Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-09-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Soft words and soft water should be
abundant and in every home.

Soft words and soft water should be
abundant and in every home.
Always save the earliest and best
seeds for your own use; by so doing for
years the quality may be greatly improved
and early ripening will be FASTENED.
-Corn-cobs make the best and cheap
est summer fuel to be obtained They
are richer in potash than any wood, and
the ashes ought to be saved for soap
making.
-Horseradish grated and mixed with
pickle will prevent mold forming
on the top of the jar. Leaves or horse
radish laid over the top will answer the
purpose. 1t is said that this pungentroot, if
grated and mixed with vinegar and eaten
with the food, will prevent and cure par
alysis.
Chloride of lime water, it is said, will
remove mildew from cotton, cloth, or lin
en-. A large teaspoonful OF the fresh chic
ride is stirred into quart OF water and
strained The cloth is dipped in the solu-
ton, and laid in the sunlight for a few
minutes; if this is not effective, the dip
ping should be repeated. This will not
injure the cloth, if sufficiently weak, and
CHc ClOtu Is we'll TluSGu III CICdl WdtCl ~
soon as the spots are discharged.
"A correspondent of the Western Rural
gives this cure for ring bone: PulveriZed
cantharides, oil of spike, oil of origanum,
oil of amber, oil of cedar, Barbados tar,
British oil, each two ounces; oil of worm
wood, one ounce; spirits of turpentlne,
four ounces; common potash, one-half
ounce; nitric acid, six ounces oil OF vitriol,
four ounces lard, three ounces. Melt the
lard and slowly add the acids; stir well
and add the other ingredients, stirring
until cold. Clip off the hair and apply by
rubbing and heating into the parts affected.
In about three days, or when the part is
done running, wash off with suds made
with white CASTLE soap and apply again.
In old cases it may take three or four
weeks, and in recent cases two or three
applications have cured. .'@@ .s'1
The fact that timed surfaces often
contain lead as an adulteration in suffi-
cient quantities to act injuriously upon
acid solutions of vegetables, fruit, ETC.,
which are brought in contact with them
is we'll known, and certain wise counselors
do not hesitate to protest against the gen.
eral use of these canned fruits, which are
putup in tin instead of glass cans. Since,
however, nothing less than an astounding
wholesale catastrophe is likely to induce
public abandonment of this class of lux
uries, it may be of service to name a sim
pie method by which the presence of acid
can be detected, and thus the manufacturer
be compelled to furnish a purer material.
Having cleaned the suspected surface
thoroughly place upon it drop or thin
coating ofnitric acid. Through the chem
ical reaction thus induced stannic oxide
is formed and nitrate of lead, if this metal
be present. After a few moments the acid
should be expelled by means of gentle
heating; the pulverulentspotp produced by
the acid should then be treated with So
luton composed of five parts of iodide of
potassium in 100 parts of water. Should
lead be present this treatment will result
in the formation of yellow iodide of lead,
which may be readily detected by its char
acteristic color, since the iodide has no ac-
ton upon the pure oxide of tin.-Ra-
change.