Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-07


BUeKwHEAT CAKEs.-At late meeting
of the New York Farmers Club, W. P.
Peck stated that he had long desired to say
that buckwheat cakes and salt pork, as ar
ticles of food, are destroying the lives of
more people than all other causes COM
bined, not excepting war; pestilence and
famine J. V. G. Smith said, in reply,
more persons die from the want of buck
wheat cakes and pork than are ever injured
by such diet. S. Robinson said he is one
the most dyspeptic men in the world, and
he had found that nothing digested more
readily in his stomach than buckwheat
cakes. Doctor Hallock spoke in favor of
buckwheat cakes as an article of food. A
gentleman from Maine stated that they
never expected to get a set of hardy, mus
cular men for manual labor in the region
of country where. their principal article Of
food is buckwheat Engineers and con-
tractors of railroads understand that they
cannot make strong and profitable laborers
on buckwheat cakes. They may digest
easily, but buckwheat will not supply the
great waste of muscle, when men labor
hard at digging, shoveling and chopping.
Professor Tillman said buckwheat flour
lacks the heterogeneous principle which is SO
essential to produce muscle. The farmers
in Maine need to mingle IOats or oatmeal
with their buckwheat flour, as oatmeal will
furnish an abundant supply of nitrogen,
which is so essential to supply the great
waste of the muscle of labOrers
MILK AND WATER.-It makes a great
difference whether water is given to the
COW or to the can. DR.. Dancel in a COM
munication to the French Academy of Sci
ences Quoted in the Nat5oaa), adduces proof
that the yield of milk can be considerably
increased by giving salt to incite COWS to
drink large quantities of water, and by
moistening their food, with very little if
any of the peculiar effect produced by the
experiments of milkmen at a later stage of
the operation According to Dancel's OBJ
servations, when a COW begins to give milk
she drinks from eleven to as much as forty
five quarts of water per day, more than be-
fore. Ali cows that drink fifty quarts per
day were found to be excellent mixers,
yielding nineteen to twenty-three quarts
per day. Less than twenty-seven quarts
invariably marked very poor mixer. OF
course the experiment of artificial stimula-
ton by means of salt was intended only for
scientific purposes The Importance of an
abundant and convenient supply of pure
water atsall times, as much as the animal
will take, is the practical deduction,
WINTER gardens may be made with beau
tiful effect in front of dwellings, .by}a taste
full arrangement of evergreens in parterres,
having regard to the varieties and contrasts
in their shades Of color, forms and sizes.
The Prairie Farmer suggests the following
arrangement A group of three or more of
the upright jumpers, from three to four
feet high, in the centre, and one of these
decidedly taller than the rest. Around
these a single Tow of low Canada balsams,
too closely. Outside of the balsam a row
Of arborvit@s, or a ring of snug little red
cedars, very compact and low. Next a
circle of bear grass, with its long pointed
leaves, so as to make continuous band of
their pale green. Here, lastly a PROSTATE
broad-leaved evergreen, the vinca minor,
often called the ground myrtle, will come
in as fine contrast
REGIONS IRRECLA1MABLY DETERIoRAT-
ED-In his "Man and Nature" Mr. Marsh
says there are parts of Asia Minor of
Northern Africa, of Greece, and even of
Alpine Europe, where the operation of
couse set in action by man has brought
the face the earth to desolation almost as
complete as that of the moon; and though
within that brief space of time men call
the Historical PERIOD" they are known to
have been covered with luxuriant wood,
verdant pastures and fertile meadows, they
are now too far deteriorated to be reclaim
able by man.
THE PEAR BLIGHT.-A writer in the
Oneida Circular, who has charge of about
a thousand pear trees, give his observations
on the cause of blight. The orchard is
divided into three parts, on soils differing
as to dampness. On the lowest, dampest
land, not underdrained, a large number of
the trees were blighted, and many were
dead. On land somewhat higher, and
were diseased, and none of them badly,
while the trees on high, rolling land natur-
ally drained, were perfectly healthy.
= SMALL. SAvINGs.-The parings of
bushel ofjuicy apples are said to yield
quart of cider by the aid of hand press.
The honey that wastes it's sweetness on the
air around an acre of buckwheat in bios
som, can be saved to the amount of fifteen
pounds per day, according to the estimate
of a German investigator Rags can be
saved to the value of 100000, 900, as shown
by the paper statistics of this country alone.
A NOTED sheep raiser in Middlebury,
Vermont, has sold twelve ewes for $1,000
a piece; another sold a lamb for $4,000.
This town is the shire town of Addison
county, known all over the West as the
greatest county in the country for Sheep
Sin gle animals have been sold there as high
as $4,000 and $1,000. pes A&A IS AZ
WHEN Spaniard eats peach or pear
by the roadside, wherever he is, he digs a
hole in the ground with his foot, and COW
ers the seed. Consequently, all over Spain,
by the roadside and elsewhere, fruit in
great abundance tempts the taste, and is
ever free. Let this practice be initiated in
our country.
TESTING GRASS sSEED.-It is good plan
to test grass and clover seed before sowing,
by putting seeds, previously counted, in a
small cup filled with good soil Cover the
seeds. a quarter inch deep, and keep the
soil moist and warm. In a few days the
proportion of good seeds may be deter
mined E ri
A KNIFE SHARPENER-It is difficult
matter to obtain steel'' which retains
it's sharpening qualities for any length of
time A common round file answers the
purpose admirably. Fasten it in an old
handle, and it is ready for use. ae-
KEEPING lCABBAGEs-A New Yorker
finds this method successful Sink barrel
in the ground to within an inch of the top,
cut off the heads and fill the barrel full,
put on board to keep out water, and that
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