Connecticut western news., 1909-10-07
FARMING TOPICS
 TERSELY TREATED
REAL GUMPTloN ON THE FARM

ms WTlIer makeS interesting he-
 marks on Many Things, From Wood
 Piles to the Storing of Fruits and
 Vegetables.
 If you hoe your own row with dili- gence you will have little leisure to note how your neighbor is hoeing his.
 Better have patches on your pants, than lot of unpaid bills and threaten ing creditors.
 How eau any man sleep well at night when he has scolded and whipped his horses all day.
 Beginning to think about your wood pile? That's right Cold nights make us creep about the stove.
 Enough dry wood and chips to last week ahead is riches; fire out and the last stick gone is poverty.
 If you tell boy. day after day, that he isn't earning his salt, Inc will soon be likely to work done to that estimate.
 If the soil needs underdraining, now is an excellent time to lay the tiles. They should be at least two and half feet deep.
 Don't give the cats and dogs stale. dirty or soapy water to drink. See that it is clean and fresh. You know how it is yourself.
 It pays better to be behind everybody else in getting fall grain sowed, and thus have the ground we'll stirred, than to hog over 1t and have it half done.
 Money spent on booze is wasted, spent on clothes is vanity, spent on food is gone, and fooled away is wicked; bus money spent for seed or A fruit tree is wisely invested.
 The patrons along 6 rural route are apt to expect too much from the carrier. It would be great help to the farmer to apply to the government for copy of the postal laws in reference to the re- gulation of rural carriers.
 Are you planning to build new house this fall? Don't make it too large. Many houses are so large that the women folks are kept scrubbinS good share of the time. Large enough for all practical purposes, but no larger, should be the rule.
 In an address on the subject of GOTH, Professor Beal remarked that the top most ear was the best for seed; of two fields, one planted with seed taken at random and the other selected in the field, the latter yielded as much again as the former.
 If rye is sowed this fall as a green manure for potatoes next season, be- lieve it would be better to blow it under next spring after it gets good start and not wait till it gets tall. Then the rye will rot better before planting time and you will get more good from it.
 Keeping cabbages: Select dry place in the patch, pull up the cabbagsH and stand closely together, heads down. Cover with soil from five to ten inches, thinly at first so they will not heat, covering only enough to prevent freezing as the season advances. The burying beds may be made from four to six feet wide.
 The following method will appeal to every farmer as the easiest, quickest and least expensive plan for storing all kinds of fruit and vegetables, from potato to pumpkin: Arrange the fruit or veg etRbles in long row, as high and as wide as would seem advisable. Spread little hay over them, and set up fodder on each side to the desired thickness say, three or four feet This affords excellent protection from ordinary cold; and in the case of pumpkin, turnip or cabbage storage. or any other article fed to stock, you have the means at hand with which to form a most desirable balanced ration as you feed out the corn and fodder. This method will prove especially valuable to renters and others who are compelled to move early in the spring, when it would be extremely un- handy to chop through the frozen ground, and fish out fruit or vsgetA- bles from the old.fashionsd "hols" or pit.-From October Farm Journal