Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-04
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

/ C0AG III lbEtAA lAOs
For swelled Jaws in sheep, san old and
experienced farmer" advises rubbing the
mouth with mixture made of equal parts
of alum and salt
A GENTLEMAN in Hillsdale, Mich, dusts
the leaves and blossoms OF his plum-trees
with plaster when the dew is on, and thus
prevents the curculio from destroying his
fruit. :.a fi.H
WE kill our land unsuspectingly in
summer, when moist, by letting our stock
run on it. We hurt the stock in winter
by having wet, naked stables, or sloppy
barn yards, or low, miry places where cat
tie are sometimes forced to drink. s.s
AN old stable builder in Baltimore has
come to the conclusion, after twenty-five
years'tral, that two-inch white-pine plank
floor, laid level, with a square iron two-by-
two and a half grating, so placed as to re-
,ceive the urine, is the best arrangement
for a horse. Clay, stones, concrete, ETC.,
he rejects. The width of a horse-stall
should be four feet nine inches.
| CLEANING TINwARE.-No acids should
be employed to clean tinware, because
they attack the metal and remove it from
the iron of which it forms a thin coat.
! We refer to articles made OF tin plate,
which consists of iron covered with tin.
| Rub the article first with rotten stone and
sweet oil, then finish with whitening and
piece of soft leather. Articles made
wholly of tin should be cleansed in the
same manner. In a dry atmosphere plan
ished tinware will remain bright for
long period, but they soon become tarnish
ed in moist Exchange.
BEES AND RAsPBERRIEs-A writer in
! Tilton's Journal Of Horticulture charges
the bees with injuring his raspberries by
disturbing end destroying the pollen in
their search after honey. This is the first
time such charge was ever made against
the bee, which has always been known to
do vast deal of good in distributing the
pollen and adding to the abundance Of
fruit. The writer must be relation of
that other one who inquired how to get
rid of the common angle worm which
hardened the soil of his garden Ger.
Telegraph.
HORACE sends us the following: We
poor folks can't afford to follow French
fashions even in making coffee; it is too
expensive. All the good there is in the
berry we want to get out, and that can't
be done conveniently by filtration. If the
coffee, finely ground and enclosed loosely
in q muslin bag, q don't like flanneD, is
put down in cold aoGter and brought TO q
I boil, but not boiled over half dozen
seconds, a satisfactory result will be secur-
ed. If cold milk is used, bring to the boil
again, and set aside on a cold part of the
stove till wanted.-Rural Neoo Yorker.
/ GREASE ON CARPETS. There is nothing
that annoys tidy house keeper so much
as to have her carpet spotted with lamp
oil or grease, and we therefore make
known for their benefit the following re-
ceipt for extracting Gil or grease spots
from carpets or clothes: Cover the grease
| spot with whiting, and let it remain until
it becomes saturated with the grease then
scrape it off, and cover it with another
coat of whiting, and if this does not re-
move the grease, repeat the application.
Three coats of whiting will, in most cases,
remove the grease, when it should be
brushed off with clothes brush. So says
one who ADMINISTRATIVE Farmer.
Pudding THE RooTs. Many of our
readers may have neglected to transplant
a choice shrub or tree, until it seems to
them to be too late in the season. They
will find, however, that the operation can
be safely performed if they will take up
the plants and puddle the roots-that is,
dip them in mud made of about the con-
sistency of thin mortar. The puddle hole
should be made ready before the plants
are lifted, and the roots should be dipped
in the mud before the sun or air can have
any effect upon them. After the roots are
coated with earth, they may be carried to
the place where they are to be planted.
Shrubs that have been heeled in until the
leaves have started may be safely removed
by using the puddle.-He Hearth and Home.
1aIu ont
of the Hearth and Home sends the follow
ing recipe for breakfast dish, which she
SAYS serves for meat and potatoes Put
into common biscuitpan heaping tea
spoonful of butter, and let it melt and
let it spread over the pan; then take
enough slices of bread (stale answers as
we'll as any, to cover the bottom of the
pan, and make mixture to dip them in
by beating well two eggs and p uring In
milk enough to soak the bread; season it
with very little pepper and salt-make the
bread quite moist; then lay it in the but
ter and fry brown on one side, and, If too
soft to turn, put them into the oven to
brown on the top, and you will have dish
that serves for meat and potatoes, consist
ing of neither"
To PRODUCE LARGE STRAWBERRIES
Remove the soil round each hill to the
depth of half an inch or more, without
, disturbing the roots; then spread evenly
over an area of twenty inches in diane
ter, pound or more of finely pulverized
linseed meal or oil meal, and cover it with
, mellow soil; then spread matching o
hay or straw two inches deep over the
entire surface between the hills. Should
the weather be warm and dry, a liberia
supply of warm water daily will greatly
f promote the growth of both vines and Der.
ries. Pail up weeds and grass among
growing strawberries, rather than cut
them up with hoes, as a system of roots il
formed near the surface of the ground
which should not be injured with broad
hoe.-EGchGnge.