Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-02-10
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"A correspondent of the Rural Neso
Yorker pronounces fried pork fat as good
as anything he ever tried for sore teats on
COWS.
The Germantown Telegraph insists
that it has found none ofthe new varieties
White Peach Blow.
1t is stated that by allowing articles
coated with iron rust to remain . short
time in kerosene oil, the rust can be read
lily removed by afterwards rubbing for
few minutes with cork.
The veterinary editor of Wilkes Spirit
of the Times recommends the following for
scratches in horse Take sulphate of
zinc, one drachm glycerine, two ounces;
apply every morning"
I'm feeding potatoes and turnips to cat
tie they will sometimes get potato or
turnip lodged in the passage to the stom.
ach, in which case q common flexible
wagon-whip, pushed gently down the
throat, will remove the object and give
instant relief.
The most speedy method of making
cider into vinegar is said to be to not fill
the casks more than half full, with the
bung lett out, which will expose the larg.
est surface to the air, and consequently
will become vinegar much sooner than II
the barrel be filed.
The Prairie Farmer says that in the
latitude of Alton, ILL.,, and further south it
is right to cultivate orchards up to the
time of frost, but that for points further
north the cultivation should be stopped
o1o p "
frosts are to be expected.
-Gapes in Chickens.-When you find
them showing symptoms of this malady,
you will find it most simple and success
full remedy to mix with one quart of corn
meal one tablespoonful of black mustard
seed, and feed them They will be healthy,
have q vigorous and lively growth. |
speak from three years experience, and
without the loss OF one chicken.-Fa'm
Journal.
Lice and itch often infest cattle when
they are not in good condition. The best
preventive against these consists in giving
them plenty of good food, and warm, well
ventilated shelter. A good remedy is to
feed small quantities of sulphur, say two
tablespoonfuls week. This keeps the
skin loose and the hair smooth. Vermin
never trouble cattle if they are in good
healthy condition. Poorly-fed, hide
bound stock are always liable to such dis
eases.-Ed1ma Journal.
The Country Gentleman thinks no sat
isfactory, efficient and well established
remedy for the codling moth has yet beer
devised. It thinks the moth is probably
more formidable enemy to the apple
than all others put together. The RENE
dies suggested are allowing swine or sheer
to run in the orchard, and DR.. Trimble'
method of winding hay ropes two or three
times around the trunk of the tree, undel
which the worms crawl and form cocoons
and where they may be destroyed at in
tervals of two weeks.
Sheep require about three per cent
of their live weight of hay or its evuiva
lent per day. That is about three pound
for q sheep weighing in the neighborhoOt
of one hundred pounds. But it is not gOot
economy to confine them to hay alone
They do better on q variety of food, anc
roots of some kind may be regarded Al
essential to their thrift. If regularly
supplied with turnips or other roots
they will readily consume the stalks ant
straw, and do we'll on them, while withOu
roots they require good hay.-Ercaange.
An Ohio ounce grower has been yer.
successful for two years past with thi
fruit. His treatment of the trees is very
simple: He spades the ground of his or
chard every spring, and scatters peck 0
coal ashes around each tree. He ind
salt the best manure on the ounce, ant
applies about one quart to the grount
under each tree after the soil has beer
spaded, and another quart when TIT
ounces are about half grown. Last veal
he sold three hundred bushels of quince
from his orchard of three-quarters OF al
acre.
According to DR.. Dio Lewis, tn
habit of chewing tobacco is very easily
got rid Of The first day person woule
get along very well, and would hardly
miss the stimuiant. The second day the
mouth would be dry, the throat parched
the memory confused, and the person
would hardly know what to do because O
restlessness and strong craving for some
thing. Go then and take good sweat
or, what is better, a Turkish bath. The
third and fourth day do the same. BY
that time all desire for tobacco would bt
gone.
If you wish to bake your bread OF
biscuit without dry, hard crust, you can
do so very readily. Just before PLACING
the bread in the oven, rub it's surface with
butter or lard. This will close the pores,
preventing the escape of the gas which is
produced by the yeast, and the escape OF
the steam which is produced by the mois.
ture of the heated loaf. Bread thus baked
will be almost crustless. Indeed, so long
as the moisture is confined it will be diff
cult burning the loaf to any great depth.
The large vacuities in the bread will be
less numerous, though, as the whole, 1t
will be more porous and therefore lighter.
-Erc1tdnge.
"A physiological journal condemns the
practice Of boxing children's ears: "We
had supposed, in this advanced age. OF
civilization, that such barbarous punish.
ments were only remembered as relics of
the darker ages But it appears that the
practice is sufficiently common in some
sections of the country to call forth a
decided remonstrance. Beside being q
brutal method of punishment, 1t is
dangerous. The passage OF the ear is
closed by a thin membrane, especially
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