farm animals In the United States Jan. 1, 1907. credit Iowa with S.5S4, 500 hogs. worth at S9.50 each S81, ,522. .75O; Illinois with 4,449, ,1O5 hogs, averaging $S40 each and worth a total of S37,- 37T,522; Nebraska with 4,OS9. 900, worth at $S.70 each $35, 5,49O,OOO.
 From the standpoint of agricultural economy 1t Is just as blameworthy a practice to have field lying bare and idle as the result of a poor stand of corn as 1t Is to have the same area growing nothing but weeds. A full stand represents the maximum of eco noruic utility and efficiency.
 Before whitewashing the henhouse and oiling the roostS 1t Is a capital idea to fumigate the poultry quarters. hio may pC SShoAs eAOhC bJ Adhil5 n saovelful of live hardwood coals and sprinkling a handful of powdered sul- phur over them. X smudge will re- suit that Is death to all kinds of yer min The henhouse should be closed tight during the operation and tho hens shut out.
 1t has been proved by a number of careful tests that where the original fertility of the soil has not been seri- ously depleted by wrong methods of farming the application of commercial fertilizers does not result in a crop in- crease sufficient to defray the cost of application. Commercial fertilizers have no place whatever in ordinary agricultural operations where proper crop rotation Is maintained.
 1t .s worth while for the stock feeder to remember that the chief merits and rolceming feature of the average stock fcod consist in the percentages of corn, bran, oats, alfalfa and oilmeal which they may contain. The intelli- gent feeder will be able to form a nu- tritive and we'll balanced ration from the feeds mentioned which will not only prove vastly more economical than the high priced tonics put up In fancy packages, but just.as effective.
 A friend who was kind hearted, but did not understand much about food clements and their effects on the bo- vine organism, put a heifer which was soon to be fresh and which had spent the winter in the cornstalks on a rather heavy ration of cornmeal. with the result that at calving time her ud- der was so caked that 1t was almost purple, and 1t was six weeks before it was restored to a normal condition. Corn is heating, and but little of 1t should be fed at such a time. Give rather moderate rations of oats. bran aEd shorts, which furnish the system with food elements that are much needed but which at the same time do not have heating effect
 The whole philosophy of the mainte- ).2nce as we'll as of the restoration of oil fertility Is briefly and concisely expressed In the following figures, which indicate the fertility which Is taken from the soil In the sale of diff ferent products: It has been ascertain ed that when the farmer sells a ton of wheat he sells S11.62 in fertility; a ton of oats, $7.81: ton of corn, $e.47; a ton of beef, $5.S7; a ton of hogs, $3.10; ton of milk, $1. 48; ton of cheese, 68 cents in fertility and ton of butter but 27 cents This price list, as it, were, ought to be pasted In large fig ures on the barn door, so that the pro- prietor could see 1t every day. It is. the whole story in a nutshell.