Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-17
AGRICULTURAs MATTERS.

AGERECULTURAL MATTERS.
EcoNosY.-Good. fences always pay bet
ter than lawsuits with neighbors.
y BUCKwHEAT AND HoNEY.-A German
writer estimates that an acre of buckwheat
yielded fourteen pounds of honey daily.
Single hives gathered three pounds on ia
vorable days.
OUNCE CUTTINGS are generally success
full set in the fall. They are not so sure in
the spring. Put them in the ground as
soon as possible and protect them by q
covering of barnyard manure.
Look OUT FOR THE Fees A little work
in removing the eggs of the tent caterpillar
will be well repaid. These eggs are de-
posted in q ring on small twigs and may
be easily detected while the trees are bare
Of leaves
DON'T LIKE ONIoNs.-The Scottish
Farmer in abiding to the fact that most
insects have strong repugnance to onions,
suggests that wash of onion juice, or of
water in which onions have been bruised
might prove useful as asTash for plants in
tested with insects. III . E-E
CANKER WoRM.-Thirty years ago, or
more, a Major Frazier, of Duxbury, Mass
made use Of a mixture of soft soap, whale
oil, and common liquid varnish, in equal
parts, as preventive Of the canker worm
ascending fruit trees. He found it answer
the purpose well.
"a SAVE THE ,BAGKACHE.--T'o sort potatoes
or apples, stand upright and save the back
ache ItCis more healthy Make plat
form 3x3 feet with sides fourlto six inches
high. Leave a gap at one corner, to pour
out from Set the form On q barrel or
other support, and pour bushel at time
of apples on it, and sort them standing 1t
is easier to lift up than stoop down.
A WRITER IN the Berlin (Wis) Couraast
gives some interesting facts about cranber-
ry culture in that vicinity He estimates
that there are about $4,000 acres of valua-
bic cranberry lands within ten miles ofthat
place. This year some 5,400 bushels
yielding a net return of some 10000 from
a tract of four hundred acres, which were
put under cultivation few years ago
were raised. 49, g
: SOMETHING NEw.-A neighbor of mine
had a very rough cellar bottom, and did
not want to go to the expense of the &C.
ment, SO he took his coal ashes and mixed
it with water, to the ordinary thickness of
mortar. 1t does not matter how many
Jumps or stones there are Put it on about
four inches thick; let it lie twenty four
hours, then stamp it with heavy block of
wood three or four times day, untilit is
perfectly hard. 1t is better than cement,
as it will not crack or scale of.-Cor!A liner
ican Farmer.e
CARE OF SHEEP.-Regularity of feeding
makes better, wool, than a feast one day
and a famine the next. Be not content
with small sheep and light tleeces. With
all our improvements in this department.
there is still great room for more. A Span
ish proverb says" The eye of the master
9hat, when he superintendent hisrsheep, the
average weight of fleece was over five
pounds, but afterlhe had been absent from
home a few years it was less than three
Working Farmer.
FARM INCoMEs.-The Commissioner of
Internal Revenue has decided that the law
regards all receipts for farm or plantation
produce derived from sales in the year of
income, as income of. said year. 1t also
allows the expense of carrying on such
farm or plantation, which is due to said
year of incomei to be deducted from the
income. But no allowance is made for the
deduction, Of, expenses. pertaining to any
previous year whatever. If the products
raised in 1865 are not sold in said year,
their value is not returnable as income of
said year. "a 80
PEACH Blow PoTAToEs.-Fo the last
three or four years we have provided for
our winters supply of!potatoes the peach
blow, and we have on more than one oc-
casion referred to the satisfaction afforded
by them. Our present winters supply is
of the same kind, grown upon the same
farm, and we repeat our approval Of them
in warmer terms than ever. We never ate
better potato, and, although it.commands
higher price than most, ii not all, other
varieties, two prices would not induce us
to substitute. any other variety for them
that wehave tried within the last five years
-Gerw2antoaOn Telegraph.
A NEW WAY TO KEEP EGGS The week
before going to sea, on a four months voy-
age, I gathered in sixty dozen eggs for.
cabin sea-stores, taking especial pains to.
prove every egg of the lot good one be-
sides l got them from my farmer friends,
and know they were all fresh laid Then
j fixed them for keeping, by taking five or.
six dozen at a time in a basket, and dipping
them, about five seconds, in the cooks
copper" of boiling water After scalding,
passed the eggs through a bath made by
dissol9ing about five pounds of the cheap
est brown gar'inia gallon of water, and
laid them out on the galley floor to day.
There l. had my sixty dozen eggs sugar
coated. a.,
packed them in charcoal dust instead
of salt--I tried salt ten years. and / don't
believe it preserves eggs mite 1t would
perhaps, if. we were to chowder them all
up in salt. But just slowing the stuff
around the shells-atell that to the marines;
sailors won't believe it,
The steward had strict orders to bring
aft, and report every bad egg he should
find. During the voyage he. brought three
mot absolutely spoiled, but little old
like. Ali the others, or what was left of
them, were as fresh when we came in as
they were when packed them away
Cor. Country Gentleman. H4 au %.
"A French statistician has ungallantly stated
that 75O00ladies in Marseilles, France, wear false
hair. 4 .....,i
by order of the french Government, Is Of the
handsomest girls in the house of correction at
Toulon. have. been sent out to Cayenne, as wives