Connecticut western news., 1872-02-09
Farm, Garden and Household.

FROST BITES. one handful of copperas in pail half full of warm water; soak the;feet well ia it, set aside and re- peat until it is all drawn out. Often one application will answer, according to extent of disease. PREPARING CORN FOR SEED.-An Hi nols correspondentsays :-" Soak doubt tul seed corn in chloride of lime and it will come. If you soak seed corn in tar water in which 8 little copperas has been dissolved, the gophers and crows will give 1t wide berth" .., TIE BENEFIT OF COOLING MILK RAPID LY.-An Orange County dairyman said that in his county & pound of butter re- quired ordinarily twelve quarts of milk to produce it, but when the milk was cooled by setting the pans in current ofcoi6 water, less quantity of milk was required.
 LEMON FOR CoUan. the lemon very carefully without burning it; when 1t is thoroughly hot, cut and squeeze into a cup upon three ounces of sugar finely powdered. Take spoonful when ever your cough troubles you. It is good and agreeable to the taste. Rarely has it been known to fail of giving relief. CURE FOR DRTHERIA.-A simple and successful treatment of diptheria may be found in the use of lemon juice. Gargle the throat freely with it, at the same time swallowing 8 portion, 50 as to reach all the affected parts. A French physician claims that he saved his own life with this pleasant remedy.
 
 RYE BREAD. Make rather stiff mush of corn meal, as you would for the table, but boil it long and well salt to taste when mllk-warm stir in yeast, either bakers OF homemade, in just the pro- portion for wheat sponge. In cool weather this must be done overnight and in the morning, when light, work in as much ryesfour with the hands as the sponge will hold. Do not get it too stiff, for it will adhere to the hands even when stiff enough, and, unlike wheat dough, it's stickiness" is not a sign of the need of more flour. Let the dough rise, and do not attempt to mould it, but scrape out into well-greased round tins. MEDICINES FOR POULTRY.-It may be making tco sweeping assertion to say that all the medicine advertised for do- mestic animals are humbugs but it is safe to declare that most of them are, and to look with suspicion on every new .panacea that is heralded. As the vices of mankind prepare the way for the ad- vertisers of nostrums innumerable, so the keeping of artificial breeds of fowls in close quarters and under other un- natural conditions gives rise to epidemics and patent medicines. Even if the latter were as efficacious as their vendors claim, we should say, do not keep fowls under any management that requires drugs Wild birds are so uniformly healthy that one appearing otherwise is rarely pro- cured, yet we are glad to say they take no pills and powders.
 How TO MANAGE A SMALL MANUR1 PmE.-We are asked for directions how to manage the accumulating of manure frsn stable of two horses, a COW, anG the refuse of 8 house. To make thi material ready for the garden or the fielt in the spring, it must be kept iron freezing. To do this, it is necessary tx turn it two or three times, and mix th, rough matter or litter equally with tn, finer material from the horse stable. square pile is the best shape in which tt keep it. Tie refuse from the hous, should be cast on the top, which shoult be made hollow, to. retain the liquid which will prevent fanging or the dry rot. When the heat is reduced, com mence at one end and turn the heap, an, intermix the unrot.ed outside materia with the eenter.-RearM and Home.
 Tpp.r,Svz,x,,r r/,,, r,,,z HE- a A. Every Day Laborer" in Livingston Co., N. r., thinks something should be don for the "Hired men of Fulton Co.,, N Y.," accepting Reforms" statement c the state of things there as true. H knows of no instance where an indus trious laborer has ever dreamed of lode ing in a'poor house. For the last tw years farmers have paid $2O to $30 pc month and board in winter, day labor CTS have received yS1 25. and $i 50 pc day 1: in summer and fall, $2; in harvest $2 50 to $3, with board This is not Tt garded quite sufficient, considering th extreme price of grain and produce ger erally-wheat at $1.30 to $1.60; barle at 60 to 75c.; oats, 40c.; potatoes, 4Oc pork, $5 per cwt. Of course the farme complaints; but if he received specie il stead of .greenbacks, he certainly coul not say but these would be round price The laborer gets greenbacks for his labo, not "truck." His manly spirits are nt crushed out. If he misuse his stogit upon a horse and is remonstrated witt his reply is, eff you don't like my style fork over the stamps" This is mo likely to occur about tbe commencemel of having, with month men. .' The tor of our correspondents artlcle indicat, that he is not in sympathy with chron grumblers.-RurG New- Yorker.
 FEEDING TOO MUCH STRAW. -There
 such thing as compelling horse, f. example, to eat much more straw thf he really needs, when at hard work.
 team requires grain or meal. Straw wi not furnish much nourishment. It
 better to give horse not more than peck of cut straw with the meal, than
 mingle the same quantity of meal vii half bushel of straw. Too much bu is quite as objectionable as too ittl This fact will hold good in feeding a1 kind of stock. Feeding too much stra with a little meal is like compelling person to eat quart of diluted sou when, if the same nourishment we contained in pint dish 1t would be mo palatable. Sheep, for example, are fl quently confined to straw and lit grain daily. Then, for few weeks, h is substituted and ; the grain lomitte Sheep are exceedingly fond of varie Of feed. Therefore far better practi would be to feed a small quantity of h
 every day, and not anite as mnch graf letting the stock have free access to go, straw, day and night All kinds of d mestic animals would thrive more sat factorily when 8 variety of food
 provided than when enc kind is de, out without change. Even horses come excessively tired of cut feed eve meal. They need change. Thereto it Srriu afr.nrs ian5 l,atta,. kI, .ra... 4Le 4a