Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-11-07
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Keeping Cider Sweet.-Heat the cider
until it boils, pour into the bottles, which
have been previously heated to prevent
cracking. Cork tight, and seal immedi-
ately, as in canning nuit The cider will
keep unchanged for years.
AS harvesting appliance for gather
ing fall customers we know OF no better
invention than judicious advertising in the
most widely circulated and best read
newspapers. Merchants who use this i'm
plement invaribly secure the largest crops.
Egg Plant-Pare the fruit, cut it
into slices a third of an inch thick, slight
ly salt the pieces and stack them on a
plate. In an hour or two they viii have
lost considerable water. They are then
to be dipped in beaten egg, sprinkled with
cracker crumbs and fried. Serve very hot.
-Wintering Grapes.-Orrin Brown, of
St. Joseph, Michigan, kept seventeen bas
kets of Diana grapes last winter, by simply
putting the baskets in cool, dry cellar,
covering them with paper, and then leav
ing them alone. It is said the flavor of the
grapes was wholly unimpaired.
Celery Sauce.-Pick and wash two
heads of celery, cut them into pieces an
inch long, and stew them in pint of wa
ter and a teaspoonful of salt, until the
celery is tender. Rub large tablespoon
full of butter with spoonful Of flour well
together; stir this into pint of cream,
and put in the celery and let it boil up
once. Serve hot, with boiled poultry.
Advantages of Draining.-A drained
soil will pass off the water as it falls, or
nearly as fast. And what then? There
is only moisture, and air is admitted and
the land is seldom so cold and wet that
no progress of the seed is made; and once
begun, it will stand good deal, protect
ed as it is by the soil. Trust your land,
if it is drained, either naturally or other
wise, especially if there is considerable
fertility, and the soil is dry and mellow at
the time of sowing. Fertility has a
warming effect. At least this is our ex-
perience, and that of those around us.
-Water-pro Shoe Polish.-Take
Wide-mouthed bottle, and half fill it with
shellac vanish having the consistency of
thin syrup. Mix some lampblack with a
little Of the same varnish and when well
blended, add it, with bit of gum cam
phor, to the contents of the bottle, and
keep it we'll corked. The rule is-to one
pint of varnish add half an ounce each
of good lampblack and gum camphor.
With this preparation children's shoes
may be kept polished and waterproof all
the year round; and it is nice applica-
ton for the larger shoes as well. And
if gentlemen ever read such article as
these-let me whisper, it will freshen up
your old harness considerably; and may
be used to advantage in many similar
ways, answering every purpose to which
"French dressing" is applied.-Cor. Chris
tSG7o Union.
FLAX Seed for Stock.-A correspon-
dent of the BUr0I NeoO Yorker says: Be-
fore linseed cake was made so common in
England, the seed was good deal used
to fatten cattle, and given as food gener-
ally to young stock, by the best old fash
Toned farmers. | can well remember sew
eral homesteads about the years from 1920
to 1880, where large boilers were fixed for
the purpose of boiling the seed to jelly,
which was done, as any one may suppose,
by great deal of water being used to
small quantity Of seed. My father used it
freely to fatten all kinds of animals, and I
we'll recollect some horses which had the
finest kind Of coats, their skins being full
of mottled spots and shining like look
ing glass; and have known COWS which
have had nc fodder but chopped straw
mixed with the jelly and, perhaps, a very
little given in their racks without being
chopped, which have laid on flesh and fat
faster than others eating hay and meal.