Connecticut western news., 1911-07-13

DAY, JULY I3, 1911. The lately introduced galvanized hen GOODS are dry in wet spells and skunk and rat proof, but they get hotter than the old scratch if the sun Is allowed to shine on them directly. To prevent this they should be put under tree or shielded from the sun with canvas or other cover.
 Shade is just as refreshing to ami mals i'll pasture as to folks on picnics, and this is especially true during the months when the fly pest Is at its worst. Where there are not trees in the pasture to furnish this shade q shelter of some kind should be erected which will provide it.
 The driving or work horses will ap- preciate a shower bath at the close of hot, dusty day fully as much as does their owner or caretaker who divests himself of his sweaty duds and slips into some refreshing stream or lake. Moreover, it does the quadruped just as much good as the biped.
 The presence of the small leaved, yellow blossom sorrel on the lawn or in pasture is a pretty good sign that the soil is sour and needs toning up with some lime. For this purpose a little slacked lime will do very nicely. If you have such sorrel spots try the lime and see what effect it will have.
 That horticulturist would establish a high place for himself who by some nl- chemy could endow the peony, al- ready marvelously beautiful as to flower, with the delicate fragrance of the violet or rose. The peony has been made to produce a marvellous bloom, but like some other things it is more highly esteemed if one keeps a few feet away from it.
 Even so harmless a thing as water is a bad thing out of place, as is shown in the federal pure food law, which levies a fine of cents pound on all butter offered for sale which contains more than Is per cent of moisture. The professional butter maker usually works up as close to this limit as he thinks is safe so as to make a good showing with his over run.
 If the Sunday rest was ordained for any one class more than another it was for the farmers wife, who in the natural order of things has to get three square meals and sometimes lunches seven days out of every week. The considerate husband will not only be willing that this Sunday cooking work should be reduced to a minimum, but will do what he can to make 1t pos sible.
 The grind connected with milking cows is enough under the most favor able circumstances so that the right thinking man will get rid of any COW in his herd when he finds out that she Is giving just barely enough milk or making only enough butter to pay for her board. And the dairyman who is half bright won't keep d member of this improbable tribe about him any longer than is absolutely necessary.
 If the material used is good and the job is properly done the equipping of the tallest of the farm buildings with lightning rods is a very cheap kind of insurance. However. under no circum- stances should any deal be made for such work with the smooth represent atives of some distant and unknown lightning rod concern, for the paper one signs is apt to turn up as a note for several times the amount agreed upon.
 There are a good many cases when farmer makes a mistake by buying the next eighty" especially when he already has more land than he can debt for the purchase. But 1t would be far better to, invest surplus money in the "next eighty" or most any other eighty" whose location and fertility are known than to squander it in some faraway and illusive oil or mining in- vestment scheme.
 Readers of this department will re- member that about year ago it con- tained an article under the caption 'The Federal Protection of Birds" Correspondence had at the time with the director of the biological survey of the department of agriculture at Wash ington showed that no we'll defined at tempt had ever been made to secure the passage of law of this character, largely through lack of some one to take an interest in this larger aspect of the bird problem. However, we