Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-07


and serve with cream and sugar.-Cor.
american Agricultural.
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
NEVER be aehamed to do kind action
to any one under any circumstances.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Country GEN.
Renaan advises, in the case of broken
horn on Q COW, that it be left alone and
thought nothing OF, and says it viii get
well BY this treatment.
TIE eggs of the currant worm and
borer are generally deposited in and
around the old stalks and dead branches
| Of the currant bush. These should be all
cut away and burned early in the season
WOULD you be exempt rom uneasi-
ness, do nothing you know or suspect to
be wrong and if you want to enjoy the
purest pleasure, do everything in your
power that you are convinced is right.
A GOOD NAN and wise man may at
times be angry with the world, at times
! grieved for it but be sure no man was
ever disconnected with the world who did
his duty in it.
| TARTs-Lemon butter is excellent for
tarts. 1t is made as follows: One pound
Of pulverized white sugar, whites of six
eggs and yolks of two, three lemons, in
GLIDING grated rind and juice Cook
| twenty minutes over slow fire, stirring
all the while.
TEA BIscuIr.-Six potatoes boiled and
grated in half Q milk-pan Of -four. One
tablespoon Of salt, three tumblers Of milk,
two ounces of butter, warmed in the milk,
one cup of yeast Beat the whites OF three
eggs to froth, and put in before knead-
ing. Nix not quite as stiff as bread
dough, and put to riA
IRON rust is removed by salt mixed with
lemon juice. Hildew, by dipping in sour
buttermilk and laying in the sum Ink
stains may be sometimes taken out by
smearing with hot tallow, left on when
the stained article goes to the wash.
Freezing will take out old fruit stains,
and scalding with boiling water will re-
move those that have never been through
the wash.
THE Rural Register gives the following
method of breaking the habit of kicking
in mich cows: "Have a good short
whip, and at the first kick give one smart
blow; commence milking again and strike
once, hard, Immediately after each kick.
The theory is that by this process the
cow soon learns to connect the effect with
the cause, and to avoid the former by quit
tlng the later.
OLD ribbons will look quite renewed if
washed in cool suds made Of fine soap
and ironed when damp. Cover the rib
bon with clean cloth and pass the iron
over that. If you wish to stiffen the
ribbon, dip it, while drying, into gum
arabic water. White silk gloves wash
well, and should be dried on the hands.
Never dampen bonnet ribbon and iron it
c%.a
Register.
STUFFED Eeos.-Halve ten hard boiled
eggs lengthwise; take out the yolks.
pound them in a mortar add to them
some bread crumbs soaked in milk, and a
quarter of pound of fresh butter pound
all together; add little chopped onion
and parsley, some bruised pepper, and
grated nutmeg mix 1t with the yoiks of
two raw eggs; fill the halved whites with
some Of this forcemeat !; lay the remainder
at the bottom of dish, and arrange the
stuffed eggs upon it; put into an oven,
and when nicely Drowned, serve.
| M. ZIUREK calls attention, in Ding,ers
| Polytechnic Journal, to the fact that water,
| kept in small reservoirs made Of zinc, or
collected from roofs covered with zinc, is
invariably contaminated with that metal
and that the use of such water for domes-
tic purposes is highly injurious to health.
The author recommends that where zinc
vessels are used for the purpose indicated,
| they should be painted over with asphalt
varnish or any iron pigment.
Sailing HAY.-A correspondent of
Hearth and Home says "Never salt your
hay at all. How would you like to be
forced to eat SO much salt with your food,
or starve! This is what you ask your
cows to do when you salt their hay. My
experience is: All animals do best when
they have free access to salt. Keep box
in some dry place in yard or shed, where
stock can take what salt they need as reg
ularly as they take their water. Keep the
box supplied with salt, and cattle win
never eat more than is good for them"
THE London Builder says that the con-
tents OF the stomachs of 118 sparrows
have been examined, tabulated and re.
| corded. Three culprits alone, out of this
search guilty of having lived for twenty
four hours upon grain. In fact, there
were three thieves out Of the 118; all the
other victims had worked, more or less,
for their living. Beetles and grubs, and
| larve Of all obnoxious kinds, had been
their diet. In seventy five of the birds,
infants of all ages from the callow fledg-
ling to the little Pecksy and Flapsy that
just twitter along the ground, hardly any
but insect spoglH were detected.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen.
aenan says Il have invented q process
to reduce the draft of moving machines
one-third. It is done thus: Take of the
seat and leave it at the barn, and walk
behind your moving machine It re-
quires q little more care to watch tor
stumps, &C. but it pays well IL the better
Of q low-wheeled heavy machine, OBJ
structed by wet grass and keeping up the
motion Of the knives, II vastly increased
by putting on to It IN additional weight
OF 160 TO 200 pounda am sorry to say
the idea cannot be applied to reapers,
where tho treadle Is needed TO be kept in