Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-05-07
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

A WESTERN correspondent of Hearth
and Home recommends the use of sweet
corn, i" ears and all" as green fodder for
cattle. 1t should not be planted in drills,
but in hills one foot apart, in rows three
and half feet apart.
GEEsE-EGGs, carried to the cellar as soon
as taken from the nest, and turned over
each day, will hatch WELL Above stairs
the temperature is uneven. Number the
eggs, and let the first goose setting have
those first laid.
A WRITER in the RurM NeD Yorker
dissents from the theory that many win
dows are desirable in barns. He thinks
the money often expended in making
them could be much more judiciously ex-
pended.
To WHIP CREAM-Sweeten a bowl of
cream with loaf sugar and flavor with any
extract or favoring that suits you best.
Whip the cream with a whisk, and as it
rises in the froth, take off with skinner,
and place upon a seive to drain.
AN exchange says: If horse, afflicted
with the colic be drenched with pre-
paration of chlorine and permanganic
acid, cure will be effected. Our author
ity is SO certain of it, that he would be
willing to insure the recovery of any horse
not too long neglected" g
A CORRESPONDENT of the Practical
Farmer says that his experience shows
that two quarts of cooked potatoes would
do as much toward fattening as four fed
raw, and that the value of corn meal is
very nearly doubled by thorough cooking.
He considers raw potatoes almost value
less for fattening.
THE agricultural editor Of the Weekly
Press reminds boys who have to split
wood that it splits much more'readily up
from the roots than downwards The stick
should be turned upside down before
striking it. So,too it is better to split by
slabs than to strike through the center of
the larger pieces. ''"e.
In using common salt, SCOT, or guano
for manure, moist weather, should, if posi-
BILE, be selected for applying it; for it is
necessary that these substa should be
dissolved before they can be appropriated
by the roots of plants. AS long as they re-
main as dry powder on the surface of
the soil, they can be of no use.
To PREVENT HENS EATING EeGs.-A
correspondent of the Prairie Faanasr says
he has accomplished this By keeping a
the eggs every night. His hens that got
a flock as soon as they heard cackle, were
broken of the habit entirely by this
means. a r.r
The Scientific american gives the fol-
lowing mode of testing kerosene: Gill
cup with warm water, the temperature
OF which is to be brought to 100 deg. Fab
renheit, pour the oil on the water apply
flame to the floating oil by match or other
wise. If the oil is unsafe it will take
fire, and its use in the lamp is dangerous.
for it is liable to explode. But if the oil
is safe and good it will not take fire."
/ WHEN writing by common ink has be-
come faded by age so as to be nearly or
quite illegible, it may be restored to its
original hue by moistening it with a
camers hair pencit or feather dipped in
tincture of gals, or a solution of ferro-
cyanide of potassium, slightly calculated
with hydrocholoric acid. Either of these
washes should be very carefully applied
so that the ink may not spread.-,Sc6entifc
american.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen.
henaGn says that he finds leached ashes
and cut grass the best mulch for the grape
vine. The ashes gather moisture and re-
pei heat Grape vines that were mulched
at the commencement of the drouth last
summer, stood the heat well. When the
grass rots, the roots derive nutriment from
it. The grass is put on first, and then COW
cred with ashes This mulch is both pro-
tective and enriching, and the nutriment
is Of kind that is wanted vegetable and
carbonaceous.
THE Country Gentleman, in an article
reviewing some objections to the manage
ment of Agricultural Societies, suggests
that the best cure is a more general inter
est in and cooperation with the Agricul
tural Societies by the general body of
farmers. 1t will do little good to simply
find fault with existing evils, if we make
no effort to remove them. But, if all the
farmers in county will take an interest
In the affairs of their Society, its manage
ment may be made what they want it.
THE common practice of using pads or
sheep-skin under a horses collar is objec-
tlonable, especially in warm weather, be-
cause it accumulates heat and makes the
breast tender. A better way is to take q
piece of thick and smooth leather, cut it
out just the size of the collar, or little
| wider, and let it lie fiat on the neck and
| shoulders. 1t will lie smooth, while the
| collar itself moves about, and chatting will
thus be prevented. 1t is also well to wash
the breast of a working horse every night
with clean water.-Hearth and Home.