Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-09-21
AGRICULTURAL.

AGRICULTURAL.
A STRAWBERRY grower in Michigan net
ted five hundred dollars from one acre
GEORGE RussgL, of Girard, Mich, raises
onions and "sets" at the rate O. ooV pushei'
to the acre.
STAINS on S1LK.-Stains produced oy
lemon juice, vinegar, oil OF vltrloi OF olnoi
sharp corrosives, moy be removed oy miA
ing little pearlash with soap lather' "n0
passing the silk through it,
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THE hop crop in Wisconsin is unprece-
dented. A very low estimate places its val
ue at two million dollars. In the vicinity On
Kilbourn City, $3.50, 900 worth have already
been contracted for
To MAKE CALICO WASH WELL.-lnfuse
three gills of salt in four quarts of boiling
water; put the calicoes in while hot, and
leave them standing till cold in this way
colors are rendered permanent.
NOTHING teaches patience like garden.
You may go round and watch the opening
bud from day to day; but it takes its own
time, and you cannot urge it on faster than
it will All the best results Of a garden,
like those of life, are slowly but regularly
| progressive.
THE peach was originally poisonous
almond. It's feshy parts were used to poison
arrows, and for this introduced into Persia.
The transportation and cultivation, howev-
er, not only removed its poisonous qualities.
but produced the delicious fruit that we now
enjoy.
NICE EATINa-In South Africa there is q
snake called the Python, which is sometimes
found twenty feet long and as large as a
mans leg. They feed on young animals,
crushing their bones and then swallowing
| them. They do not bite, and the Bushmen
| shoot them when found, cut them up, and
| carry the pieces home on their shoulders,
roast and eat them with as much relish as
they would a leg of mutton.
New USE FOR CATERPILLARs.-Wor
in iron, when they wish to weld joint use
borax as a fux. An intelligent gentleman
CT this CITY, who is curious in facts of natu-
raj history, says that on one occasion,
blacksmith near his residence having no
borax, a man hanging round the shop told
him he could get substitute, and brought
him number of caterpillars, which being
applied to the heated iron, produced as firm
an adhesion of the metals as the borax.-
PittsJuyg Chronicle.
FRuITING VINES. At the New York
Farmers Club, Scion Robinson read letter
from man saying that he finds it impossi-
BILE to get his Hubbard squash vines to pro-
duce more than one squash to the hill,
though he has tried pilching off the late
rails, and other plans. Mr.. Pardee replied
that his course was very simple and plain.
He had merely to pinch off the leader few
inches from the hill and let the laterals
grow. This is the proper treatment also
for melon vines
SHADE TREEs.-Plant them by the road
side, plant them in the yard around the
house. If you anticipate building in thu
future, select your site and plant trees
around it, groups of evergreens and vari-
ETY. of deciluous trees. You thus make q
homestead attractive, and add very much to
the value of your farm if you ever want to
sell. You cannot do too much OF the work
draw on the nurseries and forests, collect
and plant seeds, and grow some to give
away to your neighbors who will not buy.
TURKRYs.-We have noticed number of
well authenticated cases where the hen tur
key has killed and devoured her young. The
instances occurred where the turkey was
confined in a coop, pen or yard, and was I'M
able to get animal food in the shape of in
sects worms, etc Turkeys have fondness
g. l.bo I, Ira rfc ind
with it, particularly where it is necessary to
keep them confined. Chickens are some
times said to pick the feathers off each
others necks, to get The blood contained in
the end of the quill. A little animal food
will prevent this.
| A CALoULATING HEN.-The Canton, Mo.
Press is responsible for the following few
days ago, hen was found in neighboring
barn incubating on nest of five eggs
Considering that too small an undertaking
for o full grown hen, the owner removed
these, and placed thirteen fresh eggs in the
nest On examination soon after, it was
discovered that old biddy had deliberately
rolled out eight, thus refusing to cover more
than the original number. Four times the
experiment was repeated with q similar re-
suit, and the obstinate hen was finally left
to her select number, thus furnishing evi-
dence not only Of reasoning powers, but of
true feminine spunk.
A Coon BBBFsTEAK. There is an appro-
PIRATE thickness for steak, and we do not
remember to have seen that reached with
any one served from q public table. Let
the steak be cut at from one TO one and
half inches thick, and the superfcies reduced
three fourths, so that it will not fill q large
dish, but will just be accommodated in
small one The juices and nutriment Of the
steak are thus preserved and it is fit to eat
which it never is under the present barbar-
GUS mode practised in our hotels and eating
houses. Never put butter on steak; avoid
as pestilence the nasty greases which form
the basis of vulgar cookery.
WHAT MAKES BUsBEL.-The following
table of the number Of pounds to bushel
of different articles, may be of interest to
our readers:
Wheat sixty pounds; corn shelled, fifty
six pounds; corn on the cob, seventy pounds;
rye, fifty -six pounds; oats, thirty pounds
barley forty-six pounds buck wheat fifty
six pounds Irish potatoes, sixty pounds
swe ct potatoes, fifty pounds onions, fifty
seven pounds; beans, sixty pounds bran,
twenty pounds clover seed, sixty pounds
timothy seed, forty FIVE pounds hemp seed
forty-fye pounds blue grass seed, fourteen
pounds; dried peaches, thirty three pounds
WHAT IS sALERATus Wood is burnt to
ashes, the ashes are lixiviated, Icy is the re-