Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-22
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

b To DESTROY yellow dock, the following
method has been found effective; Dig up
all that can be found early in the spring
then before the seed natures, go over the
farm, and gather and burn them, ana again
dig up the roots.
BOILED BREAD PUDDING.-Soak pant
of bread crumbs in milk until perfectly
soft, using only enough milk to soften
them, add three beaten eggs with salt and
a little soda; it should be quite still
raisins are an agreeable addition; boil IN
cloth three-quarters of an hour, and serve
with hot wine sauce.
A MISSOURI correspondent of the Cou'a-
try Gentleman says that honey locusts, 1or
posts, is about as durable as sassafras, not
equal to black walnut-one black walnut
post is worth three or four of honey locust.
He thinks that honey locust is much less.
durable in some localities than IN others,
not lasting half as long in Missouri as IN
Kentucky. a-
PEAR trees growing in grass are seldom
productive. The best way OF treating
them is, to dig away the grass and Seeds
from wide space over the roots IN the 1all,
taking care not to damage the roots IN so
doing, and to cover the ground with Old
barn-yard manure. This should be lett
undisturbed until spring, and then worked
into the soil with digging fork.
RELIABLE YEAsT.-A lady contributes
the following recipe to the Western Rttrdt ::
Take ten or dozen common sized pota-
toes, and boil and mash them; boil a
handful OF hops in two quarts OF water !;
scald quart of flour; add the flour and
potatoes together; put in one cup OF sugar,
one.half cup of ginger, and let it stand
until cool enough not to scald; then stir In
yeast, and let it rise when light put 1t In
a jug and cork it tightly, and set in a cool
place.
THE Country Gentleman says: After
many years trial, we find nothing so cheap,
simple, convenient and durable, as strips
OF tin for permanent labels Oh bearing
fruit trees. They may be seven or eight
inches long, an inch or so wide at the
larger end, and tapering nearly to a point
at the other. Neither the breadth nor
the length requires accuracy. They are
cut of scrap tin, and may be made at the
rate of dollar per thousand, or at a less
cost. To write the name, lay the label on
a table or board, and make the letters with
the point of an awl or of file ground to
a stout point, pressing firmly while writ
ing.
THE CANKER WoRM.-The. females
which lay the eggs that produce the mis-
chievous worms are wingless Whatever
will prevent these from ascending the tree
will save you from their ravages. 1t some
times occurs that they ascend in autumn,
but they generally leave their chrysalis
condition in the ground in early spring.
Some obstacle must be interposed to their
ascent, and we have in former volumes
given several. We cannot commend coal
tar directly applied to the tree, as we fear
it would prove injurious. The efficacy OF
all the preventives to the ascent of the
parent of the canker worm depends upon
frequent-almost daily-personal atten-
tion-Amaerican AgricuIturist.
Coal OIL FOR BEE STINGs.-I have a
new remedy for bee sting. A gentleman
removing from Southern Illinois, this
spring, told me that coal oil would cure
the bite of a rattlesnake, by bathing the
bitten spot with it. applied the oil to a
bee sting, and it gave me immediate relief.
A few days after had little boy stung
on his knee. His mother applied coal oil
to it, and the boy Immediately quit crying.
Sometime afterwards, a party removing
was detained at my house by high water.
Two of the small children went to the bee
gums, commenced fighting the bees, and
were stung all over. do not know how
many bees stung them; but suppose not
less than fifty; probably more. We wet
every place with coal oil and as soon as
this was done, they ceased crying and did
not seem to suffer. nor did any swelling
follow. One of my neighbors has also
tried it, and reports that it is perfect sue
cess-COr. american Bee Journal.
WEEDs.--There appears to be notion
prevalent among the cultivators Of the
soil that there must be some easy and
cheap method Of destroying weeds. To
ascertain how it is to be done is the rub
and just where the laugh comes in with
the itinerant peddlers who sell farmers the
secret of killing Canada thistles by cutting
them on certain days from June to Sep
TENDER, or at a particular time of the
moon. SOrrel and noxious weeds are
disposed of, or supposed to be, in the same
way; but, with all the nostrums and
secrets against them, they continue to
grow and spread, except where cultivators
of the soil attack them in common sense
way-that is, cut them down with hoe,
pillow, or any other implement that will
effectually prevent any leaf or stem ap-
pearing above the surface Canada this
ties are the most persistent of all weeds,
but they cannot survive this treatment
more than two seasons.-Ied}th and Home.