Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-27
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE

TIE Nsso ENGLAND Farmer thinks the
discussions among farmers at fairs. when
properly conducted, as important as anv
branch of the occasion.
ExcLsz PorAro BAIIs-Roil .om.
potatoes very dry, mash them a. smoothly
- possible, season well with salt and
pepper, warm them with about an ounce
OF butter to the pound end q few SPOON
RUS. OF good cream. Let them cool A
little, roll them into balls, sprinkle over
them some crushed vermacelli or maca.
roni and fry them light brown.
A. N. GARLAND, in the Wssteyn Rural
re1terates the opinion that farmers who
sell their hocks of sheep to butchers, or
allow them to be decimated by neglect or
disease, act very foolishly. He thinks
WOOL viii soon bring better prices, and
That the demand for mutton is steadily in.
creasing.. He, however, does not advise
the Mississippi. -
1T 10 said that clothing treated With
tungstate OF soda may be rendered nom
innammabie. A concentrated neutral 40.
luton OF this salt is diluted with abont
one third water, and then mixed with
three per cent. OF phosphate of soda, It
ls used Ia the royal laundries of England.
Even the hghtest muslins dipped in it and
dried will not take fire or burn.
SECRETARY HOWARD, of the Michigan
Board OF Agriculture, in reviewing the
characteristics of the season, in 1869, in
Michigan, says the great agricultural les
son to be learned from the season is the
necessity of drainage. He thinks there
are many thousands of acres On which
the Increased value of the crop that
might have been obtained in that year
would have paid the whole expense of
drainage.
A BARREL of -four weighs 1896 pounds,
a barrel of pork 200 pounds, a barrel OF
rice 600 pounds, key of powder
% pounds, q firkin of butter SO
pounds, tub OF butter 81 pounds. The
following are sold by weight per bushel:
Wheat, beans and clover seed, go pounds
corr, rye and faxseed, 55 pounds; buck
wheat, 50 pounds; barley, 48 pounds;
coarse salt, IS pounds.
COoKING OAT MEAL.-Take one quart
OF water in tin kettle, place it on the
stove and put in little salt. Stir in slow
ly two large tablespoonfuls of meal. Let it
simmer gently for half an hour, stirring
frequently. 1t will thicken and grow
whittier until the expiration of that time,
when it is suf1 GENTLY done Some milk
can be added. II scalded milk is objected
to, cold can be used after being brought
to the table.
GEoLoaIsTs say that building stone
should be placed in wall in the same
relative position as that in which it was
taken out Of the quarry. When the rock
became solid from its primeval semi-fuid
condition, gravity made the qualification
take place in horizontal direction. So,
as wood in pavements is exposed with the
end OF the grain to the wear, the stone
should be dressed in such way that the
edge of the grain may sustain the action
of the elements.
PETROLEUM AS PAINT.-We recon.
mend the use OF petroleum to preserve
wood-not rs a paint. Nothing should
be mixed with 1t. The only point in ap-
plying it is to get as much oil on as the
wood will absorb. We use it on imple-
ments, machines, wagons, carts, fences,
buildings, shingle-roots, pig troughs, ETC.,
with great advantage. 1t will certainly
do much to preserve wood from decaying,
and iron from rusting. We buy it by the
barrel, at from 25 to 30 cents per gallon,
and use 1t freely on all woodwork expos
ed to the weather. 1t is not necessary to
60 into the details of its application. We
would simply advise our readers to get q
barrel and use it freely on plows, harrows,
drills, cultivators, reapers, mowers, ted
ders, forks, rakes, spades, shovels, hoes,
axes, scythes, cradles, hen-coops, dog
kennels, hot bed frames, sashes, swill bar
rels, pals, pig troughs, plank foore,
wheeloarrows, gates, fences, wagons, carts,
sleighs, store-boats. horse-powers, and
sewing-machines. We have used it on all
these and many similar things. and think
even log chains and crow-bars would be
none the worse for being rubbed over
with it.-American AgriculturSM.