Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

OOOhED+ meal Is nearly uOuDle oHO JUN
OF uncooked, yet quart for quart 1t Is sala
to 60 as tar The difference is, that m9ch
of the food is undigested unless cooked.
IT is said that the juice of one lemon
day, taken in water, will cure the most OBJ
stinate case of neuralgia NO sugar
should be taken, as it has a tendency TO
counteract the effects of the lemon juice.
Two QUARTS of hot water, one pound OF
Indian meal and quarter OF pound OF
unbolted wheat flour, will make more eggs
when fed warm to hens than tWicesthe
amount of whole grain. So says an ex-
change. efa sioGr .ca ga r.-, f'a
THE black knots on plum and cherry
trees have been decided on good authority
to be neither the production nor the spe-
cial nest of any species OF insect, but
little parasitic plant of the class Fungi.
The only cure is to lop Oft and burn the
affected branches, as if left until late in the
season they throw off innumberabie spores,
which lodge on healthy branches and
there vegetate.
WHEN hogs are kept in pens and cannot
hunt green food they should have clover
and other succulent grasses given them oc-
casionally... Sods, charcoal, stonecoal or
clay should be given to them frequently.
THESE ttI1u W COllCCb dlu ulSCdSCO,
and are very much relished by them. A
little attention to this subject will prevent
much disease among hogs.
If you pillow down your weeds before
they 90 to seed they will prove a benefit
to your land instead of a curse. If they.
are allowed to go to seed they will be a
source of endless trouble. lPlowed UNDER
they are worth as much as a dressing of
DooiIo orriohincr 1,n coil
tend to keep it loose. If you add from
twenty-five to fifty bushels of lime per
acresto the ground, and harrow it in, it
will convert your weeds into plant food.
A LADY sends to the Farmers Club the
following pickle prescription, which she
has used several years with success, and
superior "Pick over the vines every
other day, select the perfect fruit, wash
clean, and cover with strong brine for
twenty-four hours. Then take them from
the brine, rinse with clear water, and
drain them dry. When dry, pack them
close in stone jars, and cover with good
vinegar. Red peppers may be, added if
we like Good old vinegar will keep
pickles prepared in this way for a year
without its being changed. Watered, fiashy
vinegar will scum over and need to be
\ changed"
WHEAT vs.. CHEAT-Wheat never turns
to cheat, nor does cheat ever turn to
wheat. If cheat is not sown with the
wheat, and there is none in the ground,
there will be none found in the growing
crop. Cheat is often found growing so
closely among the roots of wheat as to
have the appearance of having come from
the same seed. But that is not the case.
Wheat never viii become cheat, however
badly it may be damaged or degenerated.
The two are quite different plants.
Journal.
PACKING BUTTERFLY is of the first inn
portance, in packing butter, either for
market or home consumption, that the
vessel in which it is placed should not
only be clean, but made of material from
which the butter will not derive any un-
I pleasant flavor. In speaking on this sub
Fleet the Toronto Globe warns farmers
against the use of pine firkins and tubs,
and continues: The idea of using pine
originated with country storekeepers,
who generally furnish the package to the
farmers wives to fill and desire to 90 to
as little expense as possible rather than to
give the buttermaker q good name in the
market. Use stone jars or crooks, for
packing butter for home use, or to be sold
to neighbors or to city consumers. When
wooden packages are used, have themmade
only of the best seasoned white oak, maple,
or any kind of good, hard wood. Pine, or
any kind of resinous wood, however well.
it may be seasoned, scalded, or whatever
else is done to it, will still give a bad
flavor to, butter when used as a package;
the salt in the butter seems to draw out
the resinous flavor from the, wood at some.
time or other after the butter i. put in. We
should imagine that so cheap and strong
an article as glass could be made much
use of for the purpose of making butter
packages" .o7 r4....H