Connecticut western news., 1908-05-14

tain phase of the moon. The peach crop of the country has suffered Its regular annual freeze and extinction-in the columns of the daily
 press. Packing time will have to be
 relied on to give an accurate status of
 the situation. 1 Never before have oranges been so
 plentiful and so fine both from the standpoint of quality and size as they are this year. They have been especial | ly enjoyed because apples have been both poor and scarce. If field counted on for the growing of corn is considerably below standard in point of fertility 1t will quite likely produce larger crop of corn from an
 average stand of two than from stand of three or four kernels to the
 hill
 try resident will enjoy when they
 come to town is once in awhile a din-
 ner at the hotel or attending an inter
 esting and wholesome play. Many take advantage of such opportunities, | but many more do not.
 Those who have kept close track of the number of field mice. gophers and
 rabbits devoured by the average "hen" hawk have estimated its cash value to
 the farmer at $10 per annum. Tn view
 of these figures there is certainly no
 money in killing this bird.
 The department of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin has in the
 greenhouse a banana tree which has this year come into fruitage and borne and ripenedia large bunch of bananas 1 This is the first time that this has oc-
 cured at point so far north. ]. | In estimating the total returns from l his farm during the year the owner | ought not to overlook the living which l he and his family have had from it in
 the course of the year, an item which
 in the expense account of the fellow | in town runs all the way from $250 to l SGO0. An eastern experiment station which
 has tested various kinds of feed for l work horses reports that one of the
 most effective and nutritive rations is l composed of hundred pounds of corn I meal, hundred pounds of ground
 oats and fifty pounds of wheat mid | dlings.
 The verdict of those who have made
 a close study of the habits of the com
 mon ground mole is that the damage it | does In ridging up the soil in garden or on lawn is more than atoned for by its destruction of the common white grub,
 which constitutes its chief article of food. It Is the mice which sometimes | follow in the burrow of the mole which
 do damage to the roots of plants and shrubs.
 Luxuriance Of growth in the common garden flowers may be to some extent influenced by the vigor and thriftiness of the parent stock. but is quite likely to be more largely determined by the richness of the soil in which the seed
 is sown or the plants are set. A rich soil. coupled with abundant moisture and that degree of sunshine or shade
 which the particular variety seems to demand. will produce the desired re-
 suits.
 With a view to increasing its stock of game birds, Kansas is underta king
 the experiment. of introducing Hun
 garian cartridges. ten pairs of which species having been recently turned
 loose on ranch near Cottonwood
 Falls. These birds resemble the com mon quail of Kansas, but are larger
 being about two-thfrds the size of
 prairie chickens. It is believed that
 the new birds can be successfully prop
 agated under conditions which prevail
 in the state.
 In some of their ways dogs are not
 stances are comparatively frequent
 where dogs that are models of pro-
 priety and good behavior in the day.
 time will. under cover of darkness,
 when the folks on the place are abed,
 range over the country for miles around, raiding sheep herds, chasing cattle and horses in pasture, raising the deuce generally and seeming to show an instinctive belief in the faIla- cy that they arc mt going to lose standing and reputation for that which
 they do in the dark.