Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-10
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC,

Neighborhoods should combine and
buy together good portable horse power,
and then have their wood piles cut up
with comfort and dispatch.
FARMS soon run down that sell all their
hay. Mr.. Mechi, the great English farm
q, prefers that the products Of his farm
should 20 to market m the foot.
A Hoa weighing less than two hundred
and Atty pounds may be more convenient
u snlded in . forty-gallon cask filled halt
full Of water. than In tub.
Mock DUcK.-A steak of beef well
beaten, rich stuflng, such IS is used for
ducks; spread it over the beet and roll it
into the form of duck; then bake.
Make rich gravy with onions and pour
over it.
THosz who house their carts and wagons
in Rsbn Hoods barn-al out doors ARE
often seen travelling to the blacksmith and
wheelwright shops for repairs. The hubs
Of wheels are madeO elm, which il q poor
timber to bear exposure.
You had better not keep stock than al
low their manure to be wasted. 1t must
not burn up and fire. fang in great heaps,
nor be washed away by water drenching
it from the caves. The liquid portions
must be absorbed by something, and the
solid kept from heating and exposure.
A CURE FOR THE HooPING- CoUeH.-
An M. ID. writes to an exchange: To one
ounce of the dried leaves Of the common
chestnut tree add q quart of boiling water,
and when the infusion is cold give cup
full three times day, the last dose being
given when the patient retires After
twenty-four or thirty-six hours the patient
will be relieved, and then the dose may
be administered in smaller quantity.
TOAST AND CHEEsE.-Cut a slice of
bread half an inch thick; pare of the
crust, and toast it very slightly on one
side. Cut slice Of cheese quarter Of
an inch thick, not SO big as the bread by
half an inch on each side; pare off the
rind, lay it on the toasted bread, place on
fiat tin plate, and put in the oven for
ten minutes or 50. Mix quarter of
tea spoonful Of salt and mustard and
prinkle OF pepper; stir it into the cheese,
ind you will have delicious luncheon.
SDEwALKs-A correspondent recon-
Aends the following as an excellent COM
POSITION for sidewalks, and says it is not
talented: Sand five parts, coal ashes two
nrts, Stacked lime one part, fine gravel
tto parts. Nix cod, and add coal tar,
cid or hot, until the same just becomes
sticky with it. Make the walk by ram
ming down, or rolling hard six inches of
g4vel. Then put on three-inch layer
ofthc mixture, and roll or pound very
had.-Scientifc american.
The machinery for working in cork is
shgularly curious, and yet exceedingly
simple. Every edge-tool must necessarily
be 50 constructed as to operate with very
siding or drawing cut of the edge. Cork
0lnot be worked at all satisfactorily by
mans OF crushing stroke. If one at
| tenpts to white cork with a pocket
knife, he finds than the edge must be very
sharp, and the blade must be drawn
elgthwise, ten times the distance that
tie blade enters. And even then the sur
face cut will be rough.
To mark or label fowl, raise the
chickens wing until you expose its con-
nection with the body, and you will find
a small surface entirely free from feathers |;
take your penknife and just raise the skin
and insert a few grains Of gunpowder IN
each incision you make-or you can stick
coarse needles into cork, points out,
forming small figures from one to nine.
Puncture with these, and then rub in
India Ink, and you will have a mark in
appearance like what is often seen on the
ARM of sailors. Gunpowder moistened
will DO to run into the punctures, if India
ink annot be procured.
Why do eggs spoil? We find lining the
shell thin skin, which, when kept in Il
healthy condition by the albumen of the
egg, is impervious to air but If the egg
remains too long in one position, the yelk
being heavier than the albumen, gradual
ly sinks through it, and comes in contact
with the skin and having none Of the
qualities requisite for keeping the skin
fabricated and healthy, the skin soon be-
comes cry and pervious to air, which pen
etrates through 1t TO the yelk, causing the
mass to rot. Therefore, the true plan Is
to keep the yelk in its central position.
BY dong this, the egg can be preserved
for ong time.--Erctange.
How TO MAKE GRATING WAx.-Take
good, clean beeswax, one-third resin.
then pour it into cold water. When cold
think it well mixed. If not soft enough
I, spread easy add little more wax. N.
Bud your peaches into plum sprouts.
III UuuuIuk tdkc tuC uOuUlC Uuub. NIolt
your grapes into wild grape roots; you
win have grapes the next year without
fail. One Is worth dozen of those you
get out of the nurseries, have had them
to grow ten and a half feet long the first
.year.-Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.
REGULARITY IN FEEDING SHEEP.-The
Practical Shepherd says "All experienced
flock-m masters concur in the opinion that
sheep fed with perfect regularity as to
time and amount (making proper allow
ance tor the weather., will do better on
rather inferior feed, than on the best, with
out that regularity. I prefer feeding
three times q day even in the shortest
days Of winter; but many good flock
masters feed but twice. II fed three times,
il should be at sunrise, noon, and an
hour before dark; If but twice, the. last
feeding should be an hour earlier. Sheep
do not stand at their racks and eat well in
the dark. 1t 10 not very important at what
period Of the day grain or roots are given,
provided the time II uniform.
Ar q recent meeting Of the Western
New York Farmers' Club, a correspon-
dent from Geneseo asked when and how
TO apply leached ashes to crops for the
best results. Mr.. Quinby had used over
ten thousand bushels in the last three
wears and found them rood for all crCps