Connecticut western news., 1875-09-24
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Hinfs,

EXCELLENT SoUP.-Take pound of salt beef or pork, and cut into very small pieces into the iron saucepan. Pour six quarts, of water over it, and let it boil on very slow lire three-quarters of an hour. When this is done then put in some car rots, turnips, potatoes well cleaned, and cabbage, all cut into slices. Let this boil slowly another hour, and then thick en 1t with a pint of oatmeal, stirring it after the oatmeal is put in, to keep it smooth and nice. Season it with pepper and salt, and there is noble dinner for large family. If any soup remains when all have done dinner, keep 1t in close earthenware dish or pan till the next day, when it can be warmed up again. .0.-. To MAKE LIME WATER.-To half a pound of unslaked lime add three-quar- ters of pint of water. Put the lime into an earthen pot, and pour little of the water upon 1t; and as the lime slakes pour the water on by little and little, and stir up wish 8 stick. The water must be added very slowly, otherwise the lime will fly about in all directions, and may break the vessel. In three or four days time, when the slaked lime has sunk to the bottom, pour the clear fluid of, and put in stopped bottles, away from the light.
 A MOE BISCUIT. broken six eggs into basin, whisk them well for five minutes; put in half pound of powdered sugar, and whisk again for ten minutes. Add some carraway seeds Gf iked), and half pound of dry flour, mixing all thoroughly with a wooden spoon. Drop the mixture on paper, each being the size of about crown piece, and high in the middle. Sift sugar over them, and bake them-if in brick oven it will be better. Remove them from the paper while they are hot.
 SHORT, BREAD.-Rub one pound of butter and twelve ounces of finely pow dered sugar into two pounds of flour with the hand; make it into 8 stiff paste with four eggs, roll out to double the thick ness of a penny piece, cut it. into round or square cakes, pinch the edges, stick slices of candied peel and some carraway comfts- on the top, and bake them in iron plates in 8 warm oven.
 To PREVENT MonD1NEss IN INK.-One and half dozen cloves Cmore or less,
 
 bruised with gum arabic are to be put into the bottle.
 To CLEAN Boors AND SHOES OF EN- AMELED LEATHER is sufficient to remove any dirt which impairs the gloss on enameled leather. It may af- forward be rubbed with dry flannel.
 Jersey Cattle.
 If the value of Jersey stock is to rest of those useful qualities that are far more ti-colored COW, than that which will be found among the generality of fine, high. bred, whole-colored lawns, grays, ol foxy, o-called Jerseys. I have owned hundreds of acclimated Jersey stock, and have never, as rule, found the whole-colored such large producers as many parti-colored ones in fact, by fal the most butter reproducing COW evel possessed was not only parti- colored, but the most ugly and ungainly beast of the lot; yet her stock have never failed te show their large butter making quail ties. The true type of Jersey COW is in fact, an animal that will not make meat. do not say that this is not i'm. proved upon by standardization and a slight introduction of hardier breed of which what are termed Chichester Jersey are the best description neither do I say that Jersey breeders in the is- land itself have not in some instances { breed that shows disposition to make some flesh, and very probably may the1 be following up the requirements O fashion, yet maintain that pure Jer sey should throw the bulk of her feeding properties into butter, and with little tt flesh. The parti-colored good COW ma, have but a white spot, especially unde the belly, but throughout the body tn. rich yellow skin, under any colored hair will be found, black, white, or fawn.
 have seen the commencement of whole colored herd, the property of a nobl duke, to obtain which have seen veal thy and large producing COWS sold off t prevent an animal remaining with tn slightest stain of other than one color.- London Agriculturol Gazette.
 -ss Value of Road Dust.
 During dry season, every countr resident should secure several barrels ( road dust. Those who keep poultr may secure, by its use, 8 valuable ferti izer, nearly as strong as guano, wit none of its disagreeable odor. Place a inch or two of road dust in the bottol of barrel then, as the poultry hous is regularly cleaned, deposit layer a inch thick of the cleanings, and so o1 alternately layers of each till the barr is full. The thinner each layer is, th more perfect will be the intermixture the ingredients. If the soil of which tn road dust is made is clayey, the layers ( each may be of equal thickness if sand, the dust should be at least twice as thic as the layer of droppings. Old barre of any kind may be used for this pu pose, but if previously soaked wit crude petroleum or coated with gas ta they will last many years. If the col tents are pounded on floor into fir powder before applying, the fertiliz' may be sown from drill. Road dust
 one of the most perfect deodorizers vaults-converting their contents ali into rich manure. Place barrel or be of 1t in the closet, with small dippe and throw down pint into the vau each time it is occupied, and there W! be no offensive odor whatever. This
 simpler, cheaper and better than wat
 closet, and never freezes or gets out
 order. Mixing the road dust with equ
 bulk of coal ashes is an improvement making the fertilizer more friable.
 Country Gentleman.
 Origin of Cold in Winter.
 In regard to the effects of upper Ct
 rents on the temperature of the surfa
 of the earth, Dr. Ham draws attenti
 to the circumstance that while meteor
 logists almost universally attribute t
 intense cold, which appears locally
 winter, G. c., at the center of an
 cyclones, to the descent of chilled {
 from the upper regions of the atm'
 nhere. if is an indisputable fact that