Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26


A newly invented harpoon contains a
pound of powder, with ten secono Au'e'
and is instant death to whale.
Two London telegraphers claim TO nave
contrived a printing telegraph, by WHICH,
with one wire, 800 words a minute can no
printed.
AN Australian paper describes the fossil
remains of d bird found in that country,
which, when alive and in full feather, must
have stood twenty-five feet high.
THE great bridge across the Ohio river
is said to be nearly completed. 1t Is two
thousand feet long, and one Of the SPANS
measuring over one thousand feet, Is SAID
to be the largest in the world.
ASTRONOMERS have discovered that the
moon is drawing gradually nearer to the
earth, by about an inch every year. They
have also discovered that the day is about
one hundreth of second longer now than
it was two thousand years ago.
How long horse can live without food
is decided by experiments recently made in
France. 1t was ascertained, by cruel
means, that horse will live for twenty five
days without solid food, merely drinking
water. He may live seventeen days with
out eating food or drinking. He can live
five days when consuming solid food with
out drinking. After taking solid aliment
for the space of ten days, but with an in
sufficient quantity OF drink, the stomach is
worn out. The above facts show the Inn
portance of water in the sustenance OF the
horse. A horse which had been deprived
of water for three days, drank eleven gall
Ions in the space of three minutes.
PLowING WITHOUT DEAD FURRows.-Dead
burrows are nuisance, especially in
meadow, where mower will not work well,
not yet horserake. To pillow field with
out leaving dead burrows, commence in the
centre of the field, so when it is finished the
whole field will form one land For
square field fndsa point equally distant on
three sides, and plough along till you come
to corresponding point then return. Oc-
casionally the sides fhould be measured, to
see that the distance from the outer edge is
being kept equal. In this way field Of
almost any shape, let it be three cornered,
diamond shaped or even five sided, can be
ploughed in one land, leaving not furrow,
but making nice, smooth, evenly ploughed
surface, and leaves no badly ploughed head
lands nor trodden ploughed ground
american AgrtcuIturist.
CURING HAY.-LlME,-It has been af-
frmed by eminent agriculturists that hay
could be safely deposited in the NOW in
semi green state, and come out green, fra
grant and exceedingly palaiable TO stock,
by sitting upon each load from four to six
quarts OF air Stacked lime. The philosophy
of it lies in the chemical fact that lime is a
powerful absorbent. Rev. L. Willis, of this
city, tested this process last season. 1t will
be remembered that the weather was most
unpropitious for making hay. Finding that
it would be impossible to save his hay by
out door exposure, he carried it into his barn
in heavy, green condition. He sifted the
lime upon it, and it cured handsomely, and
came out this spring as inviting as flowers
pressed in herbarium His horses and
stock devour it greedily, and prefer 1t to
the best sun cured hay.
This is valuable " chip" of knowledge
for farmers Necessity often compels hay
makers to choose between the alternatives
of leaving out in q drenching rain, few
loads of half cured hay, thereby spelling it,
or hurrying it into the barn with fright
smart chance" of its heating and moulding.
Lime will absorb all the vegetable moisture
and save the hay ; while salt gathers mols-
ture, and fails in many cases to preserve 1T.
Persons DESTROYS to inspect this hay can do
| 50 ny GAZING oA VIZ. VlIilo dAo AC"ih hASA%
fully his northumberland Register.
SAVING MANURE.-We have recently re-
turned from a country tour. We found
most astonishing waste of manure, in one
of the best farmed parts of the State, In all
respects but that. The stable-manure was
all saved, and judiciously treated; plaster
was distributed in the stables and cattle
pens; and the compost was judiciously
made. But on one farm we observed
swampy farm going to waste; in another
the masses of leaves blown into the brook
and pond from the woodland were left TO
decay; and in all we observed that the soap
suds were thrown out on washing day
everywhere except on the manure-heap,
and the chamber slops deposited in the
privy, instead of liquid manure tank. In
but one place did we see a cistern, and
while the rainwater from the house was
generally collected in barrels for laundry
use, and to breed mosquitoes, that from the
barn and stable was merely poured into the
surrounding ground, and finally made it's
way into the uncemented barn cellar.
Rags, scraps of paper, bones and similar
odds and ends Of great value, ornamented
the backyards, or were thrown over hill
sides. One almost gets tired about preach
| ing about this matter. There are some
farmers too smart to let all this valuable
matter 90 to waste; but there are many
who are not. SO it will be, we suppose,
until the end of the chapter.-New York