Year: 1878

Shrunken wheat from excessive
irrigation is reported from some sec
tons Of California, particularly on
Kern river.


A California bee farmer, Mr. Har-
bison, expects to take over 100 tons
of honey from his hives this year,
said TO be the largest quantity ever
produced in one year by one man.


PRESERVING CITRoN.--Take equal
weight OF fruit and sugar, having
first pared and cut the citron into
suuars two inches thick, and stick
with cloves; add bits of stick CHINA.
mon, and boil until the fruit is trans.
parent; take out, and boil the syrup
until thick as honey, and pour over
the fruit.


PARsNIr FRITTERs-Boil six medi.
um sized parsnips until tender, then
mash them smooth, with a lump Of
butter and pepper and salt to taste.
Add two beaten eggs, three even
tublespoonfuls Of flour, and half a
cupful of sweet milk. Heat some
nice drippings and little butter in
a frying pan and drop the mixture
by teaspooutuls into the hot fat.
When nicely Drowned on both sides,


lay them on whitish brown paper
folded in IA plate, and set them for
FIVE minutes in the oven, then serve
on hot dish in which is laid IA folded
napkin, and garnish with curled par.
sley.


MEAT RissoIes can be made from
any cold bits Of beef, mutton, tongue,
vel, chicken or lamb, used
singly or all together. Cut the meat
into very small bits with the addi.
ton of little salt pork and parsley
chopped fine. Put butter half the
size of an egg into saucepan and
when it melts add two even tea
spoonfuls of flour; mix and stir un-
til smooth, then put in by degrees a
few spoonfuls of boiling water, or,
better than this, use stock or gravy.
Season to taste with pepper and salt
and stir in two cupiuls Of the meat
cut into dice. Roll out some nice
pie pasre--made with tho addition
of little baking powder--and place
on il, three or four inches from the
edge and at an equal distance apart,
teaspoonfuls of the mixture. Wet
the outer edge of the paste and lap
it completely over the meat, then
press it down around each little ball
Cut them out into semi.circles with
II biscuit cutter or scalloped cake
cutter; make up the balance of the
paste in similar manner and brush
the top of each rissoe with the yolk
of an egg. Bake in hot oven
aud serve with II folded napkin in
the bottom OF the platter.


DIvERsIFYING PRODUCTs FOR Sue.
cEss.--Some principal reasons why
system of mixed farming, which in.
cludes the raising Of stock largely,
is surcr and at the same time more
profitable, are that thus the farm is
kept up to its original fertility, and,
often, to increased fertility. This
farmer never makes an entire failure
in crops, however bad the season.
His fat stock gives him cash returns
twice year if necessary, once in the
spring from winter feeding and again
in the autumn from pasturage. In
the case of sheep, this gain is added
to by the wool sold in the summer.
His dairy and poultry yard will fur
nish no small sum during the spring,
summer and autumn. The milk,
butter and cheese, and well kept
vegetable garden, will furnish one
half the living of the family. These
rules, as stated, are general ones.
They will apply to all sections of the
country north, south, east and west,
being modified only by climatic con.