Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-30
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

4 aa FARM AND HOySEHOLUs
1 Food rich in starch, gum or sugar
| which are the respiratory elements, in
| creases butter in bulk.
A thousand pounds of beef is worth in
one animal from 25 to so per cent. more
| than if in two animals.
/ "A farmer can do more work with a
| good thinking apparatus than with the
best span of horses ever hitched to a
wagon.
! "A bushel of large potatoes usually
costs less for labor than bushel of small
ones while the large ones are salable at
a profit, the small ones often do not pay
the labor bills
-Horse-shoeing is very important as
we'll as an expensive item. A horse should
be kept sharp shod in winter or not shod
at all. Many a good horse is ruined for
want of attention to this matter.
Baked Indian Pudding. -Four eggs,
one quart of sweet milk; five large tea
spoonsfuls of Indian meal; nutmeg and
sugar to the TASTE Boil the milk and
scald the Indian-meal in it, then let it
cool before adding the eggs. Bake three
quarters of an hour. Eat with butter or
sweet sauce.
Sheep should have dry quarters. Dry
cold is better for them than warm. wet
weather. Avoid close, damp, ill-ventilat-
ed Easements; also be careful not to use
so much straw for bedding in the sheds
and yards that the manure will ferment
under the sheep. Nothing can be worse.
The Rural Neoo Yorker gives the fol-
lowing recipe for removing freckles
| One ounce each of lemon juice, borax,
and rose-water, mixed. Rub on at night,
and in the morning battle with soft water
no hard water should ever be used, if you
value the complexion.
! Cheese Toast.-Take slice of good
rich old cheese, cut it up into small
pieces, put it in tin or iron stew-pan
and to one cup of milk add three eggs
beat eggs and milk together and pour on
to the cheese; set it on the stove, and
when it begins to simmer, stir briskly un.
| til it forms thick curdle; then pour the
toast and carry to table.
Butter Pot-Pie-Pour quart of water
into kettle; put in half a pound of but
ter, little salt and pepper make crust
of er-milk, a little sour cream, and
saleratus enough to sweeten it; roll out
and cut into biscuit; drop one by one into
the boiling gravy and do not remove the
cover for half an hour, when it will be
done. Keep it boiling, but not too hard,
or it will be too heavy.
-Quaking Plum Pudding.-Take slices
of light bread, spread them with butter,
and lay in pudding dish layers of this
bread and raisins till within an inch of
the top. Add five eggs we'll beaten, and
quart of milk, and pour over the pud-
| ding. Salt and spice to taste. Bake it
twenty or twenty-five minutes, and eat
with liquid sauce. Before using the rails
| ms boil them in a little water and put it
all in.
Only those afflicted with chapped
| hands can appreciate the sufferings of
many hard worker during the winter
months. We give recipe that may be
relied on as a cure for the malady: One
ounce each of spermaceti, white beeswax,
| gum camphor, and two ounces of almond
Oil Put in tin cup, place in a vessel of
boiling water, and melt together. Every
time the hands are wet rub little of this
over them. Linseed oil and common
beeswax will answer the purpose, but
ointment is not so nice as the above.
Bean Porridge.-Boil a fresh beef
bone (salt beef would probably answer, if
sufficiently freshened) in large quantity
of water, and use the meat for anything
| you choose. Let the liquid become cool
and remove all the grease. Boil teacup-
full of beans in three quarts of this liquor,
until thoroughly soft and in pieces; add a
little rice, the necessary amount of salt,
and just before taking from the stove a
little thickening of some kind of meal.
| Use it about the thickness of cruel or
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| eat.
| Judge F. M. Wood, of Barbour Coun-
ty, Ala, is reported as having cultivated,
the past season, one acre of "pnor, sandy
land" on which the only fertilizer used
was eighty bushels of cotton seed, with
| the following result: He sowed it in Jan
uary with oats, from which he gathered
| 1906 pounds in the sheaf, and, at 81 50per
hundred weight, realized 5000. In June
he planted corn, and among it, at the suit
| able time, sowed peas. He gathered 14A
bushels of corn, worth 81 per bushel; 81
bushels of peas, worth $3.50 per bushel;
and 1856 pounds Of fodder, worth ST. per
hundred pounds; the total amounting to
$101.82. These crops having been all
harvested, the land was sowed in rye for
winter pasturage. tz@
~ 1AdhC dpCI w dtCl -pIOOl-Nlt1t
in ten pints of hot water thirty ounces of
glue, gelatine or zinc, and three ounces of
gum-arabic. In another thirty pints of
hot water melt twenty ounces of soap and
four pounds of alum. Mix both liquids
in one pot. This is composition No. l.
In another pot heat half a gallon of ben
zole and one gallon of parrafine, and melt
in it twenty-four ounces of resin. Let it
boil till it attains a moderate degree of
| consistency. To these materials resin,
oil, and copal or mastic varnish may in
some cases be added. This is composition
No. 2. First dip the article to be water
proof into composition No. 1 in heated
state, and then dry it; next apply compo-
sition No. 2 in a cooled state, with a
| brush, or in any other convenient man.
| ner.
Telegraphy.
| The annual report of the Western Union
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