Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-07-30
FARM AND HOME.

-Currant Jam.-To every pound of red
currants allow three fourths of pound
of white sugar Gather the fruit on a fine
day, weigh it, then strip off the stalks; put
the sugar and currants into preserving
pan and boil three-fourths of an hour,
skimming carefully. Put into pots and
cover with branded papers as you would
jellies.
TO remove film In colts eye, take
hens oil, put some in phial; take
feather from goose's or hens wing; put
the feather end into the phial; then take
hold of the lash of the eye with the thumb
and finger, raise it a little, and with the
other hand give slight brush across the
ball of the eye, giving two applications a
day for the first day or two; if the eye is
much infiamed then use once day until
the eye is well. / have tried it on horses,
on cattle, on sheep, for over twenty years
and never knew it to fail. / wish that all
who deal in horses would apply this SIM
pie remedy; if they would there would be
fewer blind horses. I wish all who see
this notice would try it on any dumb
beast if the eyes run water.-C2yde, an
Rural Neao Yorker.
"A home should have a garden ofsome
kind attached to it. However poor the
house may be, little plot of garden IN
front of it, where something pretty IS
growing. where green vines are climbing
upward into the sunlight-where birds
and bees and children love to gather and
the passer-by pauses to look with interest
and pleasure-gives it far more home
like and attractive aspect than it can
otherwise have. Many an ordinary house,
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garden presents far more pleasing and
attractive appearance than much costlief
mansion whose bare walls have no varie-
gated setting of natural beauty to give
completeness to the picture. 1t is sur
prising how much few flowers set in the
window add to the cheerfulness of the
room they adorn, and the home likeness
of the house as seen from the street. A
few honeysuckles or woodbines trailing
over an arbOr Or along house wall alter
the aspect of the place at once, and create
an impression favorable to it's inmates.
Lice are the bane of poultry in the sum-
mer season. Young chicks and old fowls
pine and die miserably in thousands from
this cause. Grease is sure remedy
against these vermin. A mixture OF one
teaspoonful of kerosene oil or crude petro-
leum with four ounces Of fresh lard or
sweet oil should be rubbed on the heads
and beneath the wings of the fowls and
chicks, either as cure or preventive.
The same should be smeared over the
roosting poles, carefully filling all cracks
with it. If setting hen is allowed to be-
come infested, her nest should be changed,
the eggs dipped in tepid water and
washed, and replaced in fresh, clean
nest. There is no better material for nests
than fine earth or shavings. Some tansy
placed in the nest will help to keep lice
away. The hen may be washed in warm
carbolic soap-suds, and then allowed to
dust herself in fine, dry, clean earth. The
new nest should be exactly similar to the
old one, and if the change is made when
the hen leaves the nest to feed and near
evening, she will go on to it without hest
tation. Cleanliness, dryness, variety of
food and pure water in plenty will all help
to keep poultry in perfect health during
the warm weather.--Amer5can AgrscuH
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