Connecticut western news., 1876-06-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Recipes.

bread crumbs, an egg, beaten, a little salt and pepper, and teaspoonful of mixed herbs,- thyme, summer savory, and sweet marjorum. Put your hash into stewpan, with gravy or water enough to moisten it, and bit of but ter. Let it stew very gently for few minutes, stirring all the time Then place it in a flat dish and put it in the oven till it is crusted to fine brown. POUND SEED CAKE.-One pound of butter beaten to a cream, one pound of sifted lump sugar, one pound of flour (well dried), eight eggs (yolks and whites beaten separately, and caraway seeds to taste. Mix the ingredients and beat all well together for one hour. Put the batter into tin shape lined with paper, and buttered. Bake in moder- ate oven.
 DARK FIG OAKE.-Two cupfuls of sugar, one of butter, one of cold water, with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it; three cupfuls of raisins, chopped fine; cinnamon and nutmeg, four eggs, one pound of figs; use the figs whole, covering them well with the cake to prevent burning. Bake in layers, frost ing between each layer. Make as stiff as pound cake. Out with very sharp knife to prevent crumbling. This recipe makes two loaves.
 A1nERIEY PUDDNa.-Two table spoonfuls of ground rice, the same quan' tity of arrowroot, the yolks of tw o eggs, little grated lemon peel, sugar and 6 pint of milk. Lay little orange mar malade ct the bottom of dish, pour the mixture over it, and bake.
 SALMON SAnAD.-One can of salmon, six eggs boiled hard and chopped fine, one pint of chopped cucumber pickles add vinegar and pepper to taste be- fore mixing drain the oil from the salmon and do not use it if the pickles are sharp and brittle.
 Flo PUDDNG.-Take quarter of 6 pound of figs, pound them in a mortar, and mix in gradually half pound oi bread crumbs and four ounces of beei suet, minced very small add foul ounces of pounded loaf sugar, and mi1 the whole together, with two eggs beaten up, and 8 good teacupful of new, milk When all these ingredients are vel mixed fill mold and boil for four hours FRUIT CAKE.-One cupful molasses one pound of flour, one of sugar, three fourths pound butter, two of seeded raisins, three of entrants, one of citron half pound blanchcd almonds, hal ounce mace, ten eggs; cream the sugar and butter :; add the eggs beaten sepa rately stir in the flour, spices, the1 the fruit.
 To Make n Corn Marker.
 A correspondent of the Ohio FInr1,aej gives the following method of making { simple corn marker: Takea plank sever feet long, sixteen inches wide, and ont and one-half inches thick. Pin this o1 three blocks, five by eight inches thicl and sixteen inches long, putting ont block at each end and one in the mid dle. With this length the marker Ii easily turned at the ends. For { tongue, get a smooth, tough pole, anc fasten it to the center of the plank il such way that. when the team is hitched up, the marker will stand level Now take lath, one by two inches thick and ten and one-haf feet long. Drive staple into the plank at each end o the marker and one in the middle. Pass the lath through one outside staple anc the end just through the center staple Fasten chain to the outer end, and the marker is completed. The chain marks where the middle block or marker mus follow the next time across. The latl must be shifted at each end so as to keel the chain on the unmarked land. Whel using it, stand on the middle of tn, rlank and keep the tongue directly ove the chain mark. If the first mark wa made straight, all the rest will be so T the lath may be fastened to the middl' of the plank with bolt, so that it cal be turned from side to side without lift ing. Secure it in position by anothe bolt, passed through the lath and plank near the ends of the latter.
 Orchard and Nursery.
 All ground in which young trees ar set should be cultivated, so that the, may have chance to grow vigorousl and ripen their wood properly. If an trees set last fall are found to be ben by winds, these should be straightene up and the soil pressed down frml around the base of the tree. A fe' large stones placed over the roots wi keep trees in their proper positions, an this is often good way to dispose ( surplus stones; but care must be use in cultivating around the trees, else tn weeds will grow rapidly among tn stones aud rob the trees of much nutr ment.
 Grating may be done this month a any time provided the cions were cut be fore their buds started, and well kept Trees bearing only inferior fruit may b grafted, and made valuable.
 Transplanting seedling trees from th seed bed to nursery rows should be dor early, so that they will be we'll estal lished by the time droughts come ol Some means of shading should be use for all young evergreens and other tel der trees.
 Set root-grafts at once in nursel rows at sufficient distance to allow horse cultivation.
 Insects must be fought, and ten caterpillars, canker- worms, bark lice ar borers kept of, and destroyed in son way as soon as they appear.-Agricu turist.
 Burning Rubbish.
 Whether this Is the best time to bul garden rubbish is Q question susceptib of considerable discussion, but 1t is Il popular season. Great care should taken in the composition of the burnil heaps. If there are no old rubbe handy, length of oilcloth makes ve good substitute. There is, of cours nothing that emits the peculiar flavor burning rubber, unless it is hair, b hair is too costly to be considered for moment. A piece of old oilcloth abo three feet or so in length, subjected a slow flame, can be smelled by the mo ordinary nose the distance of four gt dens, and to many it is just as satisfyil as burning rubber. It is best that t man should gather the rubbish. TT is so evident as to be not worthy any discussion. A woman with lo handled rake is more dangerous thar vet cellar. What rubbish she gets
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