Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21
Farm. Garden and Household.


 Farm. Garden and Household.
 DAMP CELLARS. should be take1 lest the carnations from damp and fou cellars do not counteract the benign in huencss of pure air and sunlight in oul houses. 1nattention to the purificatio1 of this portion of our dwellings has of ten proved source of disease, and il many instances su-called mysteriou, death. Every housekeeper or head O the family ought to make a periodica visit to every cellar, dustbin, outhouse &c., and see that they are perfectly clean and free from kitchen rubbish.
 VEAL HAsH-This makes a most de. hghtful supper dish Choose a shin ot veal with about three pounds of meat on 1t. Boil 1t in as small quantity of water as you well can, so that when done there shall be nearly one quart left. It should be boiled the day before it is wanted, SC that 1t may become perfectly cold. When the meat seems entirely done, take il out, laying 1t away from the air, but s,o wrapping it in cloth save all the liouo1 in separate dish. The next day cut the meat of, make it very fine, but not quite so fine as mince-meat about half an hour before you wish to send it tc table put 1t over the fire in a covered -stew-pan with the liquor; have ready abont half pint of drawn butter (hot). an1 eight or ten hard-boiled eggs re move the shells; save out two mince the rest, and add to the meat, etc. Take oil the fire at once, season with salt, Cav enne pepper, and small quantity of back pepper. and if desired very little wine. Cut in slices the two eggs, and. after the meat has been placed in the dish for table, garnish with them. It should be sent hot to table.
 How TO MAKE CURRANr WME.-A writer in the Germantown Tslegraph say that the entrants should be fully ripe when picked; put them it l.rge tub, in which they should remain day or two then crush them with the hands, unless you have small patent wine-press, in which they should not be pressed to,. much, or the stems will I>e bruised and implrt a disagreeable taste to the juice. It the hands are used, put the crushed fruit, after the juice has been poured of. in cloth or sack. and press out the re- mining juice. Put the juice back into the tub after cleansing it, where it should remein about three days, until the first stage of ferm antation is over, and remov- ing once or twice day the scum CO., piously arising to the top. Then put the juice in vessel-a demiiohn, keg or barrel-any size to suit the quantity male, acd to each quart of juice add three pounds of the best yelzo,o sugar and soft water sufficient to make gallon. Ttust n 1arts of juice and thirty pounds of sugar will give you ten gallons of wine, and so on Tn proportion. Those who do not like sweet wine can reduce the uuan- tlty of sugar to two and a half; or who wish 1t very sweet, raise it to three and half pounds per gallon.
 FISH AS MANURE. J. V. c. Smith sai in the Farmers Club, fish was very good manure for worn-out lands. Thei1 use TOT thts purpose was suggested to the Purltans by Squanto, an Indian, who told them thatthe way the natives man. aged to raise corn was by putting three herrings into each hill. The Doctor also remarked that the great value of the overfowing of the Nile was the fact that the deposit it left on the land was com posed of millions of infusorial animals This fertilizing material, so rich in ami nal matter, had made Egypt the granary of the old world. He also alluded to the custom of burying dead animals near trees, so that they may derive the benefit of the fertilizing matter contain ed In the muscles, and the phos- plates in the bones as the bodies decay. MT. Bruen told how friend of his bought farm of poor land for S2. OOO This farm was manured with Moss Bunkers, spread all over thickly, and plougaed under, after which crop of wheat was sowed. The proceeds were forty bushels to the acre on seventy acres. which he sold for $1 50 bushel, and thus paid for the place twice over with the first crop, and it was the fish that d1d 1t. Dr. Growell said that where Moss Bunkers were used continually. the land becomes sour after the third year, and will not produce crop. The same re- suit IS noticed with fish guano.
 HARVESTING HAY EARLY.-Mr. Fl. l.. Reade read the following paper on the importance of harvesting hay early. ii, the Farmers Club: "In 1869, the hay crop h the United States amounted to 19, ,291, 128 tons, worth at least S1o1.- 29l, ,28O. Eleven years have increased this by at least one-third, so that the crop in 1870 was at least 30, GOO, 900 tons. worth $500, 000. 900. Making a low es- t1mate one-sixteenth of the value of this crop Is lost by late cutting. And yet the practice so costly is surprisingly common. Were argument necessary to convince farmers of their mistake and loss, attention might he called to that wonderful and most suggestive provision of providence that in almost if not all sections of the world where cattle de pend upon wild grass for winter as well as summer food, sudden and great heat and corespondingly dry atmosphere combine to change the grass into what civilization calls hay while in the full ness of its growth and always before its maturity :; and thus it is that when for months not green thing is eaten by the herds or rowing animals, they are found to be in better flesh at the end than at the beginning. If the grass reached completeness in it's growth and seeding before being dried, cattle eating It would die of star vation rather than thrive. Science as we'll as observation demonstrates the necessity os cn early hay harvest. Grass is the natural food of animals, and before the plant reaches its maturity 1t contains all the elements needed to make perfect aliment in the best possible combination and in the best possible proportion. Afterwards, the nature apf the plant changes, and reproduction, not force-if we may put 1t in this phrase se-becomes the ultimate object. If, therefore, farmers would se- cure the best and most valuable hay crop, grass should be cut while the seed-vessels are forming, and never after they are formed. Having therefore. should be commenced, on an average, ten days earlier than 1t is. There may be little loss at the beginning in the bulk, possi- bly in the weight, in consequence of the immaturity of the crop; but the loss would be none at the end, by the change