Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-18
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.


AN old Boston doctor says: "A house
whose entrace smells musty is dangerous.
Avoid it. Don't live in it. Keep the
children out of it.
ALL cooked dishes that it is wished to
cool before using should be set in the pure
fresh air. 1t will preserve their flavor un-
impaired; otherwise not
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati Ga
zette SAYS the best feed to fatten hog
rapidly is made as follows: Two parts
barley, two Of corn, one OF oats grind,
cook and then feed cold.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural Neao
Yorker says that he can make 30 pounds
more butter from cow during the season
by churning all the milk than by churning
the cream alone.
bune that the practice of placing manure
in small heaps in the field, to be spread
in the spring, is bad one. He thinks it
much better to spread it at the time of
carting it out.
LEARN to insure your principles against
the influence of ridicule. You can no
more exercise your reason if you live in
the constant dread of laughter, than you
can enjoy your life if you live in the con-
slant terror of death.
WORK the buttermilk out of your but
ter, but work it mildly, so as not to break
the grain and make grease of it. If you
are wise you will pack away your butter
in clean vessels, securing and cleanliness
throughout in making, and cover with
salt and water-a simple thing, but it
must be done.
THE Americaao Farm Booa mentions a
horse that died at sixty seven years of age,
and another that was quite coltish in his
forty-ftth year. These cases OF longevity
were doubtless the results of good care.
1t is never economy to put horse to the
utmost of his strength to obtain q great
amount of work, or to feed sparingly i'll
order to save provender.
At meeting of the Deerfield IN. H.
Farmers Club, Mr.. David Garrish said
that the bearing year of a fruit tree may
be changed by picking off the blossoms
one year, so. that it will bear the next
The bearing year of tree depends much
on the year 1t was grated. He had a
Porter apple tree which bore fruit on one
half OF the tree one year, and on the other
half the next year. tsE
RooF felting wound around the body OF
trees, tied with a string at the top and bot
tom, is sure protection against mice. II
too much heat is feared from the color, it
can be changed with whitewash brush
on thousand trees in one day. Cut the
telling in strips long enough to protect the
trees where the snow drifts, and wide
enough to go around the body; leave no
space between it and the ground, and you
have jacket that no mouse or insect will
go through .-EGchange. .E
| A CORR EsPoNDENT of an Eastern paper
referring to the fact that pork is sometimes
found of yellow color, says that it results
! from the too free use of corn for food. He
says that about the time hogs are finished
off, farmers often make a mistake in feed
ing too much unmixed grain. The result
is bad digestion and yellow fat. Mixed
feed should be given to the last--roots
pumpkins, apples, with corn. AS rule
you can get them.to eat more grain and
take on more flesh than by diet of rich
food only.
THE Western Stock Journal says the
very best food for mich COWS is wheat
bran. Nothing has so great tendency
to increase the flow of milk, and as il
abounds in phosphates, it is highly
nutritious and healthful diet. Give the
COWS all they will eat of it, and if con.
venient mix little corn meal with it.
Don't over feed, but give just what they
will lick up with relish, and you will be
rewarded with an abundant supply Of milk,
and your cows will keep in good condi.
ton.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Freeport
Journal says A few years ago I made an
hat 20,
gard to the way to apply manure. had
piece Of ground which | intended to put
in wheat next year. 1t was plowed in the
usual manner. In the fall hauled out
five or six loads of fine manure, and
spread it on about an acre. The piece OF
ground-about eight acres-was sowed in
wheat the next spring, and at harvest it
stood at least foot higher; and more than
twice as thick, as it did where it was not
so MANFRED. The next season it was again
sown in wheat and seeded down with
clover. The second crop showed the ma
nure as plainly as the first, and also the
clover this last summer. ''
SWEET On FOR PoIsoNs.-A plain far
mer says: 1t is now over twenty Y ears
since l learned that sweet oil would cure
the bite of a rattlesnake, not knowing it
would cure any other kind OF poison, both
on man or beast think no farmer should
be without bottle of it in the house.
The patient must take a spoonful of it in
ternally, and battle the wound for cure.
To cure horse, it requires eight times as
much as it does for man. Here let me
say, of one of the most extreme cases of
snake bite in this Observation-Disclosures
years ago this summer-where the case
had been thirty days standing, and the
patient was given up by bis physicians. /
heard of it and carried the oil, and gave
one spoonful, which effected cure. 1t
is an antidote for arsenic and strychnine.
1t will cure bloat in cattle by eating too
freely of fresh clover it will cure bites of
bees, spiders, or other insects, and will
cure persons who have been poisoned by
low running vine in the meadows, call
ed ivy.-OhSo Farmer.
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