Connecticut western news., 1871-11-03
Farm, Garden and Household.


 .:l Y By John G. Sa1e.
 Farm, Garden and Household.
 NANTUCKET CORN CAKES. s.-To one pint of boiling milk, stir in one coffee cup of white Indian meal; when cool add three eggs, beaten separately, a little salt bake in small tins. HARNESS BLAcKING. ounces of beeswax, four ounces ivory black, one pint neatsfoot Soil, two ounces Castile soap, two ounces lard, one ounce aloes; to be boiled together, and .podred into hollow vessels =, $.
 KEEPING sHpNEY.- To keep honey all the year round, let 1t run through a fine sieve to separate it from particles of wax. then boilit gently in an earthern vessel, skim of3bhe foanApwhich gathers on top. and cool it in jars. After covering these tightly, set them away in cool cellar.
 CRACKS IN PREFERENCE some cases the plastefer hes used too little real plass- ter and too much lime. Pure plaster of Paris will never crack but as it sets too quick for the conYenienceofth the operator a little lime is mixed with-it. If YOU try to plaster with pure lime alone, it will crack all over in drying, and come off in patches ; and this will 'showyou the ne cesslty of always using as little lime as possible, either in the sand used for bricklaying, er in the plaster.used for coating the walls.
 WATERING PLANTS. it be remem- bered that nearly all plants thrive best in naoisti not in wet soil. We think that most house plants are wet too much. Never pour water in the saucers, but into the pots, and then never until the surface is dry. The saucers may he used for neatness, but not for hoidino water. Rain water is the best hard well waterl the worst. The morning is the besttirne' to apply theswater.. Always use fine sprinkler.
 WASHING FLUID. -vF i've pounds Of sal soda one pound of borax one-half pound of pnslaeked lime, must be fresh four ounces of liquid ammonia. Pou1 one gallon of boiling water upon the soda and borax,. when it is. dissolved and has cd6leds add the ammonia and saIts of tarter. Slack the lime in one gallen of hot water, and letit stand till entirely settled ; when the clear fluid must be carefully poured of. Turn upon the solution of soda and, ,borax, and add to the mixture eight gallons of cold water, Put the clothes to soak the night before washing day, with six tablespoonful o1 this fluid to tub full of clothes.
 PREPARING FowLs FOR EXHIBITION. An allowance of hemp-seed and buck. wheat for fortnight, is recommended by fanclers, to produce gloss upon the plumage of birds designed for the show. room, But 8 fine luster of the feathers depends more upon the, general health than upon any thingselses Liberty and 8 rangewher re there are but.a fewifowls and diet embracing cooked vegetables and meat and variety ot odds and ends from the table, in addition tosthesinse and herbage they gather for themselves are indispensable ffomsthe time of hatch ing until. the show, if it is desired tt have the plumaga exhibit nice bloom -Hea'tb aad Home.
 PREPARATION oFz CARMINE -PURPLE.- The dye recently invented, and known a carmine purple, is obtained by the so1u tion of uric acid in nitric acid, care beins taken to prevent boiling over and tot great an increase of temperature. Tn, mixture should deremaih standing qdietl, for some days, After which attiek. past or doughJ ssabsta1lce e~is ob tanned whfcl is to be treated with warm water, filtered and the residdm again treatedswith warn water. The filtered liquid possesses reddish or yellowish eolor,a decompose, by the nitric acid. This liquid is now mixture of alloxan, alloxantin, urea paraban acid, dialuramid, and other pro ducts of uric acid It is next to- b eyaporated in large enameled iron yes sel, bnt not heated to itifeE boiling point which would destroy the murexide pro ducede After tbe liquid has been evapc rated tea ssirupys consistency, and ha assumed beautiful brownish-red o violet color, it is sto1 be allowed to coo The entire quantity of the liquid shoul never be, eyaporated at one time, no heated to the boiling point.
 LEAKY SoilssAAre any soils leaky. i the sense in which the word is general understood We do not believe ii The writer owns and works a farm tha was said to be leaky, had no bottom would notheld dany.manure, and all that Not thus und derstand ding the nature of a arabic soil, though it might, happen t be underlaid with gravel, we had no. fea of our 1eaky farm not responding to proper feeding with manure and growth fat on t. We have suffered no disar pointment in our case, and do not douI that others similarly situated will lequall escape disappointment A .1eaky, far1 is one that has the advantage. of bein naturally drained for. it will not hol water, but everything held in suspensio and almost everything held in solutio by that water will be given up to u soil as it passes through it. Pure san will filter and render clear the fou1e water, and agricultural clay will abso1 bad odors and decompose chemical sol1 tions.. Then a mixture of clay and. san must absorb the soluble parts of manur and prevent the finely divided particl from passing through 1t to the subsoi At least such is our belief, and our e perfence confirms it. We have no fe of leaky soil We know many. farme who prefer soil that has the characte istics of those that are called leaky to heavy clay that IS beyond suspicion:
 this respect. Ease of working, qui, recovery from state of wet, warmt and generally earliness, are valuab qualities of a farm, and all these perta to soils that are called leaky.
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 WILL PARENTS TAKE HEED..-On
 hands complaints are made of the i creasirg Ill health of our school childre Now Whosis. to take the matter in .hant Who is to say there shall be absolute TO lessons learned out of school. unlt the present duration of school hot shall be shortened as It needs, we thip only that the parents shall themsely iasist1pon this to effect it. Why w