Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-04

garden for the purpose Of destroy;no
insectA says that when first q toad
is brought intos garden and Get at liberty
he win usually strike for some other paris
the first night, but few days. pennino
up seem to attach him to the locality. BE
may be settled Ter the season in almost
any particular locality by simply penning
him up in temporary Enclosure for few
days, and then removing the Enclosure
without disturbing him.
| THE sunfower ID very useful. Its
leaves soon become large enough to be
used as q covering for young cabbage and
tomato plants. Its stem affords an excel.
lent hop OF bean-pole, aud when dead in
the fall, il cut up and kept dry, it answers
well for kindling wood The leaves can
be plucked of through the summer with
out injury TO the plant and dried for I'D.
der, or fed to mich COWS or horses. Its
seeds make fine oil, or chick en- feed. II
is said to be an absorbent for malaria, and
is often cultivated as preventive Of
levers near dwellings that occupy low
places.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Massachusetts
Isoughnacn gives this remedy for white
hairs that appear on horses from the use
or wear of the saddle or harness flake
piece of fresh butter or lard, large
enough to give tho spot a Thorough greas-
ing; rub the same with the hama until il
becomes quite hot, repeating the opera
ton at least three or four times. and the
white hairs win soon come out and hairs
of natural color take their place. have
tried this On several horses, and never
knew it to fail. I think the best the to
do it is in the winter before the new coat
starts"
THE Canada Farmer gives the fol-
lowing suggestions in regard to weaving
lambs: when separated from the ewes,
lambs should be placed in q field as dis
tant as possible from them, so as to be out
Of reach of their bleating, and they vii,
soon become contented and thriving. The
pasture to which the lambs are put ought
to be somewhat better than that to which
they have been accustomed, yet not too
luxuriant, and if the ewes and lambs can
be turned into it together for a week, and
the ewes then taken away, the lambs will
not then fret 80 much as would be the
case were they removed to field that is
strange to them"
To CURE Hoe CHoLRnA.-Take two or
more large barrels and place convenient
to the kitchen. Into this deposit all the
pot liquor, dishwater, and greasy water Of
any kind, refuse pieces of bacon, and
few bucketsful Of soapsuds Let it stand
few days, or until fermentation begins,
and then add to each barrel one bushel of
fine charcoal, and half bushel of corn
meal, one handful Of salt, ard half
pound of copperas. Let it stand short
time, so that the charcoal may become
thoroughly saturated with the liquid, then
feed to the hogs in the usual manner;
this has never Jailed as preventive, and
in every instance wherein from neglect
the disease made its appearance, succeed
ed in curing 1t in few days Western
Rural.
HARVESTING TIMOTHY SERD.-A con-
tributor to an exchange has the follow
ing suggestions on this subject: +" Do not
cut until the earlier heads shatter some.
Wait until you have three swaths cut,
then cut the binders or rather the bands
that set it up. Put three sheaves or
punches together on end, and tie tightly
around the top. The advantage ofsetting
three swaths together Is that it leaves
your punches in rows sufficiently wide
apart to admit of driving between
them in hauling in. Let the bin
ders stand until the outside is some
what bleached and scattered. Thresh
out of the shock. If you wish to
stack before you thresh, it is better to tie
ia sheaves the same as grain; set six
sheaves together, and tie around the top.
Always have tight bottom in your rack
to save shatteriDgs"
BuLwER says that poverty is only an
idea, nine cases cut of ten Some men with
10000 a year suffer more tor the want of
means than others with $500. The reason
IL the richer man has artificial wants. His
income is $4,000, and he suffers enough
from being dunned for unpaid debts TO
kill sensitive man. A man who earns
dollar 8 day and does not run in debt, is
the happier of the two. Very few people
who have never been rich will believe
this; but it is true. There are thousands
and thousands with princely incomes who
never know moments peace, because
they live above their means. There il
really more haprine in the world among
the working people than among those
| who are called rich.