Connecticut western news., 1875-10-15
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Recipes.

MUFFINs. Flour, one quart warm milk and water, one pint and a half {; yeast, a quarter of pint; salt, two ounces. mix for fifteen minutes then further add, four, quarter of a peck, make dough, let it rise one hour, roll 1t up, pull it into pieces, make them into balls, put them into warm place, and when the whole dough is made into balls, shape them into mullins, and bake them on tins; turn them when half done, dip them into warm milk, and bake into a pale brown.
 paste, which roll out to the thickness of a penny piece, have also dozen tartlet- pans, which lightly butter cut out twelve pieces with round cutter from the paste, each the size of your tartlet- pens lay them upon the slab, roll the trimmings of the paste again to the former thickness, cut twelve other pieces, with which line the tartlet-pans put a piece of mince meat in each; wet them round, place on the lids, pricking hole with g pin in the center, and close them well at the edges egg over lightly and bake about twenty minutes in moderate oven.
 CURING PoRK.-Scurvy will never arise from the use of salt provisions un- less saltpeter be used in the curing salt alone answers all purposes, provided all the animal heat be entirely parted with before salting. The insertion of pork into pickle alone is not sufficient, but it should be rubbed thoroughly with dry salt after it has entirely parted with it's animal heat, and then the fluid running from the meat should be poured off be- fore packing the meat in the barrel. This should be done sufficiently close to admit no unnecessary quantity of air and some dry salt should occupy the space between the pieces and then pickle, not water, should be added. Great care must be taken to fill the bar rels entirely full, so that no portion of the meat can at any time project over the surface of the fluid.
 Successful Groupings.
 Talking with neighbor who has just marketed his barley crop, he informed usthat it yielded fifty bushels per acre, and he sold it two rowed) at $1.20 pel bushel. This makes a gross total of $6C per acre, besides the straw, or $240 from oAkO AO40 O1 1OuI dCISSs 4u0 UcG1cJ ONO1' ran enough by weight to pay for the seed 1.-The field two years ago was g clover sod. This was well manured, plowed and planted with Peerless pota, toes. The yield was thousand bushels, selling for nearly $500-might have brought more if sold at the highest price. The field was again manured in the spring and sown with barley and last fall, with another dressing of ma. nure, 1t was sown to wheat, which now looks we'll, as it should. It is safe to say that with decent management, the field heavily seeded with clover this spring and reasonably cropped there. after, the four acres cannot become poo1 during. the lifetime of it's owner.
 Weseal this successful cropping. This nobody can deny. Perhaps it is also successful farming, but that depends mainly on what was done with the rest of the farm while this field was petted If by neglect of clovering, or otherwise the remainder of the land deteriorateC as much as the four acres improved, the advantage is not obvious. Generally however, those farmers who know how to sgrow (and do grow) good crops, are the good farmers. Here, as elsewhere the scriptural rule holds good: 'sHe that is faithful in that which is least, ii faithful in most. Country Gentleman
 = . el washing Day.
 Washing day will insist upon making it's unwelcome appearance once 8 week The linen for Mondays wash should be collected on Saturday, sorted and put te soak in cold water, according to the various kinds. The body linen should be put into one tub, the bed and tablt linen into another, and the fine thing separately. Plain collars, cuffs, wrist bands, should be strung through thu button-holes on piece of ribbon lone enough for the articles to be easily di vided for rubbing, starching, etc. Col ored muslins, prints, and fannels mus be laid aside to be washed in differen manner from white calico or linen Properly boiled suds are far better thai soap for washing, particularly if wash ing machine be employed. The sud shoulf1 be; prepared in the following manner Shred into an earthernware ia the best yellow soap cut into very fin shaEings, and pour boiling water to tn quantity required. One pound of soa is plenty for one gallon of water. Ad to this quantity half a pound of the bes Scotch soda, and set the jar Covered on stove or at the back of the kitchel range till the soap is quite dissolved. this be done on Saturday evening, tn soap. will be smooth jelly fit to use O. Monday morning.
 Disease of ofPoultry.
 L. H., South Adams, Mass, writes "I have a lot of hens and am losin some every week. When first take they actsdmnpish, do not eat, the throa is slimY, the comb turns black wha passes through them is of a dark gree and yellowish color they are all ol hens; are sick about week. Tell m what ails them and how to cure them.
 Reply.-This is evidently what known as cholera It seems to b an affection of the liver, as that organ found to be much disordered on exam nation after death. It may occur from variety of causes overlooking, colo damp, filthy quarters, or want of water will all help to bring on this complains The. remedy is to give half a teaspoonft of castor-oil, and change the food I wheat "shorts" and fine corn mea mixed, boiled into thick mush, wit one teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, ( red pepper pods, to each quart of t1 musk. Pure water, in quart of whic half 8, teaspoonful of copperas (sulphat of iron) isdissolved, should be given drink. The roasting places should | thoroughly cleaned and disinfected wit imelwash. The disease will rapidl spread unless stopped.-IEnaes.
 
 ar Wasted Power.
 There are, in round numbers, 33, 900 900 COWS, oxen, horses, and the like, the United States, says an exchang which, for about ten hours 8 day, du ing fly time, keep their tails in almo constant motion. It is no exaggeratie