Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-11-14
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD

Pay attention to the condition and
cultivation of the soil, and take no notice
OF the phases of the moon.
Everlasting Cookies.-Two cups sugar,
one cup butter, one cup water, two tea
spoons cream of tartar, one teaspoon
soda, flour to roll thin.
-Mistrust the man who finds every
thing good, the man who finds every
thing evil, and still more the man who is
Indifferent to everything.
Fact stands between many people
like a double-woven screen: the threads
which make the bright pattern on one
side form the dark background on the
other.
Surface drainage cannot now be safe
ly neglected All natural water courses
should be widely and clearly opened
| the necessary burrows leading to them
should be cleaned down to the firm soil,
and the proper stays placed to check the
flow down steep banks, and turn the water
into harmless channels.
Fowls can be fattened well in fort
night if they are cooped up where they
can obtain gravel and lime and are fed on
scalded corn-meal, given three times a
day, while ears of corn are always at
hand. For drink, skinned milk is very
desirable, and if warmed little will be
drank with eagerness. Pulverized char
coal, kept either in their boxes or mixed
with their feed, will materially assist the
fattening process.
Washing Fluid-Take one-half pound
sal-soda, four ounces borax, one and one
| half ounces ammonia, one-eighth ounce
camphor gum dissolved in alcohol; put
sal-soda and borax in one gallon soft
water, stir till boiling. When cool, add
the ammonia and camphor gum. Direc-
tons for use-One teacupful fluid in half
gallon of water; make suds of the mix
ture, in which soak the clothes one hour.
| Wash as usual.
The following will be found cheap
and simple process for coating canvas for
wagon tops, tents, awnings, etc.; it rem
ders it impervious to moisture, without
making it stiff and liable to break: Soft
soap is to be dissolved in hot water, and
The sulphuric acid combines with the
potash of the soap, and the oxide of iron
is precipitated with the fatty acid as in
| soluble iron soap. This is washed and
| dried, and mixed with linseed oil. The
| addition Of dissolved india-rubber to oil
| improves the paint.
To Remove Iron Rust-Place the ar
| ticle on the grass where the sun shines, or
| if more convenient fold an old piece of
cloth several times and put under it and
| place where it will be exposed to the SUMS
rays. Dissolve some tartaric acid, using
as little water as will take it up, and wet
the stained parts thoroughly with the So
l,1t1 LOT OF fI,o
removed, then wash out the acid. Or, dis
solve some oxalic acid in water and rub
the spots in this until they disappear.
TO Keep Sausage Meat.-As soon as
convenient after making sausage, cut in
slices or make in cakes and fry till done.
Take stone jar, place your cakes closely
il the jar and pour over the fryings. If
not sufficient to cover to the depth of two
inches when done, use fresh lard. Keep
the sausage in cool place. When want
ed for use, remove the lard, take out what
you want and return the lard to keep the
air from what remains. This will keep
till August.
-Chapped Hands. Take common
starch, and grind it with knife until it is
reduced to the smoothest powder, put it
in clean tin box, so as to have it con-
tinually at hand for use. Then, every
time that the hands are taken from. the
suds or dish-water, rinse them thoroughly
in clear water, wipe them, and while they
are yet damp, rub pinch of the starch
thoroughly over them, covering the whole
surface. The effect is magical The
rough, smarting skin is cooled, soothed
and healed, bringing and insuring the
greatest degree of comfort and freedom
from this, by no means insignificant an
nOYance.