Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-06-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

An exchange says, to clean grease from
old machinery and from clothes nothing 10
better than benzine.
NICE GINaERBRKAD.-Four pounds of
flour, three pounds OF sugar, two pounds
Of butter, nine eggs, four spoonfuls OF
ginger.
GIkaER COOKIES. Two cups molasses,
one Of butter or lard, four tablespoons OF
hot water, two OF soda, two Of ginger !;
bake quick.
NEVER be worried at trifes. Ifa spider
breaks his thread twenty times, twenty
times will he mend II again. Make up
your mind to do q good thing, and you
do II.
The Boston Journal Of Chemistry rec
ommends . mixture Of equal parts Of dry
white lead and red lead mixed into paste
with mastic varnigh, and used a. soon as
made, as cement for aquariums.
FRUrT OR WEDDING CAxE.-Four cups
Of -four, two cups sugar, one cup molasses,
one cup butter, one teaspoon Of saleratus
In one cup Of sour milk, four eggs, one
pound raisins, one and a half Of currants,
one teaspoon each Of spice and cinnamon,
one-fourth tumbler Of wine.
To TAKE INK STAINS OUT OF MAHOGANY.
Put few drops Of spirits Of inter In .
ieaspoonful Of water, touch the spot with
feather dipped IL the mixture, and on
the ink disappearing, rub II over lmme-
diately with q rag wetted In cold water,
or there will be white mark, which will
not be easily effaced.
Ivit be required to get good rsdishes in
winter, during the severe cold, an old cask
should be sawed In two, and one half of
II filed with good earth. The radish seed,
beginning To shoot 90 before, must be then
| sown In, the other half Of the barrel put
on the top Of the full one, and the whole
apparatus carried down into the cellar.
For watering, lukewarm water should be
used, 40 before. In the course OF Ave or
SIX days the rsdishes will be ct to eat
LATE TRAHsPLANrINa.-Iti 10 quite often
necessary 70 transplant trees and shrubs
after they have commenced growth In
spring. II cloudy, vet weather IL select.
cd In which to perform this operation |;
there 10 little danger of loss. Even two
or three days of cloudy weather with lit
tie or no rain will have . wonderful effect
In preserving the lives of trAnsplanted
treea We always choose cloudy or rainy
weather for manipulating any plants that
have been overlooked, or for any other
cause have begun TO grow, and we would
much rather walt two or three weeks for
rain than to transplant In warm, dry
weather. This, Of course, refers only to
late spring trsnsplating. Hearth and
Htms.
How TO PREPARE CoRx FOR CRowa-
A correspondent sends to IN exchange the
following account Of the manner In which
friend prepared . dainty dish for the
crows which infested her husbands corn
field: "On the afternoon of that day, In
stead Of her usual sewing, my friend took
. plate Of corn, 9 large needle, and q
bunch OF horse-hair, which her husband
brought In that morning, and at down to
work, or play. - Il looked 70 me.
Threading . hair into the needle, she
would pass It through kernel Of corn,
slip the needle of the hair, place the
ends together and tie knot, lay It by,
and proceed the same with another, till
she had some dozens prepared Asking
an explanation, learned that it was TO
scatter about over the newly planted corn.
feld, together with other corn that was not
threaded, for the crows After swallow
Ing q few kernels Of that with the hair
attached, they left In disgust, without
troubling that which was planted"
PRUNING TR8Ea-A subscriber asks II
he shall prune apple-trees after they have
been planted some time and taken r.Nt.
he also desires information in regard n
the best time % prune both apple and
peach troea We prefer TO pruht young
apple. trees 1t the time they are planted;
but II this has been neglected, We would
perform tho operation Just ~ soon ~ We
discovered our neglect, no matter at what
time Of year this might occur. June and
July are both good months In which to
prune the trees named. II branches are