Connecticut western news., 1872-11-08
Farm, Garden and Household.

Farms 6ardeH ana H0uS6nOI0s
 CocoANUr PIE,-Peel the dark skin of, grate the meat upon large grater, such as is used for sweet corn, beat one egg light, add a cup of milk, and sugar to taste; if a large coconut, add one half the grated meat if small one, the whole bake with one crust.
 RICH CREAM CAKR.-Put two well beaten eggs into tea cup, fill i. up with sweet cream, then take one cup of sugar, soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tar taste bake in shallow pan.
 SPONGE CAKE.-One cup of white su gar, one cup of sweet milk, two spoon. fuls of butter, one egg, one pint of flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls of cream oi tartar stirred well into the flour, one tea. spoonful of soda dissolved in the milk flavor with lemon !; cut in squares, and sprinkle richly with sugar before baking.
 APPLE TREEs.-D. B. Wier of Illinois, who has 2,0O9 apple trees and and 5, OeC pear trees finds that those with low heads of the same varieties show at least two. thirds more fruit, as large or larger, and as high colored as those with high tops To test the matter, he cut of in certain rows all the limbs four to six feet from the ground, and in others encouraged the limbs to start close to the surface and in the latter case, neither thinned or pruned except occasionally to loI away too lusty shoot in order to pre- serve a symmetrical appearance or a1 evenly balanced head.
 HEADING WHEAT. system-prac ticed to some extent in California an6 Oregon-of using 'sheaders'' in the wheat field, or, in other words, harvesting the crop by cutting off the heads, meets with strong opposition from the millers who, it is said, frequently have foul ire sl such,grain returned as unmerchant able for the reason that it makes 'clam- my" bread. According to the Portland Bull'ttn, every practical miller in Oregon has declared emphatically against them and many have gone so far as to demand that circular should be issued from tho State Agricultural Department, warning the farmers against using headers fol harvesting wheat"
 CORN MEAL AS MANURE.-A cores pondent asks: Gould you inform m, through your columns what quantity O corn meal per acre should be applied t, land in Q poor, overworked condition, a fertilizer, and whether damaged yelloy corn meal would be as efficient as soun, meal? Yellow corn here always is wortl ten cents less per bushel than the whit, sorts. Also, what is the relative valu of meal as fertilizer when compares with bone phosphate or guano?
 AnS,cer.-Corn meal has been used a the rate of one thousand pounds pc acre for tobacco crops, Damaged meal if it has not been spoiled by soakin in water and subsequent heating, vii answer the purpose as well as soun, meal. The value of meal is in it's rapi, decomposition and consequent activit as a stimulant; it's relative value as com pared with guano is probably about a one to four that is, guano would b four times as valuable in use. We car not speak as to it's theoretical value, no do we know if any determination of has been made. We should rather fee the meal with purchased fodder, and us muck straw, or sawdust as litter or at sorbents, and use the manure made, O. overworked land, than apply cornmea or guano even. Either is only stimu lant at the best.
 BREED BUT ONE KIND OF POULTRY The National Lius Stock Journal says We believe there is net any course reading or experience which man is likel to have, or which will not take years time to enable him to judge even two C three breeds critically and without he able to do that, he will not achieve yer n,orEod hraMIar rr1on, !, should, by accident, fall into the rigl course. Although the safest and mos satisfactory way for 8 beginner is t commence with but one variety, and COT fine his attention exclusively to that, an when he has proved his ability to dra' them up to the highest attainable standard he can add another variety to his stool For & novice to start out with two ( three distinct breeds is to court failur, for the attention which would have 1T sured him success in one breed alone wi only suffice to raise two or three to med scrity. The history of successful breed CTS of fowls, as with those who hay achieved success in the breeding of a varieties of domestic animals, shows tn, it was only achieved by concentratin their entire care and attention upon or subject, and laborlng energenoally an persistently for the attainment of it. I'll name of Booth or Bates would not hay become household word wherever shor horn cattle are bred, if, instead of purs1 ing the uniform, constant course they di they had labored to perfect each and a the several breeds known at that time England. Nor would the names of Bak well and of WebbGhold their position c the broad scroll of fame, if they had el deavored to achieve success in the bree' ing of all varieties of domestic animal instead of concentrating their attentio upon sheep. Almost without exception wherever great results have rewarded tf efforts of breeder it has been where | has given his sole and undivided attentio to one breed and one variety, and to certain extent known nothing else.