Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-07
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

---Indelible Ink. -Four drachms nitrate
of silver, four ounces OF rain water, SIX
drops solution of nut-galls, and one half
drachm gum Arabic. This will make an
ink which will not fade, and costs very
little.-Cor. Western Rural
Alum and plaster of Paris well mixed
with water, and used in liquid state,
will form very useful cement. It will
be found quite handy for many purposes.
1t forms very hard composition, and for
fixing the brasses, etc., on lamps, nothing
could be better.
TO Roast Geese and Ducks.-Boiling
water should be poured all over, and in
side of a goose or duck, before you pre-
pare them for cooking, to take out the
strong oily taste. Let the fowl be picked
clean, and wiped dry with cloth inside
and out; fill the body and crop with stuff.
ing; if you prefer not to stuff it, put an
onion inside; put it down to the fire, and
roast it brown. 1t will take two hours
and half.
How to Fit Collars to Horses
Shoulders.-The collar should be pur-
chased of the proper size just before
putting it on the first time, immerse it
in water, letting it remain about min
ute, and Immediately put it on the horse,
being careful to have the names so ad-
justed at the top and bottom as to fit the
shoulder, and then put the horse to
work. The collar by being wet will
adapt itself to the shoulder, and should
dry on the horse. When taken off it
should be left in the shape it occupied on
the horse, and ever after you will have a
snug-ftting collar and no wounds
VALLEY Farmer.
MIR. Charles White, of Whites Sta
ton, Mich, has devised method for
packing butter to keep for long periods,
which he claims has proved entirely sue
cessful. His plan consists in putting the
butter in a sack fitted to peculiar-sha
tub, and so arranged that when the pack
ing is completed, and the tub turned SO
as to rest on the large end, the butter
will drop down an inch or so, leaving a
clear space between the tub and the but
ter. Strong brine is now poured through
a hole in the small end of the tub to fill
this completely. The brine floats the
butter and wholly surrounds it, exclud-
ing the air. The orifce is then closed up
and the butter set away in cool place.
Butter packed in this way has been found
fresh and good at the end of ten months.
Water may be preserved pure and
wholesome in rainwater cisterns by let
ting the supply-pipe connect at the bot
tom of the cistern. The fresh water
being heavier than that already in the
cistern, will force the stale water to the
top SO that it can be used before it be-
comes offensive. 1t is we'll known, how
ever, that cistern water becomes impure
from the organic matter it contains, and
if this can be got rid of by destroying it's
vitality and precipitating it to the bottom,
it will leave the water pure. 1t is claimed
that there is nothing better to effect this
than permanganate of potassa, used in
the proportion of about an ounce to fifty
gallons of water This causes the inor-
ganic matter to sink to the bottom an in
noxious sediment. But the permanga-
nate must be continued as long as the
water has purplish appearance, indicat-
ing that the offensive matter has not all
been precipitated. Though this is not a
poisonous drug, and is, we believe, in no
way hurtful, still no more should be used
than necessary. Every druggist has it for
sale. Care must be taken to have the
cistern thoroughly cleaned at least twice
year, as well as the troughs upon the
buildings supplying the Water.-CS ncta-
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