Connecticut western news., 1873-05-09
Farm, Garden and Household.
Donestic Receipts.

flour. tfs1 8sStE fs s} -f .7T
 DouaHNUTs.-One cup of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one egg, one tea spoonful of soda, and one of cream tartar. -.rt
 Coop BISCUIT. rr.-One quart of flour, one tablespoonful baking powder, but ter the size of walnut; use water; don't mix stiff; bake quick. .,s
 GINGER CooKIEs.-One cup sugar, one of molasses, one of butter, lard, or drip pings, one-half cup of water, and one tablespoon soda, and one ginger.
 GRAHAM BREAD.-One quart of bolt ed flour, two quarts of Graham, two tea spoonfuls of salt, one half cup of mo- lasses, two thirds of 8 cup of yeast mix with warm water not very stiff. fg
 PUFF ROLLS FOR Three cups of milk, three eggs, three cups of flour and a little salt. Bake in earthen cups, filling them half full. A quick but not seerehing oven. These rollsare very nice.
 WASHING BUTTER.-A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, in answer to an inquiry, gives his views as follows:- It is asked-Does not the washing of butter cause the loss of it's aroma? We are .sure-no. It has nothing to do with it. It simply washes the milk out more readily, and saves labor in work ing out the buttermilk with ladle. It rather assists in retaining the aroma and grain of the butter. >i! s1s- FRUIT CAKE.-One upof butter two cups sugar one cup of molasses one cup coffee; one pound chopped raisins; three eggs; a dessert spoonful of each k1nd of spice; one nutmeg teaspoon full of saleratus. Add flour enough to make 1t little suffer than pound cake, This cake will keep long time. A little cltron In very thin slices through the cake improves it, and entrants may be substituted for part of the raisinns.
 HTS stay Where You Are.
 - We have many inquiries asking ad- vice about selling farms at the East and going West. This everlasting uneasi- ness belongs to the Yankee character. and IS one of the clements, perhaps, in his enterprise. We wish, however, to express, with emphasis, our dissent from the too prevalent opinion, that farms at the East are past working with profit. If, instead of selling out, the owner of an Eastern farm would inform himself as to the character of his soil and its needs, and then expend the amount of money he must sacrifice in selling off all his stock, farming tools and other personal property, in needed improvements and thorough working of his farm, he will find all he desires in the possibilities of the old homestead. There is no lack of thenatural clements of fertility in these farms they pos ssess the undeveloped equivalents of a thousand crops. The deposits are there {; only draw your check with the proper formality and the teller of Mother Ma lures bank will honor it. Look at the .. advance of British agriculture in the last half century-her increase from fourteen to twenty-eight bushels of wheat per acre. If she had possessed millions of acres of virgin soil, her farmers might have abandoned the old and sought the new fields; but instead of that, they have added new Kingdom belew, doubling the production of the acres they possess. Young men who have no farms, the old hive being full, ., will dc well to seek one in the West, but do not abandon the ancestral acres to the stranger. -Ltve-Stock Journal. i@ adt ehlf Renting Farms.
 In renting or letting. farms on shares there should be the most stringent stip- nulRatjolns R ms on the part of proprietors rela- tive to the use of the manure made on the place and the supply of fertilizing agents on the part of the renter or oc- cupler of the land. We have known it to cost farmers more to restore their farms to the condition in which they left sfhnrn after a,, A11 oe
 renters occupying them meantime, than they had drecelved as rents in the interim. Absolute rest is often far more profit able than the renting system to the man who owns the land. It is only in rare cases that the system of renting pays the owner of land. In this, country it has not been made so much either of a business or study on the part of farmers, and. tenant rights and duties are not SD clearly defined either by custom or law as in England, where most farming is done by tenants. If American farmers are to give up their lands to tenants and fiEe of the income derived therefrom in villages, as seems to be the ambition of many, there is great need of the caution We have above given.
 " Manasemsnt or eattls.
 s,,;aa, AMassachtsetts afc set farmer says on this 4. ' ii My cattle like my company When in the pasture they will follow me. until + leave the lot; and as general rule they come up to the barn+yard every night about sunset and in their way call for a loci, of hay Though | give them all they want they take but fewmouth- fuls, which satisfies them, and I am con- fident 1t does them good deal of good. 1t keeps their bowels regular and they thrlyegwel 5and are happy. They do much better than they did when I changed pastures once week, for now they have change of food every day instead of once g week, Cattle need Kindness and they pay well for 1t. I can handle nv steers and others as please. They wifi come up to me while ! am milking and invite me to play with them. The time l think is not far distant when soiling cattle will be the most profitable where most of the farm canwbee cultivated. Provide small lot for them to run in, feed green fodder, save all the manure, and our farms will grow richerg'' Thn5. izis-s.ed Liver Rot in sheep. ',f2 .4 s.Il l
 An English farmer who has kept sheep for forty years, says he has found rock salt 8 valuable antidote for liver rot, and that these animals cannot be too hberally supplied with this saving sub- stance. He further declares that in cases of congestion of the liver or rot he shasfoHnd two tablespoonfuls of tnrpen- tine shaken np in half pint of water and given to the sufferer frsquenti cure, unless the disease has made very great progress, - .-... r,r--
 : sIsig. Very Much Mistaken.
 .- A faw niohts ano q 1zolI Lro,u,, 1,..a;