Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26
Farm, Garden and Household,

Farm, Garden and Household.
 BAKED INDIA PUDDING. - Take two quarts of sweet milk, and boil one quart, and while boiling stir in as much fine In dian meal as will make very stiff batter; add teaspoonful of salt, and make very sweet with molasses. Butter a pan, and pour the remaining quart of cold milk over it. Cut little bits of butter and put on the top, and bake two hours in mod crate oven.
 A correspondent, speaking of the diff culty ot swine driving, says it is as easy as whisthng after you know how, to wit To the end of stout cord, tieean ear of corn drop 1t in front of the pig, to with m live or six inches of his nose, and com menco walking away slowly in the direc- t1on you wish him to propel. If his pig ship shows evidence of b1ighted hopes or abserration ot mind by the singular con- duct of the corn, persuade him it is all right by letting him have brief nibble at 1t, and then resume your line of march. In this way, the most obdurate pig may be decoyed any reasonable distance.
 --r HE FARMERS CLUB.
 FEEDING GRAIN TO SREEP.-A farmer asked whether oats were good for them. F. D. Curtis said there was no better feed for sheep than oats ; by beginning moderately, quart day would do no harm, but great deal of good. Wheat bran mixed with the oats makes a very useful change of feed, as also oil-cake meal. Mir. Wolf, from the Rocky Moun- talDs, said what he knew about sheep was that rye was the best grain to feed them with. If he had rye for his sheen he would engage to bring them out fit for the butcher in the Spring with no addi- tional feed butswheat straw. A farmer from Pennsylvania said in his State rye and buckwheat were the chief grains fed to sheep, and occasionally a little corn, with wheat bran or oats mixed, was given for change. Sheep did better on a va riety of feed their appetite was thus better kept up when on dry feed.
 SHOULD SEED BE CHANGED HI. c. Dickinson, Pa., inquired whether it was necessary to procure change of seed on farm to improve the crops. ED. Cur tis said not at all good soil will make good crops, and seed will not deteriorate A. Stewart differed with MT. Curtis. There was an influence exerted by the climate. California wheat could not be made to retain it's peculiarities in the Eastern States. New Brunswick oats. which weighed forty seven pounds to the bushel, had in Pennsylvania deteriorated very much in weight but when the light oats had been sent to Canada it reeained It's plumpness and weight the same was true of Early Rose potatoes, and this was the experience of most farmers. Corn seemed to be an exception, but wheat, oats and potato seed ought to be changed occasionally.
 IREE-PEDDLERs AND "HesprrA1, STOCK. I'll. B. Zarnell, Illinois. Pa. asked what remedy there was against the tree-peddlers who swindled farmers. P: T. Quinn said farmers should not pur- chase from them, but send orders direct to the nurserymen, who, valuing their reputation, would, not send out poor stock, nor any man that was not true to name. NurseT4Ren had sometimes trees which were poor, or whose labels had be- come lost. These were Jumped together as hospital stock, and sold to the ped- dlers at low prices, and farmers who oot them were swindled. F. D. Curtis said here was the cause of the "milk in tbe cocoanut. It was well that farmers un- derstood this. It would then be seen that nurserymen were to blame in selIino this Inferior stock, which should be de, stroyed, and not put into circulation bv Peddlers, who had to shoulder the blame Farmers were not posted as business men, and II 1t were not for peddlers there would be fewer orchards but nursery men should not make them scapeooats for their own sins.
 SUNDRY MATrERs.-An Illinois farmer was advised not to plant cranberries. the climate there was unsuitable, T. M weeks was advised to give his heifer, which had the distemper, warm mashes of wheat bran and barley malt twice a day, and quart of tar-water every night farmer who asked if milk could be churned as we'll as the cream, was in formed thatit could, but that the practica had long ago been discarded as taking up FOO much time. A. s. Fuller said cher r1es should be graftel before the buds began to swell, and the scions should be ( carefully set. F. D. Curtis said the only preventive of sheep eating their wool was 10 smear them. l.. A. Morrell, author of American Shepherd, said it was a practice incident to dry feed and confinement Df. CroWell had found inseed meal the pest preventive of constipation in cattle or horses. F. D. Curtis said pure Suffolk hogs should have no black hairs hoes invariably white should have no black about them. Itwas stated that one hun- dred and fifty pounds Peruvian euano and two hundred pounds of bone-dust would make an excellent dressing for grass lands.
 CLIPPING HORSES. This subject was brought before the Club by F. D. Curtis. who supported the appplication of MT. Bergh to the Legislature for an act to prevent the practice, as being cruelty to animals. H. Stewart protested on be- ha1 of those farmers and other owners of horses who felt that clipping was neces- sary for the comfort and health of a class Of animals which were burdened with an excessively heavy coat. Some horses needed to be clipped on this account. and it was an infringement of their own, CTS, hserty to prevent them managing thelr horses in way they knew and were advised by respectable veterinary sur. geons 10 be proper. P. T. Quinn had had his ideas on this subject changed slnce he visited large livery establish ment In Newark, where he was assured without this practice many horses were lost thls Winter, but since it had been