Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-06-16
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE
fKExcH LoAF-Three eggs two cups
Of sugar, two of sour cream, one hail cup
Of butter, one pound Of rasins, one tea
spoonful Of rasins, one tea sponful Of soda
and two of cream Of tartar. Flour in sui
ic;ent quantity. - ss1l1- A-s=
To WHTTKy STRAW HATS-Scrape
stick sulphur with knife, mix the pow
der 20 mush with water. plaster ii thick
ly over the straw, and place in the hot
sun tor several hours brush OF when
dry
WILLIAM LIE B4RREv, State Entomolo-
gist of Illinois, recommends Paris green
mixed in the proportion of one part of
The greer TO six parts Of -four, as pres
ervstivc Of potatoes from the ravages OF
the Colorado beetle, or potato bug.
Paris green is very deadly poison, and
if applied with the hand, glove should
invariably be worn.
WASHINGTON CAKK-One and one
fourth pounds sugar, three fourths Of a
pound of butter, one and three fourths OF
-four, one pint Of milk, one glass of brandy
four eggs, one tablespoon seleratus; one
tauie spoon each Of cinnamon, cloves and
nutmeg, one pound Of rasins, one Of cur
rants.
GRAM IN ORCHARDS The Horticul-
tural editor of the Canada Farmer calls
especial attention to the experience OF
two correspondents as strongly corrob-
orsting his often expressed views that
growing grain or weeds injure orchard
trees, and that the true way to grow aD
orchard is to devote the ground 70 the sole
use of the orchard, and keep all other
crops out Mulching he considers the
true way to retain the moisture about the
roots of trees. >rt z
To BLANcH LErTUcE.-To produce let
tnce with large heads, the usual way is to
tie up the heads week or two before the
time for cutting. Select dry day, gather
the leaves in the hand in close, rounded
form; the inside being clear of dirt. Pass
narrow strip of bass mating several
times around the ball, making it close at
the top. to exclude rain and prevent rot
ting. Draw little earth around the base
ss support in place of the spreading
leaves. In ten days, more or less, they
will be sufficiently blanched for use
Exchange.
CARE OF WAGONS Canada
Farmer gives this advice When you
leave Q wagon heavily loaded to stand q
number Of hours, put support under the
axletree. The strength of wood cannot
be estimated by what it viii support for q
abort time. Ii viii bear up third more
weight for few minutes than will be re-
quired 70 break IL by continued pressure.
Wagons are abused very generally, by
overlooking. If the axletrees do no,
break they are sprung, and the wheels
warped. which causes the vehicle to ran
hard, and shortens its existence. .
HKSs-Keep q good kind. Let them
have the run Of the premises. 1t viii sur
prise yoG TO End how much hunting and
running about is saved if nests are placed
where the hens most congregate. 1t is
strange how readily the hens accept these
nests. Let them have access TO wood
ashes and lime, or powdered chalk, and, il
possible fresh meat The little chicks are
hardy. After they have been Matched a
day, confiAe the hen in q coop and lie,
the chickens run out and IN. This is very
decidedly better than letting the hen run
about with the chicks Meal and water
mixed to dough is the feed.-Erchange
A CONTRIBUTOR to the Country Gentle
man recommends the raising of sorghum
for soiling. He nays: Sorghum is much
richer than corn in sacchsrine matter, and
by sowing early, two crops can be raised
on the same ground and from the same
roots. Sow thickly, broadcast, one and q
half or two bushels Of seed per acre, OF
drill In rows not more than two and hall
or three inches apart When the plant il
three and half or four fee. hi2a, NOW
it, and cure for fodder or feed to stock.
The first crop is little slow In starting.
but the second springs up from the cut
stalks very rapidly. II requires dry, fine
weather TO cure" et.- 5,rs.ssE
FELoN ON THE FNGER-Many per
sons are liable TO extreme suffering from
fslons on the finger. These affiictionsAre
not only very painful, but not unfre-
qucntly occasion permanent Gripping of
the members affected. The following
simple prescription is recommended as 3
cure for the distressing silmenf: Take
common rock salt much Is is used for salt
ing down pork or beef, dry it in an oven,
then pound it fine, and mix with spirits of
turpentine in equal parts. Put ii on q rag
and wrap around the part affected. and Is
II gets dry, put on more, and in twenty
four hours you are cured-the felon viii
be dead. II win do no harm 10 try it.
Journal of Agriculture.
THE Reconstructed Farmer tells the FOL.
lowing story: When the First Rhode
Island battery went TO Washington, . pair
Of French hofses which had worked
together we're sent with il. Owing to diff
ference OF colsr, they we're separated and
re-matched. But after the change one OF
them refused to cot, and pinned away, 90
40 TO be unserviceable, and TO al appear
ances seemed nick unto death A member
Of the battery, familiar with their history
and with horses, expressed the opinion
that the separation from his mate was the
cause Of sickness and at his suggestion he
was returned TO his place. With evident
pleasure at the change, he began immedi-
stely 10 improve in health, grew fht o.
well ~ happy, and faithfully with his
loved mate did his duty at the battle OF
Bull Run. d
THE Barnstable (Masa) Psria tells .
bird story, which it declares to be true,
thus: captain d. W. Percivsl, Of thii
village, Of the bark Sicilisn, procured in
Messina, last winter, q Wild goldfnch,
which he Gagged ON board the ship. A few
weeks aeo the bird escaped when OF the
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