Connecticut western news., 1907-01-10

It is all too often the fellow who has fooled his summer away and has nei- ther fuel nor food supplies as winter comes on that howls the loudest about his hard luck and unequal opportunity as compared with his more prosperous fellows.
 It Is entirely unreasonable for the disrespectful and discourteous son to Into a model husband at the marriage altar. The kind of son a boy has been is pretty sure index of the kind of husband he will make.
 Observation leads to the belief that the clodhopper differs from the genius not so much in original mental endow- ment as in will power, application and perseverance. The chasm separating the two types is as much due to difference in the use of ones talents as in the talents themselves.
 A careful test recently conducted with a view to showing the compara- tive value of scrubs and Brown Leg horn hens along the line of egg pro- duction showed a margin of 40 cents ahead clear In favor of the thorough bred Biddy and under exactly the same conditions of feed and care.
 The scarcity of labor over the coun- try Is beginning to have disastrous ef- fects on some of the southern indus tries, some of the cotton mills being compelled to sell not more than 80 per cent of their average output simply be- cause labor Is so scarce that there is no prospect that there will be more than enough help to operate the mills beyond 80 per cent of their capacity.
 A north Iowa reader of this depart ment writes inquiring If redtop may be sown with advantage in the fall-disk- ed in on oat stubble We know of no good reason why it should not X num- Der of instances have come under our notice where timothy was disked on stubble in the fall and produced an ex- cellent stand the next season, and we believe redtop would do equally well.
 Spraying experience of the past sea- son has proved beyond question that the earlier treatments are by all odds the most valuable in checking the ap- pie scab and damage from codling moth. So far as we can see, the fruit on the trees which were given thor ough sprayings just before the blos- som buds opened and just after the petals fell is just about as sound as that on trees which were also given the two later sprayings.
 There is not sufficient validity In the goose bone and muskrat house prog nostications of the old fashioned weather prophet so that one would be justified in making provisions for any less than the usual amount of food and fuel for the coming winter. If a fellow lays in fuel supplies adequate for the coldest winter and has some left in his bin when spring comes 1t is certainly a good omen, and he has that much at least to be thankful for.
 A wind break is one of the first things to consider when one Is thinking of engaging in fruit raising. This is as necessary for the smaller varieties of fruit as we'll as the orchard The char acter of the wind break should depend somewhat upon how extensive ones operations are to be. A thick hedgerow of evergreens or stretch of woodland is best and will serve to keep out the severer currents of air as well as keep in the necessary moisture.
 We have on our home lawn a Winter Abort which this year bore a bushel of very handsome apples. The fruit Is a bright russet red in color, very uniform in size, trifie smaller nosed and somewhat longer tran the Wealthy and as yet too hard to be good eating. The apple is of good quality, being pleasant to the taste and of firm texture. Although in blue grass sod, the tree seems to be hardy and vigorous and all in all gives prom ise of being a useful winter variety.
 Professor Hansen of the South Dako- ta Agricultural college is now in Flu rope looking for fruit which may be cultivated on the wind swept prairies of his home state. Some years ago Professor Hansen made a similar trip as a result of which he introduced the drought proof brome grass, which has proved a boon in many semiarid locali- ties. He also introduced a number of varieties of fruit which have seemed well adapted to the northern states. On this trip he will take special pains to visit Siberia and secure samples of her hardest shade and fruit trees, grasses and grains. The South Dakota station with which Mr. Hansen has been connected has done the agricul- tural interests of the west and north west an immense service by encourag- ing and assisting in the introduction of better methods as well as improved and hardy varieties of wheat and other grain