Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-10
AGRrCULTURAL MATTERS.

THEANNUALA shipments Of all kinds of
grain from Chicago exceeded 6O,000,000
bushels
DRAINED land is generally ten to twenty
degrees warmer in summer than that i'll
which water stands stagnant.
CHEAP LABoR.--In Switzerland labor is
worth from ten to twenty cents per clay.
The women do as much labor as the men.
r-FooD AND, W4.RalTH.-It should always
be remembered that animals allowed to
stand and shiver in the open air, or in
barn full of cracks and holes, need and eat
a very large amount of extra food to keep
up bodily heat, flesh and comfort. ~.
SUBSTITUTE FOR BUFFALO RoBEs.-A
good substitute for buffalo robes, whichare
now very costly, may be made from the
skin of a bullock, which is naturally soft
and woolly, or of sheep skins tanned with
salt and alum and rubbed until pliable.
ABOUT GRAPEs-In a recent address
Mr.. A. s. Fuller, author of the Grape Cul-
turist, says he has long since come to the
conclusion that there is very little positive
knowledge connected with grape culture,
and what there is was and is obtained by
local experience.
MODEST REQUEsT-At the California
State Fair bottle of pickles was entered
on which was label bearing these words:
"Our compliments to the State Agricultu-
raj Society. Please award first premium
to these pickles. To this was appended
the name of the exhibitor.
PROFITS FROM HENs-The editor of the
Maine Farmer has kept hens for the last
thirty years. He has furnished them with
hen houses, poles to roost on, boxes to lay
in, food of best quality, and everything in
first class order, but when he looks for the
profits they are not to be found. He thinks
every egg he has received for the last
thirty years has cost him about six cents.
LABOR AT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES
The officers of the Pennsylvania Agricul-
tural College have abandoned the system
of compelling the students to devote part
of the time to labor upon the farm. Both
education and the work performed have
been imperfect, and the system is consid-
cred failure. Hereafter the farm is to be
worked byeskilled hired labor, and the stu
dents are to devote their time to their
studies. n
EXTRACT. OF -HEMLOCKr BARK.--In the
northern part of Maine great quantities of
hemlocks abound, but the distance to tan
neries is SO great that the transportation
consumes all the profits of the bark 1t is
now proposed to make an extract of the
bark, in which form it may be taken to
Boston and other cities ON the seaboard,
and sold at large profit. Two cords of
bark are so concentrated as to be contain
ed in forty gallon cask.
FROZEN PUMPs.-A Pennsylvania man,
after trying salt, hot water, and sundry
other methods for thawing out frozen
pumps, and finding them Intellectual, con-
cluded to try hot iron. He took rod
a half inch thick, the lower end being bent
into hook an inch long, and after heating
red hot thrust it into the ice in the pump
stock. By relocating few times the ice
was removed, and he has ever since found
it an effectual remedy easily applied.
CHARCOAL FOR TURKEYs.-A recent ex-
pertinent has been tried in feeding char
coal for fattening turkeys. Two lots of
four each were treated alike, except for
one lot finely pulverized charcoal was
mixed with mashed potatoes and meal, on
which they were fed, and broken pieces of
coal also plentifully supplied. The differ
ence in weight was one and half pounds
each in favor of the fowls supplied with
coal, and the flesh was superior in tender
ness and flavor.
IF COLD WATER be poured on roasted cof-
fee finely ground, such as is generally used
with boiling water, a considerable quantity
of gas is generally evolved, about equal in
volume to the amount of coffee used If
a bottle be half filled with this ground
coffee, and cold water be then poured in
until the cork is reached, which is to pre-
vent the escape of the gas, a violent ex-
plosion sufficient to force the cork out of
the bottle, or even to break the latter will
result.
From MesOpOtamfa.-The Rev N Williams,
missionary at Mardin, Mesopotamia, writes: II
must tell you how spendidly our sewing machine
(Wilcox & Gibbs works. We needed new lounges,
thick ticking from two to seven thicknesses II