Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
WHAT are the best kind of agricultu,

WHAT are the best kind of agricultural
fairs ? Farmers daughters
TAN BARK is good winter protection for
strawberries as it not onlyshie1ds them from
the rigors of the winter, but contains tan
mic acid, an Ingredient which imparts
strength and vigor to the plants. -
A G. WALES, Massilon, Ohio, thinks
| swimming sheep is the quickest, easiest
and best way of washing them. His clip
of over 5000 pounds of wool, this year,
was sold in Boston at Cd cents per pound.
IT is said that the roots of trees die in
proportion to the severity with which the
| tops are pruned. This is the reason why
street trees, constantly trimmed at the top,
often lean over, having very little roots to
sustain them.
MR.. A. P. DAVIS, of Lake Washington,
MINI, by selecting the earliest ripening
ears of corn for several successive years,
has variety of white dent corn, which he
says will always escape the fall frosts, if
| properly cultivated.
SOME farmers near Utica, N Y, have
greatly increased the productiveness of
their land by applying the refuse waste
| from kettles used in bone manufacturing
also from the tripe and slaughter house
offal which had been boiled to extract the
grease.
THE editor of the Southern R1ralsst says
eve have tried trenching for pear trees,
| for grape vines, for asparagus, for straw
berries, for this thing and for that, and if
we have ever been benefited by it, we
don't know it, and don't believe it. Nay,
we know that in several instances it has
been decided injury" H
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A FINE location for a choice fruit tree
or grape vine may be found just outside
the barn-yard fence, in position where
the roots will be within reach of liquid
manure. The south side of the barn or
COW shed is sometimes occupied by bur-
docks and other weeds, although grape
vines, raspberry canes or currant bushes,
etc, might be grown there with much adj
vantage.
PORTUGUESE RICE PUDDlNG.--Boll half
a pound of rice in water until 1t begins to
open; then strain 1t from the water, and
boil 1t slowly with a quart of boiled milk,
half pound OF loaf sugar, and the peel OF
q lemon. When the rice is sufficiently
boiled, remove it from the fire, and take
out all the lemon peel I; stir 1t until it be-
comes cool, then add the yolks Of eight
eggs, that have been well beaten, stirring
flower water. When these Ingredients
have been properly mixed, pour the whole
into fiat dish, and, when cold, cover 1t
with cinnamon. a
WAsHINGToN's CoRN-CRIB.-Ata re-
cent meeting of the Farmers Club, New
York city, q farmer from New Jersey
described corn-crib that was constructed
under the supervision of General Wash
lngton, which, he said, has always been
"rat proof" and there has never been but
one mouse in it. The crib was placed on
high posts that were set several feetin the
ground, with tin or sheet Iron nailed
around the posts at the upper ends,so that
mice and rats could not climb the posts.
Mr.. Crane, of New Jersey, stated that he
had such q crib, and it had kept the grain
well every year for more than twenty
years, and had been both rat and mouse
proof. 4a& ~ ~ f5
BEEF--CuTTING UP AND PRESERVING.
In cutting up beef for sailing, regard
should be had to the size of the pieces, and
their relation to. each otherwhen put down.
In other words, family resemblance
should be pursued in the different strata,
as placed in the barrel. When, designed
for family use 1t will be found convenient
to cut into pieces suited to days con-
sumption. For preserving meat the NJ b.
Fdrmer says: Pack the pieces In casks,
giving slight sprinkling of salt between
each piece cover with pickle by boiling
together, In four gallons of water, eight
pounds of salt, three pounds brown sugar,
three ounces OF. saltpetre, one ounce pearl.
ash, for. one hundred pounds of meat.
Keep a fiat stone on the meat, that it may
be immersed in the pickle. Put down In
this way, beef will keep a year, and rather
improve by age. NJ " St Ga
IRON Projection TO TREEs.--An ag-
ricultural journal speaks of a peach grow
er, who has lost by the rayages of the
worms all his peach trees except three,
and these three are the most thrifty peach
trees he ever saw. The only cause of their
driven into them. when they were about a
year old. Tenspenny nails were driven in
close to the ground. The trees served in
this way were selected at random, and now
they alone survive the .ravages of the in
sects. 1t is supposed that the, salt of the
iron furnished by the nail is offensive to
the worm, while it is harmless to the tree.
A chemical writer says that the oxidation
of the iron by the sap evolves ammonia,
which, rising from the sap, impregnates
every particle of the foliage, and Is too Sc
we're dose for the delicate palate of the
insects. This is certainly worth trying.
A writer recommends drying half dozen
nails into the trunk. Accidental expert
ments confirm this result For example,
one branch ofan apple tree only bore fruit
and it was found that around that branch
had been fastened with a wire label with
the name OF the variety, and the limb had
grown over the wire, thus enclosing and
appropriating it aud Its uses. aou
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