Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-28
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Weeds should be kept down every
where. Thistles, wild parsnips and car
rots, nulleins and burdocks, in neglected
corners and fence rows should be cut up
by the root, and the tops gathered and
burned. Many weeds are now ripening
their seeds and if neglected will make
work for many years to come.
Cement for Glass, China and Wood
Steep Russian isinglass twenty-four
hours in white brandy, gently boil and
stir the mixture until it is well com
pounded and drop of it, cooled, will
become thick jelly; then strain it
through linen cloth, and cork closely.
A gentle heat will dissolve it. Apply to
the edges, place them together, and hold
them five minutes.
-Dyeing Ornamental Feathers Black.
Place them for twenty-four hours in
soda bath that is not too strong, then
rinse well and place for twelve hours in
an per cent. solution of nitrate of iron;
rinse well again and dye with logwood
and fustic. If the black appears reddish,
draw the feathers through dilute sui
phuric acid and boil short time in a
weak bath of fustic.
-Stifening Gauze.-Good wheat starch
and white wax are employed, either cold
or warm, according to the color. The
gauze on removal from the starch is per-
fectly UNFINISHED, pressed out and clapped
with the hands so that the starch may be
uniformly distributed. Any meshes that
may still appear filled with starch may
| be freed from it when the gauze is
stretched on the drying pad by brushing
it with the hand or, better, with soft
brush. Small starched pieces can also
be placed on the finishing drum, since
the starch remaining in any meshes will
stick to the drum when the gauZe is re-
moved. In this case, however, it will
unavoidably have a spotted luster on the
side next the drum.--Haape1's Bas0r.
in the training of little girl great
pains should be taken to discover what
gift or talent she has, if any, and, what
ever her circumstances, to fit her for it's
use. Even putting the money value of
such art or accomplishment out of the
| question, its aid as resource and
| strengthened is incalculable. Disap-
pointment and grief come more easily to
women than to men; they abide with
them longer, and sap more of their life
away, simply because they need the tonic
of hard, enjoyable work-not the mere
drudgery of the bread-winner, but the
toll of the artist. Pride, philosophy, even
religion, cannot give the new vitality
which such work bestows ON the faithful
votary. 1t repairs bodily and mental
| forces like nature itself, slowly, imper-
ceptibly, surely. The father and mother
who can find in their daughter such
power, and give to her the means of
using it, may count themselves happy
and her the inheritor of a royal heritage.
Pork Raising-My own theory of
pork raising based upon experience, OBJ
servation and probably a little philoso-
ply of things, if written for the benefit
of others, would be about as follows
During the hot summer months | should
feed very little solid feed, such as corn
in the ear or uncracked. | would keep
| hogs upon green feed constantly, either
grass, oats or rye, and feed them at reg
ular intervals, once or twice per day,
upon mashed feed, either shorts, chopped
oats or rye, buckwheat ETC.; feed in
troughs. When fed in this way, and at
the same time allowed access to water
and shade, hogs will bear crowding
through the hot months, a very good time,
| if not the best, to take on flesh. This
puts them in the best condition for corn
| feeding, which should commence about
the list of September, when the new crop
is still soft and tender. Treated in this
way hogs become probably as perfect as
any method could make them. Upon the
whole, too, | believe it the cheapest and
most enonomical.-C0r. of Germantown
| Telegraph.