Connecticut western news., 1872-06-28
Farm, Garden and Household.

Farm, Garden and Household.
 OHoNs. -The way to secure crop of onions is to sift pufyerized hen manure over the beds, after the seed is sown. No trouble to raisea good crop on almost any land.t s.sJ ei.,o
 DUMPlMG. Stew the fruit with little sugar, and lay upon thin sheet of pas try. Fold up, tie in a bag, boil, and serve with sweet sauce, or simply butter and sugar, as you choose. tss,s,is. s55 , .5
 sMINoE PtEs four pounds meat, six of apples, aoneof suet, one of butter, two of sugar, one quart mofasses, quarter pound mace, quarter pound cloves, one ounce of cinnamon two nutinegs, cider. .:z .e
 1RYEaAND INDIAN NBREAD.-Three quarts of corn meal sca1ded with two and 8 half quarts of boiling water, l,one tablespoon of salt, one teacup of molasses; let it cool 8 few minutes and add one quart of rye flour, and onequart of butter-milk with a heapipg teaspoon of saleratus stirred into it. Bake B four or five hours.
 SHERBET. Wash very clean dozen stalks of rhubarb. Boil ten minutes in 8 quart of water. Strain this juice, and add half a pound of sugar, with little pure essence of lemon Set aside in pitcher for some hours. When ready to use it, add plenty of cracked-up bits of ice, and you will fndsit to be 8 pleasant and cooling beverage.
 CAPITAL JKIn4 -CAKE.-One pound of flour, half pound of sugar, half pound of butter, four eggs, half cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda or use sweet milk and add two teaspoonsful of cream of tartar. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. Beat up very light, and bake in shallow pans. Quince jelly is one of the incest sorts for this purpose, and should be applied to the cake while still hot. Pileup high, and ice nicely.
 TROUBLE WITH POTATOES. s.-Nathan Ely, Bucks County, Pa., had raised some potatoes manured with barn-yard man. re; they were all eaten by worms or some insects. B. Williams said it was caused by ;wire-worms, and might be remedied by dressing of salt. F. D. Curtis said course barn-yard manure is not fitted for roots, it is liable to be fill ed with larve of insects, and always pro duces rough scabbY skin. Manure for roots should be well rotted.
 zs STRAWBERRY JELLY.-Soak as much gelatine as is contained in one of Cox's shilling boxes in cold water, say one pint. When thoroughly softened. add five ounces of white sugar, two quarts o1 strawberry syrup, made asaboye directed and put over the fire for few minutes or until the gelatine is perfectly dissolved Pour from fhe kettle into molds or smal jars, and you have most beautiful anC pleasantly favored jelly. This recipe is meant for cold weather if used in sum mer, reduce the quantity of syrup by one half.
 TRAINING ToMAToEs.-An Ohio cores pondent gives report of his tomato crop for 1870. He raised his plants in { hot-bed, set them in the field about the middle of May, in rows seven feet apar Land 2 row of cabbage between, and two and Q half feet apart in the rows the1 drove in stakes five feet high and about eight feet apart along each row ther nailed three slats at equal distances, ant as the tomatoes grew, tied to slats witt atwine, spreading the branches out tt cover the whole frame. When the, reached the top clipped the endsof .th' stalks of, also the suckers. He kept tn, soil loose. Number of stalks produced
 220, yielding 45 bushels, and sold then
 in his country town at prices rangin.
 from 60 cents to $2 per bushel, making l an ayerage of ,$1 per bushel, or ittl
 over 20 centsp per stalk.
 .-s-. FODDER = Mr., Stewart said to tn
 Farmers' Club It is an important thin s for us, especially now, when there
 prospect of another short hay crop, t call the attention of farmers to the ad vantage of preserving and utilizin
 straw. In America straw is used flo
 bedding, generally, built is too valuable
 other absorbents of less value, as sWam
 muck, earth, and leaves, may be used
 and the straw saved for fodder. What "
 want is to use up all our straw in feedin
 aniruals.s We then get it back in 8 shap
 more useful as manure, and, by enablin
 farmers to keep more stock, increase th
 quantity and value of the manure, an
 conequently, the value of their farm.
 It is now good time to experiment o
 this method, as clover will soon be read
 to cut, and nothing better than clove
 can be used to experiment on.
 APPLYING MANURE.-A corresponde1
 of the RurdI Home, writes If the farm
 CT has manure made, or kept through u s summer, it will become fermented 2 cannot be avoided in the warm seasol
 Such manure is best applied on the su ls face, and worked in with the harrow s. z and if applied to winter wheat, there sz perhaps no better mode, as it has u mechanical effect of keeping the surfa, loose to resist the frosts of winter, eS well as the stimulating effect of produ
 ing an early growth of the crop. B gl sin the use of green manures in spri1 = for summer crops, experience has co
 vinced me that to plough under, and . . low fermentation to take place in tl soil, where all tlie volatile gases can sg absorbed and taken up by the growil 1.s 1 crop, is most economical and best. ' 5s are often deceived in the effects of ma Q lure by the amount used. In applyil
 common barnyard manure in an nnft s5 mented state, we get but about e-thi ~ the amount of manure in the same bu that we have when used in a decayi
 state. 5s
 .sis TIE FUw QUESTION. How long W 'g't our people continue to chop down t ss. : forests for fuel, instead of delving CSpnOtsAb4A aWAIGA l16S uluu0A Ocu0d
 the surface of the earth !? Illinois, Maj 5.s land, and Ohio each has coal beds mo srJ extensive than those of Belgium, yet as latter country, with a population .sls about five millions, and many busy f; $ ] 7 tories, not only produces fuel enou
 for its own consumption, but manae 'sn to carry on an important trade with H ,ss land, France, and Russia. There cam ,l99 be much doubt that the productive aa' pacity of both English and Belgian mir aasi is taxed to the utmost, and as populati and manufactures Increase the people civilized countries will have to look ell .lisaBhere for their fuel. The coal-produci .sss regions of our country could do DO vii asis II thtlg than to abandon the use of wo