Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-24
ROME, FARM AND GARDEN

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d when you feel like currying favors 90
into your stable, and curry your horses
and other stock. That pays best LA 2
/, Bread and Butter Pudding.-When
dry bread is left, spread 1t with butter,
and pile up the slices In . pudding dish.
Fill in with custard,a and add lew
raisena Bake it enough to cook = GUS
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Il "A contemporary suegests that II driv-
ers would know, expefimentAlly, how 9
horse feels when his reins ere twitched
and ierked and "yanked," they shopld
take good sized board-n nail into their
mouths, and, tying cord to either end,
should give q lively boy the ends, and let
him, Ndnk them awhile. tssa EHfil Y
Fruit Cake.-Take two cups
of dried apples; having soaked them
and boil soft; add three cups OF molasses,
and boil three minutes then add one tea
cup of shortening, (half fresh lard and
half butter Is best) one teacup Of sour
milk, and one large teaspoonful Of soda |;
two eggs when the apples are cool spice
to taste; put in the oven and bake.
Scrambled Eggs.-Have little lard
heated in spider, and break In eggs, one
or two for each person; stir brlskly. salt,
and take up when they are hardened. "A
little chopped parsely and cold ham added
to the eggs, make an agreeable dish. "A
dish resembling omelet can be made by
beating up eggs and frying them in hot
lard. Salt and pepper, and when done in
vert the spider and turn out its contents
on q plate Send to the table hot
"A correspondent of the Country Gen.
Neman planted few acres Of turnips
which were large enough to begin to feed
the first week in July, when they were
fed to pigs, and no other feed given until
the last week in September. No lot OF
pigs could have done better, growing and
keeping in good condition all the while.
He does not advocate cooking white turnips
for pigs under any circumstances. They
are only fit for them raw in warm weather.
Steamed Swedes are good mixed with
plenty of meal, but potatoes are SO much
better that half the meal mixed with them
would feed as fast.
Raising Calves--A Devon breeder
adopts the following plan in raising his
calves: He has small pasture adjoining
his milking yard, milks two teats Of each
cow dry, and when all are thus MIXED,
lets in his calves to take the remainder
this quantity Of milk, with pasture, keeps
them in good growing condition. When
taken from the cows he grinds four
bushels of oats with one of linsced this
fed moderately to them through the win
ter mixed with chaff and few cut roots,
keeps them in q growing state. They
come out in the spring, and keep In
growing condition the whole OF the fol-
lowing summer.
"A Good Word for the Wholesome in
teresting experiments have recently been
made in the grounds attached to the school
of Saint Remy, France, as to the useful
qualities Of the common mole. On the
Odd of July mole was placed in q piece
of shrubbery, and was given wornils and
grubs for food. In four days he ate 432
wornils and $50 grubs. Another mole
was placed on the 7th of August in a
large wooden box, and in ~ days he ate
$40 grubs and S72 wornils. From time to
time vegetable matter, such as was be-
lieved TO be his usual food, was placed
before him, but he never touched it except
to make his bed upon it. A third, which
had lost foot in trap, ate $50 wornils
on the first day. It is now argued, from
the results of these experiments, that the
devastations in the soil committed by the
mole are more than counterbalanced by
his destruction of noxious insects.
The Country Gentleman states that it
has not proved profitable to feed large
quantities of grain or meal at time. "A
moderate quantity, fed with great regular
ity, and the comfort OF the animals gen.
orally attended to, so that there may be q
constant and continued improvement, has
succeeded best. We have known a mum.
Der of experiments, giving results similar
to the following A neighbor, who had
provided himself with platform scales for
this purpose, fed fine steer first with
four quarts of barley meal daily in addi-
ton to his fodder, and found by weighing
that he gained regularly IS pounds .
week. But he was urged to "push him.
in order to see what could be made of SO
fine an animal. He was accordingly fed
with eight quarts day, when the increase
Immediately became less; and, on increas-
ing the meal to twelve quarts day, he
gained nothing. Overlooking proved an
injury II is important TO avoid the error
of feeding animals too little tor time,
and then attempting to make up the de-
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