Connecticut western news., 1871-09-01
Farm, Garden and Household.

Farm, Garden and Household.
 WHITEwAsH.-Mixu up half pailful of lime and water, take half a pint of flour and make a starch of it, and pour into the whitewash while hot; stir it well, and it is ready for use. LILA 's - To PICKLE PEACHES. Take any uuan- tity of good ripe peaches, wipe them clean, lay them one day in good brine, take them out and pour sufficient cold vinegar over them let them stand one. day and they are fit for use.
 VERMN ON SrocK. correspondent says he feeds his stock teaspoonful of sulphur to each animal, with their salt. once in two weeks. When he has done so, no vermin have troubled them, and his dairy COWS have not been affected with garget, nor his sheep with grub in the head. He has practised this twenty years.
 LIME FOR FRUIT TREEs.-The Horti- catlturist says: It is good plan for all fruit growers to apply lime freely in their orchards every two or three years. A half bushel to each tree, or 100 bushels broadcast. per acre, will suffice. Light loamy lands will be the best benefited by the lime, and shell lime is better for fruit trees than the usual stone lime
 REMEDY FOR POLL EyI.-If it has broken. wash the sore clean with Castile soap and warm water, then inject and dress 1t with spirits of turpentine, pyro- hgneous acid and hnseed oil, equal parts mixed. Fir balsam has also very good effect on indolent and morbid parts. So soon, however, as the parts show a dis position to heal, dress with tincture of aloes and myrrh. Keep the bowels open PEAR MARMA1ADE.-To six pounds of small pears take four pounds of sugar cover 1t, and set 1t over the fire until the fruit are soft, then put them into cold water, pare, quarter and core them put to them three teacups of water, set them over the fire roll the sugar fine, mash the fruit fine and smooth, put the sugar to 1t, stir it well together until it is thick like jelly; then put into tumblers or jars, and, when cold, secure it as jelly.
 ENGLISH MODE OF SERVING CUoUMBERs. The English mode of serving cucum- bers is said to render them less liable to cause indigestion than when cut up raw in vinegar. Cut them in thin slices, lengthways, and soak them in vinegar and salt for half an hour. Dry them in clean towel, and fry in butter a very light brown. To the butter in which they were fried, add little flour, the yolk of an egg, and some meat gravy mix all well together, pour over the GU cumbers and serve ' -
 PRESERVING ToMAToEs.-Wash. bruist them and put in boiler over fire, boi half an hour and strain boil the juice until reduced one-half, cool, put in jar, and seal then place the jars in a boilel of cold water, with straw or rags to pre- vent breakage 1; boil twenty minutes when perfectly cold, place the jars il cool, dark cellar. They will keep fol years. Add seasoning when used fo. the table. .- rs q - ~ & z = -. e- For catsup add to the above peppers pimento, cloves, etc.
 Tomatoes may be prepared as above and put into bottles for future use. O course, they should be well cooked ant sealed
 NoxIoUs WEEDs.-It seems to be great puzzle to some persons how to ge rid of noxious weeds. There is one cer tain method which never fails if it i properly and consistently put into prac tice, viz., keep all the leaves and stem cut close down to the surface It make but little difference what kind of an in strument;is used for this purpose, wheth CT 1t be hoe, blow, or cultivator, onl, let them be used so frequently that tn plant can get no opportunity for breath ing, as it were, through its leaves There is no species of noxious plan that will live any considerable time with out leaves, and this peculiar characteris tic should be taken advantage of in thei destruction. Even Canada thistles an toad flax will succumb under such treai ment.
 To CAN PEACHES AND OTHER FRUITS. Allow half a pound, or less, of sugar 1 one pound of peaches Make sirup the sugar by adding pint of water to pound of sugar, and boiling for tim Pare and halve the peaches; drop the into the sirup and boil for ten minute Put into cans - glass ones 7 and SC tightly. Any other kind of fruit ms be preserved in the same manner. Int will keep equally well without sugar, b1 1t is usually quite as convenient to ac the sugar when canned. Some add few peach kernels, blanched. For co V0nloHce Sdhe, anu Sa1oGy sake, pIa the can, being filled with the hot frui on a wet napkin or towel, folded nun Der of times. Some varieties of pears T quire longer cooking, while some oth varieties of fruit need less. The ca should be filled to the top. ...
 BoRAx FOR EXPERIMENTING Coo RoAoHEs. the many applic tions of borax recently made, one
 the latest IS the extermination of COG reaches, which purpose it is said to a swer very perfectly, although we are clined to doubt 1t. Half pound, fine pulverized and scattered about whe these disagreeable pests frequent, wi it is said, clear an infested house so the oughly that the appearance of one in month is quite novelty. It is n known upon what peculiar influence
 the borax this depends; but we are sured that the facts are as stated. T. advantage of this application is u harmless nature of the borax, so tn