The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-09-20

i
| GsoRGE Russell, of Girard, Mich, raises
onions and "sets" 1t the rate .. 500 bushels
to the acre
STAINS ON SILK.-Stsins produced by
lemon juice, vinegar, oil of vitriol or other
sharp corrosives, moy be removed by mix
ing little pearlash with soap lsther, and
passing the silk through it,
THR hop crop in Wisconsin is unprece-
dented. very low estimate places its val
ue at two million dollars In the vicinity Of
kilbourn City, $3.50, 900 worth have already
been contracted for.
/ To MAKE CALICO WASH WELL.-Tnfuse
three gills Of salt in four quarts of boiling
water; put the calicoes in while hot, and
leave them standing till cold In this way
colors are rendered permanent
NOTHING teaches patience like garden.
You may 60 round and watch the opening
bud from day to day but it takes its own
time, and you cannot urge It on faster than
1t will. All the best results Of garden,
like those of life, are slowly but regularly
progressive.
TIN peach was originally poisonous
almond. Its deshy parts we're used to poison
arrows, and for this introduced into Persia.
The transplantation and cultivation, howev-
| or. not only removed its poisonous qualities,
but produced the delicious fruit that we now
enjoy.
| NICE EATINa.-In South Africa there is a
snake called the Python, which is sometimes
found twenty feet long and as large as
mans leg. They feed on young animals,
/ crushing their bones and then swallowing
them. They do not bite, and the Bushmen
shoot them when found, cut them up, and
carry the pieces home on their shoulders,
roast and eat them with as much relish as
| they would y leg 81 mutton.
| new Use FOR Communicative
iriron, when they wish to weld joint use
borax as fux. An intelligent gentleman
CT this city, who is curious in facts of natu-
| raj history, says that on one occasion, y
blacksmith near his residence having no
/ borax, man hanging round the shop told
him he could get a substitute, and brought
him number of caterpillars, which being
applied to the heated iron, produced as firm
an adhesion Of the metals as the borax.-
Pttsbueg Chronicle.
FRUIrING VINES. At the New York
| Farmers Club, Scion Robinson read letter
! from 3 man saying that he finds it impossi-
/, BILE to get his Hubbard squash vines to pro-
duce more than one squash to the hill,
though he has tried pinching off the late
! rails, and other plans. Mr.. Pardee replied
| that his course was very simple and plain.
| He had merely to pinch off the leader few
inches from the hill and let the laterals
/ grow. This is the proper treatment also
| for melon vines.
SHADE TREEs.-Plant them by the road
side, plant them in the yard around the
house. If you anticipate building in the
future, selec, your site and plant trees
around it, groups Of evergreens and vari-
ETY. OF deciiuous trees. You thus make a
homestead attractive. and add very much to
the value of your farm if you ever want to
sell. You cannot do too much Of the work
draw on the nurseries and forests, collect
and plant seeds, and grow some to give
away to your neighbors who will not buy.
| TURKEYs.-We have noticed number Of
we'll authenticated cases where the hen tur
key has killed and devoured her young. The
instances occurred where the turkey was
confined in coop, pen or yard, and was un-
able to get animal food in the shape of in
sects, worms, etc. Turkeys have fondness
for animal food, and should be kept supplied
with it, particularly where it is necessary to
keep them confined. Chickens are some
times said to pick the feathers of each
others necks. to get the blood contained in
the end of the quill little animal food
will prevent this
A CALCULATING HEN.-The Canton, Mo.
| Press is responsible for the following: A few
days ago. a hen was found in o neighboring
barn incubating on a nest of five eggs.
Considering that too small an undertaking
!, for q full grown hen, the owner removed
/ these, and placed thirteen fresh eggs in the
nest. On examination soon after. it was
discovered that old biddy had deliberately
rolled out eight, thus refusing to cover more
than the original number. Four times the
experiment was repeated with a similar re-.
suit, and the obstinate hen was finally left
to her select number, thus furnishing evil
dencc not only Of reasoning powers, but Of
true feminine spunk.
Coop BIRrsTEAK. is an appro-
pirate thickness for . steak, and we do not
remember to have seen that reached with
any one served from q public table. Let
the steak be cut at from one to one and q
half inches thick and the supericies reduced
three fourths, so that it will not fill large
dish. but will just be accommodated in q
email one. The juices and nutriment OF the
steak are thus preserved and it is fit to eat
which it never is under the present barbar
GUS mode practised in our hotels and eating
houses. Never put butter on steak; avoid
- pestilence the nasty gresses which form
the basis Of vulgar cookery.
What MAKEs BusHxL.-The following
table Of the number Of pounds to . bushel
Of different articles, may be Of interest to
| our readers:
Wheat sixty pounds; corn shelled, fifty
six pounds; corn on the cob, seventy pounds;
rye, ffty-six pounds; oats. thirty pounds !;
barley forty six pounds: buck wheat fifty
six pounds Irish potatoes, sixty pounds !;
sweet potatoes, fifty pounds; onions, fifty
seven pounds; beans, sixty pounds; bran,
twenty pounds clover seed, sixty pounds,
timothy seed, forty five pounds hemp seed
forty pounds blue grass seed. fourteen
pounds; dried peaches, thirty three pounds
WHAT Is SALERArUs Wood is burnt to
| ashes, the ashes are lixiyiated, ley is the re-
suit. Ley is evaporated by boiling, black
salts is the residium. The salt undcrgoes
publication by fire. and the potash Of COM
merce is obtained. by process, we change
potash into pearlash. Now put this in sacks
and place it over distillery tub, where the
fermentation evolves carbonic acid gas, and
4 the Dearlash Absor Ia IL and randers il solid