Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-22
FARM ANEs GARDEN.

r a BARREL Cl uIJ WOOu SudVlQgS CQfOWu
Ento hoppe will absorb more wet than
cart load of moist earth. II t...l.,. Il MA
r. THE Hortscaaturist says that the Hart
| ford Prolific grape does better on clay than
on sandy and gravelly soils. The opinion
is based on experience. $50. =, .,jis
| ~ THE Boston Iaa0eller estimates the cram
berry crop on Cape Cod this season at
1O,O5O barrels, which, at $10per barrel will
| be 100000 for cranberries alone.sa Do lraa
+ APPLES keep best when cool and dry.
Sudden changes of temperature induce the
collection of moisture on the skin, which
dissolyes the delicate varnish with which
the skin of the apple is covered, and it.
soon decays q ,s q 5:@ 81
THE CHEAPEST FooD.--The cheapest
and most nutritious vegetable used for
| food is beans. Professor Liebig says that
pork and beans form comp OF sub
stances peculiarly adapted to furnish all
that is necessary to support life. A quart
OF beans costs say Is cents half a pound
of pork 10 cents. This, as every house
keeper knows, will feed small family
| for day, with good strengthening food.
| -Four quarts of beans and two pounds OF
corned beef, boiled to rags, in fifty quarts
of water, will furnish good meal to forty
men at q cost Of one dollar---two cents
and half meal: o. r.
- COOP, PLAIN, OLD-FAsHIoNED APPLE
SAUCE.--Let your stock of apples be pick
| ed over several times in the course OF the
| winter, and all of the defective ones taken
out Let the good parts of these be pared,
and if not used for pies be made into sp-
ple-sauce. Boil it in o preserving kettle,
and to a pailful of cut apples put one
sliced lemon. After the apples are tender,
add pint bowl of brown sugar, and boil
them gently fifteen minutes longer. To
ward spring. when applesoibecome taste
less, a teaspoonful of tartaric acid, dis
solved In a little water, should be added to
this quantity of apple. ioi sai :.
| CARE OF IMPLESIENTs.--In rainy wealth
er, if you have your corn husked out, it ia
a:good plan to see to your plowe, harrows,
etc, and repair them if repairs are need
ed, and not let them go till wanted, as
much valuable time is thus wasted. Every
| farmer should have a small workshop,
where he. can make a handle TO pillow, or
head rake, or shoe his own sled, or do a
thousand such things which nine out of
| ten farmers can do themselves as well as
| to employ mechanic, who perhaps lives
/ two OF three miles away. And you can
| teach your sons, SO that they can use q
saw or pane for many purposes just as
| well as carpenter. at ~ iwn
! Corn MEAL FOR BUTTER MAKING. AT
/ a meeting of the Little Falls Farmers
Club, at Herkimer, N. Y, Judge Owen
made some remarks on feeding corn-meal
4 to COWS, which are reported as follows, in
| the Utica Herald e
| He found no ground feed so good for
4 -; I'D 10. n
/ number of experiments in feeding, and the
dry. In this state, the animal took it slow,
| moistening it with saliva and thoroughly
masticating it. In feeding it wet, he
thought it passed directly to the third
stomach, and hence, was not properly as
simulated. Had large cow Of the Holder
ness breed upon which he experimental to
see how much meal could be fed with
profit. Found that feeding two quarts at
q feed, and twice day was all she would
bear This, in addition to hay, brought
down the milk in large quantities BY
such feed, this COW yielded fourteen
pounds of butter per week. Her highest
product was forty one pounds of butter
in fifteen days, besides thirty quarts of
milk which was saved out for family use
Did not regard turnips as of much value
for mileh cows; preferred potatoes, as far
more valuable to feed ar giAa.fa W
| ADVICE TO THOSE WHO DON'T NEED
IT-G. w. Cone, of New York State,
through the Rural Neao Yorker, gives the
| following 4" advice to those who don't
need it," 1T Iaf8 SOD
Always leave your tools where you use
them Then the next time you want them
you have only to remember where you
used them last, and go and get them. In
| this way you may avoid the annoyance Of
lending. A man who wants to borrow q
plow is not SO likely to call upon neigh
| Dor who generally leaves it in the back
field as one who keeps it in the barn, clean
and bright. q
| Never paint your out buildings or farm
tools. 1t is wicked anybody knows that
twill make them last twice as long, and
that it is robbing mechanics of their
! bread. Let every man live by his trade"
! Always plant your smallest potatoes,
(and rotten ones if you have any, Eat
the best and you are sure of them. If you
plant them you run risk. Bugs and rot
plate is worth half dozen in the ground
where you have to dig for them.
Do not stable your cattle, 1t makes
great deal Of extra work and don't do any
good. They are dumb brutes. How do
| they know whether ii is cold or warm?
Stack some hay out in the middle of q
| field--Gf you have some damaged all the
better) 1t will make an excellent place
to winter the sheep and calves. Feed them
on the ground and save hauling the ma
nure. If some of the sheep happen to die,
pull off the wool and feel thankful that
you have SO many less to wash and shear
in the hurry of summer. s4
Some shortsighted people heap their
manure to make it rot. This is the height
of folly. Let it alone three or four years
and it will rot itself IF there is 80 much
manure in The yard that the cattle can't
wade through it, get some rail and fence
off yard on the other side of the barn.
II it accumulates so as to make it difficult
for you to get to the barn, sell out, or move
the barn. 81 i.rs,,.,.3 ...s...
Don't waste your money and time by
trying to raise fruit trees 1t requires an
immense amount of labor to prune and
| fight the worms and mice; and then If
they grow and bear fruit bad boys may
steal it; you can save great deal of an
noyance by not planting any. Better
spend your money for tobacco and your
time smoking it. 4st q
Above all do not squander your money
/ for books and newspapers. No matter
| how much weak-minded people talk about
the moral influence of good reading, the
benefit of the experience of practical
| farmers, and the theories of scientific men,
and all such nonsense, just give them to
/ understand that you know what is what,
and let those take the papers who have no
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