Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-21
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

everybody ought to sleep on corn-husk
beds.
WE see it stated that farmers should
not feed string beans, cooked or uncooked,
to hogs. They will surely kill them.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western Rat-
raj has cleared his own hands and those
of his friends from warts, by rubbing
them with chalk for few evenings, before
going to bed.
THE editor of the New EaaglGnd Farmer
recently practically tested the question
whether horse can see better in the
dark than a man, and found the horses
eye sight decidedly akbetter guide than his
own.
THE Geauga CO., Democrat says that a
small mess of vegetables, well salted,
given once day to cows, will richly pay
| in time saved in churning and the in
creased quantity of rich yellow butter
thus obtained.
j. j. THOMAS says that fortunes are lost
| by farming in three ways-in badly win
tering stock, in want of proper attention
| to rotation of crops, and in raising weeds.
He calculates that itIis easy for farmer
to lose $4,000 in forty years by raising
weeds
CURRANT JELLY WATER.-A table
spoonful of currant jelly thoroughly mixed
through half pint of cold water. A sick
! person may drink as much as wished of
this acid water. As with all other drinks
for the sick, little at time, and often
repeated, is the way 1t should be given.
Ex-GovERNoR SEYMOUR is hopeful OF
the future of cheese making in this coun-
try. In recent letter he says: "The
use of cheese in this country is increasing
as the quality grows better. The plans
and efforts to cheaper cost and improve
the quality are vigorous and well directed.
In this respect it is far ahead of any other
farming pursuit"
GIVE the stock pigs a good warm bed
for the winter, and don't forget to keep
them clean by frequent changes of straw.
| A cold, damp bed renders them comfort
less and prevents their growth; it may be
will give them mango and other diseases
that hog flesh is heir to. Feed well,
house well and bed well; on these three
things depend thrifty pigs for next years
fattening.
| A TEXAS correspondent of the Southern
| CultiUator writes l notice an inquiry,
"What would cure horse of the heaves
or thumps?" Put the water in bucket
anything that he can drink out of and
| then take two bricks and rub them to-
gether until the water is full of the brick
dust, and let him drink no other water
| until he is well. l have tried it, and l
know it will cure.
Mr.. CHARLES ARNOLD, well-known
Canadian horticulturist, says he has tried,
| with good success, the plan of white
washing the soil under fruit trees as a
protection from the curculio. He pours
the whitewash on the ground, and
spreads it with a brush so as to COM
pletely cover the surface, and says the
larva of the curculio will not enter the
mountaineering and dying in the
fallen fruit.
APPLE SNow.-Put twelve good, tart
apples in cold water, and set them over
the fire; when soft, drain the water, strip
the skins off the apples core them, and
lay them in deep dish. Beat the whites
of twelve eggs to a stiff froth; put half a
pound of finely powdered white sugar to
the apples beat them to stiff froth, aid
add the beaten eggs. Beat the whole to
q stiff SHOWS then turn into a dessert
dish.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Ohio FARMER
thinks shorts fed to mich cows make
more milk than clear meal, and that
ground oats are better than either, but
corn meal and shorts mixed make richer
milk. He has tried potatoes with moder-
ate success. Of all the roots he has tried
he thinks sugar beets are the best. After
trying pumpkins fairly, he could see no
increase of milk from their use, but be-
leves it was little richer.
To KEEP PURE AIR IN SICK ROOM
To avoid the foul gas produced by BURN
ing a Kerosene lamp in sick room or
nursery; put the lamp in wooden box "a
| raisin box will do) outside the window,
with the open side of the box facing the
room. The box can be fastened in its
place in any convenient way. In ordi-
nary weather the lamp will burn full as
well outside, and the air in the room will
be much purer.
DRIED Eaes.-The eggs must be beaten
TO uniform consistency and poured in
| thin layers upon polished iron plates,
which are placed in a current of hot air |;
the paste rapidly dries, and must be packed
In Theoretically sealed cases. When re-
| quired for use the died egg cab be dis.
solved in cold water and beaten to a foam
like fresh eggs: 1t is said that eggs can be
preserved fof years id this way, and that
they retain their agreeable flavor to the
last.-JotermM Of applied Chemistry.
For BURNs.-Take a saturated solution
of alum (foiir offices in quart of hot
water). Dip a cotton cloth in this sOlu:
ton and apply Immediately on the burn.
| AS soon as it becomes hot or dry, replace
it by another, and continue doing SO as
often as the cloth dries, which at first will
be every few minutes. The pain will i'm
mediately cease; and, after twenty four
| hours of this treatment, the burn will be
| healed, especially if commenced before
b1isters are formed. The astringent and
drying qualities of the alum will entirely
prevent their formation. The deepest
| burns, such as those caused by boiling
water, drops of melted metal, phosphorus,
gunpowder, Eliminating powder, etc,
have all been cured by this specific
american Journal Of Medical Science.
CURE FOR LocKJAw.--A correspondent
| of the Scientific american recommends
| tilrpentine as cure for 1ockja He
says: "Let any one who has an attack of
lockjaw take small Quantity of turpen-
tine, warm it and pour it on the wound,
no matter where the wound is or of what
nature it is, and relief will follow in less
than one minute. Nothing better can be
applied to a severe cut or bruise than cold
| turpentine; it will give certain relief al
most instantly. Turpentine is also q
sovereign remedy for Group: Saturate a
piece of flannel with it and place the fan
mel on the throat and chest, and in very
| severe cases three to five drops on lump
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