Connecticut western news., 1871-08-25
Farm, Garden and Household.

To MAKE FLAT-IRoNs SMOOTH. Rub them with clean lard, and wipe dry or, rubbing them with little beeswax while hot will have the desired effect.
 KIDDING SHEEP OF TIoKs.-Mix sul- phur and salt, seven parts of salt to one of sulphur, and feed or salt them with the mixture, and 1t will drive the ticks from sheep and lambs. Give it to them several times.
 FOR SoALDs OR BURNs.-Poultices of tea leaves, moistened in hot water, are preferable to all other remedies, in the first stage of burns and scalds. Or take raw onions, pound or mash fine as pos sible, and apply at once !; it will give inn mediate relief. g ~ -s -A sss st -t GET RID OF FL1Es.-Take half a tea spoonful of black pepper, ground, one teaspoouful of brown sugar, and one tea spoonful of cream, mix them we'll togeth- CT and place them in the room on plate where the flies are troublesome and they will soon disappear.
 How TO SET CoLoRs. tea spoonful of sugar of lead in pail of water, in which you soak your colored seambric for 15 minutes before washing. If more convenient little vinegar or a handful of Salt thrown into a pail of water, and the dress soaked will set the color.
 How TO CooK GREEN CoRN.-Corn should be allowed to boil (says the Ohio Farmer) in clear, soft water, and by itself alone. Not in salt and water, for the salt hardens the corn and not, on any account, boil the ears of corn with the potatoes, as so many do, for this greatly injures the taste and goodness of the corn, and also hardens it. The skin of the potato contains 8 poison which is freely given to water, rendering it unfit that corn should be boiled in it.
 To CLEAN KID G1ovEs.-Have ready little new milk in one saucer, a piece of white soap in another, and clean cloth folded two or three times. On the cloth spread out the glove. smooth and neat. Take piece of flannel, dip it in the milk, then rub off a good quantity of soap on the wetted flannel, and com mence to rub the glove towards the fin gers, holding it firmly with the left hand. Continue this process until the glove, if white, looks dry and spoiled Lay it to dry, and the operator will soon be grati- fled to see that the old glove looks near ly new. It will be soft, glossy, smooth, and elastic.
 PINEAPPLE JELLY.-Take perfectly ripe and sound pineapples, cut off the outside, cut in small pieces, bruise them, and to each pound put teacupful of water put in preserving kettle, and let them boil for twenty minutes then strain it, and squeeze it through bit of muslin. Fo- each pound of fruit take pound of sugar put . teacupful of water to each pound set it over the fire until it is dissolved then add the pine apple juice. For each quart of the syrup clarify an ounce of the best isinglass, and stir it in let it boil until, by taking some on plate to cool, you find it stiff jelly. @@- s@ -r SHAD CULTURE. culture, which was held somewhat doubtful at first, is coming on handsomely in Connecticut. The operations were begun at Hadley Falls in June, and already the oya taken exceeds GA, 230, GOO, from which at least 6O,OOO, 900 of young shad have been pro- duced. These little fish are distributed all over the waters of the State. The
 
 hatching of the eggs after being placed in the boxes is four days, varying some what according to the tenn perature of the water. The shad were taken in seine at night (ripe fish rarelybeing found 1T the day time), the first haul being made at about 8a p. m., and the two following at 9A and 10A p. m. The number of ovl taken per night ranged from 145, 900 tt 8,0OO,000, the average being abou 2,92O,OOO.
 MICE IN MEADOWS AND ORCHARDS The ravages of mice are some time sufi cient to completely destroy a sod .durin, one winter. If allowed to increase anI find shelter, no means of prevention vii avail. There is no plan but to disturb their haunts, clear out the fence rows O brush and weeds, remove all pieces O decaying rails, pick off all loose, stone in fact, leave no places for the vermin t hide. Their natural enemies, the hawke owls. skunks, and cats, will then fin them and devour them. In addition leave few small bundles of straw in tn fields scattered about, and when the have commenced to work at them, put small quantity each night of cern-mes and arsenic under each bundle. This wi help thin them off, and if persevered i will so reduce their numbers that the so and the trees in the orchard will to great extent be spared the ravages
 STOCK FOR SoUPs.-Bay knuckle ( beef or veal. Have the bone well crack ed in small pieces. Put it in the sou digester, or if you have none, in close ly-covered iron pot Fora medim knuckle, add five or six quarts of col aodter (by using cold water you will secur all the juices, whereas in hot water ha the juice is retained in the meat). Le 1t come to boil before you add salt an pepper then season it to suit your taste and if agreeable, put in small bit ( red pepper. Put the pot on the bac part of the stove after it commences t boil, and keep it gently simmering a day; then strain it from the bones an meat, which are now worthless, into jar kept for the purpose. Never thfo' away bones that are left from baked boiled, or roast meat of any kind, C bones such as are left from steak, pou try, anything they have not been pr on to the plates :; dried or grisly bits ( meats all may be used to prepare stoc for soup and, in 8 large family, suff cient may be gleaned, that would other wise be thrown into the swill, to kee stock on hand for weeks, without buy ing 8 bone for that purpose alone Whe the stock is strained, setit inzthes cells to cool. The next morning carefully r, move all the grease that has risen to th top and hardened, and you will have clear, rich stock ready to be used soups. Clarify the grease removed frol the stock, by slicing raw potato into i and set it over the fire in a skillet, till
 boils; then strain 1t from the potat, and you have fine dripping for mar purposes. s .s4 az
 ABOUT MILK. There were 1, 700 san pies of milk inspected in Boston Ia