Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-09

RATs.-An army of rats made raid on
the hog-pen of a farmer at Summer Hill
| N. Y, few weeks ago, and killed and
nearly devoured hog weighing two hun
| dred pounds. A
PAINT.-Oil paint applied to houses and
barns, out-buildings and fences, will last
much longer and harden better if put on
as late as the middle of autumn, instead of
during the heat of summer.
GRAPEs.-The agricultural editor of the
New York Tribune is poetical, he says :
"Let us have plenty of grapes to eat be-
fore we talk much about wine. Grapes,
with their rich bloom, are like the girl
one loves and marries; wine, like a smart
young widow"
LUsUs NATURE.-The Sloughton Owls. }
| Reporter says that K. banks, of Rutland,
showed apig in town, the other day, hay
| ing two heads, two mouths, three eyes,
four legs and two tongues. The pig lived
for two days, ate with both mouths, and
ran about on its four legs Rather re-
markable pig that
ONO STATE FAIR-The time of holding
the next Ohio State Fair has been changed
by the State Board of Agriculture to Sept
1896, instead of Oct. 1918, as before
agreed upon. The place of holding the
Fair, Dayton, and the arrangements pre-
vlously announced, remain unchanged.
SELECTING SEED.-The Canada Aqs4-
cultuqist discourses very sensibly on the
Importance of sowing and planting good
seed as preliminary to good and prolific
harvest. 1t says: "All grain-seeds are
furnished with oil and starch, which are de-
signed to furnish nutriment to the germ
when 1t first starts, before becoming Ca
pable of extracting it from the soil.
Now if anything affects these, such
as mold, &c, the plant that should
happen to grow from such seed would be
influenced by the imperfection of the seed
whence it sprung" - [ =
Do SHEEP IMPROVE PASTURES I'VE
are well acquainted with a pasture near the
sea coast which many years ago was exceed
ingly foul piece of Understanding with
great variety of bushes. among which
were the barberry and many climbing
plants, and so closely laced and inter
twined by the wild rose, that they formed,
an almost impenetrable jungle. Twenty
years afterwards we saw the same pasture
with a flock of sheep on it, grazing upon
close, compact turf, covered with short,
sweet grasses, and a0itt0ut qoeed or bush
Of 0ny kind upon 1t
I" How has this reclamation been accom-
plished ?" we inquired as we stood looking
upon it. ,.... s..
3" By the Sheep" said our informant
"Without blowing and seeding?" we
asked. f'
"Yes, By the sheep Alone" was the reply.
The pasture was quite uneven and rocky,
but the sheep had exterminated every YES
tige Of wild plants, and clothed the surface
with fresh, rich, perpetual herbage.-Neao
England Farmer.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. this is the season
"clarin' up time," we give our readers a
find in an exchange: Take clean, water
tight barrel, or other suitable cask, and put
into it half bushel of lime Stake it by
pouring water over it boiling hot, and in
sufficient quantity to cover it five inches
deep, and stir it in water, and add two
pounds Of sulphate of zinc and one of COM
mon salt. These will cause the wash to
harden, and prevent its cracking, which
gives an unseemly appearance to the work.
If desirable a beautiful clean color may be
added to the above wash by adding three
pounds of yellow ochre, or good pearl
or lead color, by adding lamp, vine or
ivory black. For fawn color, add four
pounds of lumber, Turkish or American
the latter is the cheapest-one pound
Indian red and pound common lamp black.
For common stone color, add four pounds |
lumber and two pounds lamp black. This
wash may be applied with common
whitewash brush, and will be found much
superior, both in appearance and durabili- |
ty, to common WhiteWash