Connecticut western news., 1875-04-16
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Notes.

Household Notes.
 DISH WATER.-Use a little milk in our dish water, whether hard or soft, you will never need soap if you have the water hot, no matter how greasy the dishes. Just try it. = r
 PLAIN. PkRsNPs. The sugar. or hollow crown is the sweetest for table use. They are generally used in the winter or spring, but are eatable as soon as suffi- ciently grown. Boil them until tender in water in which a little salt has been thrown, split them and serve with drawn butter; or, if boiled, with corn beef or pork, serve whole without dressing. To CLEAN KID GLOVES. ready a small quantity of sunlight fluid in saucer, and fine white cotton cloth that will not lint. Put on one of the soiled gloves, saturate the cloth with the fluid, and wet briskly, but softly, all over the glove until it is perfectly clean. Allow it to dry on the hand, then remove it by turning carefully inside out. Treat the other glove in the same manner. Ten cents worth of fluid will cleanse two pair. ... ..4, .-.....
 BATTER PUDDING. One quart of milk, seven eggs, fourteen tablespoonfuls of flour, apples or peaches, salt. Beat the yolks and whites of the eggs separately, and until they are as light as possible. Add them to the milk, then stir in the four and uncooked apples or peaches cut in small pieces, and boil. If the pudding is. to be baked, leave out the fruit, and put the mixture in heated and ! buttered cups. Bake about twenty min utes in @ quick oven. To be eaten hot, with rich wine sauce.g ..Es .ssE sH.
 FRENCH RICE PUDD1Ne.-One cup of rice, one quart of milk, three eggs, one lemon, one cup of white sugar. Salt the rice and steam it. When it is about half done add the milk, and let it steam until the rice is soft. Beat the yolks of the eggs, add them to the rice while the milk in it is scalding hot. Add the grated peel of the lemon. Sweeten to make frosting. of the whites of the eggs sugar in lightly, and. add the juice of the lemon. Put this on the pudding, and return it to 8 quick oven to brown the frosting handsomely. To be eaten cold.
 Improving Worn-Out Fields.
 At recent me of. North Caro- lima agricultural society, held at Raleigh, IN. O.. MT. T. A, Granger submitted the following as his method of improving poor land I am satisfied the farmers of this section of country are doing 8 large amount of unnecessary labor in iimprov- ing their worn out fields. After several years of hard labor in hauling dirt and composting my ole, worn-out fields, I concluded to try some other way to i'm prove my lands, besides moving it in dump cart from one. point to another, and I adopted the following plan: In October, 1871, fal1owed my experiment plot of seven acres with a two -horseplow, and followed the same with subsoil blow fourteen inches deep, leaving my lands in twenty feet beds. Then seed ed 1t in black oats, two bushels to the acre. Thesg oats were only an average crop for the land; they npened May 18th following On the 25thUo of June I re- versed the beds and seeded in it COW peas, at the rate of one and half busll- els to the acre. On the following Octo- Der l gathered enough peas from the land to answer for seed, and fallowed the vines and what green peas and other vegetable matter had grown upon the land. On the 10th of October, 1872, I seeded the same land in black oats again, and on the following May harvest ed q very fine crop, double as much as I did the year before. In June reversed the beds again, and seeded the same in COW peas, at the rate of one and a half bushels, and the following October I again gathered large crop of seed peas, about fifteen bushels to the acre, only taking the ripest for seed.r l then fal- lowed the vines and green peas in, and seeded the land in black peas and clover on the following May, 1874. I harvest ed very large crop of oats, thirty eight bushels to the acre, and on the land now I have a fine crop of clover, and I believe when I get the next crop of clover it will pay me better than any other crop I have made on it, and with the fallow the sec ond fall, will leave the land rich enough to produce one bale of cotton or thirty bushels of wheat per acre. The land I made this experiment on was worn-out field. I first in 1870 marled it and put 1t in corn and peas broadcast peas the last blowing, making about two bushels of corn to the acre, following in what peas were on the land the land has been cleared fifty years and was cultivated as long as it would produce anything. It was originally ill long straw pine, with red clay subsoil five inches from the sur face.
 Farm Hints.
 Pruning may be done during mild days, but for larger limbs it will be bet ter to wait until toward spring. Cover large wounds with gumshellac varnish, melted grafted wax, or paint.
 It would be great convenience if farmers generally would have their names painted upon the gates in front o1 their residences. Strangers often have much difficulty in finding persons ol whom they are in search, which would be obviated by this course. Besides, 6 nice gate, with the name of the occupant adds greatly to the appearance of place, and looks as though the inmates were not isolated from the outside world.
 An exchange says that when potatoes are boiled for pigs, they should be strained, as the water from them is iniu rious to less or greater degree, as i : contains the poisonous alkaloid called so famine, which, it should be noted, is nor, | abundant when the tubers begin tc chimp or bud out. This is particular, applicable to what are termed s'sun burnt " potatoes but whether due to al increased proportion of solanine we ar not prepared to state.
 
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