Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-06-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

AN exchange says, to clean grease from
old machinery and from clothes nothing is
better than benzine.
NICE GINsEBBREAD.-Four pounds of
-four, three pounds Of sugar, two pounds
OF butter, nine eggs, four spoonfuls of
ginger.
GINGER CooKrEs.-Two cups molasses,
one Of butter or lard, four tablespoons OF
hot water, two of soda, two Of ginger
bake quick.
NEVER be worried at triaes Ifs spider
breaks his thread twenty times, twenty
times will he mend it again. Make up
your mind to do good thing, and you
do IL.
The Boston journal Of Chemistry rec
ommends mixture OF equal parts of dry
white lead and red lead mixed into paste
with masiic varnish, and used as soon as
made, as q cement for aquariums.
FRUIT OR WEDDING CAKK.-Four cups
OF flour, two cups sugar, one cup molasses,
one cup butter, one teaspoon of saleratus
in one cup OF sour milk, four eggs, one
pound raisins, one and half of currants,
one teaspoon each of spice and cinnamon,
one-fourth tumbler Of wine.
To TAKK INK STAINS OUT OF MAHOGANY.
Put few drops of spirits of inter in
teaspoOnful Of water, touch the spot with
feather dipped IL the mixture, and on
the ink disappearing, rub it over imme.
diately with q rag wetted in cold water,
or there will be white mark, which will
not be easily effaced.
" II be required to get good radishes in
winter, during the severe cold, an old cask
should be sawed In two, and one half of
1t filled with good earth. The radish seed,
beginning to shoot as before, must be then
sown In, the other half of the barrel put
on the top Of the full one, and the whole
apparatus carried down into the cellar
For watering, lukewarm water should be
used, as before. In the course Of five or
six days the rsdishes will be ct to eat.
| LATE TRANsPLAHrNG.- is quite often
necessary to transplant trees and shrubs
after they have commenced growth In
spring II cloudy, wet weather Ia select.
ed in which TO perform this operation !;
there is little danger Of loss. Even two
or three days of cloudy weather with lit.
tie or no rain will have Q wonderful effect
In preserving the lives Of transplanted
trees We always choose cloudy or rsiny
weather for transplanting any plants that
have been overlooked, or for any other
cause have begun 70 grow, and we would
much rather wait two or three weeks for
rain than to transplant in warm, dry
weather. This, OF course, refers only to
late spring transplating. -HsdrA and
Hsme.
How TO PREPARE Com FOR CRows-
A correspondent sends to An exchange the
following account of the manner in which
Q friend prepared dainty dish for the
crows which infested her husbands corn
field: "On the afternoon Of that day, in
stead Of her usual sewing, my friend took
q plate OF corn, large needle, and q
bunch Of horse-hair, which her husband
brought In that morning, and sat down to
work, or play, % Il looked to nae.
Threading hair into the needle, she
would pass 1t through q kernel of corn.
slip the needle of the hair, place the
ends together and tie knot, Law Il bv.
and proceed the same with another. till
she had some dozens prepared. Asking
an explanation, learned that it was 10
scatter about over the newly planted corn
neld, together with other corn that was not
threaded, tor the crows. After swallow
Ing few kernels of that with the hair
attached, they Left in disgust, without
troubling that which was planted"
PRuNrNa TRKKs.-A subscriber asks Il
ne shall prune apple-trees after they have
been planted some time and taken root.
tie Also desires information in regard TO
The best time 70 prune both apple and
peach treeA We prefer TO prune young
apple trees ct the time they are planted
but u this has been neglected, we would
perform the operation just asssoon rs We
discovered our neglect no matter at what
time Of year this might occur. June and
July are both good months in which "a
prune the trees named. II branches are