Connecticut western news., 1913-01-16

No animal recovers so slowly from low condition nor is so apt not to re- cover at ali as sheep.
 Prime fat lambs cannot be produced by alternate grass and grain. They must be pushed to lay on fat from start to finish.
 It will be n good idea to see that the spray tank is we'll drained before the freezing weather comes on, and the cylinders of the engine. too, if 1t Is n water cooled machine.
 1t is absolutely essential that sheep
 be provided with the very best of drinking water. A sheep does not like
 filthy water. and 1t will suffer thirst great while before drinking 1t.
 It can be taken as pretty sure sign that fall is at hand when of an evening the houseflies take to roasting on the upper part of the kitchen screen door to get the benefit of the heat escaping from within the house.
 Experiments which have been made show that if n heavy residual oil is mixed in with the ingredients usually used in the making of cement it is ab- sorbed by the cement and greatly in- creases It's power to withstand damp ness.
 Some crop experiments conducted by the Italian government go to show that the application of iron sulphate to the soil at the rate of 160 pounds per acre tends to make crops produced more vigorous and therefore less sub-s ject to rust damage.
 Down in Topeka. Kan. there has been a pest of blackbirds. tens of thousands of them roasting in the shade trees in the residence section of the city and making a thundcrous racket. An attempt was made to scare the birds away by firing roman candles into their roasting places at night, but this produced little result.
 In India the average span of the hu- man life Is about twenty-five years. The reason why this average is short CT with the Hindu than with any oth- CT people k due to ignorance oe the laws of health and sanitation, and with out question to the further fact that. he is' still in large measure a victim of the agricultural conditions under which he lives.
 . The sooner that bunch of cockerels that are not to be kept until next sea- son for breeding purposes are fried Or made into chicken pie or sold to the poultry buyer the larger the cash bal ance that will show on the years poul- try operations. They have made their most rapid growth, and whatever they eat now is to far less purpose from the standpoint of meat production.
 The fool that rocks the boat has been put in the shade the past season by that other fool. the half baked driver of an automobile who seems possessed
 
 steam cars to n given crossing. The similarity in these two types of fools is further painfully carried out in that there are usually innocent persons aboard boat or auto, who. with the fool" have to suffer the consequences of his folly.
 Synthetic rubber. that is, rubber that is made by putting its clements to- gether artifcially, is said to be pos- sibility of the near future, if claims of q European chemist may be relied upon. He contends that he has dis covered methods whereby rubber may be manufactured chemically in the same way that virtual stone-cement is made by mixing in proper propor- tions the clements from which natural stone is formed.
 It is we'll to remember that the paint ing of shingles after they are laid con- tributes little if anything to their life. In fact. it Is contended by some that painted in this manner will not last as long as shingles not painted at all. To be most enective, whatever treatment is given, should be given before the shingles are laid and be applied to the whole surface in- stead of to that portion which is to be exposed to the weather.
 A series of experiments covering number of years, conducted by the Ohio experiment station. has seemed to indicate that the most satisfactory time for the sowing of winter wheat is from the 23d to the 26th of September Sowed as late us this the young plants escape in n large measure damage by the Hessian fly, while 1t is at the same time sufficiently early so that the plants get good start before freezing weather sets in. Of course the date given will vary with different mtitudes