Connecticut western news., 1872-08-16
Farm, Garden and Household.

One who knows makes it point to select COW with 8 yellow skin. One whose skin is pale or colorless, is not, he says, half so likely to produce good butter.
 RELIABLE RECEIPTs.-For corns, easy shoes for bile, exercise for rheuma- tism, new flannel and patience for gout, toast and water for the toothache, a dentist for debt, industry and for love, matrimony.
 PoRK-A Willow Creek, Montana, correspondent asks if it will psy C to pro- duce pork in country where wages are $50 g month, and grain from two to tkree cents pound. Pork made on such basis would have to sell for from 20 to 25 cents pound to make it profitable
 BAKED APPLE DUMPL1Ne - Choose large russet or sour apples that cook ten der; peel and quarter them, take out the cores and ase one apple to dumpling. Pinch your pie-crust well, grease your pie-pan, set your dumplings right side up ]; do not let them touch each other; set them in your oven and bake delicate brown. Eat hot, with any sauce you prefer.
 Dissolve bushel of salt in barrel of water, and with the salt water slack 8 barrel of lime, which should be wet enough to form kind of paste. For the purpose of disenfectant this home made chloride of lime is nearly as good as that purchased at the shops and drug stores. Use 1t freely about sinks, eel lars, gutters, and out-houses, and. in this way, prevent sickness, suffering and expense.
 CARE OF CIsTERNs.-Water may be preserved pure and wholesome in rain water cisterns by letting the supply pipe connect at the bottom of the cfstern. The fresh water being heavier than that already in the cistern, will force the stale water to the top so that it can be used before it becohes offensive. It is well known, however, that cistern water be- comes impure from the organic matter it contains, and if this can be got rid of by destroying it's vitality and precipitat- ing it to the bottom, it will leave the water pure It is claimed that there is nothing better to effect this than per manganate of potassa, used in the pro- portion of about an ounce to 50 gallons of water. This causes the inorganic matter to sink to the bottom an innox- 1OuO .0ONAAAOAes DuO UuS DCIu1huRdE htC must be continued as long as the water has 8 purplish appearance, indicating that the offensive matter has not all been precipitated. Though this is not poi sonous drug, and is we believe in no way hurtful, still no more should be used than necessary. Every druggist has it for sale. Care must be taken to have the cistern thoroughly cleaned out at loot fr4IO H11A .1,o upon the building supplying the water.
 To FIND THE WEIGHT OF LIVE CATTLE. First, see that the animal stands square, then with string take his cir conference just behind the shoulder blade, and measure the feet and inches this is the qirth, Then measure from the bone of the tail which plumbs the line with the hinder part of the bullock, and direct the string along the back to fore part of the shoulder blade, and this will be the lemHh.-Then work the figures thus Suppose girth of bullock 6 feet inches, length 6 feet 8 inches, which multiplied together make 23 square superficial feet, and these multi, piled by 23-the number of pounds al. lowed for each superficial foot of cattle measuring less than seven and more than five feet in girth-make 759 pounds When the animal measures less than and more than seven feet in girth, 31, is the number of pounds to be estimated to each superficial foot. And suppose small animal to measure two feet in girtl and 2 feet in length, these multiplied together make four feet, which, multi piled by 1.-the number of pounds al lowed for each square foot when tb, cattle measure less than three feet il girth-make A pounds. Again, sup pose calf or sheep etc., measure fee 6 inches in girth, and feet 8 inches il length that multiplied together make l6 square feet, and these multiplied b, 16-ths number of pounds allowed fo cattle measuring less than 5 and nor than feet in girth-make S56 pounds The dimensions in girth and Ienotb o the back of cattle, sheep calves an' hogs, taken this way, are as exact as ; at all necessary for common comnntaf;o, % or valuation of stock. and will answe ] to the four quarters of the animal sini ing the offal. A deduction mns+ l h n made for animals half fat, of one S nonn O in twenty from those that are fat r0ar an for COW that has had calves, one no"n "n must be allowed in addition to tbe poul aLl for not being fat, upon every twant-e on