Connecticut western news., 1907-05-02

As a rule, the most fertile as we'll as the best managed farms are those that are worked by the men who own them.
 Wood ashes, salt and soapsuds may be put on the asparagus bed to ad- vantage, and larger and more vigorous shoots will be the result
 It Is more often scrub care than scrub stock that is responsible for the rough financial sledding that good many farmers encounter.
 Soil fertility is n good deal like the milking capacity of good dairy COW, in that it is a good deal easier to main tain 1t than it Is to restore it after it is lost.
 We have known folks who seldom in- dulged their early rising inciinations beyond the point of setting the alarm at an early hour OH the evening be- fore.
 The pile of horse manure Is the chief breeding place of the common house fly. Keeping the pile sprinkled witt! lime will tend to reduce the fly pest materially.
 It is the crop of weeds that grows and natures it's seed after the culti- yated crops are laid by that befouls the ground and makes untold work for another season.
 There are two things the landowner Is justified in going into debt fora manure spreader and a tiling of his wet acres. Both are sure to fetch gen erous returns on the money invested.
 The barren cornstalh is one of the worst weeds with which a cornfield can be infested. These come from weak and sickly seed whose vitality is very largely used up in the process of germination.
 A very rich piece of land may be able to grow an average of four stalks of corn to the hill advantageously. Many another which has been mis- treated will produce maximum yield with only two In the hill.
 Unless the hand separator is thor oughly cleaned out and scalded each time it is used the economy effected in the matter of time through using 1t Is lx,- Ioko f;o,, of the butter product resulting.
 If the spare hours during March were properly employed, some of the farm vehicles and machinery were given a coat of paint. It is more often lack of paint than wear that causes the wood en portions of vehicles and machinery ito go to pieces.
 In many localities in the north cen ;tral states it is entirely useless to try ems or turkeys have the run of the farm and thus keep in check the grass hopper pest, which relishes nothing more than the young alfalfa plant.
 If care is taken to plant a row of sweet corn every ten days, beginning with the earliest varieties and ending with the evergreen corn, continuous supply of one of the most relished gar. den vegetables may be secured All too often the sweet corn season is of but two or three weeks duration when it ought to cover six or eight
 Under the operation of the lately en- acted federal pure food law pure maple 'sirup will not only be mighty scarce article, but will also fetch a fancy price The common folks will have to be content with brown sugar corncob .-oncoction, which will taste just as good as that which we have often bought under a fancier name.
 A paris green solution suitable for killing the worms on the currant and gooseberry bushes as we'll as fixing the potato beetles may be made by adding one-quarter pound of the chem ical to fifty gallons of water. In order to prevent a burning of the folia~e one-half pound of freshly slaked il.le should be added and stirred In.
 There are good many swindles that can be worked to q considerable ex- tent and the victims be none the wiser but when one defrauds the soil by wrong systems of tillage and robs it of its fertiliZing elements the theft is automatically registered and cannot be covered up. Crop returns are an unerring detective of this kind of swindle.
 There are two classes of charity boarders which should not be tolerated -the hulk of boy that is lazy and won't do a lick of work if he can help it and the dairy cow that does not give milk enough to pay for the feed she consumes. The former should be put