Connecticut western news., 1871-12-01
Farm, Garden and Household.

Farm. Garden and Household.
 ScALDNa BED-BUas.-Always des- troy these vermin when the moon is new, and you will then destroy all their eggs.
 DRESSING FOR TURKEY.-The crumbs of one large loaf of bread, rubbed up fine, two eggs, half teacup of butter, one teacupful of celery, chopped fine, one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of ground pepper. This is delicious.
 How TO SET Co1oRs.-Dissolve tea spoonful of sugar of lead in pail of water, in which you soak your colored cambrick for fifteen minutes before washing. If more convenient, little vinegar or handful of salt thrown into apail of water, and the dress soaked, will set the color.
 SUGAR COOKIES WITHOUT EaGs.- Two cups sugar, one cup butter, and one cup sweet milk, one teaspoonful soda two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, sifted in the flour spice to suit the taste, and flour to make it thick enough to roll easy rub butter and sugar in the dry flour, then wet and roll out, using no eggs.
 TooTHAcHE.-Put piece of quicklime, as big as walnut, in pint of water in bottle. Clean the teeth with little of It every morning, rinsing the mouth with clean water afterward. If the teeth are good 1t will preserve them and keep away toothache If the teeth are gone, it will harden the gums so that they will masti- cate crusts and all.
 RICH MNcE PIEs.-Eight pounds of beef, one pound suet, two pounds entrants, two pounds raisins, one-half peck apples, two ounces ground cloves, two ounces all-spice, one-half ounce mace. one ounce nutmegs, three-quarter pound citron, one-quarter pound cinnamon, eight pounds sugar, half gallon sweet cider, eight demons.
 CHARCOAL OR EARTH FOR Hoes Hogs that are put up to fatten. as well as store hogs, should have some earth gwen them occasionally. We have found it good plan to dig @ few sods rom the fenee-corners for them, which they will consume with much relish. In state of nature, the hog, which roots for its living, must, necessarily, take into his stomach large quantity of earth. It is advisable to let him do this when penned up.
 To Cook AN O1D Fowh.-Dress and stuff as for roasting then boil three hours Tn covered pot, with one quart of water, to which add two tablespoon tuls of vinegar /; then take it from the water, rub 1t over with a little butter, sprinkle over some flour, and put the fowl into the bake pan and bake in a hot oven one hour. Use the liquor in the pot for gravy, and to baste with. The vinegar makes it very tender, but does not taste at all.
 ECONOMY IN HAPPENING ANIMALS It has been proved by experiment., says Hearth and Home, that the more rapidly an animal is tattened, the less quantity of food IS necessary to sustain it's mere vitality. Thus, an animal can be more cheaply fattened by consuming ten bushels of corn in two months than ii four months were occupied in the pro cess. Liberal and abundant feeding is the most economical, and saving o1 time in producing the same result is 6 gain in the profit.
 SPREADING MANURE.-We think it S wrong practice, when hauling out man. ure, in the fall or winter, to place it ir heaps. It is better to spread it at once. in the first place, labor is saved. But most important of all is the fact that most of the manure is wasted when placed in heaps. If spread at once 1t is more equally. divided than it can be afterwards. We once hauled out man. ure to a field, leaving it in heaps until the hauling was completed. During this lima Shor,arc fon sown to oats next spring, and on the spots where the heaps had been, the grain lodged and was spoiled. The fol lowing crop was wheat, and on thos. spots the wheat rusted and yielded no thing while the growth of straw wa. remarkable. We have never since re peated the practice. -Hear1h and Home
 PAsTURINa WINTER GRAN.-It il much too common 8 custom to turn cat tie on to the fields of winter grain at tn present time. This is very unadvis able practice. Feed is short, certainly and the stock need all they can get But what occurs to the grain :? A con siderable portion is pulled up by tn roots and devoured. Another portion is destroyed by the poaching of tn ground, and the filling of the hole made by the feet of the cattle, with wa ter when the winter rains come Thel the needed protection the herbage afford to the roots is wanting, and the cro] can not withstand the severe frosts, iron which it is no longer sheltered. Tn result is Q short crop, for which tn spring rains are blamed, or the heav showers in May or June, which knoc of the blossom, or the hot sun, whic blasts it, or the midge which sucks it juices, and many other things all c which are probably innocent, and th real blame attaches to the farmer, wh allowed his COWS to eat off the flu growth. It is very rarely indeed tha grain needs to be eaten off ; and if sue should be the case, calves, sheep, ( pigs well ringed, are better than COW or heavy stock.