Connecticut western news., 1886-01-13

!! ... are also finding yesr by year, what has been long known to the few, that soil and climatic conditions have much to do with the successful raising of all crops. This is especially noticeable and generally known in the case of tobacco. sorghum (when cultivated for it's sap), wheat. barley, sweet cher ries, peaches, grapes, and other plants that might be mentioned. The West Michigan. lake shore region is noted for it's wealth of fruit of all varieties suited to temperate climate, espec- ially peaches. The opposite or Illi- nois shore is the reverse. Yet forty years ago the vicinity of Chicago, north, west and south, seemed excel lently adapted to peaches, as we'll as the more hardy fruits. Winter wheat also was generally cultivated. The cause of the failure to raise peaches lies more in change of climatic condi- tions than otherwise. The changed soil conditions also have operated against the cultivation of wheat. The wise cultivator is he who carefully studies into causes and effects. There is no calling in life in which more careful study should constantly be made than in agriculture.-Chicago Tribune.
 Household Hints.
 Cranberry jelly mixed with cold water makes refreshing drink for sick persons.
 Brooms dipped for minute or two in boiling studs once week will last much longer than they otherwise would.
 A neat, clean, fresh-aired, sweet and well-managed house exercises a moral as well as a physical influence over It's inmates.
 One can have the hands in soap studs without injury to the skin if the hands are dipped in vinegar or lemon juice immediately after.
 Milk contains all that is required by the body, and the best proportions of mineral matters; is less irritating than other foods and better digested.
 To make old lace appear new and have it clean at the same time, give it bath of strong tea steeped in alcohol. Don't heat the alcohol but let the tea stand in 1t for day or SO.
 Mould can be prevented from form ing on fruit jellies by pouring little parafine over the top. and that, when cool, will harden to a solid cake, which can be easily removed when de sired.
 Rosewood being in so much request for furniture, we give recipe for an initiative stain, applicable to pine and other plain woods, consisting of a transparent rose pink liquid. Mix, first, four pounds of potash in one gall lon of hot water, adding same weight of sandal wood. When the color of the wood is extracted add two and one-half pounds of gum shellac dis solved over quick fire. Apply a groundwork of logwood stains to the wood and then the mixture.
 Bread C1umb Omezet.-One pint of bread crumbs, one large spoonful of parsley, rubbed very fine, half tiny onion chopped fine. Beat two eggs light, add teacupful of milk, trace of nutmeg, and pepper and salt liber- ally; also lump of butter the size of a small egg. Mix all together and bake in a slow oven, on buttered pie plate; when light brown, turn it out of the plate and serve at once.
 Plum Past1ding.-Six butter crack CTS, rolled fine and soaked in three pints of milk. Cream. e-quarter of cup of butter with one cup of sugar; add half teaspoonful of salt, ,one teaspoon full of mixed spice and six well-beaten eggs. Stir it all into the milk, and add one pound of the best raisins. Bake in deep pudding dish, well greased with cold butter. Bake very slowly in a moderate oven three or four hours. Stir several times during the first hour to keep the raisins from settling. Fried Potatoes. them and boil in salted water: do not let them boil until they are soft. Beat one egg and have ready some fine cracker crumbs; roll the potato in the egg and then in the cracker and fry in butter until a light brown turning frequently that the color may be uniform; or the potatoes may be dropped into hot lard. In this case cloth should be laid over plate and the potatoes should be drained for moment in this before sending them to the table. l 7,x9nb7ec -Ona and ono ho1f crr