Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-18
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

1T is true wisdom to speak but little of
the injuries you have received or the good
deeds you have done.
MICE become great nuisance some
times in and about farm buildings. A
novel method to destroy them is to satu-
rate piece of cotton with chloroform and
put it in barrel with some grain"
PEOPLE who are troubled with sleep
lessness, should secure good bed, suffi-
clent exercise to get tired, fresh, and not
100 warm air, a lightly loaded stomach,
and an easy conscience.
THE different grains produce, when
ripe, nearly the following quantities of
meal, or household flour and bread per
bushel, viz:
Wheat if weighing so fbs-four, 4S; bread, ga.
Rye, If weighing. 81 fbs-flour, 42; bread, So.
Barley. if weighing. 4s 1bs-four, 371s bread so.
Oats, II weighing. 40 tbs-four, 2ah bread, 30.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Aaine Farmer
has new use for CATS He says: My
way to cure sulky steer that lies down
when you first yoke him, is to take cat
and let her put her paws on the end OF
the steers nose, and, if necessary, hold
her rather hard. My word for it, he will
be on his legs quick"
Mr.. QUINBY, of Irondequoit, said at the
Rochester Farmers Club recently that
during the past three years he has drawn
$4,000 bushels of leached ashes on his
farm and spread them at the rate of 200
or 800 bushels per acre, and has threshed
forty acres. He thinks the application
has doubled his wheat crop. His land is
light; had seen ashes applied to heavy
clay land with little benefit.
ETIQUETTE is the art of behaving your
self Manners not only make the man,
but the woman, too, what they ought to
be-ladies and Observation-Disclosures they
roll through life in their carriages, or
trudge along the pavement in the lowly
Butcher. True gentility is the exercise
of a due regard for the feelings of your
neighbors, and etiquette is the essence of
gentility.
To purity glycerine which has been for
some time in use, add ten pounds of iron
filings to every 100 pounds of the impure
liquid; occasionally shake it and stir up
the iron. In the course of a few weeks a
black gelatinous mass will collect on the
bottom of the vessel, and the supernatant
liquid will become perfectly clear, and can
be evaporated to remove any excess of
water that may have been added to it.
In France they have somewhat novel
method Of treating tomato plants, which
produces fruit of an excellent quality
which ripens early. The gardeners cut
off the stems of the plants down to the
first cluster of flowers which appears on
them, thus forcing the sap into the buds
below; and this is done five times success
sively. By this means the plants become
Hyya rf hrIch OF sxrl.f
inches high, and they are kept erect in
rows by sticks or strings.
EDWIN L. GAGE, of DeRuyter, N. Y,
gives the following remedy for eye-lashes
of sheep growing in their eyes: "Take a
long darning needle, threaded with cotton
wrapping yarn-run the needle through
the foretop close to the skin just forward
of the eyes, and then back just back of
the eyes, inclosing strip of wool about
an inch in width; take off the needle, tie
the two ends of the yarn in single knot,
draw it up till the upper lids are raised suf-
ficiently to clear the eyes of the hair, fasten
with another knot and the work is done.
a WRITER In the Massachusetts, Pgow-
man gives the following method of cleans
ing pork barrels =" Chemistry furnishes
an agent in the permanganate of potassa,
which fully meets this want. A pint of
the permanganate turned into the most
nasty, filthy cider, beer, or pork barrel,
and rinsed about a few minutes, will en-
tirely decompose all fungoid growths and
fermentlng matter, and render the cask as
sweet as those that are new. The only
way to remove Immediately the odor of
caroolic acid from the hands, is to I'M
merse them in the liquid permanganate"
THE Country Gentleman says of tarring
seed corn =" IF the coating with tar is
done right, there will be no difficulty.
The process consists essentially in giving
each grain fine thin varnish OF tar, which
may be varied by first heating the corn
with hot water, pouring it off, and then
applying the tar at the rate of half a
pint or pint to the bushel of seed, and
stirring rapidly and thoroughly. Some
dry powder, as ashes, plaster, sifted coal
ashes, etc, will prevent all sticking to-
gether If the tar is applied too copious-
ly, or on dry seed, the result will be less
favorable"
KNIFE OR SHEARS FOR PRUNINa.-On
all plants where it is desirable that the
wound should heal over, sharp knife
should be used in pruning. With grape
vines it makes but little or no difference
whether smooth cut is made or not, as
all the wood left beyond the last bud re-
naming on the shoot dies, whether cut
withknife or shears. This is also true
with many species of ornamental shrubs,
such as Syringa, Deutzia, and, in fact, all
plants that have large pith in the young
stems. Shears are the most convenient
implement with which to prune vines,
and may be used without danger of doing
any damage, even if they do not make as
clean cut as a knife.-Hearth and Home
A TURKISH receipt for a cement used to
fasten diamonds and other precious stones
to metallic surfaces, and which is said to
unite even surfaces of polished steel, al
though exposed to moisture, is as follows:
dissolve five or six bits of gum mastic,
each of the size of large pea, in as much
spirits of wine as will suffice to render it
liquid. In another vessel, dissolve in
brandy as much isinglass, previously
softened in water, as will make a two
ounce vial of strong glue, adding two
small bits of gum ammoniac, which must
be rubbed until dissolved. Then mix the
whole with heat. Keep in vial closely
stopped. When it is to be used, set the
vial in boiling water"