Connecticut western news., 1872-05-03
Farm, Garden and Household.

CORN COB MEAL.-A writer In rural, says of the value of cob meal for stock, that he would as soon have ashes as the meal.
 CORN BREAD.-Take four cups sour milk, one of these partly filled with cream one egg, little salt, two even teaspoon fuIs pulverized soda ; mix the soda with avery little corn meal, and stir all togeth- CT till it foams then add corn meal till a thin batter is obtained, and pour into hot tins, oiled, an inch deep, and bake in a quick oven.
 SOWING GLOVER SEED.-Farmers who grow clover seed are recommended, by a writer in the Rural World, to SOW the seeds in the chaf without hullipg, since it is actually worth more and will bring better crop than the same quantity of seed will if hulled. He says many of the seeds are injured by hulling, and the chaff is protection to the young and tender plants.
 NERVOUS OR SICK HEADACHE. Sever alyears since was very much afflicted with nervous headache. Some one told me it was occasioned by drinking green tea, 1t acting as poison to some constitu- tions. After that drank black tea, and have never been troubled with such head, aches since. Other causes may produce nervous headaches, of course, but I be- ieve this Is one.
 PLowINa.-Start the blows the mo- ment the ground is dry enough, but not before and where it can be done, har- row and SOW as fast as you blow. Do not wait to finish the field. We know there is some loss of time in changing work so often, but its nothing compared with the extra time and labor required to prepare plowed land that has been ex- posed to heavy rains, and then had to lie for several days until the surface was crusted over before it was dry enough to harrow. Our springs are so short, and the weather so uncertain, that our rule should be never to leave the field until all the land that has been plowed is narrowed and sown.
 SoUP RECIPE. Put four pounds o1 fresh beef in six quarts of cold water, and let it boil slowly for five or six hours. (The lady correspondent who furnishes this recipe usually boils her meat the pre- ceding day.l Then take 1t from the poi and partially skim off the top; grate, ol finely slice, one large or two small car rots slice two or three onions, one tur- nip and two potatoes; salt and black pep per to taste add one-quarter of a red pepper, one tablespoon of summer savo. ry; let these ingredients boil slowly to- gether for nearly two hours: Just before taking up for the table mix a tablespoon of flour in little cold water stir into the soup, letting it boil up twice, an6 your soup is done.
 How TO BRIGHTEN STRAW MATING AND OnrnoTH.- it twice during about pint of salt dissolved in about { pailful of warm, soft water, drying the mating quickly with a soft cloth. The salt will prevent it from turning yellow Far away, and from quite an opposite quarter, we hear another friendly voice begging us to say to our readers that af ter oil-cleths are scrubbed and dried they should be rubbed all over with { cloth dipped in milk. ''You've no idea, says our frfSsad, chow brightly the col ors come out. Husband says it's the al bumen in the milk, but think it's tn, very thin film of greese deposited Meantime our-oil-cloths shine the whol, year round."
 FINDING THE LIVE WEIGHT OF CATT11 BY MEAsUREMENT.-Ina answer to core spondent, the London Field says: Tak' the length of the back from the junction of the cervical and dorsal processes t' the tail, and the girth immediately be hind the elbow, square the girtb, ant multiply the result by the length, ant then by one of the following decima multipliers