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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

California produced 1000, 900 oranges
last year.
Virginia tomatoes have more taste
than Bermuda ones.
The New England hay crop is much
above the average this year.
Nearly all tropical fruits can be sue
cessfully cultivated in Florida.
=" Every tree is subject to disease, !"
said speaker in fruit-growers' conven-
ton.
=" What ailment can you find on an
oak?" asked the chairman. acorn"
was the triumphant reply.
The average of all crops this year
will probably vastly exceed that Of any
previous year in the United States.
An Illinois father Furnishes his re-
fractory sons by making them hoe corn
at night, each one carrying lantern.
"A Bay City (Mich.) butcher recently
exhibited two Durham cattle in the
streets of that city which weighed 1850
pounds.
Too often are leaves gathered into
piles and burned in the front of gentle
mems places, when, if they would trans
fer them to the stable for bedding, they
would make them more acceptable to
the stock than straw or any coarse hay
litter, besides the manure made by their
use is worth one-eighth more than that
from straw or hay litter.
If we wish for eggs we must take
good care of the hens. Change the food
frequently; in winter give them warm,
pure water twice day, pound up oyster
or clam shells and give lean meat, though
fat will do. Cheek meat can be had at
the butchers for five cents per pound. If
hens are cared for in the manner de-
scribed the common breed are as good
as any.
1t must not be forgotten that soils
undergo exhaustion by continued crop
ping, and it is important that the tiller
of the soil should maintain it's fertility.
1t is not necessary to define precisely the
chemical or mechanical condition of the
soil, nor to define what exhaustion
means or to explain how it was brought
about; it is enough to know that crop
ping exhausts the land and that it ceases
to give a full return unless means be
taken to restore fertility; and the fertile
quality must be maintained by what is
called cultivation - digging, manuring,
subsoiling, draining, when necessary,
and keeping the land clean.
Every fruit tree should be examined
early in the season for the boring pests.
Examine the tree near the ground. If a
borer is at work spots may be seen in
the bark where the pest is forcing the
litter out through small hole. In some
trees where there are borers you will see
a rough-looking slit or crack in the bark
about an inch and Il quarter long, with
the borings or sawdust protruding. This
sawdust is a sure sign of destruction
within. There are generally four grubs
in each place. They must be dug out, at
whatever sacrifice of bark and patience,
or the tree is ruined. Cut into the tree
about an inch above the wound and
carry the knife downward, removing a
strip of bark to the bottom of the scar
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14
Eternal DeSOlatiOn.

In the northwest corner of San Ber-
nardino County, CAL, lying partly also in
Inyo County and by the newly-surveyed
line partly also in the State of Nevada,
is region paralleled by few other spots
upon the face of the earth We say the
world is instinct with life. Here, if the
phraseology may be pardoned, is place
instinct with death. A huge basin whose
rim is the ancient hills, stricken with the
barrenness of eternal desolation; whose
bosom, the blasted waste of the desert
treeless, shrubless and waterless save a
few bitter pools like the lye of potash
water; surrounded by mountains that
tower thousands of feet above the sea-
level, itself lying 800 feet below the sea.
1t is very "Gehenna"-a place of death
and bones Birds do not fly over it. An
imals do not enter it. Vegetation cannot
exist in it, The broad sands absorb the
heat, the bare mountains reflect it, the
unclouded sun daily adds to it. Ninety
degrees in the shade (artifcial shade,
there is no other, means winter. One
hundred and thirty and one hundred and
forty degrees, that is summer.
The hot air grows hotter, waivers, trem-
bles with heat until nature, gOaded to
madness, can endure no more; and then
the burning blast rouses itself-rouses in
it's might; rouses as an angry beast, with
hOarse, ominous roar; sweeps mile after
mile, on, ever on, over the broad reach of
the desert, bearing on it's black, whirling
bosom-black as the midnight-dust,
sand alkali and death. Sometimes a
murky cloud gathers upon the mountains
above; then there is rush-a warning
sigh ON the winds-a low rumbling in the
air. the hills culver, the earth trembles,
and torrent, half water, half mud,
bounds from the hills, leaps into the
desert, blowing chasms like river-beds in
the loose sand. The clouds scatter, the
sun comes again, the eternal thirst of
desert is not quenched. The raging river
was only dream.
In the year 1S49 party of emigrants
entered the basin. Day after day they
toiled ON, thirsting, dying. The pitiless
mountains walled them in; no escape.
One by one they dropped and died. A
few, abandoning everything, scaled the
mountains and escaped. The others lie
as they fell, dried to mummies-no birds
even to devour their flesh, no beasts to
prey upon them. Wagon-tires unrusted;
gun barrels bright, untarnished. Such is
the place. Mile after mile silence reigns;
silence-and death.-OUerIa1ad Monthly.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14
The Cheapest Way to Dispose of Coarse
Manure.

Touching this subject George Geddes,
an excellent farmer of Central New York,
writes as follows: Drawing out straw
that the cattle have trampled under foot
and spreading it on ground which a
farmer intends to SOW to oats next spring,
with intent to pull it into the furrow and
pillow under, will be great deal of
work, and should much prefer drawing
that strawv manure on land that is to be
used next season for pasture. On the
pasture it will give out all the good there
is in it to the top of the ground, where it
is of most value. Plowed under, or
rather pulled by hand labor into a fur
row and then covered up, it will do COM
paratively but little good and cost great
deal beside the drawing from the yards
and spreading To reduce my life's ex-
perience on this matter of the handling
of the ordinary strawy barnyard manure
of a grain-growing farm to single SEN
tence, Draw it from the yard as it is
made and at once apply to pasture land,
not in heaps, but spread as applied
There let it lie until the pasture is to be
plowed up. This is the minimum of la
Dor and the maximum of benefit. The
loss by evaporation, by being carried
away by thaws and the like, will be
trivial, and the cost of thus handling
compared with composing is so little
that only in exceptional cases is COM
posting profitable to the great mass of
the farmers of our country. But all the
manure that is made on d farm where
grain and stock raising are combined,
each department helping the other, can
not be taken to the field as fast as made.
Perhaps the ground will be too soft to
justify passing over the fields, and during
six weeks to two months in the spring,
while the stock is yet in the yards, the
teams will all be busy in putting in the
crop of spring grain So the manure
that is made during this busy period must
lie in the yards. After the springs work
is over the contents of the yards should
be either drawn to the fields or put in
piles, having perpendicular sides and fat
tops to hold all the rain that will fall on
them to keep the manure moist so that
it will not rot About midsummer cut
off the sides of these piles and throw on
top. The interior of the piles will by
that time have become considerably de-
cayed, while the sides exposed to the air
will have rotted but little. This throw
ing the outsides on the top will cause the
whole to be in condition to draw to the
fields of winter wheat to be applied as a
top-dressing on the poorest places.-Neao
York Herald.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

The SKEPTICAL Every
advance in Medicine, every new remedy
has encountered an opposition which is
the test of truth. Galen and Jenner only
were believed when they had proved
their discoveries against opposition. But
men are observing, and benefits always
make believers. No incredulity can
stand the silent argument of good re-
suits. When Dr. Walker proclaimed
that he had produced from the medicinal
herbs of California an Elixir that would
regenerate the sinking system and cure
diseases not organic the incredulous
shook their heads. Yet his VINEGAR
BITTERs is now the Standard Res orative
of the Western World. The truth could
not be resisted. Under the operation of
the new remedy Dyspeptics regained
their health, appetite and strength, the
Bilious and Constipated were relieved of
every distressing symptom; the Con
sumptive and Rheumatic rapidly recov-
cred; Intermittent and Remittent Fevers
were broken up; the faint of Scrofula
was eradicated! Who could gainsay
facts like these? Not even the Faculty
Skepticism was routed. All doubts as
to the claims of the Bitters to the first
place in the first rank of modern medi-
cines were silenced and this wonderful
preparation is today the most popular
Tonic, Alternative and Blood Depurent
ever advertised in America. In common
with other journalists we are free to
add our testimony to this remedy. 1t is
a domestic medicine, and no household
should be without it.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

Not Quite So Fast, MIR. JOnes!-A horse
doctor in Philadelphia caught changing the cele-
brated Mexican Mustang Liniment into other bottles
and using it as his recipe Honesty is always the
best policy. These medicine men like to follow up
such fellows. 1t cured the lame horse all the same;
but damaged the Doctors reputation, and benefited
the proprietor in proportion. We have heard of so
many Rheumatic persons and lame horses being cured
by the Mustang Lniment that we advise every house.
keeper. liveryman and planter to invest in Scot or
$00 bottle against accident. Beware of counterfeits
1t is wrapped in steel engraving, signed &c. W.
Westhrook. Chemist -
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14
Feed for Work Horses.

Mature timothy ana oats are the usual
food for working horses, and they do we'll
upon it. Many substitute meal for oats,
in which corn is large Ingredient. There
is also tendency toward using less hay
and more strengthening food, as it is held
that this gives more life and vigor to the
horse. 1t also seems to wear out the
animal the sooner, especially if worked
according to his strength. Those who
feed hay harvested when we'll out of the
blossom, with one feed a day of early-cut
clover, or clover and timothy (the proper
ton of hay somewhat lessened from the
oldsystem of feeding hay plentifully), and
sufficient concentrated food, say oats
and corn, the oats predominating, seem
to prove the best. There will be the
necessary strength and activity, with bet
ter health and more service. The natu-
raj order will not be so far departed
from; the tender hay, of which one feed
of grass or pasture to some extent; it
and the general health, which is of such
Importance that it cannot be ignored
without disadvantage; there is also relief
from the oppressed condition which the
feeding largely of dry, ripe hay induces,
and the fat, sluggish habit produced by
the large use of corn meal, which, as a
summer feed, is also too heating. Oats
contribute to mettle and endurance,
yet not in excess. All the desira-
BILE points are furnished in this
The matured hay holds in check the
tendency to free bowels which the
cured grass or young clover and the
mr. a1 10 70 ind In
diet produces balance and harmony,
the result of which is health, strength and
activity. The horses are safe with such
regimen, which includes medicine and
food, and is simple withal. 1t is less eX-
pensive, particularly the young, tender
hay, the properties of which are more
available than other dried food. The
proportion of this may be increased
where the horse is worked less, and thus
still farther increase the comparative
cheapness. Where much work is re-
quired more concentrated food must be
given; in such cases also less green hay
in proportion.
Green hay may be used instead of bran
mashes or physic, or turning to grass: 1t
has the effect of keeping the system in
sufficiently free or relaxed condition,
promotive of health and strength at the
same time; and, as l have said, it is
cheaper, contains about double the guam
tity of available nutrition which is found
in old or ripe hay, such as is commonly
used. The practice of feeding green
(early cut) hay to mich COWS, sheep and
growing stock is progressing; it is more
difficult to do with horses, especially
Woodworking horses, as the prejudice is
deep and strong.
But when it is once found generally
that early-cut and well-cured hay, includ-
ing clover, has an increase of available
nutriment, thus lessening the expense of
keeping, less grain and less hay being re-
quired, and the health and strength of
the animal improved, and when farther
the hay cutting and the wetting of the
feed may be mostly or entirely dispensed
with-when all this presents itself unde-
niably, the reform will be effected.-Coua-
try Gentleman.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

The Ladies' Sorosts Club, of New York, re.
Gently changed their discussions from Womans sur
frage to Hair Preparations and Pimple Banlshers.
They declared that where nature had not endowed
them with beauty, it their right-yea their duty
to seek where they could. So they all voted that
Magnolia Balm overcame Sallowness, Rough Skin and
Ringmarks, and gave to the complexion most dts
tge (Sorosian) and erblelilze appearance danger
GUS to men, no doubt; and that Lyons Kathairon
made the hair grow thick, soft and awful pretty, and
prevented it from turning gray. If thepro
pretors of these articles did not send the sisters an in
voice, they are not smart.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

THE heat of Summer, as well as the sudden
changes of temperature incident to Autumn,
coupled with the use of unripe vegetables
and fruits and other unwholesOme articles of
food, result every season in producing much
suffering from Diarrhea, Dysentery, Cholera
MOrbus, Collie and other arrangements of the
stomach and bowels. A remedy that will
promptly relieve these suflerings and restore
tone and normal action to the relaxed and de-
bilitated alimentary canal is surely a boon to
the afflicted. DR.. r. V. Pierce, whose Family
Medicines have acquired q worldwide repu-
tation, by long study and careful chemical OK
periments has succeeded in extracting, by a
cold process, from mart-Weed, or Water
Pepper, that modest little plant seen in wet
grounds by the roadside and in neglected
grounds and pasture fields, a remedial princi-
pie which, when skillfully combined with the
extract of Jamaica Ginger and other pleasant
modifying agents, in what he calls his Com
pound Extract of Smart Weed, forms a most
reliable specific for all such arrangements
and sutferings. 1t is pleasant and safe to
take, yet powerful to cure. Its wonderful
efficacy is further confirmation of the Doc
tors idea that God has caused to grow, in
each climate and region, those medicinal
plants best calculated for the cure of the dis
eases that prevail in the section of country
where those plants are found-that the
leaves were for the healing of the nstions,"
and that the fewer far-fetched remedies we
employ the better, if we would thoroughly in
vestigate and understand those we have at
home. The Doctors Extract of Smart Weed
is sold by druggists generally.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit of their employees, when en-
gagged in malarial districts The highest tes-
timonials have been given by contractors and
by the Presidents of some of the leading rail
roads in the South and West When men are
congregated in large numbers in the neigh
borhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhofts Tonic
will prove valuable addition to the stock of
medicines, and will amply reward the compa-
ny in the saving of time, labor and money.
We recommend it to all. WHEELOCK, FINLAY
& Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

You can lie by lifting up your eye
brows; you can lie by a nod; you can lie
by silence. In other words the inten-
tional producing on another persons
mind an impression not in accordance
with the truth is what | understand by
not being truthful. The voluntary pro-
ducing ON another mans mind an i'm
preston that is true is what understand
by being absolute truthful. Christian
Union
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

oh! the'skeeter, the beautiful skee-
ter, filling the air with beautiful meter.
Under our hat and tickling our nose,
taking bite through hole in our
clothes; in through the window; opening
the door; filling our chamber, and sing
ing the sweeter, ever is found the untir-
ing muskeeter.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

GOOD advice never comes amiss. If they
have not got the ElmWood Collar at the
store where you are in the habit of purchas-
ing your goods, tell them to get some for you
at once, and don't be put off with any other
goods
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

ie Grand Revolution IN MEDICAL TREAT
MENT, which commenced in 1860 is still in prog.
ress. Nothing stop it. for it is founded the
principle now universally acknowledged, that physi.
cal ygor is the most formidable antagonist of all hui
man ailments, and experience has shown that PLAN
TATIoN BITTBRs is peerless inyigorant, well as
the possible safeguard against epidemic diseases
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

The public debt of Mexico acknowl-
edged by the Government, and including
the amounts thus far awarded by the
Mixed Commission, amounts to $11 1914
273, which, divided among 100000 of
inhabitants, would be but $113 per
head
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

"A large number of hogs have died
recently in the Hadley neighborhood,
Warren County, KY, from eating the
Canada thistle.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

ANOTHER idiot plays with rifle, and
his lovely and accomplished sister is
thereupon dressed in a shroud. He
should now be made to play with noosed
rope.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

There are 100000 beehives in the
United States Every hive yields, on an
average, a little over twenty-five pounds
of honey. The average price at which
honey is solids twenty-five cents pound,
so that, after paying their own board, the
bees present us with revenue of $S,-
100000
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

-Providence's new census divides its
population of 99,60S into 1881 Ameri
cans and 51,257 foreign, according tc
parentage. The figures for voters are
given as 1885 of American birth and
2,759 of foreign, but good judges say that
the number of American voters is really
greater and that of foreign less. The
colored population has more than doubled
in the last ten years, rising from LII in
1865 to 1857 in 1874.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

"A witty moralist says that "many
man thinks it's virtue that keeps him
from turning rascal, wnen it's only
full stomach. One should be careful
and not mistake potatoes for principles"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

A physician on presenting his bill to
the executor of the estate OF a deceased
patient asked: "Do you wish to have
my bills sworn to-" No." replied the
executor "The death OF the deceased
is enough to prove that you attended
him professionally"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

LITTLE CORPoRAL.-The number for
August is well filled with excellent original sto-
ries, sketches and poems, some of which are APP
propriately illustrated. The editorial columns,
Prudy's Pocket and the Work and Play de-
partment contain the usual variety of good
things. We notice the publisher offers this at
tractive magazine ON trial for six months (from
July to the end of the present year, for 50 cents,
or, including the chrome " Writing to Papa for
IS cents. The regular subscription price is $3.50
year. Published by JOHN E. MILLER, Chicago.
Ill.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

THE kid glove for full dress now comes
within three inches of the elbow and has
the unusual number of fifteen buttons
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14
Prince & Co.'s ORGANS.

Five octayes, two full sets of reeds.
Solid walnut cases, elegant bronze finish.
Price, with six stops, Sl25; eight stops, $50.
Address Reeds Temple of Music, Chicago.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

When is coachman like the clouds?
When he holds the reins,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14
The Ladies' sorosfs Club, of New Yorl

THE NORTHWESTERN HORSE NAIL Co. IS
Finished" Nail is the best in the world.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

~ ASTHMA can be cured. See Hurst's advertise
ment.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14
Dyspepsia or INDIGESTION. Head

ache, Pain in The Shoulders, Coughs,
Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour
Fluctuations of the Stomach, Bad Taste
in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpita-
tation of the Heart, Inflammation of the
Lungs, Pain in the region of the Kid
neys, and a hundred other painful symp-
toms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia.
One bottle will prove better guarantee
of it's merits than a lengthy advertise
mont
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14
ScrOfuIa. or Kings Evil, VII

Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, SwelIed Neck,
Goitre, Scrofulous Infalnmatious Indolent
determinations, Mercurial Affections, Old
Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc.
In these, as in all other constitutions Dis
eases, WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs nave
shown their great curative powers in the