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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
Some Cracks to Stop.

THOSE in the barn and stable immedi-
ately back of where the cattle and horses
are to stand this winter, need stopping
badly and it is an easy matter to do so.
See that the nails in all the outer boards
are driven in tightly then make battens
of laths or pieces of siding and put them
on with single nails. Or, make mortar
of lime and sand or ashes, using hogs
bristles in the place of plastering hair, to
give it greater tenacity, and fill this into
the cracks with trowel. Those cracks in
the hay-loft should then be treated in the
same manner.
Those cracks in the poultry house, hard
ly wide enough to let feather through,
are still of sufficient width to let in snow
and rain and wind, which will wet and
chill the fowls so that they will not be
likely to lay during the whole winter; or
if, by chance, some enterprising biddy
should get up courage to drop an occa-
sional egg, it would be sure to be frozen
while she was yet cackling over it.
Those about the outer doors. Heat will
crawl out through an exceedingly small
place; therefore great pains must be taken
in the matter of fitting these doors to their
frames. Some tack a strip of list or sell
wedge on the door casing, being careful
that there are no folds or wrinkles in it.
Others recommend working out pieces of
wood about an inch square, covering this
with cloth and fastening it to the door it.
self, close where it comes against the
casing. If this way is adopted q good
job must be made of it, otherwise it will
look badly from without. 1t would be
better to fasten on these strips with small
screws rather than with nails, as nicer
fit could be made and the screws taken
out and used again without injuring the
door.
Those in the walls and floor of the room.
The former can best be stopped by paper
ing the walls; the latter by using such
carpets as any farmers wife can make.
These keep out the cold, diminish noise,
and give the room genteel appearance.
Under the carpet should be placed several
thicknesses of newspapers or one thick
ness of the coarse paper which is some
times used back of clap boards in covering
tho wal1q 0f hOuqna
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
Care of Cows In Winter.

[ HAVE wintered from twenty to forty
cows on marsh hay for twelve years, and
have lost but one cow and have never had
to help one up. Ii any of your numerous
readers have been more successful, would
like to know how they managed them.
In the first place [ put up very cheap
stable, 81 feet long by 81 feet wide, that
would accommodate SO COWS. | used IA feet
boards sawed in two for sides, and also for
floor. For the alley to feed on, divided
into three equal parts of seven feet each
and feed on the middle space. take two
by six joists set them four feet six inches
from stanchiops against stakes, drive three
feet in ground and fill up level with it and
the joist Of my feed aoor.
Some use plank floors, for their cattle to
stand on; l would not use one at all, as
dirt is far preferable. I then put down a
plank sixteen inches wide, the whole
length of the stable to catch the droppings.
If had but six cattle I should build four
and half feet wide and nine feet long.
A stable of this kind will pay for itself
every year, even if one had to pay 80 per
cent. for money. l have used one of this
kind for twelve years and I think it will
last as much longer. I used Sixteen feet
boards for roof, battered with common
fence boards. l have door at each end
of the alley, SO can drive team to the
door with any thing wish to teed, and
what they do not eat l carry out of the
other door into the yard for manure
l milk my COWS from ten to eleven
months in the year. Ialways feed them
something besides hay while they give
milk. put in an acre Of corn in drills
close to my stable, and when the grass be-
gins to fail cut this up and wheel it into
stable and feed. can grow on one acre
all twenty COWS will eat from harvest until
frost. I make the drill four feet apart
and sow very thick, pillow often and Keep
clean.
Iuse the comb and card freely, while my
cows stand in the stable. take the comb
in one hand and card in the other and give
them all thorough scratching. If the
hide gets tight, as it frequently will, take
hold of it with my hands and loosen it
along the whole length of back bone. If
the hide is kept loose, cattle will always
do well. attribute much of my success
in keeping my stock in good condition to
the use of the comb and card.-CT. West
e77 Rural.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
Salt for Grass.

A CORRESPONDENT writes the American
Institute Farmers Club on the subject, as
follows; when was in Australia no.
ticed that the tracks made by the drags
loaded with salt hides were always green,
even in the seyerest time of the long
buckfelders,' or hot winds charged with
dust, that destroy everything they pass
over. This led me to think that here was
solution of the question as to the best
dressing for grass lands, and it was here /
found it. For twelve seasons I have seen
it tried upon a variety of lands and
grasses, and always with the same results.
In the spring, the refuse salt and sweep
ings from the ships and wharves, where
wet-salted hides have been slowed, is
spread over the sward, the young spring
grass is strong and grows quickly. The
cattle are fond of it, and eat it evenly, and
the fields SO dressed keep green when all
around is parched and dry. From the
absorbent qualities of the salt, moisture
is attracted and retained.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
farm ane BouseltnIa.
Striking or Interfering.


A GREAT number Of horses are in the
habit of striking one leg against another I;
and a great deal of ingenuity has been at
different times exercised in search of a
remedy for this very troublesome prac-
tice. Both the fore and hind legs are sub
iect to cutting, the latter, perhaps, most
freouentIyS but in them it is confined to
the fetlock Joint, whereas in the forelegs,
the horse may hit either the fetlock, the
leg Just above the pastern, or just under
the knee, where it is called speedy cut,
from its occurring chiefly in fast action
It is desirable, before applying remedy,
to ascertain, if possible, the cause, and the
part which strikes, whether the snoe or
the foot, and, if the latter, what part OF II:
MANY horses strike from weakness, and
cease to do so when they gain strength
and condition This is more particularly
observable with young horses; others cut
from faulty conformation of the limbs,
which are sometimes too close to each
other and sometimes the toe is turned
too much out, or too much In. When the
toe is turned in, the horse usually cuts just
under the knee.
The objects to be kept in view, in shoe
ing such horses, must be to remedy, as
much as we can, the faulty action, and to
remove, if possible, the part which cuts.
The part of the foot which strikes, is gen
orally that between the toe and the inside
quarter-sometime the inside quarter it
self, out very rarely the heels Of the shoe.
If the horse turns his toe in, in all proba-
bility he wears the inside Of the shoe
most; and if so, it should be made much
thicker than the outside; if the contrary,
the outside heel should be thicker than
the inside. The shoe should be beveled
off on the inside quarter, which should
also be free from nails.
IN the hind legs we often find that
three-quarter shoe will prevent cutting,
when other plans fail; for here the part
which cuts is not situated so forward as
in the forelegs, SO that the removal of the
iron altogether from the inside quarter
will often accomplish our aim. 1t some
times happens that every plan we can
adopt will not prevent cutting, and then
the only recourse is the adoption OF boots.
-lrGirie Farmer. tos
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
Care Of Stock.

THE farmers object should be to make
everything pay. Stock poorly kept never
pays. If you are growing stock keep it
growing; il should weigh more next week
than it does this week if it does not, 20
are not getting paid for its keeping, there
fore you are losing money by it, and the
fault is your own. Proper treatment and
care will make a growing animal weigh
more each succeeding week. AS soon as
it attains its growth and cannot be made
to advance in weight-if it is grown for
sale, sell it. Always remember that your
grass, hay, grain, or other stock food Is
worth money, q part of your working
capital, and whenever you cannot make a
profit on it by feeding one animal or lot of
animals, sell them and buy others that will
improve on the food that you are wasting
on the former.
There are certain conditions always re-
quired in growing, feeding or using stock
for labor or pleasure, and unless you can
make up your mind to comply with these
conditions, you had better not engage in
the business 1t must have enough to eat
of the right kind of food, just enough and
none to waste must have this at regular
intervals, not less than three times day !;
must have water as often must be kept
clean; must be kept comfortable-not too
much exposed to heat in summer, nor cold
and storms in winter; have access to salt,
or be sailed not less than once week !;
not be driven about by other more power
full or ill-natured animals must be looked
after every day to see that it is in good
health, and these conditions complied with.
american Sto"k Journal.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
Effects OF Heat upon Meat.

PROFESSOR JOHNSON, in his " Chemistry
of Common Life" says, that we'll cooked
piece of meat should be full of its own
juice or natural gravy. In roasting,
therefore, il should be exposed to quick
fire, that the external surface may be
made to contract at once, and the albu-
men to coagulate, before the juice has had
time to escape from within. The same
observations apply to boiling; when a
piece of beef or mutton is plunged into
boiling water, the outer part contracts, the
albumen which is near the surface coagu-
lates, and the internal juice is prevented
either from escaping into the water by
which til surrounded, or from being dilut-
ed or weakened by the admission of water
among it. When cut up, therefore, the
meat yields much gravy, and is rich in
flavor Hence, beefsteak or mutton chop
is done quickly, and over quick fire, that
the natural juices may be retained. On
the other hand, if the meat be done over
a slow fire, its pores remain open, the
juice continues to flow from within as it
has dried from the surface, and the flesh
pines and becomes dry, hard and unsavory.
Or, if it be put in cold, tepid water, which
is afterwards brought to boil, much of
the albumen is extracted before it coaga-
lates, the natural juices for the most part,
flow out, and the meat served is in nearly
tasteless state. Hence, to prepare good
boiled meat, it should at onoc be put into
water already put to boil. But to make
beef tea, mutton broth, and other meat
soups, the flesh should be put into cold
water, and this afterwards very slowly
warmed, and finally boiled. The advan-
tage derived from simmering-a term not
unfrequent in cookery books-depends
very much upon the effects of slow boil.
ing, as above explained.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27

languid, the spirits depressed, and the nervous
system unnaturally sensitive, it should be taken
for granted that misctlef Is 6reaosg. These hints
and warnings, vouchsafed as such by kind Prov
dence, ought not to be disregarded. Ii they are
sighted, as is too generally the case, the next
thing may be fever. a severe bilious attack, or
some other form of acute disease. They indicate
has clearly asif the intimion were given IN artlc
uIate language. that the animal functions are
disordered and the system debitated, on nc ea
REGULATE AND RESTORE and the best Teg,@dtueg
and restorative preparation euer used tor uae PfSVeM
ton of sickness is HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BIT
TIERS. In this way, bilious remittent fever, .cnllls
and fever, spasms nervous paroxysms, Wolent
attacks of Indigestion, and all the ordinary cpl
DENIES may almost certainly be averted They
are usually preceded by the symptoms described,
and surely il is wisdom to forestall them by re
sorting to antidote at once harmless, agreeable
and invgorating. Most assuredly, it will soon
aissipate the unpleasant feelings referred to;
which, of course, is desirable, even If they were
not likely to lead to something worse The close
of the Fall is usually accompanied by heavy fogs
and violent atmospheric changes, and is therefore
aseason when invigoration is particularly needed.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27

This should not be lost sight of in the
flower garden, as quite number of plants
that we cultivate, if not protected by some
material or other, often get winter killed,
which, with few leaves thrown about
the stools, would winter perfectly safe.
Some people gather this valuable mate
rial together and burn it, which is muir
derous practice, as it should be dug or
plowed into the land undecayed rather
than this, for the land is rich, indeed, that
will not finally wear out if not added to
as well as taken from. Monthly Roses,
even as far north as this, can be kept out
of doors by covering with leaves, then
two boards laid together on them to shed
the rain.
So fine protector is leaves, that we are
told, up in the Pine regions.eyen far
north-where the SHOWS also falls early
and remains, Dahlias and potatoes often
keep out all winter quite sound.-PTatrie
E199De1s
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
Collect the Leaves.

Now that the leaves of deciduous trees are
pretty much all fallen, it is good time to
collect the same for garden purposes. Ev-
cry gardener knows their value, and
where manure is scarce, can make an ex-
cellent use of them, either for covering
up half hardy things, or for furnishing a
means of obtaining gentle bottom heat
for forcing. Drawn together into heaps
and allowed to decay--it is just the mate
rial for dressing flower beds. Near extern
sive woods of course this is not so
material, as nature has supplied an album
dance there that can readily be collected
as wanted.
Many plants grown in pots delight in a
soil composed largely of decayed leaves !;
such plants as the Chinese Primrose, the
Calceolaria, and the Cineraria are very
partial to such soil. Their fine soft roots
are in sush soil able to penetrate freely,
and quickly form perfect mat of healthy
roots. ~
Where hot beds are wanted in the
spring to bring along early tomatoes, cab
bage and hosts Of other things, and horse
manure is scarce article, dry leaves are
capital substitute. But to be suitable
for such use they require collecting now
when quite dry and kept so until wanted
for use. Then by wetting them and build
ing into bed, they quickly get into
state Of fermentation, not so rank as horse
manure is apt to do with the inexperi-
enced, and hence often even preferable.
Gardeners from choice viii very often
use part leaves-even when horse manure
is plenty, simply because the heat is more
gentle and lasts much longer.
The fallen leaves are natures own COW
ering for many perennial plants and as
they decay furnish them . good soil to
root into,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
MIX.

In some countries, as Switzerland, it is
the chief diet of the peasantry and
everywhere, if easily obtained, is largely
consumed. 76 per cent of the laboring
classes of England make use of it. % per
cent. take it as buttermilk; and SO per
cent. as skinned milk. In Wales, the
average consumption of it by farm labor
ers is AZ pints per adult weekly-South
Wales averaging only pints; while in
North Wales it is TX. In Scotland the
consumption among the laboring classes
is still larger; for it amounts to 611 pints
per head weekly, and in Ireland it reaches
o. pints. Those who take least of it are
the indoor operatives of London: the
weavers of Spitalfelds, for example, use
only about rs OF. per head weekly. and
those OF Bethnal Green only fraction
above II or per head. When examined
under the microscope, milk is found to
contain myriads of little globules of but
yer boating in clear liquid. On stand
ing tor few hour, the oily particles rise
W sne surface and form a cream. tile nro.
PEortl9n OF which is the test of Quality
Uows mix IS heavier than water in the
proportion of from 1880 or 1O99 70 1o0 Nm
Asses milk is the lightest for its era svEV,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
Functional Derangements.

Not unfrequently persons who do not know
anything about the nature, purpose or operation
of medicine, delibe rately express opinions at
put up under one name These individuals are
skeptical as to whether such compound really
possesses the necessary virtues for preventing and
removing any or all of variety of diseases. But,
organs of our bodies, and only differs in the
amount of morbifc matter in the blood and secre-
lions, and in the functional arrangements Of the
stomach. liver, kidneys and intestines. Now,
MISHLER'S HERB BITTERS puriies the blood
and secretions, and corrects the action of all the
functions, removes the cause and til us expels the
disease itself. Can anything be more simple and
eficacious? Medical men freely accord it the dis
tinction of standard remedy Sold by all drug
gists and stOrekeepers.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27

is only about 1919; then comes human
milk, 1920; and. lastly, goat and ewes
milk, which is the heaviest of all, from
1885 to 1042.
The quality of milk varies with the
breed of the cow, the nature of its food,
and the time of milking; for afternoon
milk is always richer than morning, and
the late drawn than the first. Taking,
however, the average of large number of
samples, it may be said that cows milk
contains IA per cent. of solid matter, Al
of which are casein, SO sugar, SO butter,
and OS saline matter. The relations of
heterogeneous to the carbonaceous is / to
20; but as fat is 215 times more powerful
than starch, the relation may be said to be
as 1 to 36.-Prdirie Farmer.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
One of WaShington'S Supporters Votes
81 for Grant.

Great enthusiasm was created at the
Davenport township polls on the Fair
grounds yesterday by a spectacle which
would have stirred the patriotic blood of
every true-hearted American in the land
In the afternoon a low-seated buggy
was driven up to the polls by beautiful
young lady. BY her side was seated Dea-
con Gilbert, father Of e. S. Gilbert, ESQ,
after whom GllberttOwn was named.
Deacon Gilbert is upward of one hun
dfed years Of age. He cast his first Presi-
dental vote in 1888, in the State Of New
York, for George Washington, and has
voted at every Presidential election since
that year.
Miss Holmes assisted the centenarian
and patriot to alight, and placing her arm
in his, accompanied him to the polls. He
handed an open, straight Republican
ticket to the judges. AS he cid so the
bystanders broke into cheers, which did
not cease until three times three had been
given for the aged Republican, followed by
three more for the young lady who &C
companied him. The citizens present
gathered about the good old man, and as
they did so he said: Gentlemen, voted
twice for George Washington. He was
the best man for the Presidency in his day.
Now, | have voted for General Grant
thank God that / havelived so long-whom
l believe to be the best man for President
IN his day. He was instrumental in saw
ing the Government which Washington
founded"
1t was no wonder that as the venerable
supporter of Washington and of Grant
what leap in time made his way to the
carriage again, with his beautiful friend
upon his arm. many in the Icrowd uncov-
cred their heads. As he seated himself the
crowd again broke into cheers, which con-
tinued until Deacon Gilbert and his COM
panion were out of sight-DdUeNp0rt Ga
zette.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
Is Sickness AYoIdabIe I?

Thousands toss on sick beds to-day, who might
have been well and hearty, had they taken due
precautions for the preservation Of that most pre-.
cious Of earthly blessings sound mind IN sound
body. Sickness, to a greater extent than most
people suppose, Is qgoidQ6le, When the body is
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27

y" u n y ltOFCIHDbI q, IbJ5. =
LIPPIScoTI q BAKYwELL-
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per express. and acknowledge the same. For the
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Red Jacket and the Supreme Court have held that
Doctors opinion without his reasons IL OF little
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rotpd on the cut it does not stick in the wood
III J-Evefy chopper with the common axe must Cs-
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blow. FbHtA-This with the Red Jacket is all avoid
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Respectfully, yours,
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27

ENTERPR1sE EXTRAORDINARY. - our readers
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wanted by the gray haired of both sexes. They
advertise IN about LOO newspapers, and sell
sometimes over 81 600 bottles of Discovery in one
month Chicago Tribune.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27

"A number Of capitalists in Auburn,
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27

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