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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05
How to Stack the Straw.

The straw-Stack has now come to Occu-
ply prominent position upon every farm,
entirely unlike the practice of early days,
when the straw was dragged into an open
space and burned, the farmer considering
it an unfortunate occurrence if a passing
shower should intercept him before the
torch was applied. The importance of
the straw as valuable food, for bedding
and for the protection it affords to stock
during winter makes it necessary to know
how to stack it in the best manner
Where the straw is not very abundant
it is better to build a pen a few feet in
height as protection to the sides, and
build the stack within it, spreading the
sides out sufficiently to sustain large or
small stack, as is desired. To insure a
thorough shedding of water it is necessary
to keep the middle of the stack full, so
that the straw shall all slope downward
toward the outside
The settling of straw stacks is so great,
and they take in water so rapidly, that it
is seldom they are built high enough to
being spoiled by heavy rains. Dat straw
sheds water better than the straw of most
other grains, and should be put on top of
1lc SIoCh, uuICSS ooulSGlIuS UcttCI Ill tu0
form of slough grass is used instead.
With the straw carriers now used upon
threshing-machines the straw is elevated
to the proper height, and is stacked with
much less labor than formerly. The chaff,
the most valuable part for food, is also
carried with it and saved. After it an
swers all the purposes for which it is re-
quired the refuse straw makes large
quantity of excellent manure which may
be applied to the soil to advantage for all
kinds of crops; so that the former prac-
tice of burning the straw is greatly i'm
proved upon by modern practices
eT,n Rural
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

The best oil for making boot and har-
ness leather soft and pliable is castor-oil.
As soon as a boil becomes hard and
infamed paint it with iodine. The poison,
it is said, will not be scattered, but will
be absorbed by it.
Bleeding from an extracted tooth
has been sometimes fatal; it is controlled
by a plug made of grated nutmeg
Halls Journal sof Health.
Lamps are liable to explode when
trimming is neglected. The wick being
charred low down in the tube the flame
obtains access to the oil below.
According to the London agricultural
Gazette very good family soup is made
from one and half pounds of lean beef,
two pounds of potatoes sliced thin, one
large carrot, one large onion, few sha-
lots, one turnip, one stick of celery, four
quarts of water. Let it simmer four
hours, flavor with hot sauce to suit the
taste, salt, pepper, etc. 1t is a great i'm
provement to fry all the vegetables when
cut in small pieces, together with the
meat also cut in pieces conveniently
small, taking care that there is fat enough
added to prevent the raw vegetables from
burning A dessert-spoonful of coarse,
brown sugar may be thrown into the pan
while the meat, vegetables, etc., are fry
ing. After it has simmered four hours
it should be set to cool for the fat to be
taken from the top of the soup before be-
ing served up for use. The meat should
be sent to table in the soup, not strained, as
is usually done.
Having had some experience, says a
correspondent of the Country Gentleman,
in clover raising, l will say for the bene-
fit of any who may be interested in the
subject that / believe it produces more
milk than either timothy or corn-fodder,
and at the same time find that land i'm
proves by frequently being seeded to
clover. AS to whether plaster is indis-
pensable,. | have always used it, and with
varied results. The present season had
twenty acres of clover which had in
tended for seed, and to which applied
about May 20 hundred pounds ofplaster
per acre. On examiningthe heads this fall
found that very few of them had seed
in fact, I do not think the twenty acres
would have produced five bushels, and
abandoned the idea Of cutting it for seed
and put part in for feeding and past
ured the remainder. On an adjoining
farm | saw some clover we'll filled with
seed where no plaster was used.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05
Buying On Credit.

The practice of buying on credit the
necessary articles of the household is fatal
TO good economy. The housekeeper has
always to pay dearer when she does not
pay cash. The tradesman must have in
tie est for his money, for a man will never,
in business community, be willing, and
Is seldom able if he were willing, to for
go it. To the ordinary cash prices of the
article he therefore adds the interest which
may accrue during the time that credit is
allowed. This, however, is not all There
must be premium exacted by the dealer
for the risk he runs in trusting his goods
to that class of more or less dangerous
customers who never pay ready money.
Even the most honestly disposed of these
are often unsafe debtors, for they are gen
orally such as are imprudent enough to
anticipate their incomes and to overrun
them in expenditures. The credit system,
moreover, is temptation to unnecessary
purchases. There is a sort of check in
the sight and touch of the hard-won money
to the disposition to dispose of it lightly.
On the other hand there is something in
the facility of credit, removing, as it does,
the disagreeable necessity of payment to a
vague future, very seductive to the buyer,
who can crafty his love of possession
with momentary sense, at any rate, that
its qualification costs him nothing There
is no such cheap and cautious purchaser
as cash.-EGchdnge
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05
I" All Run DOWN.

This is an expression that we hear from
doctors when they are in doubt about
the nature of the disease of their patients.
The country seems to be filed with such
cases, and they are trying first one remedy
and then another, hoping in vain to find
relief. They generally have the following
symptoms: A general depression of spirits,
with evil forebodings, whirling sensation
in the head when rising up suddenly, foul
breath, with bad taste in the mouth,
especially in the morning pain in the sides
and back, urine scanty and high colored,
frequently voidcd with difficulty, frequent
headaches, distressed feeling at the pit of
the stomach food affording no nourishment.
The patient feels tired all the while, and
sleep affords but little rest. After time a
dry, hacking cough sets in, followed after a
time with expectoration, hands and feet cold
and clammy at times, a general wasting of
the body. In such eases we need a remedy
that will act upon the liver, Kidneys, stomach
and blood at the same time, and when we
use, such remedy it affords relief. The
best article for this purpose is the SHAKER
EXTRACT OF Roofs, sold by A. j. White, 319
Pearl street, N. Y. Agents wanted.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05
The Effects of Paris Green.

In recent paper read before the Mlchi-
gan State Board of Health DR.. r. G..
KedZie gives detailed account of careful
experiments made by him during the past
year upon the use of Paris green in con-
nection with growing crops, and says he
has satisfied himself of the truth of the
following propositions:
1. Paris green, being deadly poison,
should be handled with extreme care. By
inhalation of the dust, by contact of the
material with sores or raw surfaces, and
even by contact with moist or perspiring
surface, it may produce dangerous effects.
2. While classed as an insoluble sub
stance, Paris green becomes soluble to a
sensible degree by the action of what we
may term the natural nocturnal solvents,
carbonic acid, and the solvent action OF
the minute roots of plants seem to be the
most active of these natural solvents
3. Arsenious acid and arsenites in solu-
ton tend to pass into an insoluble condi-
ton in the soil in which arsenic is insolu-
BILE by the natural agricultural solvents.
4. While other agents may assist in fix
ing arsenious acid in the soil the hydrated
oxide of iron is probably the most potent
factor in producing this insoluble condi-
ton; that enough of this oxide is present
in all fertile soils to render inert much
larger amount of arsenic than would ac-
cumuiate from the use of Paris green as
an insect poison.
s. Paris green mixed with soil does not
remain in this form or at least it cannot
be dissolved out of such soil by many
agents which readily dissolve the salt.
p 6. Paris green when applied in small
quantities does not seem to affect the
health of potato or wheat plant The
arsenic which it contains does not reap
pear in the tuber or the grain, and that
these substances are not injured as human
food by the small quantity of Paris green
required to tree our fields from most de-
structive insect foe.
z. The power of the soil to remove from
solution and hold in an insoluble form
arsenious acid and arsenites will protect
the water supply from deadly contamina-
ton by this agent unless the poison is
used in excess Of any requirements as an
insect destroyer.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05
Hearty Breakfasts.

In large majority of cases it will be
found that the best and healthiest meal of
the day should be eaten in the morning
If the closing repast of the day has not
been eaten too late, or has not been excess
i've in quantity or indigestible in quanti
ty, the stomach will be rested and active
in the morning after the individual has
enjoyed cool bath. The stomach will
then respond quickly with the necessary
gastric juice for the solution of food, and,
if fair amount of exercise is taken dur
ing the day, large mass of food will be
assimilated and converted into blood and
tissue. With good, substantial break
fast no great amount of food will be re-
quired during the remainder of the day.
One further meal will be ample, and that
might better be taken at from two to three
o'clock in the afternoon than at any
period, if business engagements only per-
mitted it. The breakfast may be made
from any kind of wholesome food, and
the fewer kinds the better. The dinner
should be light and readily digested, if
sound sleep is desired and strong appetite
and perfect powers of digestion next day.
II hunger comes, a bowl of sweet milk
and well-cooked mush of Indian meal, or
other unbolted grain, will allay it, and
will digest quickly. One "square meal"
in every twenty -four hours is all that can
be taken care of by many weak stomachs,
and more than this is an excess and in
duces headache, nausea and distress. If
dinners were abandoned, especially late
and heavy dinners, myriads of dyspeptics
would be cured, but under the exigencies
of city life a late dinner cannot be we'll
avoided. This need not be the tremendous
meal it is customary to make it if the
breakfast be substantial and nutritious,
and not thing of Stops and biscuits, as it
too often is.-JOu1nat Of Health.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05
THE PouIrRY ARaus-Imnroyed and

enlarged by the consolidation of the Northeastern
Poultry Journal and the american Fdnciers' Ga
zettS. This gives THE ARGUS the largest circala-
ton of any poultry journal published in the great
West The publishers announce their determine
ton to make it the best journal of its class in the
country. 1t numbers among its contributors many
of the best breeders in the United States. Every
farmer, mechanic and laboring man should sub
scribe now for THE ARGUS. If you only raise one
dozen fowls it will pay you in the practical advice
and suggestions given. The October number is
full of good reading matter for the breeder and
fancier, and is alone worth the subscription price
1t is profusely illustrated With the finest cuts of
poultry, and is in every way irst-class journal.
The balance ofthis gear free to Ill sag subscribers.
This will give you THE ARGUS fifteen months for
only $500. Send ten cents for sample copy Ad-
dress MILLER & CLINTON, Polo. Ill.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

RUprURE.-The Elastic Truss Company have
produced a great revolution in the treatment
of hernia. Their new truss is worn easy night
and day; adapts itself to every motion of
the body; never displaced by hardest exer-
else; retaining rupture comfortably, till soon
permanently cured. Sold at the office of the
company, No. 6S3 Broadway, New York city.
Trusses sent by mail. Send for circular.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

THE throat is a peculiar organ-always at
work and will bear about everything but a
neglected cold, which produces irritation
and tickling cough. No time should be
lost in arresting the disease at this point,
where consumption can be cured" for this
often proves to be the first stage of that aw-
full disease. For these slight attacks there is
no better remedy than the Forest Tar
Troches"-none so good. If taken in sea-
son they win allay the irritation and relieve
the hacking cough. They may be found at
the druggists with the "Forest Tar Book"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

THE season for coughs and colds is rapidly
approaching, and everyone should be pre-
pared to check the first symptoms, as a
cough contracted between now and Christ
mas frequently lasts all winter. There is no
better remedy than Johnson'S Aasodyne Lini-
n,ent For all diseases of the throat and
lungs it should be used internally and ex-
formally
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

TO prevent a horse from paving,
hitch trace chain around the ankle or
fetlock of the foot most used, and let the
other end of the chain lay loose on the
floor of the stall, and all will be right
ErctGn0e
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

1t is given for solemn fact that hired
girl in Savannah tainted dead away be-
cause she broke tea-cup. 1t may be
true. 1t may be that she hadn't chance
to hide the pieces.-Detr0St Free Press.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05
The Biggest Bet of the Missouri State
Fair.

sand dollar wager was offered by the Propri-
etors of the Jill Well Anger that it would
bore hole of the same size faster and easier
than any other well auger on exhibition, and
we learn that this is standing offer for one
year. Who will accept it? See their adver-
tisement in another column.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

added to the melted butter, cut in circles;
others add them to the fish as they pre-
pare it on their plates. When the pota-
toes are just done mot too SOFT pour Oft
the water, take the kettle to an open door
(where the wind is blowing) and mash
with wooden pestle.
Replace the kettle on the ire and do
not cover it. The potatoes Will keep hot
and nice for one or two hours, II necessary.
When dinner is served place the dish OF
fish and the hot potatoes on the table the
last things. For dessert after flsh dinner
deep apple-pie without an undercrust is
most suitable, or ripe apples, II In season,
are better still.-Weste7n Ratrdt.
SCHENoK's PULMoNIc SYRUP, for the
Cure of Consumption, Coughs and Colds The
great virtue of this medicine is that 1t rpens the
matter and throws it out of the system, purlfles
the blood, and thus effects cure.
ScHENcK's SEA WEED Tonic, for the Cure of
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, etc. The Tonic produces
healthy action of the stomach, creating an appe-
tite, forming chyle, and curing the most obstinate
cases of indigestion.
ScHENoK's MANDRAKE PILLS, for the Cure of
Liver Complaint, etc. These pills are Alternative
and produce healthy action on the liver without
the least danger, they free from caomel, and
yet more eficacious in restoring healthy action
of the liver.
These remedies are certain cure for Consump-
ton, as the Pulmonic Syrup ripens the matter and
puriies the blood The Mandrake Pills act upon
the liver, create healthy bile and remove all dis
eases of the liver often cause of Consumption.
The Sea Weed Tonic gives tone and strength to
the stomach, makes good digestion, and enables
the organs to form good blood; and thus creates 8
healthy circulation of healthy blood. The COM
bined action of these medicines, as thus ex.
planned, will cure every case of Consumption II
a pn fho yIcnn f
vered in.
DR.. Schenck is professionally at his principal
Office, corner Sixth and ARCH STs., Philadelphia,
every Monday, where all letters for advice must be
addressed.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

LUNG FEVER, common cold, catarrhal fever
and nasal discharge of brownish color in
horses may be checked at once by liberal
use of Sheridaal's CavaLrY Condition Poacders.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

WHEN you go to Chicago stop at the
" Barnes House," corner of Randolph and
Canal streets. The fare is excellent and ev-
erything in the house is new. Only $3.50 to
$500 per day for transient.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

Gambling in New York city is said to
be well-nigh extinct, owing to the liabili-
ty of any person entering gambling house
to be arrested
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

People milk 100000 cows in this
country, keep 5000 creameries and cheese
factories, and have cheese and butter
product Of $3.50, 100000.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

An engineer from the Black Hills re-
ports gold at twenty cents cord anu
bread at one dollar crumb.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

PERsoNAL.-Jud. S. Bird.-"I certify that
I have used DR.. SIMMONS LIVER REGU-
LATOR in my family with complete satisfac-
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

VA A NTENEn MEN to sell our goods to DEAL
w AN E1E1 ERs. No peddng from house to
house. Cash salary; hotel and travelling expenses
paid. Address B. ROBE d CO., CINCINNATI Ohio.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

Rev. J. e. Fielder" My wife and self have
used the REGULATOR for years, and GER
tify to its great virtues"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

-N0 g a - Chicago Suburban Lots at
= OR pa e 800 each-Sl5 down and $
monthly for balance-within a short distance of city
limits with hourly trains and cheap fare. Send for cir
cular. IRA BROWN, 142 La Sale St. Chicago. III.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-05

eG For Nothing. Agents Wanted Everywhere.
DO Address j. KENNEDY & CO., Richmond, Ind.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-03-26
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:. r.,,"nd ,,ho nas b., IL, : ~
a. ~ 80 ~ nan s,r ~. e., 80
$50 Sha was horn :, 800 q, To-
,on Somar.., xbora hsr s,,ha, x.s I.na
80, b. a nohiamsn sho Lad . -,
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W. ,, -, - IT, %
a,o .ho va n,arr;aJ 30 an 80 -,
nsmod Uon.vwei, .nd her nam ss .
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Tho ,uo i'll ,oao,hor 90 rnhann;I, d.,
=, I.na,h sha ran 49, fron. - al
won, toIonJon She ,bore ma, VIII !.
,on,an ,,ho Ri ,orn,o,I,, -, g, .,,' 49,.
van, % har c,,hor and VI had rnar.;ad
a cabman and from what sho board In
rorarJ ,n ,he c,h dr;v;n. hn.inass IL
rosolvod IN earn an ;ndenondon, I;v;no
in hat branch or indus,rv nv wes,;ne
no, hair Nor, and INV a ;nd;cious uso 20
clo,hing sbe managed 10 nroduce the
anno.rsne. Of shor, s,on, non ho,
face heing of a masculine tvne no, com.
nlexion aorid and she havinr m innedi.
ment In he, sneecb caused bv a desec,ivs
na,a,s eo,snired - render ,ho ;I,ns;on
nerrect For m ree vears In Iondon and
six In IivernooI she nIi.d ,be Win "a a
"mon y her ser being unlnovn and mn.
susnec,sd Inv all with one excan,io,
Du,;na ,hat ner;od ~. w. on sayer,I
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-03-26

Many hardship and badge of con.
tempt has been changed to an honor by
using it discrec;ly and wearing it nobly.
The place Of Il lady hostess at the head
Of the table is said to have been first as
signed for reasons less crcditable to the
men than we had supposed.
In Queen Elizabeth's time the fashion
came into vogue of placing the principal
joints and pieces of meats at the head Of
the table, above the salt, In order that
the chief guests might regale their eyes
with the promise OF good cheer before
them, and also be conveniently served to
the choicest cuts This custom involved
the necessity Of carving the meats after
they had reached the table; therefore
the ladies were invited to sit at the head
Of the board, that they might perform
the service which had before been dele
gated to tho professional carver.
II was thus from no desire to compli-
ment the fair sex that woman was, in the
beginning, promoted TO the most honor
able place at the table. 1t was for the
selfish convenience of her lord, and not
for her own dignity, that the position
was accorded TO her; and as, in medieval
society, she ministored to her guests by
preparing dishes for their enjoyment, Of
ten bearing them to the table herself, 50
she now, in the capacity of carver, con
tinued in the rank Of servitor.
But, with the tact which is her distin-
gushing characteristics, she has gradual.
ly converted the caryer's stool into a
throne of State, and assumed the right to
preside over the company through an of
flee which originally authorized her only
to help them with food
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-03-26

u, -a
.,.,t,,.a,,f ..- IN
10 sn,u, :
rouLihf' aside rom ury mouse
cleanliness warmth, Ventiiat'on, sun
hsh', aehoice variety OF iood' pure wa
ter, dry earth' PREPARED muck, ashes,
plaster, etc., especially laying hens,
should nave animal iood 10 make up Tor
want OF insects, TO which they are &C
eus'omed IN outdoor lie nj other sea-
sons. scraps are cheap source OF
suplAy' .--. .'....
TIE engineer of sugar mill in the
island of Barbadoes uses raw cows hide
in place of the ordinary leather betting
ana says that IL lasts iour tunes as long
ana on'y COSY, ohe-iVu''n as much' Inc
niue 10 uiieu IN '.e sum cur f",'eo.'!
s'raign,' anu 'ne Joih.s s'''che" WIN
sauu'er hemr uiea" ne mas an e'sh',
lh'n Dei' Vi 'u.s Ai"e' u'i',ue s,ne u
,hiee,incn s',ai'ing' NUN "nioh "a - i'ici
oe'' uii'es 'he sugar iia'hi"e'
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman says that the way to Danish
rats is, plant asphodel near the barn or
stable where they are, or put some in
their holes. Rats have such an aversion
FOR this plant that they will quit the
premises where it is, II they are in
drains or in cellars, scatter sulphate OF
iron (copperas,) in their runs. The cop
peras should not be dissolved. II Is our
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-03-26

oe'''"es';T: .: :. .:s sE: :s;. ""d f"'
Mr. Hodges, urerintendcnt Of tree
planting on one % tho chief railroad
Ilines % Minnesota, made an sddre.. re-
gently N the Mmne-cta STATE Agvicuitu.
rAi society, from which We take. the fol.
lowingi $3.50 rft ~ - trse
Twenty-Five years hence, with mil.
lion or more ~ population, our pinerics
exhausted, the Big Woods pretty well
thinned out the Mississippi drying up,
~, Panl aud Minneapolis three or four
,hundred miles above the head Of steam.
boat navigation, meNRy forty degrees
below zero, and the wind blowing a hur-
ricane, is not the idle rcverie Of a
dreamer. Destroying one hundred and
fifty thousand acres Of forest annually,
and planting to supply this loss-hov
much7 Can this society answer Can
the State Of Minnesota Tfyou can, the
answers are in order now, for even nov
the grasshopper has become a burden,
aud the mourners go about the street
The frontier settlers Of our treeless re.
gions are twisting up prairie grass for
fuel, burning prairie sods, and grubbine
out old stamps and roots, doing their
best 10 extract sufficient warmth there.
from 10 prevent their wives and little
ones from freezing--alasl not always sue
cccding The honest farmers, with loads