Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-07-02
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USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.
If you would not have your horse acquire
the habit of hanging in the halter, do not
strike at him when young.
remedies for bots in horses is strong de-
coction of sage tea, made very sweet.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rura1 Neao
Yorker says deep, level planting and Gull
ture is what the potato wants. He says a
potato should he planted not less than six
inches deep.
WOOD ashes contain all the inorganic
| ingredients which growing trees extract
| from the soil, and in consequence are re-
garded as the best fertilizer for apples,
pears, peaches, plunfs, etc.
If you want bone and large develop
rent of red flesh in hogs, give them as
good pasture through the summer as your
| beeves have. 1t costs less everyway to
make big hog weigh 500 by Christmas
than to get two small swine up to $50
apiece.
KILLING DoCK-A writer in the " Il.
| Homestead says the best and easiest way
| to exterminate this troublesome pest is to
| take sharp hoe and give it sliding
stroke, 80 as to cut the dock just below the
| crown, and throw the crowns into basket,
| and leave them in the travelled track of
the highway, or any other place where
they will not get foothold in the ground,
and the work is done.
FRIED BREAD.-Slices of toasted bread,
| dipped in milk or wine, and tried in hon
| ey, are excellent. Then, instead of call
ing them fried bread" they are toreias,
an excellent Spanish delicacy, can assure
you. Please understand there is neither
butter nor lard. Simply melt the honey
In pan, and when 1t is very hot, put in
the bread, which is served hot also, after
becoming nicely Drowned. Lovers of
honey can take notice.-ErchGnge
To CANDY FRUIT-Take one pound of
best loaf-sugar, dip each lump into bowl
of water, and put the sugar in a preserving
kettle. Boil it down until clear, and in a
candying state. When sufficiently boiled
have ready the fruitsyou wish to preserve
Large, white grapes, oranges separated
into small pieces, or preserved fruits, taken
out of their syrup and dried, are nice.
Dip the fruits into the prepared sugar
place; they soon become hard.
AN exchange gives the following as an
excellent receipt for bottling fruit: TONNE
pounds Of fruit put five pounds of white
sugar, when it comes to boil. Boil ten
minutes. Be careful to stir the fruit as
little as possible, not to bruise it. Pour
into an earthen ware vessel to cool. When
cold, put in wide-necked bottles, cover
with bladder. Gooseberries, black cur
rants, red currants, and raspberries, mixed,
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fresh fruit. The receipt for currants,
raspberries and plums of all kinds. is
specially recommended.
To PRESERVE TOMATOES FOR WINTER
AND EARLY SUMMER UsE-The most eco
nomical mode for family purposes is to put
them into wide-mouthed jars, holding
two, three, or more quarts, according to
the size of the family. The tomatoes, pre-
viously to their going into winter quar-
tiers, are merely cooked without seasoning
of any sort, and put, while hot, into the
jars, which should be filled full and the
corks driven home tightly and tied down.
Preserved in this manner. they will keep
as fresh almost as when first picked.
To CLEAN PAINTS -There is a very
| simple method to clean most any kind of
paint that has become dirty, and if our
housewives should adopt it, il would save
them great deal of trouble. Provide a
plate, with some of the best whiting to be
had, and have ready some clean warm
water, and a piece of flannel which dip
into the water, and squeeze nearly dry
| then take as much whiting as will adhere
| to it; apply it to the painted surface,
when little rubbing will instantly re-
move any dirt or grease. After which,
| wash the part well with clean water, rub
bling it dry with soft chamois. Paint
thus cleaned looks as well as when first
laid on, without any injury to the most
delicate colors. 1t is far better than using
soap, and does not require more than hall
the time and labor.-C0ach- Makers Jour-
nal.
| TREATMENT OF SCARLET FEvER.-Dr.
CharlesT. ThOmpDon reports in the Lancet
| his manner of treatment in scarlet fever as
follows: The patient is immersed in a
warm bath in the early stage of the dis
ease, and this is repeated frequently, or as
often as the strength of the patient will
allow. The first effect is to produce a
soothing and refeshing feeling in the
patient, to be followed soon by such an
eruption on the surface, of 80 vivid color,
and in such amount as would astonisb
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one of the greatest dangers of this fearful
disease-the suppression of the eruption
is escaped. The appetite generally re-
turns after the first or second bath, and
the strength of the patient is kept up by
nutritious food. The bath prevents the
dissemination of the disease, by removing
the excIe eta from the skin as soon as it is
deposited. This treatment promotes
cuticular desquamation. The body should
be gently dried by soft linen cloths after
the bath. By. this procedure the various
secretions are deprived of their noxious
properties, and the irritation of internal
organs is quickly relieved, thus dissipating
Infection. Another benefit is that very
serious case is soon reduced to mild one,
and the patient RECEIVERS in less than hall
the usual time. Since DR.. Thompson has
pursued this practice-during the last
fifteen years-he has never lost patient
| from scarlet fever
| How Boy Bought Farm.
| SEVERAL years ago, youth of sixteen