Connecticut western news., 1873-10-17
Farm, Garden and Household.
Household Recipes.

Household Recipes.
 GREEN ToMAro PICKLES ever1
 gallon of sliced tomatoes add two table.
 spoons of salt, and let it stand over g night. Do. not pour off the liquid but add two-thirds of 8 pound of sugar, one pint grated horse-radish, two table. spoons of mustard. Put weight on the top and set near the fire or in g warm place until they become sour, when they should be kept cool. The juice ef the tomato forms the vinegar, and If some are partly ripe it is all the better. No scum rises on the top and they will keep long time.
 To SToP THE RAvAeEs OF MOTHS Camphor will not stop the rayapes oj
 moths in carpets after they commence eating. Then they pay no heed to the presence of camphor, cedar or tobacco. A good way to conquer them is to take coarse crash towel and wiring it out of clean water. Spread it smoothly on the carpet, then iron it dry with a good hot iron, repeating the operation on sus- pected places, and on those least used. It does not injure the color or the pile
 of the carpet in the least, as it is not necessary to press hard, heat and steam
 being the agents, and they do the work eHectually on worms and eggs. Then the camphor will, doubtless. prevent the future depredations of the miller.
 How TO CooK Coop BEEFsrEAK.- Have your steak cut thick, put it on your meat board, and with 8 sharp pointed knife prick it in every imae- lnable way to make it tender, put it on the grldiron over the fire, turning it very often. Put lump of butter and some salt and pepper into tin dish. Put your steak dish where it will be warmed. When the steak is cooked put 1t into the tin dish and double it over, press out all the blood you can, and lay the steak on your plate. Set the tin dish, with the blood, pepper and salt on the stove, and as soon as it
 bolls up and thickens pour it over your steak. You can add can of mush- rooms to the gravy. This receipt was never known to fail.
 GREEN CORN PUDDING. Allow one long ear of sweet corn for each person, Take half a pint of milk, one egg, a dessertspoonful of white sugar, one of sweet butter, and teaspoonful of salt to every two ears. Beat the eggs and sugar we'll together, and add the milk and salt. Cut the corn off the cobs with sharp knife, and chop the di- v1ded grains with a chopping knife, but not too fine or, better still, split each row of grains down the middle be- fore cutting them off the cobs. The corn must not be boiled first. Stir the chopped corn into the milk, and bake In brisk oven in custard cups or tin pail until the top is nicely Drowned, but not hardened. Serve hot, without sauce. This is @ delicious dish. Some persons prefer it cold. Common corn may be used, if young and tender, but requires as much again sugar.
 The Value Of Draining.
 Another year of experience, with an under-drained farm garden, fully con- firms me in the opinion previously en- tertalned of its great value for all soils of ordinary depth resting upon hard PBn of clay or pin gravel. The farm garden aforesaid illustrates fully the point how wonderfully vegetation main talns itself throughout long, sharp drought like the one just encountered | In this vicinity, and shows this hour a profus1on of green, glossy leaves on all crops, which tells of thrift and not pre- mature decay. It is right that is not | forgotten by any owner of cultivated | land, and overthrows a mountain of | prejudice in twinkling, carrying it's proof, stronger than affidavits, on it's thousand leaflets and abundant crop. It speaks for itself and forces down the truth, with apower that belongs not to words, to germinate, and bear fruit sooner or later, and teaches infallibly how to secure ourselves decent return In every season, wet or dry, armed at all points. The steady, intolerable glare ot the sun, blazing constantly with scarcely an intervening cloud for fifty days, the total failure of the damp 1og-days, and the cool, dry nights with put dew, have finished up the crops hereabout at 'shortmeter. All things are ln the sere and yellow leaf of au- 5umn-grain short and stunted, roots shabby, fall feed none, pastures dry and brown, corn cary all the season through, and yesterday blew flat to the ound--nothingleft but the earthquake which IS appointed about now for New England, and may come any day. We got some hay out of accidental showers, good crop-since then, nothing but weeds and crickets. Whoso cultivates we'll drained land, with generous SUD- ply of good manure, and steady, solid industry, will gather his crops in due season, sit down in peace after the vic- 'ory with plenty abounding, and find abundant pastime in arranging for an- other campaign. Let cut the water, put in the manure, stick to it, roll up your sleeves and never forget that Luck lays in the elbows" ."-Jupior, ;n Maine Farmer.