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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
Making Sauerkraut.

AS SEVERAL ladies, within the past two
weeks, have desired us to republish our
recipe for making this much esteemed
dish by many persons, we hereby comply
with their request, in order that it may be
in time for this years crop Of cabbages'
It is This:
In the first place, let your stand,
holding from half barrel to barrel, be
thoroughly scalded out; the cutter, the
tub and the stamper also we'll scalded'
Take off the outer leaves of the cabbage,
halve the head, remove the heart, ana
proceed with the cutting.
Lay some clean leaves at the bottom OF
the stand, sprinkle with q handful OF salt,
fill in half bushel of the cut cabbage,
stamp gently until the juice makes its ap,,
pearance, then add another handful OF
salt, AMI so on until the stand is full.
Cover over with cabbage leaves, place on
the top clean board fitting the space
pretty well, and on top of that a stone
weighing twelve or fifteen pounds Stand
away in cool place, and when hard freez
ing comes on, remove to the cellar. 1t
will be ready for use in from four to six
weeks. The cabbage should be cut toler-
ably coarse. The Savoy variety makes
the best article, but it is only half as pro-
ductive as the Drumhead and Flat Dutch.
Germantown Telegraph.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
Book Farming.

those who are opposed to book farm
ing are requested to read the following,
and give us their opinion:
There was q farmer once who hesitated
not to hurl all manner of invectives
against book farming and those who con-
suited books for advice. By long expert
ence and practical observation, he had be.
come quite successful in the culture OF
grapes and trees. His fields were clean
and fair, and highly productive. His
trees were vigorous, well adjusted, and
profitable.
In conversation with friend, he related
his experience in raising grapes and trees
entering into the minutest details, some.
times, becoming quite eloquent when de.
scribing his victories over the enemies
which infest them.
"His knowledge" he said, "was gained
by dint of application, by actual expert
ence and hard labor. 1t was none OF
your book knowledge, written by men
who know nothing about farming
".Well, said his friend, {" if all this val
liable information gained by assiduous
labor and observation of so many years,
and which you have so clearly described,
were written out and published, which
would'you have young and inexperi-
enced man do-take this as he finds it
from your pen, or go through the same
tedious process that you have gone
through with, including all its vexations
and losses ?"
The question puzzled him, and he was
silent for a moment; but was obliged at
last to confess that, after all, there was
much that was valuable in books, because
combining and relating the results and
experience of practical cultiyators.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
Outdoor Cellars.

THE practice of storing large quantities
of vegetables in the cellar of farm house,
even if it is of sufficient capacity, is very
pernicious. The process of decay which
commences very soon after they are put
in, generates poisonous gases, which can
but prove detrimental to the denizens of
the house.
The necessity of good root cellar is
felt on all farms where roots are raised for
the more economical keeping of stock, and
nothing on farm is more useful than such
a cellar A sandy hill side, where it can
be found, is the most convenient location,
and in such place cellar can be con-
structed very cheap.
We believe that farmers would find such
cellar to pay we'll, if'for no other use
than for the temporary storage of pota-
toes. A man who has such cellar in a
side hill, where the potatoes can be
dumped in from the upper side, can bid
defiance to the weather, securing his crop
as dug, to be afterwards barreled or loaded
for market at his leisure. In no way can
patatoes be harvested SO rapidly as by
picking them up as dug, without sorting,
loading them into q cart, and hauling
them at once to the cellar, TO be afterwards
sorted in weather unsuitable for utdoor
work.
If the market is unsatisfactory in the
fall, the crop can remain until spring, and
then be removed. If the cellar can be
made near, or in connection with the barn,
so much the better, and we advise all
farmers who have not such cellar already
to lose no time in constructing one.
Dig into the side hill, throwing the dirt
in convenient place for banking; build
the wall with stone, if handy; if not
plank the sides or put up slabs. Make a
strong roof of plank, that will hold earth
enough to keep out thefrost. Put in your
roots, and if they are to be removed be-
fore winter, nothing more will need to be
done. If they are to remain through
winter, cover the roof with foot of earth
and straw, and all is safe.
1t is an experiment worth trying, and
one which, we think, no one will regret
making.-AnerGcGn Farmer.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
Keep the Feet Dry.

WE notice in our exchanges numerous
recipes for making Lshoe-lesther water
proof, most of them compounds, involyirg
considerable trouble in preparation and
more or less expense, and none of them
half so good as the simple article castor
oil, which can be bought at all drug stores
for twenty five to fifty cents pint, &C.
cording to your locality. Apply it to the
boot when dry and soak it by the fire until
the leather is saturated. Treat the soies
in the same way, being careful to dry it
well so they will not grease the carpets.
We once treated a pair of calf boots in this
way, and few days after we walked five
miles in saturated snow and water from
six to ten inches deep at every step, and
came out with feet perfectly dry. Castor
oil will keep the leather soft, pliable and
black, though not glossy, and quite imper-
vious to water Wisconsin Farmer.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20

his spiritool nose, linger for minnit at
the tip like dew drop on the rose, and
fall Then will the dissatisfied ghost de-
mand to be taken, back to purgatory, q
place less tryin to his nerves. , q
Deekin Pogram hez only britened ur
wunst. A not flashed over his mind witch
gave him comfort for mint. Isn't thel
Booth for Grant ez ther wuz for Linkin ?
askt he.
"Ahp SEE /, in alarm, "wood you xii
Grant to hev Colfax in his place? We
mite kill Colfax, say you. Alars! sposr
they'd elect Sumner President of the Sep
it. Kill Sumner? Good Lord, no! Thee
then elect Butler Speaker Nv the House
and he can't be killed. No!n We he(
better bear the ills we hev than fly to then
we know not w." Its gone. All is up will
me and us. shell stay in Kentucky TO
the present, tho wat may become Of MI
the Lord only knows
PETROLEUM " Massey, p. M
(Which is Postmaster)
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20

way, weaving it in the rags with darn
ing needle. 1t is rather difficult getting
the warp just right, unless you know how.
Begin by putting in every alternate
thread; this brings them all over and
under the same rags, the first going over.
Then commence and put in those skipped,
taking everysother one left the first time
over, and so on until all are in. 1t is bet
ter to pull the warp out little farther
than it was burned, so that the knots may
not all come in one place. This is easier
done when tackled on the floor than at
any other time. 1t will be found rather
trying at first, but all that is required to
accomplish it satisfactorily is a little pa
thence and perseverance. Where there
are many holes it is better not to try to
mend more than one or two at time.
But it decidedly pays on a new carpet.
Whether it will on an old one each one
must judge after she has tried it.-Amert-
can AqricuIturiSt.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
Mending a Rag Carpet.

Mrs. 81. NJ. r., of Columbia county,
Pennsylvania, sends number of sugges-
tons in matters relating to economy in the
household, of which we at present give
the following: Zone moring last winter,
as Henry took some hot Goals out of the
sitting room stove to start a fire in the
kitchen, he dropped nearly half of them
on my new rag carpet and burned seven
or eight holes from one to two inches in
diameter. At first did not know what
to do, but soon made up my mind to try
to mend them, and think / succeeded adj
mirably, for when they were done, they
could not be seen half way across the
room, and they would never be noticed by
any one unless his attention was called to
1t. l first cut both rags and warp out as
,ar as they were the least bit tender with
tne neat, then went to the rag drawer, and
seIected rags as near the color of those
Durheq as possible and carefully Joined
every rag burned with one of its own size
and 'ceior. l was lucky enough to have
yarn IKE the warp, for 1 made the Garnet
myself Then I served the warn the same me
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
The Cattle Disease.

Now THAT the season of frOsts has az
rived there is cessation of this terrible
disease, which has been so widespread
and disastrous to our native stock. The
excitement in measure is over and now
is the time to take calm and comprehen-
sive view of the whole matter, and adopt
some measures for protection which shall
forever prevent repetition of what we
have had this and previous years.
AS much as it was against the judgment
and belief of many prominent men in this
State last summer, that Texas cattle had
anything to do with the disease, we think
that now, with the experience of the past
| year before them, there can be found none
| who doubt their being the cause, whatever
| the different views of the manner of the
communication may be.
This matter settled, what shall be done ?
Shall the prohibition laws remain on our
statute books, to be broken as they have
been the past two years Or shall these
laws be intelligently amended, so that
| what is done may be safely done?
That foreign stock will come to this
State in some shape seems to us certain,
from the very fact that we are not pro-
ducing, and cannot produce, the neces-
sary amount in, our own State. Investi-
cations show that not less than 100000
head of Southwestern stock have come
into our State this season, besides all that
from the States Immediately west of us.
Our wants for home, eastern and packers
uses are now from 100000 to 100000 head
per year.
The cattle that have been marketed
since the war have been at least year too
young to make the greatest profit from
them, and this will continue until the
supply is equal to the demand.
From what has been seen in the past
seasons, it is evident that at certain sea-
sons of the year, cattle coming from par
ticular districts of the southwest are i'm
bued with latent principles of disease
which, by change of climate and the
fatigue of journeys, are thrown off in such
quantities as to endanger native stock
Which this particular district is, or what
the precise nature of the food, or other in
fluences producing the disease, are not full
ly known; but enough is known to lead
to the belief that the district from which
this infected stock comes is small, and
thai the time in which they can impart
the lnalady is comparatively short after
their leaving their native climate
With the experience of the past and
former seasons it seems certain that these
cattle can be brought into the north with
perfect safety late in the season, and that
this time must be adopted, for handling
them, if we expect to escape the disasters
of the past season.
The losses of the present year have been
large, and fallen principally upon the
poorer classes who can i'll afford it, and
we are glad to see that some of the large
dealers are coming forward with praise
worthy liberality, and settling with those
who have lost by their stock, and we re-
greet that any are found who refuse all
appeals and defy the losers 1t would
seem that policy alone would influence
these dealers and carriers to come forward
and literally settle with the losers, and W.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
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Bees In Winter.


If two colonies are to be united, 1t can
be done most,easily by taxing away the
nncen of one week or more before unit
ing them. We find bees never quarrel II
one of the hives is queenless. A week
hest filled into one hive, shaking all the
bees off the remaining combs, before the
entrance, and put them away for another
season, and the thing is done.
If bees are in box hives, we would. not
unite them until they are put into winter
quarters; then it is only necessary to turn
one hive bottom upwards and put the other
on top of it. In few days all the bees
from the bottom hive will go up into the
top one, and all together will carry the
stores up there. We used often to make
one good colony out Of two weak ones, in
this way. 1t will be the case this season,
we think, that many colonies will be
strong in numbers, though with little
honey. The early frost has put an end to
hopes of these supplying their lack OF
stores, but these are the colonies that will
pay to feed. Give them some aid now,
and keep one of the bee-feeders full OF
syrup near them all winter, and you will
find them paying back your care with in
terest. When there are abundant stores,
but the bees are few, more bees may be
given from weak colony. Without a
good cluster of bees they cannot protect
themselves from cold. Bees die of cold
more frequently than of starvation in this
country.
Examine your bees some morning after
frosty night, and you, can tell exactly how
large the cluster is Remember, however,
that the bees decrease fast in numbers after
frost comes. Some would have bees car
ried to winter quarters very soon after
they cease to gather stores in the fall, and
we are not sure but this may be the
best way.-Mrs. Tupper, IN I0t0a Home
Stedd
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
Sore Backs ON Horses.

A STRONG horse with a sore back is fire.
duently shorn of half his strength. A sore
back is usually the result OF miserable
harness. Yet, in MANY instances, the
back band is made toe short, or is buckled
up too tight, so that the traces at the back
band are raised above direct line from
the names to the whiffie-tree. When this
is the case, the back band when the horse
draws, is pressed down with force on the
back and unless the pad is soft, or the
harness be made with a patent back, a
wound will be made, which will be diff
cult to heal so long as the harness that
made the wound is employed on the ami
NAL. When horse has sore back, and
it seems necessary to keep him in the
harness, let the back-band be removed
entirely; or let it be heightened, and
fastened a few inches back of the wound.
1t will be very easy to determine
whether back band is liable to iniure the
animals back by observing, when he
draws, whether the portion of the harness
directly above the back is drawn down
forcibly or is lifted clear from the back
A wound on the back of horse is fire.,
quently irritated so long by the rough
harness that it becomes almost in
durable. A fresh wound, if not kept
bleeding by the rubbing of the
harness, will heal perfectly in two
or three weeks in warm weather without
any other medicine than soapsuds. But
an old wound that has tried to heal after
the scab has been rubbed off several times
requires an application of burnt alum,
pulverized to cleanse it of the "proud
flesh" The best remedy is preoentiUe.
The driver is the one on whom the blame
should rest, for allowing horse to have
sore back. If the harness is not right,
let it be made right before a horse is re-
CURED to work in it. 1t is barbarous to
work an animal in harness that will gall
the flesh. Better cut an old collar and
harness into fragments and bury the
pieces beneath grapevine than to con-
tlnue to use such fixtures as will wound q
faithful beast of burden. Furthermore,
when a sore back has been allowed to ul-
cerate, frequently discharging ichorous
matter, one of the most efficacious rene
dies is, to battle the wound for two success
slve hours in strong soapsuds every day,
and after the bathing, wash the affected
part with solution Of saltpetre and
spirits of turpentine, prepared as follows :
Put one quarter of a pound of saltpetre
and half pint of turpentine into bottle
shake up well before using; apply to the
wound three times day with a feather.
And when the wound has assumed a
healthful appearance and seems to be
healing, this medicine may be discon-
tinued.-Erctange.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
The Great Household Remedy.

In the whole history of medicine there is no
remedy so universally popular as MISHLERls
HERB BITTERs. 1t is mild, generous and ell
cacious preparation, containing no deleterious
ingredients: it is a never-failing purifier of the
blood-always stimulating 1t into healthy action;
and it removes or obviates all arrangements which
are the first origin of disease in the physical
system Thus, it is far more reliable medicine
than any other. Those who have used 1t know 1t
cured them: those who have not, know it cured
their friends and neighbors; and what it does
once will do again, for it is adapted to all ages
and conditions, in all climates. 1t is constant
safeguard against disease, and perfect regulator
of the digestive organs. Sold by all druggists and
storekeepers. .U 33.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20

trust all will do so without waiting legal
decisions. azsa. .z.ss.gz..,,
Our State laws need revision, as well as
those of neighboring States equally inter
ested, and we are glad to see a call for a
convention of State delegates to meet at
Springfield, Ill, Dec. 1st, the object, OF
which will be to fix on some uniform leg
islation to be adopted by all the States IN
terested.
Unless some safe and uniform law gov
erning the handling of this stock can be
had, and in such shape that all will re,
spect it, we are for entirely excluding al
stock south of fixed line of latitude. say
35 or SO degrees, from entering our Dor
dars- Prairie Farmer.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20

3. THE Steele, of Paris, publishes an arti.
Gle very interesting to sportsmen, and
states that with little care many acct
dents could be avoided. Out of 100 cases
of double barreled gun bursting, ninety
five can be traced to defects in the left
barrel. The reason is simply that the
right is most frequently used and re,
loaded, perhaps ten times to the left one
being discharged once. Every time the
right barrel is discharged the gunpowder
in the left is pulverized more or less by
the shock, which, therefore, leaves a
space between the charge and the wadding
by settling. Naturally when the left
barrel is discharged it frequently explodes.
These accidents can be avoided by sending
the ramrod home with one or two smart
blows into the non discharged barrel every
time the other is reloaded. 81
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
An Antid0te for Tobacco.

Ybis great remedy invariably yen,oUes an desSe
for Tpacco, and is entirely oe9etOke and hdTyess.
1t is asa an excellent appetizer 1t puries tnbood,
nyigoratc the SYSTEM possesses great nouIthng and
strengthening power. enables the STOMACH to digest
the heartiest NQd makes sleep refreshing and esab-
fishes robust heaNh. Smokers and Lkecers for itIy
Treatise on the Injurious E16cts Of Tobacco, with
lists of testimonials, reSyenS% etc, SENT FREE.
Agents wanted. Addres2sDr. Il. Il. ABBOTT, Jersey
City, NJ. ~
DorE cured my brotfer and myssx IT NEvEP TAILs
ReTd W<SHoEMAKER KelNyS Station. "a
HEALTH AD STRENGTH GAISED-SQdined eJeUe3
tos QHeSn and restored to 8ound heskM by using
the ANTkSoTE S. ID. BowLEs, Prospect Nil, Mo.
FRgM THE u. S. TREASURY, Secretdry's Notice
PlSSe send supply of ANTIDoTE. The one reesived
4As done its 2oor6 SURELY. 0. T. EDGAA
tCOpyris. ed.J
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20

November e. 1853
LIPPINCoTT & BAKHwELL~-
Dear Sbs IL received your second Red Jacket Axe
per express and now acknowledge the same. For the
benet of all whose desires or necessities make It their
business to chop with an axe, would say Try the
Red Jacket; and the Supreme Court have held that
a Doctors opinion without his reasons ia of little
value, will give my Flrst-The Red Jacket
cuts deeper than the common BIT Secoi,d-It being
ronnd on TIE cut, 10 does not stick IN the wood
Tnzrd-Every chopper with the common axe must dis
cover that there as uch labor and strength expeno
ed in taking the axe out of the cut in making the
blow. Fbut-This with the Ped jacket il ell aEoid-
ed and from onehird TO onehalf the labor savedin
cutting the same quantity. Fffth-By putting In the
same labor that is necessary with common axe YOU
can easily make at least thirty-three per cent more
wood in the time You are safe in letting any
honest man try Red Jacket on these tests and III
1t falls, refund him his money.
Respectfully, yours,
HARRY BALDWIN.
For sale by s responsible dealers and the rnanniac
tuners, LIPPINCOTT e. BAKEWEII,
PrfrTsguE9H: "a. Sole 9Yaers q Coburn's and Red
ssoEsE Fs5saNt taa-eQ
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20

THE other day poorly clad urchin
picked up a portmonnaie inadvertently
dropped by richly dressed lady on a
street in Buffalo, N. Y, and, running after
her, apprised her of the loss. Mercy
mel" cried the lady, eagerly snatching the
article, " there is over hundred dollars in
that portmonnaiel" and, forgetting all about
the honest-minded little chap, who stood
shivering in his rags, she looked to assure
herself that none of the money was miss.
ing. Finding that all was right, she turned
to go, when, happening to espy the lad,
she carelessly tossed him an apple, saying
" Here, little boy, here ia an apple for your
honesty
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20

AN Alexandria lady, who has been I'M
well for some time past, night or two
since, in her sleep, wandered away from her
home, and after visiting the grave yards,
was found-in a field adjoining the north
western suburbs Of the city, in her night
annarel IL -.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
Farms & Fruit Lands,

The Illinois Central Railroad Company have foY sale
tracts OF 40 and upwards 100000 acres OF cnoce
farming and fruit lands all lying adjacent to their road
For graingrowing stockraising and every purpose OF
profitable agriculture these lands possess every requ
site of soil and climate.
THE FRUIT REGION
Of Southern Illinois is notedf It's wonderful fertility
in the production of apples, ars, peaches, and all
kinds of fruits During the season OF 1851 the Special
Fruit Express Train brought over 100000 boxes OF
peaches 900 bushels of strawberries to Chicago
Alone from thence furnishing The first fruits OF the
these fruit lands offered for sale on favorable
terms.
Title III Zee from the State.
All Station Agents are provided with plas, showing
the lands for sale in their vicinity.
eY information given upon all points at the office OF
the Land Department, 5S Michigan avenue, Chicago,
or a descriptive pamphlet, with maps. showing the
locality of all the lands sent to any person writ
ing for the same. in any language to
JOHN B. CALHOUN,
NnnGaLIssrnNlER EuICAan.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
NASBY.
(From the Toledo Blade.0

THE PRESIDENTIAL ,ELECTION-THE NEWS
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