Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-02

goat is said to have been completely sue
cessful in Wisconsin. 1t crosses easily.
A NEW use has been discovered for
crude petroleum. Saturate rags with 1t
and putthem in rat holes, and the rats will
leave the premises ----------
a A JERSEY shoemaker who "takes the
papers" agricultural ones especially,
graduated from the cobbler's bench and
went to fruit raising. He bought half
acre lot, and now supports his family by
raising grapes and currants, all grown on
the half acre.
The quality of wool Is tested by taking
lock from the sleeps back, and placing
1t on surface representing an inch in
length. If the spirals count from thirty to
thirty-three in that space, the wool is equal
to the finest {. Electoral" or Saxony wool.
The staple is inferior if it takes lesser
number to fill up the space.
In THE Niagara river there is an island
of one hundred and twenty acres where
peaches never fail On both sides the wa
ter, flowing rapidly, never freezes, so the
trees are not killed with intense cold. A
few years since this small tract was pur-
chased for SIS per acre. Last year the crop
of peaches alone sold for $1,000.
THE following has been tested and found
to be sure preventive of the attack of the
curculio on plum trees: "Take a quantity
of corn cobs, wind wire around them,
terminating in a hook at the end of the
cobs then dip them into gas tar until they
are well saturated. Hang dozen or more
on the tree, in different parts, and no
curculio will disturb the tree.
SoLoN ROBINSON, the agricultural editor
of the New York Tribune, must be an Irish
man, as he is a philosopher, Recently he
wrote: "To forget trouble, hoe potatoes
on good ground by the side of the woods
in the afternoon shade. The smell of the
vines and of the rich soil, and the singing
of the birds and the crickets will be like
| reading q sweet and sorrowful psalm"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Maine Far
mer, who raises some years fifty tons of
hard shell squashes, says that without the
seeds they cause a greater flow of milk
than any other vegetable he ever used
| BY way of experiment, one season, lie fed
| them with seeds, and the milk considerably
decreased. In three days after taking out
the seeds "the milk was double and quite
as rich"
WHITEwAsH, as ordinarily made, rubs
| off the walls after it becomes dry, soiling
| clothes and every thing coming in contact
with it. This may be obviated by shaking
the lime in boiling water, stirring it mean
while, and then applying, after dissolving
in water, white vitriOl (sulphate of zinc)
in the proportion of four pounds to bar
rel of whitewash, making it the consisten-
cy Of rich milk. A pound of white salt
should be thrown into it,
JEREMY PEARL, of Lyndon, Vermont,
bought ten acre pasture few years ago
| for $50 per acre. In 1865 he raised
eighteen hundred bushels of potatoes on
| it, which he sold for 5000. In 1866 he
raised on the same land six hundred and
seventy bushels of oats, which sold well
| for $685. Tie twelve tons of straw were
valued at 800, which with the other crops
gives an income of 1888 for two years
labor After deducting interest and labor
a net profit remains of 81, 10O
THE INCREASING USE OF MUTToN.--Ir
our boyhood mutton was an unpopular
meat, and avoided by the city and country
as much as the meat of the most offensive
animal To-day, in all the large cities o.
the country and among the people east O
the Mississippi, the best of mutton and lamt
commands the highest price of any meat
All nations as they advance in civilization
abandon the grosser and semi barbarou'
kinds of food, and substitute for it the lux
uries of the garden and nutritious mutton
for the grosser pork, which is. far more
expensive TO produce The consumption
tof mutton by people has been said to b.
an index of their civilization and refine
ment. There are some curious facts illus
trative of the immensely increased demand
for mutton. Within our recollection ten
of thousands Of sheep have been slaughter
ed for their hides and tallow, and thei
meat pressed for swine feed. To-day TAX
the year round, butchers complain that
takes more time to obtain meager suppl,
of mutton and lamb than all other meats
at Brighton, on the day before Christmas
1889, two men held all the sheep (only 40'
in all at Brighton), yet this monopoly Clio
not raise the sluggish market one-half cen
per pound. In 1859 there wasin this mar
ket, the day before Christmas $500 sheer
all sold, while the average weekly supply
in 1866 was over 800, and on some market
days over 10000, and not much heard ye
of cheap mutton. Another fact is worthy
of notice, that while common fine woolec
sheep sold for from 81. so to $3.50, the large
long wooded sheep sold for 81. This fac
points the direction which our farmers
should take in sheep husbandry in order tC
meet the wants and realize the creates
profits of to-day The fleeces and the lambs
of the long Leicester wooded sheep ar
larger than those of the fine wooded sheep
their mutton better, and all command high
er prices. These sheep, first quality, solt
in 1866 for $40 to $16.---Ihe Homestead. =