Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21
Farm. Garden and Household.

Farm. Garden and Household.
 To PREVENT HENS BREAKING Fees BE- FORE LAYING.-Feed boiled wheat and palverized egg shells, and keep coal ashes where the hens run.
 A Prairie Farmer correspondent finds cure for striped bug in paris-green and calcined plaster, in the proportion of one of the former to fifteen of the latter. The Maine farmer who, tempted by high prices, disposed of part of his hay last Fall, and economized to make up the deficiency, has just sold IT hides. Joseph s. Howe says that one of the chief hindrances to agricultural progress is the reluctance farmers feel toward giv- ing the public the benefit of their ex- perience, either by writing or by speech. A correspondent of Moore's R,wal kept IA calves in stanchions one Winter, and found their horns " standing in all di- rections," Now he either ties them with rope or lets them go loose in the pen.
 TURN LAMBS INTO CORN F1E1Ds.-Tell your subscribers to turn the lambs into GA0sOOIA AC4o OA OEhh1uS euOAA A4OA VAC ewes. They will do the corn no injury, and find there plenty of the best of food. I never saw lambs do as well as when heated in that way.
 rrAGE PUDDMa.-Warm two and a half tablespoonfuls of butter. stir in a teacup of white sugar and two eggs. Put two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar in one pint of flour, add teaspoonful of soda dissolved in cup of milk :; flavor with lemon or vanilla. Bake three quarters of an hour in moderate oven, and serve hot with rich hot sauce.
 MORNING BISCUITS. One quart of flour, half 0 teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of yeast, and one pint of sour milk, with half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it. Work this into dough; then rub into the dough half cup of butter. Knead well cut off small bits !; shape them into biscuits lay them in the bake pan, cover closely with bread cloth, and let them stand over night, in warm place in the winter, and a cold place in the summer. Bake in the morning for breakfast.
 BREAD PUDDNa.-One pint of fine bread crumbs. one cup of sugar, two table spoonfuls of molasses, half pound suet chopped fine, one coffee-cup raisins, half rind of preserved orange-peel or citron cut thin and fine, very little nutmeg and cinnamon, two teaspoon fuls cream tartar, one small teaspoon full soda, one teaspoonful of salt. Stir in milk enough to make it thick as pound cake :; beating all thoroughly together put it into buttered pudding mould and boil three hours. Be careful to keep the water boiling all the time.
 SwNE.-No pig ca,s grow rapidly or poor food. A well-bred pig will grow rapidly on good food-a poor-bred pig will not {; and this is the real essentla difference between them. If you starve both, the welLbred pig is no better thar the other. Let young pigs have all they will eat and digest. See that they have access to fresh water. They may no drink much, but it should always be pro vided for them, no matter how sloppy their food may be. Provide ashes, salt sulphur and charcoal. See that the pen and troughs are kept clean.
 HELPING OUT THE HAY CRoP. .-Th, present drouth, says. the Tribune, vii have serious effect on the pasture AC4uS 1h0 4AChuOWo, &A0 WILL doubt considerably lessen the yield o hay. Although sufficient rain may fal hereafter, it will be too late to materialI, affect the hay crop. Meadows are nov suffering from the effects of the dr, weather of last year and the past sever winter, so that the probability is agains even a yield equal to the short crop o last season. Therefore it is absolutel necessary that provision be made for supply of fodder to carry stock througl next winter. The first resource for tn farmer IS to plant corn. The crop, wit good cultivation, will thrive in @ hot dry season better than any other 8 easily raised, and it is question readil solved whether poor meadow, whic at the best may yield half tun of ha per acre next month, had not better b plowed up and prepared for crop ( corn fodder, which will certainly produc two to four, and possibly five or six tur of feed, equal to average hay. A so turned down before the 20th day of Jun may be relied upon for this yield, an may be cleared in time to prepare for crop of winter wheat to be sown in Ser tember.
 Roor FooD FOR DAIRY STOCK. Tn a address to the Little Falls Farmers Clul Harris Lewis called the attention to son recent experiences of his in raising an feeding beets. $48 per acre covered u expense of seed, planting, cultivation and harvesting, and the yield was 9( bushels, so that the roots cost about cents bushel, or not more than 7A cen allowing for value of manure, interest ( land, Sc. Yellow globes and imperi beets were grown on part of the san field the year previous, at an expense about $70 per acre, yet the yeld was much greater that the cost of the roo was about two cents per bushel less ths the cost of the last seasons crop. IT speaker advocated feeding cattle regul portion of roots each day, the whole tin they are confined from pasture in co weather, as preferable to partial feedin as, for example, emitting roots whi COWS are dry at midwinter. He expres ed the belief, as the result of experimer tbat beets are actually worth from IS
 24 ceEts per bushel for feeding COWS,
 compared with hay at $20 tun-tl lowest of these estimates affording ample profit on the cost of cultivation tage even greater still, in "increas ueoiuluccs uuFiuS bno euG1F0 season lessened lia bility to disease, &c., and
 the improvement of the butter and chee which the milk produces. Tn support this last assertion, MT. l.. stated that
 his request ti.e managers of the facto in his Reighborhood made two tests
 the milk of all their patrons this spri for the express purpose of determini
 the relative quality of milk produced
 COWS fed with hay and roots and those f with hay and grain, and concluded tE beets are as good, if not better, for t production of rich milk than grain.
 conclusion Mr. Lewis said that nf