Connecticut western news., 1876-09-01
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Domestic Reclneu.

carrots and turnips in saited water will
 small piece of butter, but do not lpt
 them be overdone; when cold cut ont ot
 them with vegetable scoop n numbc,
 or pieces of the size of an olive. cnt
 some beetroot in the same way take ar
 equal part-eay cupful-of each of the
 aooVe, and similar quantity of preserved
 nsh' not dried; two tablespoonfuls
 capers and French pickles the same of
 anchovles cut into small pieces, couple
 or dozen or more olives stoned mix the
 whole lightly together into sauce with
 yolks of eggs, salad oil, and season with
 salt and pepper ornament it with hard
 boiled eggs and lobster.
 APPLE BPUDDINa.-Make paste: roll if
 out, place it in a basin rubbed with
 drippings press out the plaits so that the crusts may be of an equal thickness all round peel and cut up four laroe apples, put half of them in then add tablespoonful of moist sugar and one ot clove; put in the rest of the apples; cover the top we'll over. with paste; press it down that the water nav not get in; tie a cloth oyer; put it into boiling water, and boil fast for two hours and half if the crust be made of dripping, and an hour longer if it be made of suet take of the cloth, pass a knife around tue edge of the basin tnrn out the pudding carefully when sending 1t to the table.
 RHUBABB TART.-Srrip off the skin. and then cut up the rhubarb into pieces an inch long; put it into pint and a half pie dish with quarter of a ponnd or moist sugar, no water grease the cage of the dish with dipping, make a paste as follows Rub two ounces of orlpPlng into six ounces of flour. then mslsten 1t with cold water, knead it into firm paste as follows: Roll it out and place It ln small pieces all over the sur lace, three ounces more dripping, dredge It with flour, roll 1t up in the form of q bolster, then roll it out twice more line the edge of the dish with strip of paste. wet It with water roll out the rest of the paste to the size of the dish, pull it over, press it lightly with the thumb, round the edge, make hole in the cen. ter and bake for an hour.
 BAKED HoMNY.-To cupful of cold boiled homipy put two cupfuls of milk, 8 teaspoonful of butter, the same of white sugar, 9 little salt, and three eggs. beat the eggs separately. When we'll mixed put in sugar and little salt, and go on beating, while you gradually add the mllk. Lastly stir in the white of the eggs, and bake in a 'buttered dish until light and brown.
 POTATOES LA MA1TRE D'gorE- Choose smallish potatoes, and as nearly as possibly all of 8 size boil them in plenty of salted water, and when ouite done drain off the water and put them into dish, with tablespoonful of Maitre d,Hote hntter. How to make Maltre d'Hote butter Put a counle of ounces Of butter in 8 basin, juice of q lemon, white sugar and salt, a small quantity of parsley chopped fine mix tna whole and let it stand in a cool place till wanted. F''0e
 Farm Products of the United States.
 Iowa produces the largest spring wheat crop of any State, the production or the United States being 112,549, 533 bushels, anI that of Iowa 2S,7O8, ,312 bushels, while Wisconsin ranks next with 24, 375, 435 bushels. Ohio raises the most winter wheat, 27, 625, 759 of the 1Io, 19o, ls3 bushels produced in the United States. Pennsylvania supplies one-hfth of the rye produced in this country, or ,577, ,641 bushels out of 16,- SIS, ,795.. Illinois grows larger ouan- usy oi corn than any other State, or !29, 92l 1895 of the 760 944, 249 the coun- try produces. Illinois also takes the lead ln the oat crop, growing 42,789. .581 out or the total 2S2, 107, 159 bushels. Cal, 1forn1a produces the largest barley crop, 1 or $, 1S3, 49O out of a total of 29, 761, ,305 | bushels. New York is the. largest cul- hvator of buckwheat, raising 3,9O4. .O3O of total of 9,821, 721 bushels. Missis- slppl takes the lead among the cotton growing States. Ohio produces more than half the flax of the United States. kentucky grows more than half the hemp crop of our country. California produces nlne-tenths of our native silk cocoons. Ohio contributes one-tifth of all the wool produced in the United States, or twice as much as New York. ana nearly twice as much as California. New York produces more than one-fiftb or the hay crop, or nearly twice as much as fennsylvania, which furnishes the next largest figures in that line.
 NeW York furnishes mor. than two tnl,ds of the hop crop of the country. south Carolina supplies nearly half | tne r!ce produced in the country. Georgia IS next, or 100000 pounds ahead of Louisiana. Nearly all the rice comes from these three States. Of the 1f1, f5l,34l pounds of tobacco produced ln the country, los, ,305, 1928 pounds are grown Tn Kentucky. Virginia comes | next with 38, OS6, ,364 pounds. Louisiana C contributes nearly all the sugar and mo asses rom cane, and Vermont nearly; one o1 enlrd of the sugar from maple, while | Ne" York produces one-fourth of the S"gar or maple. Ohio and Indiana Cthe laI1er most) produce each one-eighth of sorghum molasses. New York grows one o nun of the whole potato crop, Noren Caroilna produces more sweet DO tatoes than any other State.
 Canning Fruit.
 Mrs. Katie E. B. sends to the 1rib,,oe the method of canning fruit which she has used with entire success for several years. She says: "I heat the bottles1 and till them with tue raw, cold fruit. |vlhg previously prepared eyrun enough to fill the cans and put it o1 I tbe stove to boil When the bottles are hlled with fruit, turn on enough of the boiling syrup to cove the fruit. and seal them up at once. Then I put the iars n the pantry, or where they can be mn disturbed, and pour boiling water around the bottle way up to the top. cover the vessel closely, and let them re, man until the water is cold. Then I wipe off the bottles, test them and pnt them away. Occasionally I find a far i'm. perfectly sealed. In that case set it on a plate in kettle of water, and when the water boils take it out, fill it up with polling water and seal again. I've used thls method for all sorts of limit bnt ma that pears need little more cooking if at all hard.
 To Cnu Peaches.
 Half a pound of sugar to pound of p1f kba ro, <.>