Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-17
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC,

Do you wish to learn how to give any
thing? Then fancy yourself in the place
of the receiver.
| INSTEAD of copying an example, make
one. 1t will do yourself, and perhaps
others, more good.
THE Stock Journal advises big horse
for regular farm work, and one that does
| not, without great pushing, trot more than
six miles an hour with light buggy.
A WESTERN writer says if as much at
given to grapes, hundred million bushels
might be added to the annual crop.
SWEET APPLES are said to be excellent
for mich cows, when fed in connection
with cut feed, or hay. Four quarts fed
twice daily after other feed will be more
satisfactory than eight quarts fed at one
time.
THE rise of sap in trees and plants has
been explained on the principle of capil-
larry attraction, but NJ Becquerel considers
that electricity is an acting cause. A cap
| Hilary tube that will not allow water to
pass through it does so at once on being
electrified, and he considers that electro
capillarIty is the efficient cause of sap
travelling in vegetable life.
In spreading manure, care should be
taken to scatter it evenly over the land,
breaking to pieces all large and hard
Jumps. This should always be done i'm
mediately, or not more than half day, be-
fore blowing, especially if the weather is
dry and very windy The manure should
be plowed under, before it dries very much,
or loss will accrue.
THE Prairie Farmer says good way
to head off the apple-tree borers is, to
bring thick soft soap to the boiling point
to render liquid, and while the soap is hot,
with paint or whitewash brush apply it
to the trunks of the trees, from the ground
up as high as attacks of borers are to be
apprehended. One application made
about the first of June, each year, will
sufficiently protect the trees.
FASTENING IRON IN SToNE.-A writer.
strongly recommends the use of zinc in
stead of lead for fastening iron ratings
into stone. 1t is well known that iron
cemented with lead is consumed by rust
very rapidly and destroyed. The zinc,
however, makes galvanic circuit with
the iron, and being positive to the iron,
sustains all the chemical action, and be-
comes oxidized, while no rust forms upon
the iron.
KEEPING EGGs.-A citizen of Belmont
n. Y, has, for forty years, been in the
habit of keeping eggs by taking them
fresh from the nest and greasing them
with good lard or butter, and setting them
in cool, dry place, handling them over
once in while, to keep the yolks from
settling down to the shell. With him
they keep six or eight months. We have
had best, in fact, perfect success, by plung-
ing the fresh eggs, few at time, held
In wire ladle, into kettle Of boiling
water, and keeping them there long
enough to count ten-say five seconds.
The water must not stop boiling.-Ameri-
can Agrlculturist
PRUNING CURRANTs-It is not advisa-
BILE to subject all varieties Of currants to
the same system Of pruning. The COM
lion red and white currants produce their
| fruit mainly on small spurs, growing ON
wood two or more years old, while on the
black currants (Ribes nigra) the fruit il
borne mainly on the wood of the proceed
ing year. In the irst-named varieties,
shortening the young wood, if very long,
aids in the production of fruit-spurs, while
| in the latter it would lessen the number
Of fruit. although It might increase the
| size. The black currants require but little
pruning, except in the way Of thinning
out superfiuous branches, and the occa-
aionsl shortening of very luxuriant shoots.
The other sorts should not only be prun-
ca Tor the purpose OF keeping up supply
OF young, healthy shoots OF two and three
years old, but careful thinning out of
old and decayed stems After a brsnch
mas borne two or three crops, it should be
removed, and younger one allowed n
take its place.-HearM and H0me.