Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-12-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE
A rEAsrooNYuL Of common salt d.
solved in water and drank each morning II
three successive days. Is reported - su
cure for fever and ague. i
| BAKED apple dumplings are delicious.
Make them Is If for boiling in the usual
| way; set them in shallow pan; bake Il
hot oven, and serve with hard sauce.
An exchange, discussing kerosene lamps,
says that If the wicks are soaked in strong
vinegar for twenty -four hours, and thor
oughly dried before used, all smoke will b
avoided, the wicks will last longer, and n
creased brilliancy will be obtained.
THE LAST Two PouNDs.-Do not kin
the turkeys until they are fat A poor
bird il always slow of sale, even at low
price; while good one will sell much
quicker, and bring from three to five cents
pound more. Reckon the last two
pounds at the extra price the turkey win
bring, and every turkey raiser will see that
these two pounds bring him in nearer fifty
cents pound than twenty E1ch0ngs.
A LADY florist says, to grow very pref
ty vine from the sweet potato put tuber
in pure sand or sandy loan, in a hanging
basket, and water occasionally. It will
will climb freely over the arms of the bas-
ket and upward toward the top of the win
dow. Not one visitor in hundred will
know it, but will suppose it to be some
rare foreign plant.
pronounced an infallibie cure for q felOn:
Blue flag root and wild tu'nip root, hand
full of each, stewed in half pint of hogs
lard-strain it of, add to it four table
spoonfuls Of tar, simmer them together; ap-
ply this ointment to the felon till it breakA.
Add beeswax and rOsin to the ointment
for salve to dress it after it is broken.
How many take wrong view of nfe,
and waste their energies and destroy their
nervous system in endeavoring to accumu-
late wealth, without thinking of the pres
ent happiness they are throwing away. II
is not wealth or high station which makes
man happy. Many Of the most wretched
beings on earth have both but 1t ia IA
diant, sunny spirit, which knows how 70
bear little trials and enjoy little comforts,
and thus extracts happiness from every m
cident of life.
PRESERVATION OF WooD.-Ths best
preservative of wood is said to be a CON-
pound of one part silicate Of pOtassa and
| three of pure water-the wood to remain
| in the solution twenty -four hours, then
dried for several days, then soaked and
dried second time, and subsequently
painted twice over with mixture OF ono
part water cement and four of the first
mentioned mixture. Thus prepared, it will
not decay in the ground, and will be In
combustible out of it.
HALLS Journal Of Health urges rest
| from stimulating brain labor. Insanity, It
says, always comes on with increasing
sleeplessness, and the first step toward re-
cOvery is a growing ability to sleep. Too
much business stimulates the brain and if
this is continued too long the inevitable
results are either insanity, paralysis, or ap-
| oplexy. Insanity is caused by too much
! blood being in the arteries of the brain
paralysis is loss of power-the parts
have worked so much they can work no
more; apoplcxy is where the vessels of the
| brain are SO full, so distended that they arc
| r,lptured. The person who is kept up TO
the working point by any artificial stimu-
| liant runs dangerous risk of losing life or
reason.
TO CLEAN A Rusty PLow-Take q
| quart of water and pour slowly into it half
a pint of sulphuric acid. (The mixture
will become quite warm from chemical 40
| tion and this is the reason why the acid
| should be poured slowly into the water
rather than the water into the acid.) Wash
the mould-board Tor any other iron that is
rusty with this weak acid, and let it re-
main on the iron until it evaporates. Then
wash it again. The object is to give time
for the acid to dissolve the rust. Then wash
with water and you will see where the
| worst rusty spots are. Apply some more
acid and rub those spots with brick.
The acid and the securing will remove
most of the rust Then wash the mould
board thorough y with water to remove all
the acid and rub it dry. Brush it over
with petroleum or other oil, and let it be
until spring. When you go to blowing
take bottle of the acid water to the field
and apply it every bout to any spots Of
rust that may remain. The acid and the
| securing of the earth will soon make it
| perfectly bright and smooth. If all iron
work be washed over with petroleum a
soon as we put our tools, implements, and
machines aside for the winter, it will keep
them from rusting, and save great deal
of trouble and annoyance to say nothing
Of depreciation and loss-AmeTlcdn AQrS-
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