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

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Essence of pennyroyal freely
| sprinkled about house will, it is said,
drive feas away and keep the house free
! from their visits.
One of the Oldest and best physicians
| in Connecticut constantly recommended
eating ripe fruit. Ii each in its season is
partaken of when fresh, there is little
| fear of any of the summer diseases that
are so common in some sections, and
which cause 80 much trouble and so much
/ expense.
| Among the various methods for keep
| ing and making water cool, none Is much
better or easier than that practiced in the
East. The water is put into jugs. bottles
/ or wine.cooiers, which arc placed In
| buckets filed with salt and saitpetre, and
then turned rapidly until the water al
most reaches the freezing point. Ii the
weather is very hot the buckets are re-
plenished several times day, and the
turning process repeated.
Good Word for Orchard Grass.
writer in the st. Louis Journal Of AgTS.
culture says: / haveto remark, that Tor
years l grew orchard grass with red
clover. ! sowed two bushels of orchard
grass seed and six quarts OF clover to the
acre. My coil was graye!ly clay, and l
cut year after year two crops IN season,
cutting just as the grasses were in flower
for they flower together-mowing In
the morn ng or forenoon; rakipg and
cooking in the afternoon leaving it two
DAYS in the cock, If the weather allowed,
then opening it out in the forenoon and
drawing il in tie afternoon. No ANNA.
cow. horse or sheep--all of which l
then had-but would eat it ravenously,
and always picked the orchard grass from
the cloyer--if any was left IN the manure
it was sure to be clover.
A mechanic gives the following
method of so putting tires on wagons,
that they will not get loose and require
resetting 81 ironed wagon some years
ago for nv own use /; before putting on
the tires, filed the felloes with linseed
oil. and the tires have worn out, and were
never loose. My method Is as follows: /
used long cast iron heater, made for the
purpose the oil is brought to q boiling
heat, the wheel is placed on a stick, so as
to hang in the oil, each ielloe al hour.
| TIE timber should be dry, as green timber
! will nc. take The ell Care SHOULD be taken
| that the oil Ia not made hotter tnan a
boiling heat, or the timber will be burned.
Timber filed with oil Is not susceptible 10
injury by water, and 10 rendered much
more durable by this process"
1T may not be known TO farmers in
general that il Is O common practice, In
some Of the po,ato-growing districts to
| turn a flock OF sheep into the potato field
| for the purpose Of eating down the weeds.
TIE sheep will, not touch the potato vine.
This pasturing with sheep is very advan.
tsgeous when the crop IL q late planted
one. go that the hoeing cannot be com
Melted until the hayipg or harvesting Is
/ finished. Al the growing season Il is the
farmers aim 70 keep down the grass and
weeds. 30 that they may be covered by the
cultiyator and hoe, when these are used
Pasturing with sheep will attain this ob'
iect. Early planted crops the cultivation
Of which Is completed in the early part
of the summer, frequently become grassy
and weedy before the time OF digging,
when the size of the tops precludes cuitva-
ton. In this stage the sheep are ccono on
icai weeders. It is hardly necessary TO
mention that the feed thus given TO the
sheen makes double profit, inasmuch as
Il costs absolutely nothing, while labor Is
saved and weeds prevented from seeding
Growing Onion sets--Onions from
seed are a very uncertain crop in many
localities and Soils The onion. maggo'
| will often destroy the crop II sown
early. or in time TO have the onions come
to maturity, and some other system has to
be adopted for producing this vegetable
We have tried the following plan with
good success, and believe that It will give
very good resuits almost anywhere. Pre-
mare piece Of good soil by thorough
! Blowing and narrowing, and II not rich,
make Ii 90 with the best material at hand.
Ia July or first OF August, SOW the onion
seed in drills, and cultivate the same "a
though sown in early spring. When the
onions are as large a. small marbles, pass
q roller oyer the tops and break them
down about week after pull up the
konious, and spread them out where they
viii dry. II tie weather Is hot, shady
place must be eelected, or the bulbs viii
Be softened and ruined by the sun. When
dry. cut OF the wilted tops, and put away
the bulbs In : dry, cool place, and next
| spring plant the same - top.0nions.
Thcse little onions viii grow rapidly. and
| produce large bulbs long before : crop
Can be grown from SEED, besides sy0iding
the attacks a. the oni0nv6y. Try II.
l-HsorA an HeMk, ss 81.