Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-11
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

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IF there is any Indication of the heat
ing of grain in bins or piles, it should be
turned at once.
PREMIUMS, policies and dividends are
paid in cash in the Washington Life
Insurance Company, of New York.
ACCORDING to Orr Home Journal, the
best Iiniment for cuts, gals, spawn,
poll-evil, fstula, or any other of the ex-
ternal diseases that animals are liable to,
is made by dissolving one ounce of finely
pulveriZed corrosive subimate and one
ounce of gum caInpbor in one pint OF
spirits of turpentine, put in a strong
bottle. Apply with a swab.
To KEEP WORMS FROM DRIED FRUIT.
Place your fruit in steamer over a pot
of boiling water, covered tightly. When
thoroughly heated, tie them Immediately
in clean linen OR cotton bag, and hang
them up. This method is preferable to
heating in an oven, as that is apt to
render them hard, even if you are so for
tunate as not to burn them.
AN exchange gives the following as q
sure way to drive bed bugs from old
beds: Take green tomato vines, put
them in basin or tray, pound them to
pieces as fine as possible, then stain the
DCOStCbQ WHlCu IHu6DlO Will GIlc
Juice, fill the crevices with pieces of
vines, and lay leaves under the ends of
the Stats If this is practiced twice a
year, not a bug viii remain in the bed
stead ...-.....-....-..
ECONOMY IN CoAL.-The most practi-
cal suggestion yet made towards enonomy
of coal seems to be the use of solid
bottoms in ordinary fire-grates. 1t is as
oartaI i,,IanH 1NrOrad tbo4 NO
fireplace not excessively small, plate
of iron placed upon the CRATE will halve
the consumption of coal, reduce the
smoke, and leave cheerful, free burn
ing fire. Quite sufficient air enters
through the bars, no poking is necessary,
and the fire never goes out till the Goals
are consumed. There is no ash and no
dust, every particle being consumed.
Any householder can try this expert
ment, and reduce his coal bills say 30 per
cent, at the cost of q shilling.
How TO FAsTRN RUBBER TO WOoD
AND METAL AS rubber plates and rings
are nowadays used almost exclusively for
making connections between steam and
other pipes and apparatus, much annoy
ance is often experienced by the i'm
possibility or imperfection of an air-tight
connection. This is obviated entirely by
employing a cement which fastens alike
| well to the rubber and to the metal or
wood. Such cement is prepared by a so
luton of shellac in ammonia. This is
best made by soaking pulverized gum
shellac in ten times its weight of strong
ammonia, when Shiny mass is obtained,
which in three to four weeks will become
liquid without the use of hot water.
This softens the rubber, and becomes,
after volatiliZation Of the ammonia, hard
and impermeable to gases and fluids
AnaerScG72 ArtSsGaa. ~ ..s.', ia. .5at .a
How TO SELECT FLOUR. Look at
it's color: if it is white, with a slightly
yellowish or straw colored tint, 1t is a
good sign. If it is very white, with a
blush cast Or with black specks in it,
the flour is not good. 2. Examine its adj
hesiveness-wet and knead little of it
between the fingers if it works dry and
elastic, it is good; if it works soft and
sticky, it is poor. Flour made from
spring wheat is likely to be sticky. 8.
Throw little lump of dry -four against
a dry, smooth, perpendicular surface: if
it adheres ina lump, the Hour has lie IN
it; if it falls like powder, it is bad. 4.
Squeeze some of the flour in your hand:
if it retains the shape given blythe pres
sure, that, too, is good sign. Flour that
will stand all these tests, it is safe to buy.
These modes were given by old flour
dealers, and we make no apology for
printing them, as they pertain to mat
ter that concerns everybody, namely, the
quality of that which is the "staff of
life. "-BoSton Journal Of Chemistry.