Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-02-28

THE american Fruit CatJtUyist says that
the strawberry growers OF Hammonton,
N. j., find wood ashes an excellent manure
for Strawberries.
WORK FOR BAD WEATHER 1T is well
always to suit the work TO the weather.
Few can endure TO work out in rain or
snow, and if thought be given there can
always be found plenty to do Inside Whenlt
is unpleasant or stormy out of dOors-work
also that will save many an hour when the
hurry and drive of Spring comes; pre-
pairing label sticks and stakes mending
lights. making boxes for melons, ETC.;
cleaning crooks, painting tools, and
thousand other things, which if done will
enable q man to drive his work, instead of
the work driving -Hort5cu5t1aSst.
w. AUSTIN, writing to the New York
Farmers Club, says: 81 always keep
handy rod or stick three feet long, with
a notch or knob ON the end for holding
swab made of flax covered with q cotton
cloth, CREASED, and when an animal is
choked 1t is led into the stall and held by
a man, who pulls out the tongue, when
push the obstruction down the throat very
quickly. / keep over twenty cows and
feed good many potatoes, and l some
times have three or four cattle choking at
one time but it does not take me more
than five minutes to relieve them"
REMOVING STAINS ALI cloths subject
to be stained, such as table linen, napkins,
children's clothes, towels, ETC., ought to be
examined before being put into any wash
mixture or soap suds, as these render the
stain permanent Many stains will yield
to good washing in pure soft warm water.
A -cohol will remove almost any discolora-
ton. Almost any stain or iron mould, or
mildew, may be removed by dipping IN
moderately strong citric acid, then covered
with salt and kept in the sun. This may
require to be repeated many times, but
with us has never falled.-CoUntTy Gentle
man.
IMPORTANCE OF COOP DIGESTION "A
touch of the dyspepsia, growing out OF
pigs foot swallowed at midnight, has
changed mans whole life, and anirregu
larity of the bile has made many an angel
almost q fiend. If the gastric juice is all
right, and the blood in swimming order,
the world is nice, bright, pleasant place,
and from which nobody is in a hurry to
move; but if in that queer, mysterious
fluid there is an alloy, the sky of life is all
cloud, the winds howl, and everything is
dark and dismal. IF you want to feel as
happy as a lady going to her own we'd
ding, look after your digestive ana clrculat
ring systems
CURE FOR HYDRoPHoBTA.-A German
forester, eighty-two years of age, wishing,
as he states, to divulge an important st cret
before he dies, has published in a German
journal recipe which he has used for
fifty years for hydrophobia, and which, he
claims, has saved several men and q great
number of animals from horrible death
by hyGrophobia. The bite must be bathed,
as soon as possible, with warm vinegar
and water, and when this has dried, a few
drops of muriatic acid poured upon the
wound will destroy the poison OF the
saliva, and relieve the patient from all pres
ent or future danger.
CONCERNING CHEEsE-I will tell my
readers why epicures eat cheese first.
"Cheese," says Grimod de la Reyniere,
has the property of taking away from
the mouth and palate all tastes that have
been left by the preceding dishes, and
thus prepares them (mouth and palate) for
the succulent and delicate things of the
desert, and the flavors of the wines" After
cheese, there is no order for the other plates
of desert; they are partaken of according
to taste. A plate of desert that is always
relished, especially by gentlemen, is the
qW1tre naenadjGats. 1t is composed OF dried
grapes, figs, hazlenuts and sweet almonds.
Professor Blot. IN GalaGy.
SIZE OF POTATO SETS FOR PLANTING
"A late number Ct the Journal Of the
RoyaI Agricultural Society Of England has
a report of Mr.. Maw's experiments on the
potato crop, to determine the most profit
| able size of sets, which is q very practical
paper, and goes to settle question oi
much importance, about which very dl
verse views have been held, and defective
practice followed. Mr.. Nav was 8 dis.
| tinguished scholar at Cirencester. Every
increase in the size of the set, from ore
ounce up TO eight ounces, produces an in
crease of crop much greater than the adj
ditional weight OF sets planted. The net
profit in using four ounces instead of one
ounce sets amounted to between two and
three tons per acre, and the further profit
| from four to eight ounces averaged asout
five tons. The advantage of large sets
was more marked in late than in early
sorts. Small sets yield best when planted
close in the rows, say from six Incl es to
nine inches, and in no case should the dis
lance exceed twelve inches. Weight for
| weight, cut sets produce the same weight
Iof nrOp 90 xUhnip pOfatORS