Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-26
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

The Wisconsin Farmer says castor-oil
will keep leather soft, pliable, and black,
though not glossy, and quite impervious to
water.
| THE London Field says it is well enough,
and even advantageous, to wash horse
when heated, provided he be wiped dry
and blanketed.
TITS stated that the Maine Board of Ag-
rlculture is preparing catalogue of the
noxlous weeds of the State with notes as
to means of eradicating them.
A CERTAIN cure for founder in horse,
| says correspondent of the Rural World,
| is to stand him in water TO his belly. g
have known this course successfully prac-
tised for fifty years."
A RECENT writer states that three hun
bred and fifty bushels of potatoes remove
| ninety pounds of potash from the soil on
which they are grown consequently wood
ashes is one Of the most valuable manures
for this crop.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen.
Hea1ad7o says many farmers in England not
only keep their stock of cattle and eheep
composed only of animals not ycG past
their prime, but they use no draft horses
on their farms that are more than seven
years old.
PEOPLE are continually complaining
how impossible it is to wash flannel cloth
ing so as to prevent it from shrinking.
By putting little borax into cold water,
it will be found that f1annels will not only
come out better cleansed, but there will
be absolutely no shrinking.-EcchanGe.
FOOD FOR CHICKENS "A writer recon-
mends for chickens, for the first week
after Matching, hard boiled eggs, to be
given, chopped fine, at least twice day,
wheat stepped in milk, and coarse Indian
meal, bread crumbs, etc. A change of
food is necessary twice a week, substi-
tuting cracked corn for wheat.
THE Utica Herald says: Averaging the
results of several careful experiments in
feeding corn to hogs, shows that two bush.
| els of corn in the ear, or one bushel OF
shelled corn, made nine and SEVENTEEN
tieths pounds of pork, while the same
amount ground into meal and mixed with
water made eleven and one-eighth pounds
| of pork.
AT recent meeting of the Farmers
Club of the American Institute, DR..
| Feuchwanger gave an account Oh expert
ments made by him for the preservation
of wood. He said that wood boiled first
in limewater and then coated with silicate
of soda or liquid glass, will last very
| long time. The mixture is fifteen per
cent. alkali and ten per cent. pure sand.
| DIR. RANDALL, in the RurM Neoo Yorker
thinks a strong decoction of tobacco
especially if applied twice, is practically
certain cure for scab in sheep. He would
not dip the sheep at this season, but would
pour the decoction on those parts Of the
body affected After combing and shear
ing and when the weather is pleasant The
sheap may be dipped.
A THIN shawl may be made warm by
folding O. newspaper inside of it. The
paper is impervious to the wind and cold
air from outside, and prevents the rapid
escape of the warm air beneath it. If yor
suffer from cold feet on journey, fold a
a piece of newspaper over your stocking
this is better than rubbers. If you are
cold in bed, newspapers spread under the
upper cover, will serve as an additiona
blanket.
SUGAR VINEGAR.-Put nine pounds o.
brown sugar to every six gallons OF water
boil it for quarter OF an hour, and then
pour it in o tub in lukewarm state; put
to it pint of new bran, let it work -four
or five days, stir it up three or four times
a day, then turn it into clean barrel
iron-hooped, and set full in the sun. II
YOU make it in March it will be fit for use
in September. You may use it for most
sorts of pickles, except mushrooms and
walnuts. Exchange.
COOP SoUP.-Get what is called goot
beef soup bone, boil two hours, leaving
about two quarts of broth break two eggs
into some -four and knead 1t very still
roll out in three sheets to the thickness o
wrapping paper; spread them on table
to dry for half an hour; then place then
on one another and roll them up as yoJ
would iell cake; with sharp knife Gu
very fiue strips from the end, not widel
than the thickness of case knife shak'
them UP to separate them drop into you
broth slowly, stirring your soup all thu
while. Boil ten minutes; season will
pepper, SALT celery, or little parsley.
How TO SWEEP CHIMNEYs. - Thos
chimneys communicating with stoves O
fireplaces in which large quantities o
soft wood are burned, should be swep
clean as often as coat of SCOT has accu
mulated in the fues sufficiently thick t.
be in danger of igniting, fer larg
scales of burning SCOT will readily
rise above the top of the chimney
fall on a single roof, and, il
many instances, set the building on fire
In order to remove the SCOT expeditiously
a chimney sweeper's BROOM" with {
brush on both sides of the head, may b
tied to the end of rope, with stone Of
other weight beneath the broom; then LEI
it down into the top of the fiue, and draw
it again to the top of the chimney. This
broom will sweep when it is drawn down
by the weight, as well as when the person
at the top hauls it up. BY standing OF
the windward side of the chimney, a per
son can sweep the fue in a few minutes
| ru,tl,o,,t c,1ffnrinn Inconvenience from thf