Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-24
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

If sheep are not more than six years
old their teeth will cut so closely that
kernels of grain will always get thorough
ly masticated during the process OF ru-
mination. For this reason 1t will not pay
to grind grain for sheep.
Apple Tapioca Pudding-Peel and
core enough apples to fill deep pudding
dish, sprinkle cinnamon in each apple
where the core came out, add some fine
white sugar, little piece of butter, then
about tablespoonful of tapioca for each
apple, over the whole, and fill UP with
cold water. Bake until the apple is ten
der. 1t is very nice and simple desert
Consumption of Food.-As general
rule, cattle, horses and sheep eat three
per cent. of their live weight of food per
day-that is, very near their own weight
every month. But there is a vast differ
ence among them as to the profitable re-
suits of their consumption of food. Some
will merely keep alive, while others will
increase in weight and size, or produce
milk in much greater proportion for the
food consumed.
-"Breaking in" Boots and Shoes-1.
Never "break in" boots or shoes. If they
are not easy when new, don't take them,
for the boots will break your feet Oftener
than your feet will break the boots. 2. If
you 90 on "breaking in" boot leather, you
will need special last made with all
sorts of knobs and protuberances to cor
respond with your distorted joints. Then
you will be sorry. g. If you have large
feet, admit it in all honesty, and have
your boots made accordingly. Then you
will be happy.
The following rule for estimating the
dressed weight of live hogs we find in a
late number of the National Lice Stock
Journal: "From the first 100 pounds de-
duct 25 pounds from gross; from the Sec
ond 100 pounds deduct 1917 pounds; from
the third 100 pounds deduct 81 pounds {;
all over the third hundred is net. Thus a
hog of 800 pounds live weight will give
256L net weight, and, as a general rule,
1874 pounds only should be allowed for
shrinkage on every hog of 300 pounds or
over. A hog of 100 pounds will net 70
pounds; one of $50 pounds, 1881; one of
200 pounds, 1929; one of $50 pounds,
20924." This, of course, is only as close
an approximation as can be given for the
general average Of hogs as brought to
market If they are thin there is more
shrinkage; if large and well-fatted, and
especially if pure bred, they will often
shrink even less. We have known in
stances where the shrinkage amounted to
only one-sixteenth of the live weight.
How to Manage a Horse.-A beauti-
full and high-spirited horse would never al
low shoe to be put on his feet or any per-
son to handle his feet In an attempt to
shoe such horse recently he resisted all
efforts, kicked aside everything but an
anvil, and came near killing himself
against that, and finally was brought back
to his stable unshod. This defect was
just on the eve of consigning him to the
pillow, where he might work barefoot,
when an officer in our service, lately re-
turned from Mexico, took cord about
the size of a common BEDFORD, put it in
the mouth of the horse like bit, and tied
it tightly ON the animals head, passing his
left ear under the string, not painfully
tight, but tight enough to keep the ear
down and the cord in its place. This
done, he patted the horse gently on the
side of the head, and commanded him to
follow, and instantly the horse obeyed,
perfectly subdued and as gentle and ODE
dient as well-trained dog, suffering his
feet to be lifted with impunity, and acting
in all respects like an old stager. The
gentleman who thus furnished this exceed
ingly simple means of subduing very
dangerous propensity, intimated that it is
practiced in Mexico and South America
in the management of wild horses.