Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-30
xycve.Farm and Garden.

If you would have your daughter s
husband pleased with his breakfast, teach
her to get breakfast. %
There is an Isabella grape vine at In.
diana, Pa, which has produced this sum-
mer 1,7OO punches of perfect grapes.
Break steers while young, if you
would have them gentle, and you can do
many small jobs with them that would
otherwise require ateam.
1t is a difficult matter to obtain a
"steel" which retains its sharpening quail
tiles for any length of time. A common
round file answers the purpose admirably.
Fastensit in an old knife-handle, and it is
ready for use.
Two hours reading of good newspa-
per, is as profitable as six hours work out
of twelve. The farmer and the produce
dealer equally should understand the mar
kets. Sometimes to know thing is the
same as to earn 500.
"A statement was made at late meet
ing of the New York Farmers Club, of
complete success in raising plums on trees
planted on the edge of pond; not a
plum being stung that would fall into the
water, while all Of those hanging over dry
ground bore the crescent mark of the cur
sulio.
1t is conceded that those localities
which are suited to the cultivation of white
clover and buckwheat are also suited to
the production of honey, ana that where a
poppy will prosper, bee will prosper,
also: consequently there are few situations
where bee-keeping might not be success
fully prosecuted 4 HF#
The oil of pennyroyal will keep mus
quitoes out of a room, if scattered about
in small quantities Reaches are eXtermi-
mated by scattering handful of fresh Gu
cumber parings about the Louise. No fly
will light on the window which has been
washed with water in which little garlic
has been boiled. M u II HH}
The California Farmer says that lit
tie while since lot of wheat was sent
from California to France; it was then
shipped to Liverpool, thence to New York,
thence to Chicago, the great, grand wheat
depot of the United States and yet after
all these long voyages and repeated ship
ments, with added costs, it paid profit all
around. r
AS caution to those canning fruit in
glass or using the same, would like to
state through your paper what may already
be known by many, that particles OF glass
are liable to flake off the inside of the can
and mix with the fruit, which renders OBJ
vious the propriety of carefully removing
all such particles before using the can, as
much as possible, and examining the fruit
before eating.-Cor Rural Neao Yorker.
The cow of Christopher Young, who
lives near Florence, Mass, was MIXED dry
for several nights in succession recently,
and although he kept watch he was una
bic to catch the thief. 1t was at last dis
covered by setting trough full of milk as
bait, that snake was the depredatOr The
reptile, together with six of it's offspring,
was at once despatched and measured over
seven feet in length. 1t was of a grayish
color, and known as the milk snake from
it's habit of milking COWS.
--Housekeepers, especially in hotels and
| large boarding houses, are sometimes COM
PEELED from necessity to use milk for tea
| and coffee after the cream has risen. AS a
consequence one boarder will have the
| benefit of all the cream, and the others OF
the skim-milk from the cream pitcher.
| When several quarts are to be used, this
may easily be remedied by running the
milk through common tin strainer. when
| the cream will be thoroughly broken up
and mixed with the milk and look and be
essentially like new milk. By this simple
device many q housekeeper may maintain
her character of furnishing something be-
| sides skim milk for her bOarder. ~