Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-11-17
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

The Rardt Neto Yorker says the stalks
of the Jerusalem artichoke, cut when green
and cured like hay, make excellent food.
"A contemporary says, in boiling onions
or cabbage, place dish of vinegar on the
stove at the same time. The boiling vine.
gar will destroy the odor OF the vcgeta-
bles.
IN. G. Morris, of Union Springs, n Y,
keeps strict reckoning with his hogs He
has found that a bushel Of corn ground
and the meal scalded is good for 20 pounds
of pork If the corn Is fed on the cob it
only makes 10 or II pounds of pork The
most money is made by getting nine
months pig to weigh about 300 pounds.
Joseph Harris, in Uear1h and Home,
estimates the nutritious value of a bushel
of apples as equal to 8 pounds of starch,
while bushel of corn contains from ~ 10
80 pounds of starch. Hence he concludes
that fed alone, either cooked or raw, ap.
pies have not more than one-eighth the
value of corn. lie thinks, however, they
may have very considerable value when
fed to INDUCE pigs to eat and digest more
food
--Moasses Cup Cake-One cup each OF
sugar, molasses and milk, cups flour,
half q cup butter, 3eggs, tablespoonful
ginger, | small teaspoon even full of soda,
half a tcaspoonful salt Pour the milk TO
the -four, beat butter and sugar to cream
and add to it the salt and ginger, then the
well-be yolks Of the eggs; beat the
soda into the molasSes, and when ii foanis
pour in with the rest adding the whites OF
the eggs beaten stiff the last thing.
The carbonate of soda, so popular
with the washcrwoman, is quite injurious
TO the fibre Of linen A French writ I
recommends the soaking Of the clothes in
a solution of two pounds of soap TO TWEEN
ty-five quarts Of warm water, To which are
added one tablespoonful of essence of tur-
pentine and three spoonfuls Of ammonia
The articles should be soaked several hours
and the tub covered The articles are then
washed In the ordinary way. The ainno
/ MA Is said TO exert no corrosive action on
the fibre, and the odor of turpentine es
capes in drying.
Joseph Harris, in Amertcdn Agricul
Nrist, says: "Those farmers are fotu.
nate, as sensible people usually are who
sowed their timothy seed ON the wheat
last fall, instead OF waiting TO SOW I with
the clover in tie spring. Nearly all the
spring sown timothy and clover in this
section is comparative failure, ard farm
ers are blowing their wheat stubblc and
going 10 sow wheat again. have known
instances where the second crop of wheat
was better than the first, especially on
rather heavy soil. The land was plowed
Immediately after harvest, and thoroughly
cultivated and narrowed at intervals until
it was time to SOW; then plowcd again,
and the seed drilled in"
--Turnip Soup--Cut from about five to
six pounds of q knuckle Of veal all the
meat that can be made into cntIets, and set
the remainder on To stew with three quarts
of water. an onion, blade of mace, and a
bunch Of sweet herbs: cover it close and
let it stew ON low fire for five hours and
half; strain it and set IL TO cool then
take off all the fat and pour 1t from the
sediment. Put 1t into stewpan with five
or six turnips cut into small slices, and let
il simmer for nearly half an hour, ssason
ing IL with pepper and salt. Before serv-
ing, put spoonful of -four into pint Of
cream and about one ounce Of butter; add
il to the soup with q small roll sinhered
in it, and serve. 1t should be as rich as
thick cream.
Cream Cheese--A correspondent Of
the RurM Neu Yorksr furnishes the fol-
lowing recipe for making cream cheese !:
.'For two cream cheese take six quarts of
new milk and one Of sweet cream, TO
which add two or three spoonfuls OF rem
NET; let it stand until sufficiently firm
Spread linen cloth in a large basin of
cold water, lay the curd gently on il, tie
the cloth, and hang 1t up TO drain for four
or ave hours In cool place; then change
the cloth and nut the clird into q vessel
the circumference Of common plate !;
press it moderately eight hours, when it
must be taken out and split horizontally
with a thread lay the cloth between the
two cakes, and again put them in press for
twelve hours; II then pressed enough,
which can be ascertained by their firm
ness, keep them in fresh grass for few
days, turning them morning and evening.
They are excellent. The grass process Is
not absolutely necessary"
Coal Ashes for Com.-W g. Smedley,
Leonville, Penn, writes 70 the Farmers'
1t. II