Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-12-23
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Stock and Crops for Farms.


keeping heavy stock constantly on the
farm, yet some care must be exercised
to provide proportionate amount OF
food, and to have it for every season,
otherwise, instead of profit, the years
transactions will end in loss. The
farmer who is overstocked is always in
trouble; in spring he must stock the
pastures too early for the want of house
food, and in autumn he must permit the
cattle to remain in the fields until,
through exposure to bad weather and
insufficiency of food, they become great
ly reduced in condition. If to avoid
this he begins early on his stock of roots
and hay, he is run out, very probably, in
March, the very season when the length
ening day and the chilly cutting winds
cause increased consumption, and q
struggle of some kind must be made to
hold them over on purchased food until
something can be picked up on the pas
lures. The full supply of food tells on
every ANIMAL but of course more notice
ably on those whose produce is being
daily turned into cash. The widely
distended bag of well fed COW as she
comes from the pastures to be MIXED,
and the sense of relief which she un-
mistakably shows when the process is
completed, is both a source of gratifica-
ton and of profit, and is in wide con-
trast to the limp, half empty appear
ances of the udder when the COWS are
in bare pastures, and to roam about con-
tinually in quest of food No amount
of care or good management on the part
eff mistress or maid can make up for
this oversight on the part of the master,
and when, on making up his years re-
ceipts, he finds the amount to be little
over half what it reasonably might have
been, he can only blame himself for his
shortsightedness in keeping more cattle
than the food he had provided was able
to sustain. Breeding ewes tell also very
forcibly by the return which they give,
whether they have been literally fed or
not-any deficiency in food telling at
once on the milk, and the lamb in con-
sequence ceases to grow, and becomes
stunted and profitless.
Saving Manure.
j. NJ. Crafts, of Whately, Mass, writes
as follows to the Boston Cuhivator:
For the last ten years have not al
lowed any waste, from water or wind,
of my manure, as l have carefully
housed it all, and have endeavored to
save the urine by means of absorbents,
placed in trench behind my stock !;
using, more generally, peat muck for
that purpose; sometimes | have used
sand The quantity and quality of the
manure thus made is about in the same
ratio, say one multiplied by ten. An
tediluvians thought, and plainly told
me, that g. should spoil my land by
using so much muck; it would sour it all
up" But | have lived to see some of
these same men drawing muck of late
years, and using the same quite freely.
1t has, however, been attended with a
good deal of labor-the supplying of
the trench every day-and | have been
casting about for some easier method of
accomplishing the same result with less
labor. / have just completed new
stable, Is by 40 feet, making room for
nine head of cattle and two horses.
Underneath l have basement room
above ground-that is the same size of
the stable, and about eight feet high a
wall of stone surrounds it on three sides,
three and one half feet high, on which
rest the stills of my barn. The whole
cellar is enclosed and warm, so that I
hope to prevent the manure from freez-
ing in the witer.
The bottom of this cellar is covered
with old brick, laid flatwise down, and
little apart, and then covered and COM
pletely filled with hydraulic cement
mortar, made so soft that it would easily
fill every crevice between the bricks,
and the coating will vary from one half
to one inch on the top of the brick the
wall is painted with the same material.
This is done to prevent the pigs from
roofing the bottom of the cellar all up,
and to retain, to an extent at least, the
urine not taken up by the peat and
other absorbents supplied. have now
four pigs busily at work on the pile, and
so far, am pleased with the results of
may labors, and hope to make more
manure, and better, than / have ever
done before. When / have proved it,
will give the results.
HOUSEHOLD ECoNoMY.-From the Rural
Ne,o Yorker we clip the following prac-
teal seasonable recipes Bean soup.
Clean wash the beans over night, and
pour on cold water next morning; put
them in pot with plenty of soft water /;
if soft is not avilable, add teaspoonful
of soda; boil half an hour, then pour
off the water; turn on fresh hot water /;
to two quarts of beans add five pounds
of the lean of fresh beef and one pound
of pork; cut up in small pieces; season
with peppers skim as soon as boil is
reached, and keep closely covered until
done. Chicken pie. Single the bipeds first;
everybody ought to know that there's
nothing like alcohol for singeing poultry.
A tablespoonful will SINCE fifty pounds.
Set it on fire, and proceed to SINCE; not
spot of black will be produced. After
being well cleaned, cut up into small
pieces; was thoroughly, and let them
cook for twenty minutes in water suffi-
cient to cover them. Mix a tablespoon
full of -four in cold water to a thin paste !;
and stir in the gravy; add a lump of
butter, and season thoroughly with pep
per and salt; let all cool. To make a
paste, equal quantities in measure of lard
and water, little salt; mix; roll out
thin line the deep pie dish after rolling
out the top crust to half the size
required, spread over it butter to the
depth of one-quarter of an inch roll up
and roll out again, and repeat the ope-
ration two or three times; put in the
chicken, and put on the top crust, and
pinch the edges well together; cut slit
in the top crust. mince pie.-Boil