Connecticut western news., 1876-05-26
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Recipes.

Domestic Recipes.
 COLD ROAST BEEF w1Tn MASHED POTATOES. Slice the beef very thin, and lay it over the bottom of a deen nnd- md ding dish, scattering over it pepper, salt, sprinkle of flour, and, if the favoring IS liked, little chopped onion. Fill up the dish in this manner. and add to It the cold gravy, with half coffeecup- iul or boiling water put with it. Cover It With 8 plate or tin and bake it two hours. Then mash some we'll boiled po- tatoes with butter, milk and salt, and make high wall around a platter with them, covering them over with beaten egg; place the dish in the oven to be- come we'll Drowned, and turn in the con- tents of the pudding dish when it is handsomely colored. This makes an ex- cellent side dish or lunch dish, and is always highly relished. Boiled rice, covered with egg and browned in the oven, can be substituted for the pota- toes, and can be served separately. A pint of canned tomatoes will add to the flavor of the dish; it can be put in with the gravy. Mutton, lamb and veal can be cooked in the same way.
 MINCED MEAT.-Cut into small bits the remainder of any cold joint, and put it into the stewpan with little sliced onion, black pepper and salt, add ing to it the gravy reserved from the first day, and little hot water. Simmer gently on the back part of the range for half an hour, then add pint of canned tomatoes and cook slowly for another half hour. Serve it on thin bits of bread toasted brown, or cut bread into diamonds two inches in diameter and fry them a little in pork fat, and serve them laid around the edges of the platter and over the hash, mingled with sprigs of parsley. -1a'- 7''.7
 nEuichins Recently Planted Trees.
 To prevent recently planted trees from suffering for want of moisture, there is no cheaper or more effective method than mulching the soil above the roots with some coarse, flbrous ma terial, such as hay, straw, or coarse ma nure from the barnyard. Taabark, saw dust, or leaves of any kind will answer the purpose, and in regions where long droughts are likely to occur in summer the mulching should never be omitted, but considered part of the operation of transplanting the trees. If the
 
 above the stems of trees is covered with mulch as soon as they are set out, it will often prevent their dying and insure vigorous growth. The soil under the mulch holds moisture much longer than when exposed to the direct rays of the sun, and it never becomes so hard that the most gentle rains fail to penetrate it, or so hot as to orapidly expel moisture.
 Those who have experienced more or less difficulty in making evergreen or deciduous trees live when transplanted, would do well to try mulching, and see if they do not have better luck. We think it is far preferable to watering, which so many persons practice in orde, to save their trees. If water is applied, it should be given in abundance at cer. tain stated periods, and not little at a time, which frequently does more harm than good by rendering the surface oi the soil compact and hard, and pre- venting the admission of either heat or air.-Suaa. ss s.4. ..--.
 The omission to furnish fowls with suitable drinking water is one of the worst features of cruelty to animals.
 Several farmers are feeding skim-milk to their horses.
 There have been hundreds of willow plantations started in various parts oi the country, though few now remain in productive condition. Willow culture is not profitable, except where one has 6 good home market.
 Probably majority of the orchards of Illinois were so much injured by the adverse conditionsof 1870 to 1878 that they need replacing by trees grow1 since 1872. Growers will often consult their own interests by planting new orchards.
 MilIet for Fodder.
 If millet is sown for fodder, abou three pecks of seed will be required pc acre. Sow as soon as the ground ha become warm and dry in spring, O about the time of planting corn. I should be cut early, say when it come into bloom, and then cured in the usua manner. Millet makes very good fod der for stock, but is not equal to timoth and other kinds of our most popula perennial grasses. It succeeds on light rich soils better than on very heav clays.
 The Orchard.
 The Maine Farnaer says: We hay constantly argued that on soils adapte for them, all our farmers should plan apple trees as one of the main sources ( profit, and as one of the permanen branches of farming. Our old orchard are becoming more and more worthless and but little comparatively is bein done to replace them. Hence we urge this spring, a general and systemati planting of fruit trees, especially appl trees, and more especially of the late keeping varieties. @5