Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-02-10
FARMLAND HOUSEHOLD.


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USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.
Mr.. DALTON, of England, by careful
experiment, has shown that where there
is q mellow soil three feet under any crop,
it can defy the weather and come to ma
turity without drop Of rain after the LIST
of June.
Corn STARCH CAKE.-The whites of
twelve eggs, three cups of sugar, one cup
Of butter, three cups of flour, one cup Of
corn starch, one cup of milk, two tea
spoons of cream tartar, one teaspoon of
soda, add essence to suit taste.
THE most easily digested articles of food
as yet known are sweet apples baked, cold
raw cabbage sliced in vinegar, and boiled
rice the most indigestible are suet, boiled
cabbage and pork; the former require an
hour, the latter FIVE.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Country Gen.
Mem0n says that hand friction-always
rubbing down-will certainly keep wind
gals from increasing, and if well applied
for half an hour at q time, twice day,
will remove new one, or materially check
one of long standing.
A LADY writes to the London Standard
saying that scarlet fever and kindred dis
eases may be treated successfully by
means of the Turkish bath. One of her
children, aged four, being attacked by
scarlet fever, was wheeled in perambu-
lator to Turkish bath, and was much
better when she returned home. For four
successive mornings she underwent the
same process, and the progress of the dis
sease was rapid aud satisfactory.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western Ru-
raj tells how German woman cooks food
for -four great fat hogs" She has bar
rel sunk in the ground. In this is placed
some meal, and on this is poured wash
boiler of boiled potatoes and carr OTIS,
which are then rapidly mashed, with a
"great FOUNDER" More meal is then
thrown in and the barrel is tightly cover
ed. The whole mess is cooked by the
heat of the potatoes and carrots. These
are cooked twice day.
MANY dangerous fever HAS been caused
by the foul air from dark, damp and un.
ventilated cellars. Confined air, without
the purifying influence of sunlight, soon
becomes impure and unwholesome Most
cellars serve as reservoir for this impure
air, which, in addition, is loaded with de-
composing organic matters and foul gases,
given off from the masses Of decaying
vegetables with which they are stored.
Cellars should be kept as clean, pure, and
well ventilated as any portion of the
house.-Me Household.
COOP RULEs.-Stop grumbling, get up
two hours earlier in the morning, and be-
gin to do something out of your regular
profession. Mind your own business, and
with all your might, let other peoples
alone. Live within your means. Sell
your horses. Give away or sell your dog.
Smoke your cigars through an air stove.
Eat with moderation, and go to bed early.
Talk less of your own peculiar gifts and
virtues, and more of those of your friends
and neighbors. Be cheerful. Fulfill your
promises Pay your debts. Be yourself
all you would see in others. Be q good
man and stop grumbling.
SURE CURE FOR THE BITE OF A RATTLE.
sNAKE.-An old lady sends the following
remedy to the Chicago Tribune, having
herself seen it tried with success "Take
equal quantities of onion, tobacco, and salt;
make poultice, and apply to the wound
at the same time tie cord tightly around
the limb which is bitten, above the wound.
If very severe case, the poultice should
be renewed every ten or fifteen minutes
till the poison is all extracted. The same
remedy has been known to cure the bite
of mad dog"
TOBACCO smokers, says the London
Medical Mirror, must look to their ewes.
Proofs are accumulating that blindness,
due to slowly progressive atrophy of the
optic nerves, induced by smoking, is of
frequent occurrence. In one Of the
volumes of the "London Hospital Re-
ports" Mr.. Jonathan Hutchinson has
narrated several cases of amaurosis, the
histories of which 60 to establish the fact
that in each case the blindness was
brought on by that rapidly increasing,
and, as it appears, baneful habit; and III
the Medical Times and Gazette, of late
date, the same distinguished surgeon has
described another striking case Of "tobac-
co amaurosis, ending in absolute blind
ness, induced in eighteen months.
EVERY person who tolls daily at any
kind Of labor requiring great physical or
mental exertion should be extremity care
full to practice regular system of ablu-
Sometimes person may become so COM
thing but an inviting performance; yet by
its omission q great deal of refreshment
which the hours of repose are designed to
impart is lost. To be Clearly is strictly
religious duty, and is absolutely essential
to sound and refreshing slumber; hence
the labor of keeping ones person clean is
amply repaid by the elasticity which fol.
lows nightly additions before retiring
Heed this advice, and the reader will
sleep soundly; disregard it-go to bed un.
washed, and you will rise in the morning
unrefreshed, with feelings of lassitude
which the exertions of the day. will hardly
be able to move.-Ecchange.
Feed Hay Carefully.
THERE are hundreds of tons of hay lost
every winter among farmers by careless
feeding. We have been astonished some.
times when witnessing the amount wasted
around barnyards and stacks. This waste
is entirely unnecessary, and if it was made
the rule of every farmer never to feed any