Connecticut western news., 1909-04-22


 exceptional in more points than one It was the largest exhibition of apples ever held under one roof. A total of fifteen carloads of apples was on ex- hibition, amounting to 10000 boxes The total attendance at the exposition was 1O2,OOO.
 A western exhibitor who attended the National Horticultural, exposition at Council Bluffs, la, remarked to friend (not for publication that even the pigs out in his country wouldn't be caught eating a Ben Davis or Wolf River apple If there were Winesap ol Jonathan trees about. The western hog Is discriminating fellow.
 Probably there is no class of mel who are today buying more automo- piles than farmers and it may be add ed that there is no class which can better afford to buy them. If this tendency keeps on 1t will not be long before farmers as a class, appreciating more fully than now perhaps the ad vantages of smooth, hard roads, vii! join hands in a definite campaign for road improvement. The reform will come when both town and country fellows get after 1t seriously.
 The gradually increasing price of corn during the past three years is quite accurately reflected in the de- crease in the exports of the cereal The experts for 1906 were 02,51S,S17 bushels, in 1907 S3,2OO,S72 bushels. while during 1908 but 37.577,717 bush els were sent abroad.
 One farmer living three or four miles from Twin Falls, Ida, reports three crops of alfalfa from a forty acre tract that measured in the stack ten tons per acre. This is calculated to give the eastern granger, who strug- gles hard to cure two tons per acre In a season, a sort of tired feeling.
 Complaint is being made in several states that shipments of ornamental shrubs and plants from Holland and France are badly infested with eggs of the brown tailed moth. Of forty three shipments into one state inspec- tion by state officers showed that twenty-one were infested with the pest.
 Estimates issued by the crop report ing board of the department of agri- culture give the amount of corn in the farmers hands on March 1, 1909, as 39.3 per cent of last years crop, equiv alent to 1,947, ,763,OOO bushels. It is es- timated that 21.3 per cent of this amount will be shipped out of the counties in which it was grown.
 A mechanical quack grass extermi- nator has lately been put on the mar ket, being combination of blow and rotary rake, which pulls the roots of the grass free from the soil. He is indeed fortunate who does not have to investigate into the merits of this machine.
 A good part of California's success in fruit growing is said to be due to the fact that there are within her bor- derS 45,0OO Italians. who are usually rated as the most painstaking and sue cessful hOrticulturists in the world. These people own 2,72G farms in the state, while the value of their fruit farms and business interests is placed at $115,O00,OOO.
 A gasoline engine of fairly docile type is a big improvement over the average windmill in that it Is not put out of business by a windstorm and will jog along satisfactorily whether the wind is blowing or not Besides this, when properly mounted it can be taken where the owner wills to saw wood, shred fodder. grind corn or dc other useful tasks.
 The country dog that rushes out at every passing team and sometimes frightens them into running away iG an all round nuisance and should hr suppressed. He can be broken of the habit when a puppy if he is larruped soundly every time he tries the trick, and if this does not effect reform the owner would confer a favor on society by breaking the brute's rock