Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-06-26
lARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Cayenne pepper is death to bed-bugs.
Dust the bedspreads, crevices and inches
well with the condiment--E'rchaaage.
To sweeten a tainted meat barrel, after
washing and scalding to remove grease,
fill with fresh soil and let it remain week
or ten days.
Lemon Butter.-One pound sugar,
five eggs, juice and grated rinds of three
large or four small lemons none of the
seeds, one-quarter pound fresh butter
Put into a saucepan and boil about ten
minutes, stirring all the time, till thick as
honey. Good for jelly cakes, tarts and
cheese cakes. Keeps well if dry and cool.
Filing Handsaws.-In filing hand
saws that are intended to cut only one
way, the majority of mechanics file to-
ward the handle, which leaves the teeth
with more bevel on the back than on the
front, which is caused by the taper of the
file. A few persons file their saws toward
the point, which gives more bevel to the
front or cutting side of the teeth. Some
think that the back side of the teeth
should be filed nearly square across, and
that the saw will cut equally well and re-
main sharp much longer. The front side
of the teeth should be beveled to suit the
timber; soft wood requires more bevel
than hard wood. Western RatraI.
strawberry Short Cake.-Rub piece
of butter the size of an egg into a little
flour, pour into it two cups of sour cream,
| one teaspoon of soda and little salt.
Mix into dough and roll into cakes about
one-half inch thick and ten inches in di-
ameter. Prick with fork and bake in a
quick oven. When done split them open
with knife and spread with nice butter
lay the bottom piece on plate and cover
it with strawberries nearly an inch deep.
| Ut is better to have the strawberries
sprinkled with sugar few hours before
they are put into the cake.) Put over this
the top of the cake with the crust side
down, and a layer of strawberries again;
over this lay the bottom piece of another
| cake and more berries, and put on the top
piece right side up. Serve with sweet
cream. Shortcakes are sometimes made
in this way, substituting raspberries or
other fruit for strawberries.
-Cutworms.-The New York Times
says: eve have succeeded in greatly re-
ducing the number of this pest by entic-
| ing flock of poultry into the field while
| it was being plowed. The fowls followed
| the piow closely, picking UP every cut
worm exposed and searching every fur.
| row for more. There is no other way OF
Kidding the fields of these vermin but by
encouraging their natural enemies. These
are crows and blackbirds, which devour
the grubs and skunks and moles, which
devour both the grubs and the beetles, OF
which they are the larvae. While these
creatures are killed or driven off we shall
suffer from the depredations of the in.
sects, which are their natural prey. TIC
prevent the destruction of the young corn
by the cut-worms to some extent, the seed
should be rolled in common pine tar and
then dried in plaster before it is sown."
Mr.. Isaac N. jacques, pioneer OF
Mt. Carmel, Ill, has found way to kill
caterpillars, and that way he tells through
the Register, as follows: II have an
orchard which has been badly infested
with caterpillars and have tried many
ways to get rid of them. First, by burn.
ing them out, which perhaps would have
answered had commenced soon enough
l then tried shaking them out of the trees
but they were soon back again. My last
plan was as follows: Scrape all the loose
bark from the trunk of the tree, then take
a strip of wooden cloth, and, after saturat-
ing it with sulphur and grease, tie il
around the body of the tree just below
where the branches start out; then take 8
brush and paint strip two or three inch
es wide at the band on the tree. The
caterpillars, after being shaken out, will
again endeavor to mount the tree, but
will stop at the sulphur line, where they
can be destroyed by the bushel. A weeks
labor could have been saved had I known
of this plan at the start. believe il
worthy of publication"