Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-19
Home, Farm and Garden.
To cut India rubber smoothly, have a
harp knife and cut it under water

MAKE syrup OF one pound OF sugar ana
a teacup of water add little white of
eggs; let it boil, and skim it until only a
foam arises, then put in quart of berries
free from stems and hulls let them boil
till they look clear and the syrup is quite
thick. Finish with fine puff paste.
WEDDING CAKE.-F our pounds of flour,
three pounds Of butter, three pounds Of
sugar, two pounds of currants, three
pounds of raisins, twenty-four eggs, one
| ounce of mace, three nutmegs. This will
keep two or three years,
To FATTEN geese, the Irish Farmers
Gazette says, put up three or four into a
darkened room, and give each bird one
pound of oats daily, thrown on a pan of
water. In fourteen days they will be found
almost too fat. Never shut up less than TWO
together, as they pine if left alone. -,.e
AN old farmer, of some thought, but of
little education, asked me the question of
the difference between a bird and a fowl.
/ was puzzled for an answer, and | opine
Button or Goldsmith would have been in
the same fix, but our old friend enlightened
us on the subject. Said he /: t'The fowl
takes her young to their food, but the bird
carries the food to her young"
To REMOVE RUST FROM IRoN.-Pound
glass to fine powder; having nailed some
strong wooden cloth upon board, lay upon
it a strong coat of gum water, and sift
thereon some of the powdered glass; let
it dry; repeat this operation three times,
and when the last covering of powdered
glass is dry, you may easily rub off the
rust from the iron, with the cloth thus pre-
pared.
PLANTS FOR THE KITCHEN.-Take
saucer and fill it with fresh, green moss.
Place in the centre a pine cone, having
first wet it thoroughly. Then sprinkle it
plentifully with grass seed. The moisture
will close the cone partially, and in day
or two the tiny grass spires will appear in
all the interstices, and in week you will
have perfect cone of beautiful verdure
It only wants a plentiful supply of water
to bea thing of beauty" all summer
How TO KEEP HAMS THROUGH SUM
MER-After your hams have taken salt
hang them up and smoke them well, take
them down and dip them into boiling
water for few seconds that will kill all
the eggs Of insects, if there should be any
on them; then roll them in ashes while
wet, and hang them up again; smoke them
more if you choose. This will do also for
shoulders and sides also those that do their
bacon in this way, will never have any
bugs or shippers on their meat. II
REMEDY FOR CHoKED CATTLE.--Take a
small parcel of gunpowder, about two or
three thimbles full-make a small funnel
with thin paper sufficient only to hold the
powder; close the large end by folding
insert in the passage of the throat either
with the fingers or hand, or by using a
small stick-split so as to grasp the small
end of the funnel and to be easily with
drawn when desired Nothing else to be
done. This has been tried successfully by
some of the best stock raisers in this vi
cinity, and has never failed, believe, in
any case. 0no IA
| HORSES Observation-Disclosures -
A correspondent says: "Make the shoe
| it's natural length, or a trifle longer, with
| the toe calk of the forward shoe high and
| the heel calk low The hoof will then
stand farther forward, and more removed
from the stride of the hind foot, which, be-
ing shod with low toe calk and high heel
calk, win strike the ground before it reaches
| the fore foot. An interfering horse usual
lysstrikes with the insideof the hoof, about
two inches from the toe; therefore, make
| the shoe straighter on the inside and rasp
the hoof accordingly" T
| FEyERs AND FRUITS have little
| talk about orchards and gardens as life
preservers Many a farmer thinks he
can't fuss about a garden with vegeta-
bles and small fruits in ample variety,
hardly about an orchard especially beyond
apple trees. So he goes on to weightier
matters of grain or stock or dairy, and eats
potatoes, wheat bread, pork and salt beef
all summer long; no fine variety of vege-
tables, no grateful berries, no luscious
peaches or juicy cherries. BY October
fever comes, or bowel complaints of some
kind, or some acongestiye troubles, most
likely. He is laid up, work stops a month,
the doctor comes, and he "drags round
all winter, and the doctors bill drags too.
The poor wife, meanwhile, gets dyspeptic,
constipated, has fever, too, perhaps, and
she "just crawls round" What's the mat
ter! They don't know, poor souls Would
they build hot fire in. July and shut the
doors OF course not--in their rooms ;
but they have done just that in their poor
stomachs. How soS They have been eat
ing, all summer, the heat-producing food,
fit for cold season, but not for warm
one A Greenlander can eat candles and
whale fat, because they create heat In
January we are up toward Greenland--in
climate.
| ~ IlluuoO lives Ou tilCc, Juicy lIulbS anu
tropic vegetables, cooling and opening to
the system. In July we move towards
Hindostan, in heat almost tropical. Diet
must cnange too.
| Have apples, pears, cherries, etc, from
the orchard every day, Of early and late
kinds Let there be plenty of good vege-
tables, raspberries, strawberries, etc. 1t
takes little time and trouble, but it's the
cheapest way to pay the doctors bills.
And bless your dear souls, these things
taste good.
You study what feed is good forpigs and
cattle. All right; but wife and children
are Of higher consequence; and it's a
shame if, with all our great gifts of intel
lect and intuition, we do not obey the d.
/ vine laws in our own physical being as
well that the doctor shall visit the house
i less than the horse doctor goes to the barn.
4 Don't fail of vegetables, berries and fruits
Try it, and you'll say we haven't told half
/ the truth. -RurG Neo Yorker.
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