Connecticut western news., 1872-10-25
Farm. Garden and Household.

TEA CAKBs.-Eight ounces of flour, four ounces of butter, eight of entrants, eight ounces of sugar, the white of one egg, and the yellows of two. Roll the paste into the thickness of biscuits, and cut in any form you wish.
 BUTTER aE-CAKE.-Sixteen eggs, the weight of fourteen in sugar, ten in flour, halta pound of butter, melted, but not put in hot, poured in just before the cake is put in the oven; season with lem on. Bake in shallow pans, and cut in slices. RY-PICKING PoULTRY.-The practice of scalding poultry before picking has very properly been vetoed by market dealers. Fowls may be plucked with equal facility and with better effect in preserving the flesh immediately after death, and before they have had time to cool. The action of the market men is to be commenced, aRd those sending dressed poultry to market will do well to act in accordance with it.
 How TO SAVE CLOVER SEED.-A Can ada farmer put a wire bottom in trough in which he fed his stock-the wire being two or three inches above the close bot tom of the trough. The stock, in pull 1HS luC ClONcI HUH luChS WOuul scatter the seed, almost pure, through the wire into the receptacle below. In this way he saved seed enough for his own sowing, and to pay for all the dry goods used in his family and received S25 in cash besides.
 FARMERS SHOULD VIsIT.-One of the most important duties of the farmer is to visit his neighbor. Be neighborly 1; be social let out those good social feel ings make them grow go see your neighbor, and learn of his success ]; exchange ideas; confer with one another. If our farmers would do this, if one far mer would only visit around his whole nelghborhood once every three months, world of good would be accomplished. The social virtues would be promoted, and useful knowledge gained.
 MEAT PIE.-Cut mp some pieces of good tender raw beef or mutton, season with pepper, salt, and if liked, one finely minced onion; boil half dozen good sized mealy potatoes, wash smooth and we'll with milk enough to form dough to make the crust; salt to please the taste, roll out full half an inch thick, and line buttered dish large enough to hold the meat; lay in the meat, add a teacup of water, or less if the pie is to be for a small family, then roll out Q thick crust of the potato, covering the top of the pie at least an inch thick and bake about an hour and a half.
 To PURIFY MILK PANs.-Place in a convenient position vessel of suitable dimensions for the size of the dairy, from Q half barrel to hogshead. In this shake quicklime, enough to make a thin whitewash when full of water, and cover to keep out dust and dirt The lime will settle, leaving a solution of lime over it as clear as spring water. After using the milk pans, etc., wash them as other utensils are washed and rinsed then dip them in the adjoining cask of lime water, so that every part becomes immersed therein set them to drain and dry, and the puri6cation is complete.
 BREAD MAKNa.-In making bread al- ways use potatoes or nice corn meal. The corn meal need not be made into mnsh scald it first in the mixing pan befo1e adding the flour, then set in the usual manner. The most prejudiced person cannot detect by the taste any corn in the bread, but there is an in- creased sweetness, and it keeps moist much longer. Of course the best corn meal must be used. Besides the inn provement in the bread, the flour barrel holds out longer and health is promoted Put about one part of corn to three parts of flour when setting the sponge.
 RRENING PEARS. - The following method of ripeping pears is given by an extensive fruit culturist The requisites are cool room and woolen blankets. The pears are to be spread upon one blanket and covered with the second Treated in this way they ripen rapidly and without mealiness, the Bartletts coming out a fine golden color, and Sick les rich and ruddy looking. At least half the fruit is spoiled by the ordinary indoor method of ripening, and house keepers will hail with delight any new aud effective means of attaining the de sir d end without loss or vexation O. spirit.
 A HINT TO HoUsEKEEPERs.-The maiI amount of injury done to the tender stomachs of young children. invalids anc sedentary persons, by eating bad bread day after day from one years end to an other must be enormous. A cook wht cannot make good bread of every de scription ought not to be allowed hous, room for an hour; and that mother ii criminally negligent, whatever may b. her position, who does not teach he daughter to know what good bread i and how to make it. Alum is used tt give whiteness, softness, and capacit, for returning moisture. Lime could b employed with equal effect, having th advantage of correcting any sourness il the bread or stomach; besides affordin, an important ingredient for making tn bone strong. Every housekeeper shoult know how to make two or three kinds o bread-good bread.
 Do BEEs PREVENT FRUcTIF1CATIoN ol SEED?-I am inclined 10 think they do am confident my neighbours bees (h keeps twenty five swarms) destroyed m, buckwheat crop last season. He got tn honey, and I got no pancakes in conse quence. I believe the honey in tn blossom of plants is as necessary to tn development and perfection of the seet of the plant as that the sun should shine and rain and dew fall; believe that thi bee keeping mania in thickly settled districts is almost as much of nuisanc and as great wrong to fruit growers, a if my neighbor should insist on breed ing Colorado potato beetles to feed ol my potato vines. Bees that forage O my buckwheat are robbers, and rob m to benefit their owners. I hope thi subject will be ventilated and tn right of those who do not kee bees in some way protected. Be Keeper.
 OLD AND NEW PASTURES. - Georg Geddes in the New York Tribune talks c the relative value of old and new pas lures. The former yield grasses tha produce the best milk, but the numbe of acres necessary for a COW is large