Connecticut western news., 1907-04-11

The time to devote attention to the raising of colts is when most of your neighbors are quitting because horses are cheap.
 It seems to be hard injustice that poverty of food and clothing as we'll as shortage of fuel usually go hand in hand and are found under the same leaky roof.
 The successful or the unsuccessful farmer is quite accurately designated when one ascertains whether he is raising thirty-fve or seventy-ive bush els of corn to the acre.
 With the telephone, rural delivery. furnace and bathroom within reach of practically all we'll to do people life on the farm is different proposition from what it used to be years ago. The fat hogs and big steers furnish the bank account, and willing workmen do the rest
 The farmer who works on from year ito year and doesn't value the time he puts in himself as worth at least S2 per day is certainly prosecuting agri- culture under considerable of handi cap. The fellow who is satisfied to work for his board and lodging only can hardly be called a success.
 As satisfactory plan as any for the home garden is to SOW lettuce and radish seed together in the row, but not too thick When the radishes are pulled out the lettuce will have room to expand. If especially large heads are desired, they may be produced by transplanting, setting the plants about ten inches apart each way.
 While there are number of orchard fists of the old school who still hold to the we'll worn horticultural maxim that the time to do pruning is whenever one is in the orchard, yet 1t is coming to be conceded that this work is best done from March to June. during which season wounds made will heal most completely and rapidly.
 A half acre family garden properly managed will produce vegetables for home consumption easily worth $100, which is considerably more than ten times what can be got from an equal area devoted to ordinary farm crops. Keep a book account of the receipts and expenditures of the home garden this year and it will surprise you.
 Some extra early potatoes may be had by starting few hills in boxes in a south window or in the hotbed and transplanting to the open ground when danger of frost Is past. Old strawberry boxes may be used for this purpose. This will prevent serious dis turbance of the roots when they are moved. The same plan may be follow ed in the case of eucumbers and beans
 A fellows standard of values is bad ly askew if while he is acquiring more acres and getting larger bank ac- count he is not likewise achieving in the estimate of his fellows that which Is of infinitely more importance-a rep utation for honesty. generosity and de- cency. 1t is mighty unprofitable transaction If in accommodating his pile" a fellow becomes an all round stinker
 Negotiations are on foot at present for the location of big colony of Japs on a 5O,OOO acre tract of land on the line of the Canadian Pacific rail- road in Alberta, northwest Canada The energies of the settlers will be de voted to the raising of wheat. sugar beets and such other crops as they may find profitable. Used to the most intensive as well as painstaking type of agriculture. they will doubtless ap- ply the same to the area in question and make it blossom as the rose.
 In view of the fact that the seed drill will sow grain at very uniform depth. leaving none exposed on top of the ground, and requires less seed than the prevailing surface and broadcast meth od. and the further fact that grain so sown makes much more uniform and even stand. we are at a loss to under stand why so few of these machines are used west of the Mississippi river. there being none at all in many locali- ties. As land advances in value it is bound to be that greater economies will have to be practiced with a view to producing maximum yields, and the one mentioned belongs to this class
 Unless the garden patch has a south ern exposure or has substantial wind breaks on the side from which the cold winds come there is really no ad- vantage in very early blowing and planting. as the seed of whatever kind sown simply remains in cold storage until the ground warns sufficiently to germinate 1t and start 1t to growing. Many favor postponing the blowing until the ground is thoroughly warm, claiming that by this method the sur face weed seeds are not only germinat- ed and plowed under, but that the seeds planted make almost as rapid headway as those put in several weeks earlier