Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
The Fruit Garden.

HEOuuu plfaub Ou0 grapevine aG least this spring. as with little care in train ing and pruning for two or three years, 1tw1u seldom fail to produce an abund- ance of fruit. The soil for pesshould not be rich with stable manure, but use ground bones, or wood ashes. The first year allow only one shoot to grow, and Tn the fall cut this back to two or three buds; the next season allow only two of these to grow. The first year vine bears, only allow two punches to each shoot, as more will exhaust the vine. There are many other ways of training, and the vine can be adapted to the To- cality.
 Dwarf trees which require any prun- ing should be attended to now, before the buds start; avoid cutting off any large branches until June, when they may be taken of with safety; cover the wounds with shellac varnish or melted grating wax.
 The roots of blackberries spread so fast and far that where it is possible they should be planted in 8 spot little aside from the rest of the garden, so that they will not interfere with the growth of other plants. Provide strong stakes to which to tie the canes, and do not allow them to grow more than five feet high, with lateral branches cut back to eighteen inches. Set from sixto eight feet apart, each way.
 Set raspberries in rows from four to six feet apart, and three to five feet in the row. One of the best ways to sup port them is by strong wire stretched along the line of the row and fastened securely to well braced posts st each end; provide support of some sort at distances of fifteen to twenty feet apart to keep the wire from sagging where the rows are long. As the canes grow to the top of Che wire, tie them to it in fan shape, cutting them off at the height of four feet, and laterals at eighteen inches; four canes at most to a stool, and less even the first year, are enough, if the plants are weak. ss.,i ..Ir~5s The easiest way to have supply of strawberries is to renew the bed. Make new beds, setting the plants in rows three feet apart and one foot in the rows. In small gardens the plants may be set closer, with the runners cut off as fast as they appear; and if the soil is well enriched every year, the bed will bear abundance for four or five years.-Agri- cNlturist.
 Hints About Meat.
 The leg of mutton is the most profit. able joint, containing most solid meat. The neck is an extravagant joint, half the weight consisting of bone and fat The shoulder has also much waste in bone. The breast does we'll for kitchen dinner, nicely stuffed it is much cheap CT than the other joints. Srloirs and ribs of meat are very extravagant joints, from the weight of bone. The roasting side of the round part of the buttock, and the part called the "topside," are the most profitable family eating. The mouse bullock is used for stewing {; shin is used for soup, or stewing. The quantity of butchers meat consumed in family is, on an average, three-quarters of pound day for each person but when the family consists of women and children, half a pound per day is about the quantity consumed one with another, Independent of hams, bacon, poultry, fish, and game.
 Meat should be wiped with a dry, clean cloth as soon as it comes from the butchers ; fy-blows, if found in it, cut out, and in some loins the long pipe that runs by the bone should be taken out, as it soon taints; the kernels also should be removed from beef. Never receive bruised joints. Meat will keep good for long time in cold weather, and, if frozen through, may be kept for months. Frozen meat must be thawed before it is cooked by plunging it into cold water, or placing it before the fire before setting 1t down to roast. It will never be dressed through if this pre- caution is not taken, not even when twice cooked. Pepper is 8 preventive of decay, in degree it is we'll, there fore, to pepper hung joints. Powdered charcoal is still more remarkable in it's effect. It'will not only keep the meat over which it is sprinkled good, but will remove the taint from already decaying flesh. A piece of charcoal boiled in the water with "high" meat or fowls will render it or them quite sweet. A piece of charcoal, or powdered charcoal, should be kept in every larder. Hams, after being smoked, may be kept for any length of time packed in powdered charcoal.
 A Few Facts in Raising Corn.
 Corn can be raised successfully throughout forty degrees each side of the equator, except on the summits of high mountains and some parts of the torrid zone. A few simple facts about it's production are worth remembering. The land for corn should be plowed deep, and the earth pulverized. Start the plant as soon as the ground will per init. Use none but the best seed. Ir its reproduction the flower is separated into two parts the tassel, the male part, at the top of the stalk, and the silk, the female flower, located inter madiately on the stalk, arranged thus il nature so that the pollen from the tasse. might fall upon the silking flower an6 make it fruitful. On isolated stalks ot corn the silk receives so little of the pol len from it's own tassel that but few grains come to perfection hence tbt importance and necessity of having 8 number of stalks near by or il the same field, in order that perfec ears and full crop may be made Some farmers still assert that there Ii nothing in these facts. The roots O. corn grow much faster than the stalk a first, measuring sometimes foot lons before the stem is half that length. Tht brace roots should not be broken il working, as they support the stalk, ant when broken 1t makes heavy draugh on the plant to reproduce them. Th' distinct varieties are the white flint, tht yellow flint, the gourd seed, sugar corr and pop corn. The first is regarded tn, best for bread, while the yellow corn ii regarded most nutritive and answer best for stock.
 The Apple Tree Borer.
 As soon as an apple tree attains tn age of two or three years the trunk, ant finally all the larger branches, becom literally enveloped in some kind of al adnascent fungus or foreign deposit. l is beneath these fungi, and immediatel, in contact with the bark, that the beetl deposits her eggs. which soon hatch an,