Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-24
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How TO CLEAN TrN.--Never use I've to
clean tin, it will soon spoil it. Make it
clean with suds, and rub with whiting, and
1t will look well and last longer.
THE STRAwBERRY.--Tbe only fruit that
grows In every climate, is the strawberry.
It's the only fruit which somewhere on
earth is picked every day the year round.
:, How Much BuTTER--A, writer in an
exchange says that two quarts of cream is
fair average for one pound of butter,
though many cows will furnish an article
requiring much less to make pound. v7s
ALL soils upon which clover aud grass
grow must contain lime, either naturally
or by artificial application 1t makes
very little essential difference whether
this is added as limestone, shell lime, or
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. AVERAGE QUANTITY OF MILK.--At the
late meeting of the milk producers who
supply the Boston market, it was stated by
one OF the gentlemen that nine quarts per
day for nine months in the year, which
was his usual time for milking COWS, was
q fair average production Of milk. &c.,.
RENDERING Doors WATER PRooF.-
The Irish Farmers Gazette gives the fol.
lowing recipe for this purpose: Boil one
quart of linseed Oil, with half pound
Venice turpentine, with which paint the
leather frequently while warm, but not
hot, till the leather will absorb no more.
POULTRY MANURE.--The productive
power of the droppings of the henery are
very great as compared with ordinary
barn yard manure, yet many farmers, with
a score or two Of fowls, take little or no
pains to preserve and apply 1t 20 the pur-
poses of vegetable production. II is
an excellent dressing tor gardens, and
will repay, hundred fold, the care and
expense of preserving and applying it.
OATS FOR srocK-An old farmer In.
forms us that after an experience Of forty
years, he finds no food SO good to keep cat
tie in good heart, and especially for cows
and sheep when coming in, as scalded oats
He says that the calves and lambs will be
healthy and active, and that the loss of his
lambds of rare occurrence. This is worthy
of note.--Mains Fdrmef
PEAS FOR STocK.--A good many intel.
ligent farmers in the States of New York
and Vermont are beginning to fall into
the Canadian pea practice-feeding stock
peas--f1nding O saving of thirty to fifty
per cent. in doing so. besides q quick and
easy method of maintaining maximum
condition of fertility in their land, without
expanding half their income for expen.
sive mercantile fertilizers. 10 5oC&4
RICE CRooUETTEs.--Take one pound of
rice, and boil it dry, adding salt to taste
while cooking; when done add one pint
of milk, quarter of pound of butter,
quarter of 9. pound Of sugar, the yolks of
five eggs, and the grated rind of one
lemon let the mixture simmer over the
fire, but not BOIL, for twenty minutes, then
spread 1t on large platter to cool when
cold cut In strips; dip in the white of
the eggs well beaten, and then in bread
crumbs, and fry brown in very hot lard
Plou9ltanGas. ~. .. d.
THE question how much wheat does 1t
take to make barrel of -four Is often
asked, and the answer is of a general char.
| acter, !" five bushels are allowed" At the
| annual fair of the Dubuque county (Iowa)
Agricultural Society in 1857, premium
of three dollars was offered for the best
barrel Of flour made from winter wheat,
and also made from spring wheat. A firm
entered one barrel each, accompanied
with the statement that sixteen bushels OF
winter wheat yielded three barrels and
one hundred and three pounds Of -four
at the rate of four bushels and fifteen
pounds of wheat to the barrel. OF spring
wheat, fifty bushels yielded eleven barrels
of flour, being four bushels and thirty-two
pounds to the barrel. The wheat was a
fair quality and no more.
THE Poll EvIL.-A correspondent of
the Germantown Telegraph says: " Some
persons regard the poll evil as incurable.
1t is sometimes called .fstulG No matter
how long the sore has been running, it
can be cured In brief time, and at cost
not exceeding ten cents. One dime spent
in muriatic acid will be sufficient to effect
a radical and permanent cure of the most
stubborn fistula. The sore should be first
thoroughly cleansed by some abstergent
fluid, and for this purpose pure water Is
perhaps as valuable as anything that can
be used, and drop eight or ten drops of
the acid in twice day till 1t has the APP
pearance of fresh wound; then wash
clean with soap suds made of CASTLE soap,
and leave 1t to heal, which it will speedily
do If the acid has been used long enough.
Should It, however, heal slowly, apply the
acid a second time, and In the manner
above described, taking care to wash out
the pipe thoroughly, and it will be found
an infallible remedy in the most inveterate
diseases of this sort but 1t must be re.
membered that in order TO do so, the acid
must be applied till the corrupt or dis
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