Connecticut western news., 1873-03-28
Farm, Garden and Household.
Practical Recipes.

ConcANNoN.-Thisp popular Irish dish | is usually made with cabbages and po- tatoes, but cau1ihower will make more | delicate dish. Take half as much cauli- | flower as potatoes, both of which must l have been boiled previously and com | pletely cooled. Chop them separately | and very fine. Put little milk and butter into saucepan, and when boil 1 ing hot, turn in the potatoes and caui- flower well mixed together. Place a fiat tin or dish over them, and let them warm through. Then remove the cover, and add salt and pepper to the taste make the dish boiling hot, and serve. Another way is to prepare it with strips of salt pork. Gut the pork into strips an inch long and as narrow as possible, and fry it to Q crisped brown; then turn in the chopped caulifower and po- tatoes, and mix we'll with the pork strips and fat. Heat very hot, and serve on platter. It is delicious dish and a little vinegar is considered an improve ment to it.
 ORANGE JE11Y.-Peel of two Seville and two China oranges, two lemons, the juice of three of each, quarter of a pound of loaf sugar, quarter of pint of water and two ounces of isinglass. Crate the rinds of the oranges and lemons, squeeze the juice of three of each, strain it, add the juice to the sugar and the water, and boil until it almost candies. Have ready quart of isinglass jelly made with two ounces of isinglass, put it to the syrup, and boil it once up. Strain off the jelly, and let it stand to settle before it is put into the mould.
 NOTTINGHAM PUDDNa.-Three large apples, one ounce of sugar, half pint of batter for pudding. Peel the apples and take out all the core fill them up with sugar, and place them in pie dish. Cover them with light batter, and bake half an hour.
 Make Note of It.
 Farmers have been urged to keep ac counts with their several fields, charging each with expenses, and giving credit for productions. But only few will do it. They say, first, there is no use, and second, that it is impossible that they are doing the best they can any how; farming is their business, and they are going to keep at it, and no bookkeeping will add to their produc- tions. To keep set of books charging what is done to field would require many pages, and it would include what thinking ie done and more than this, such fractions of work are often be- slowed that it would require several entry clerks and frst-class bookkeeper, whose services would be worth at least $1, 800 year.
 A farmer can keep a memorandum book in his pocket, and when he does anything for field, say No. 1, he can charge it in hours, or in a money sum. And when crop comes off it is easy to estimate it's valEe. We don't suppose that an exact balance can be obtained, but we know that with series of fields an average one can be had. The great advantage of keeping accounts is in ac- quiring habit of investigation, which :. is precisely what farmers need. All science is based on observation. Let a farmer bring up his boys to become close observers.
 It is astonishing how many farmers are the victims of all sorts of swindlers. They can be induced to buy fruit trees of agents whom they never saw before, and pay two prices, with the probabili- ty that the fruit will be small and taste- less they will listen with open mouths to 8 smooth-tonged fellow describing a worthless invention or patent-right, and they will almost sign their names in blank, by which they get swindled out of hundreds of dollars. In fact there is no miserable game in which farmers cannot be induced to engage. But it is to be said that these victims do not read, and that they despise agricultural papers. An authority that there are many thousands of farmers in Hi nols who have never seen an agricul- tural paper, and this Is true of many farmers even in the State of New York and in all other States. A few years ago hundreds of farmers were induced to sign what turned out to be notes ot hand, with the inducement that they were to become agents of some wonder fully profitable machine. The only remedy is for farmexs to become inform ed, and to do so they must take some paper which is devoted to their interests and read it every week. The time SC spent will often save them more money than all their labor can bring.
 An Experiment i'm Feeding Horses. . The London Omnibus Company use six thousand horses. To economize in feed is an important matter, and has led to several tests, the result of which isrecorded as follows: To each of three thousand of their horses they gave 8 daily allowance of ground oats sixteen pounds, ground hay seven and one-hali pounds, and cut straw one and one. eighth pounds-the hay and straw being cut into pieces about half an inch long, and well mixed up with oats in little water, and so making twenty-six pounds of food for each horse. And to each of their other three thousand horses they gave daily allowance of whole o1 unbruised oats nineteen pounds, and uncut or whole hay or straw thirteer pounds, without any water, in our old fashioned way, making thirty-twe pounds of this food for each horse And what was the result? Why, it was soon discovered that the horse who was fed on the twenty-six pounds of ground oats remained in as good 8 condition and could perform just as much work and do it just as well, too, as the horse did who consumed thirty-two pounds of food as aforesaid-thus showing i. saving of six pounds of food per day il IaVOr or Dru1seu oats ana cut nay.
 Bark Splitting of Apple Trees.
 What is thecause of this very destruc tive evil, and what the remedy to b. used for it? When it once begins, ap parently but little can be done to say, the tree. Last year we had five beauti full trees totally destroyed. The bari split up the side of the tree facing tn south and southwest not one showed any injury in any other aspect. w tried binding up and various curatives but all of no use. The trees were als, killed only one plum tree was, how ever affected in similar way. Fron the aspect of the tree invariably facin, the sunny side of the tree, becam