Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-02
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

AN agricultural paper says: eve know
a cultivator who had heavy crops OF plums
seventeen years in succession-his swine
for these seventeen years, without sea-
sons interruption, being allowed the run
of the yard.
In blowing down green crops attach
heavy chain to the front of the pillow beam,
which drags down the grass, 80 that it
does not choke the plow. In this way it
can be plowed down so nicely that one
would hardly believe two feet of clover
had been turned under.-Erchange
THE Lancet recommends French way
of preserving eggs by plunging into a
cauldron Of boiling water, a colander con-
tanning one dozen, and allowing them 70
remain for one minute. This immersion
coagulates thin layer of albumen on the
surface, and the admission of air is there
by prevented.
A HoUsEKEEPER writes: " Having some
stone Jars in which lard had been packed
until they became unfit for use, made
them perfectly sweet by packing them full
of fresh earth, and letting it remain two
or three weeks. This is al experiment
with me, and I suspect it would be equally
effective in any case of foul earthen or
stone ware"
WARMTH OF ANIMALs.-A careful OBJ
server in England has noticed that his
farm animals are uncomfortable in an ar
tifcial temperature above 60 deg. He
has found that the best condition of sta
bles as to heat is between 40 deg. and 80
deg. Below that the food consumed goes
to enable the animal to resist cold, and at
high temperatures the winter function OF
the skin is impaired, and the animals
health is injured.
REMOVING Foul AIR FROM WELLS
| A correspondent gives us an account of an
| in,reniously extemporized apparatus for
| removing carbonic acid from wells. 1t
was simply an umbrella let down and rap
idly hauled up number of times in sue
cession. The effect was to remove the gas
| in few minutes from well so foul as to
instantly extipguish candle previous to
the use of the Notwithstanding AnoerG-
| can. Ig
| To CLEANSE WATER.-If q lump OF
alum as large as the thumb, joint is thrown
into four or five gallons of boiling soap
suds, the scum runs over and leaves the
water clean and soft and useful for wash
ing. We have often, in ancient times,
settled" glass of Mississippi water, and
| made il look as "clear as belp' in q few
seconds by tying bit of alum to string
and twirling it around under the surface
of the water in the glass.-Halps Journal
| Of Health.
WEAVING CoLTs.-Says a writer in an
exchange: 81 put the colt in good pas.
ture, and if 1 can do so give it some good
company that it is acquainted with. But,
at any rate, 1 put the mare in an adjoining
field; then they both feel as though they
were not separated, and do not wear of
any flesh by anxiety and running. And
take the mare in to the colt twice day
for two or three days, and let it suck.
After that let it suck once day, for two
or three days; then let it suck for every
other day for two or three days; and ii
necessary to dry up the mare, l will per-
haps let it suck once or twice in the course
of the next week. By that course the colt
will get weaned, and the mare will be
dried up, and neither of them lose flesh or
be punished, which is both to my interest
and their mutual comfort" Another cor
respondent advises to take the colts from
the dam, tie in stables by themselves and
give them cows milk which they will
drink after a trial or two if they get no
water. Then give few oats and all the
hay and green clover they will eat.