Connecticut western news., 1872-09-13
Farm, Garden and Household.

this add one egg, We'll beaten one cup of flour, half cup of cream or buttermilk salt and pepper them to taste fry in butter.
 SMOKY CHIMNEYs. you have a smoky chimney, see that the chimney top reaches higher than any other part of the building; that the inside throug gh- out the whole length is plastered very smoothly with good mortar that the throat of the chimney is hot less than ing into chamber at least twice as large, and that no hue contains less than sixty square inches.
 SUFFERED ToAsr-Cut thin slices the whole way round stale loaf (it should be at least a day old); warm both sides before the fire, and toast carefully have a hot plate ready to lay 1t on when done. Put some bu ter, cut into dice, on it i; first warm it before the fire and spread the butter on each side of the toast. Toast second round and lay it on the first; cut off the crusts and divide into four quarters. Serve very hot
 EXCELLENT VARNIsH FOR HARNESS. - Pulverize and put in jug or bottle half a pound to 8 pound of gum-shellac, covered with good alcohol, and cork tightly. Put the mixture in warm place. In about two days, if shaken frequently, the gum will be dissolved and ready for use. If the liquid appears as thick as thin molasses add more alcohol To one quart of the varnish add one ounce of good lampblack, and an ounce of gum camphor. An occasional coat of this is also good tor rendering boots waterproof.
 FARM NoTEs.-It pays to raise corn for winter forage-r lant in drills, a bushel to the acre. Cut stalks two feet from the ground, if large cure in dry (some four weeks, then house, and not stack out for rains to damage the forage. Our barns and stork-sheds are generally poor and small. This is bad economy. Split more boards, and make large and tight shed-roofs to protect both stock and stock-feed. Then cattle do better and drop their manure under cover, and out of washing rains. One load of such manure is worth more than five loads of old weathered stuff. with all the salts of amonia, potash and lime taken out of 1t. A farmer who would sell fine mules of his own raising for copper cents an think them gold eagles, would not be more mistaken than thou. sands are in regard to the true value oi fertilizers. What all boys ten years old ought to know, their fathers have yet to learn. That is, the value of carbon ano the elements of water in we'll. dripped outdoor manure, of which they gener ally form ninety eight per cent. Thinl of it, the precise things that form all manure are unknown to planters an6 farmers. Is this wisdom, or is it folly Our best friends on the farm are named carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen phosphorus and sulphur. To these ad, potash, lnagnesia, lime, iron and chlorin and YOU will have the elements of goot manure.
 SHEEP ON PooR FARM.-Some farm CTS of our acquaintance feel an antipa thy to sheep for the reason that the, "bite close" We consider this thei chief recommendation. They can onl bite close where the pasture is short and the pasture is short only on DO farm. A poor farm will necessarily encountered with briars, weeds an brush in the fence corners. Under suc conditions, we would say to farmer wh has twenty dollars or upward in cas- tor credit for 1t, and then let him borro, the amount if he has to pay one pc cent. month for the use of it), invest in as many ewes, not older than thre years. as you can get for that money Put them this summer in such n field a we have described, and give them, | addition to what they can pick up, ,r,H xNf ! T l.-.l with free access to water and salt. The will first "go for" the briars and clea them out; every portion of that fiel will be trodden over and over again, an the weeds will have no chance Fol them on that field during win.er, an carry to them feed sufficient to kee them thriving. Get the use of goo buck in season-South Down would | preferable-and in the spring, if yo have luck-that means, if you give the proper attention and feed regularly you will raise more lambs than you ha7 ewes. The money will be more ths doubled, and the wool and manure wi pay for their feed and interest. In u spring you may put that field Tn cor with the certainty of getting fifty p cent. increase of crop.-Maine Farn'
 HINTS FOR FLY T1ME.-Open yo doors in the morning and let the ire ar pass freely through the house. Aft all hour or two, close the blinds al doors, or otherwise darken the room except of course the one in which V are at work. Take care tbat no crum are scattered or milk split in places whi are accessible to flies. Keep food al sweet things in the cellar as much practicable, and keep cupboard doc shut. It is a great help to hang mosqui netting before your pantry shelves ; 8 indeed great deal more use might
 proGtably made of mosquito netti than is generally thought of. If y have no ice chest, netting box IS d1spensible to preserve meat, pastl etc.. from flies. I dress my sitti room stove with it (the pink is pret enough), making kind of case that c he slipped off easily if wish to make fire ill cool day. No housekeeper W has not tried it, can guess how mu nicer it is than to be daily taking brush to dusty stove. Bits of gre "bushes," sprigs from the cherry tre or currant bushes suspended from ceiling and wall make excellent resti pIdces tor utcS, dAu WILLIS he PO GnuS P vided will show marked differer when house cleaning time comes. A other advantage is that at five o'clock
 cuollsh morning, the aies will be fou by hundreds asleep on these 'roost'
 which may be taken down carefully a
 transferred to the fire, that will mer fully consume without awak kening the
 A TRUE PICTURE. How many m
 there are who have ground and grou to make money, that they might
 happy by and by, but who, when tn have got to be 50 or 60 years old, h. used up. all the enjoyable nerve that W