Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01
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1t is said that wherever the peach does
not succeed well planted on its own roots,
it should be budded on the plum, as it VIII
then be perfectly healthy, and so hardy as
to endure extreme change OF temperature
A correspondent of the RurM World
thinks iron isthe oest material for OK BOWS.
He has used such for years, having frst
seen them at the Navy Yard in Philadel-
uphia, in 1871. He recommends three
forth inch rod of round iron, with screws
and nuts on the ends .r-
w. F. Herms, of Paterson, n Y,
writes to the HorticMturist that for small
plantations of strawberries he finds beds
four feet wide, with paths of eighteen
inches between them, the most suitable
arrangement Three rows, twelve inches
apart, in each bed, the plants eighteen
inches apart in the rows. 30
AT late meeting Of the Cincinnati
Horticultural Society it was stated that
bees were very destructive to grapes
When berry is fully ripe the bees will
break it's skin by the power of suction and
draw out all the juice. The case of a
grower was mentioned who made no wine
after one of his neighbors had built up a
colony of sixty or seventy hives.
"A correspondent of the Southern CM-
tirator says he makes light, useful garden
rake by putting two pieces of seasoned
hickory two feet long, one inch square, in
vice together. With an inch auger
bore hole in the middle of the two
pieces, one-half of it in each piece. In
the bottom piece bore gimlet holes two
inches apart, insert ten-penny nails, let
ting in the heads. Screw on the top and
put on light handle. H
"A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
gives as a remedy and preventive of mad
itch" in cattle the dosing with sulphur
and salt to produce free physicing-given
in corn meal. In q case he mentions, this
physic was given twice day for some
| time and put stop to the disease. He
attributes the disease to the saliva Of the
hog, swallowed by cattle, with corn cobs,
chewed corn-stalks, or other refuse food
left by hogs.
| USE A DIGGING FoRK.-We are very
much surprised, Notwithstanding all we
have written on the, subject, to find so
many people sweating away at digging
with spade, when, in nine cases out of
| ten, the digging fork will do four times
| the work in the same time, with ineXpres-
sibly less labor 1t is scarcely necessary
to say that the people we see so barbarous
are not our readers, but even "our own"
people do not seem to know that four
tined fork is much better than five-tined
one.-Gardener's Monthly.
A correspondent writes to an ex-
change: Frequently we find sick people
whose stomachs reject all kind Of nourish-
ment until conditions follow that in many
instances terminate fatally. In twenty in
stances in which have heard the popular
sick bed nourishnents prescribed and re-
jected by an invalid's enfeebled stomach,
I have never known the simple saucer OF
parched-corn pudding or bowl of cruel re-
| fused The corn is roasted brown precise
ly as we roast coffee, ground as fine as
meal in coffee-mill and made into mush,
cruel or thin cakes, baked lightly brown,
and given either warm or cold, clear, or
with whatever dressing the stomach will
receive and retain. Parched corn meal
boiled in skinned milk and fed frequently
to children suffering from summer diarrh9a
will almost always cure, as it will dysentery
in adults, and, / believe, the cholera in its
earliest stages" (%kfhS
A GREAT NATIONAL FAIR.--An associa-
ZION Oh S0ulleuleu Has Dccu OISdulZcu lOI
the purpose of establishing and continuing
from year to year great National Horse,
Agricultural and Mechanical Fair. The
plan proposes a location in Boston, New
York or Philadelphia, to be determined by
the support guaranteed by the business
men Of the three cities. Should New
York offer the most liberal inducements,
it will open there the coming autumn. 1t
contemplates the exhibition of the best
and most noted animals in this country,
and also the newest and rarest develop
ments in mechanism. The plan varies
from ordinary exhibitions, in that it will
continue through two months, and the
amount to be offered in premiums will be
more than double the largest ever given
at any great exhibition in this country
From seventy to one hundred acres of land
are deemed necessary for the tracks, build
ings, and arrangements for the accommo-
dation of visitors, and two quite feasible
locations have already been protfered.
Such an exhibition as is contemplated
ought to draw thither at least half a mil
lion of strangers.