Connecticut western news., 1876-01-07
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Save the Scraps.

Every good housewife should utilize to the best advantage the scraps left over from each meal. Every bone (not left on plate) should be stewed down for gravy, or stock for. soup. With a slight covering of meat they may be de- yilled. Gold beef may be rewarmed or corned, minced, and served with poach- ed eggs, scalloped with bread crumbs, etc., or served in cold slices, steeped in amixture of vinegar and mustard, and garnished with slices of hard egg or beetroot. It may also be made into croquettes, olives, or cakes.
 Cold mutton may be rewarmed as hash or curry. E9EEEs3 esEfE
 Gold lamb is best eaten as it-remains with lettuce.
 Gold veal is best minced; it also cur ries we'll; scalloped is excellent, or it makes good blanquettes.
 Gold pork can be curried.
 Cold salt beer makes excellent bubble and squeak, or curry, or cold slices.
 GOold rabbit can be fricasseed or cur ried.
 Cold fowls may be fricasseed, minced, cr1rried, or put into 8 rnayonaise. @
 Cold tnrkey-The white meat may be minced. and legs broiled and laid in it; or it makes capital fricassee. 1
 The secret of economical housekeep- ing is in knowing how best to utilize the scraps.
 IE5f Fertilizers for Cabbage.
 s. W. asks: "May justly conclude from your article that guano on good land will insure luxuriant crop of cab bage for any unbroken series of years without any other mannring2. Is there any advantage in hill-planting in the field over plants set out from the bed 9" AReply.-Such @ conclusion would not be warranted. by anything in the article referred to. All cabbage growers know that this crop is very subject to disease known as 'sclub root (which is caused by "a small insect), when it is grown 8 second time upon the same ground. This is sometimes, but not always, pre- vented by liberal application of lime. Then cabbages contain large portion of sulphur, so that some fertilizer con- taining sulphur would be needed. Guano is very good fertilizer for cab bage, and upon good ground 1000 pounds of 1t per acre would doubtless give handsome crop. But for the reason mentioned it might be risky to hazard second crop without another in- tervening We have no doubt that by proper fertiizing corn might be profit ably grown year after year, or wheat, oats, barley, or beans; but cabbage, tur- nips, and other plants of the same bo- tanical family, are affected to so great an extent with this disease that they would probably fail. We would rather plant out cabbage from bed than SOW them in the field in hills.-Nev York Times.
 Shutting in Bees in Winter.
 If bees wintered upon their summer stands are confined in their hives by slides of perforated tin OF zinc, or by wire cloth, it does very well at first, so long as the weather is cool; but after 6 month or two they want to take flight to discharge their f@ces, and if the weather be very mild, and the ground free of snow, they should be allowed to come cut; but as spring approaches the bees, when not safe to allow them to come out, will gather at the entrance in a mass, shut off free circulation of air, become chilled and die there by the handful; andeyery day these dead bees must be removed, and at last, in some cases, almost the entire family of hive may thns perish. If the bees are not thus shut in, they will leave their hives often when there IS snow on the ground and will drop down and be lost in this manner; or they may come out when there is no snow and become chilled by cold winds and be unable to return to their hives. What we need is method of arranging the passageways so that no light shall be admitted, while the bees shall have all the air that is neces- sary, and not be confined, and their owner be able to admit light without any trouble aud allow them to take a flight whenever it shall be proper to do so.
 Weaning Lambs.
 Aletter was read before the American farmers club as follows:-- An article ] read on 'sweaning lambs the other day was very appropriate, but think might be extended. had a friend who usec to make 3 specially of bagging lambs afters they hal been weaned. He haC some fine meadows which he sowec early, and thus had 8 good spring o lambs with 8 few old sheep, and taughi them 10 eat salt from board troughs, Y shaped first. W en the early frost came he would begin to feed corn in tn, ear, usually the ssnubbins. !" The lamb. easily masticate only round corn, and i compels more thorough mastication i they are compelled to pick it from tn, cob. h his winter managing he usual, allowed about one hundred in flock with free access to plenty of straw. I the lambs were we'll handled, as the, were in his yards, they were in conf hon for the butchers in February, ana could be found in the markets as sprins lambs, as in truth they were. His theor7 was that if lamb was well kept iron weaniDg till February, more none, could be cleared from them than in an, other time of their lives. His praciic proved the truth of his theory.