Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-03
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD


FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
USRRUL RECIPES, ETC. b
Tm Naine Farmer recommends giving
pigs good rock salt twice week.
II the combs and legs Of hens are rough,
they are old; If smooth and timber, they
are young. "a, 4,
A SOUND discretion is not 20 much indi-
Gated BY never making . mistake, Is by
never repeating It. 1s
LAND IL often injured for years by plow-
ing while wet. Better miss one crop than
hurt the land, but better still prepare it in
the flll, when, II wen underdrained, there
win be but little trouble In the spring,
even In wet seasons.-A5eAsn0s
has . hole IN the bottom OF il drive in .
plug q LEAD and hammer It down On both
sides. If kept covered with water It will
not melt OF make { cement with six,
parts of dry clay and one Of iron filings,
made into paste with boiled linseed oil.
Gas. v. RILEY, entomologist, cautions
those who would use carbolic acid to de-
stroy insects, against using the crude
(cresylic) acid, the latter being the pure
acid. However much diluted, he says, it
kills plants as we'll as insects. "Carbolic
acid mixes well with alkalies, but not with
water, and it can only be used as sapo-
naceous compound" 9Gup ii.la 9
Four correspondents of the Country
Gentleman unite in the statement that an
application of coal tar to seed corn is the
best preparation to prevent birds pulling
up the seed. The tar should be heated be.
fore being applied, or else placed on top Of
the seed, and boiling water poured on.
They give from four tablespoonful to
half pint of the tar a. enough for . bushel
of the corn,
Ina lecture before the Connecticut
State Board of Agriculture, on parasites,
Prof. Verrin said that the bed-bug Is
nocturnal and gregariOus in its habits, and
hence easy to get rid Of It loves home
and returns when possible every night to
the same haunts They lay eggs with q
lid on the top, about 100 each, and SO q
few dozens in season will stock house
They are allied to the louise. Six parts of
petroleum to hundred parts Of water is a
simple remedy. i'5
THERE is great deal OF intemperance
besides that of tobacco, opium or brandy.
Men are dissipated, to ov ertax their system
all day and undersleep every night. Some
men are dissipated by physical stimulants,
and some by social, and some by profess
siOnal and commercial. But man who
dies of detiriuna trenens is no more
drunkard and a suicide than the lawyer,
minister or the merchant that works ex-
cessively all day and sleeps but little at
night-BeecI<r. .If,
IF. G." writes thu Country Gentleman
that sod is preferable for corn; that he has
found little difference in the crops on
ground plowed in fall or spring, but pre-.
fers blowing in the fall on clay land; that
it is much the best plan to draw out and
spread the manure as soon as the ground
is plowed; that snow will not hurt the
manure in the least If the land is to be
plowed in the spring he still thinks it
better to draw out and spread the manure
in the Notwithstanding it as made.
BERTs-The culture Of the beet is said
to be worth more to country as a fertil-
izer than the product directly derived from
proving more valuable than the sugar. 1t
is fed to barned cattle in large quantities
It is stated that in France, where the bust
the increase in cattle on account of beet
pulp is wonderful. In the district of
country surrounding the city of Valen-
ciennes, where, before the production Of
beet sugar, seven hundred oxen are the
total amount, eleven thousand five hun
dred are the total amount raised last year.
But this is not ALL This enormous in
crease of stock has so much advanced the
fertility Of the land that one hundred and
ninety.two thousand bushels more wheat
are raised in the same district per annum
than were ever raised in previous years
~ T. Com. bulletin, 4stf,
THE best liquid bee feed can be made
from good white or brown sugar and
water. The better the sugar the better
the bees relish 1t. It should be boiled. It
is useless to skim off the scum if you boil |
it long enough. 1t should be, when cold,
about the consistency of honey. There |
can be candy made Of sugar which 10 de- |
cidedly better for late feeding than any
liquid feed. The following is recipe for
making it, taken from Langstroth; Add
eggs; put about teaspoOnful of cream |
Of tartar to about twenty pounds of sugar,
and boil until the water is evaporated. |
To know when It is done, first dip your
finger into cold water and then into the
syrup. If what adheres Is brittle when
chewed, it is boiled enough. Pour 1t into |
shallow pans, slightly creased, and when |
cold, break it into pieces of suitable sizes. !
Four pounds Of candy will, it is said, sus-
tain colony having scarcely any winter
stores - ccAange. d "a - s65 9Hl |
.t,.,.,ts PreDarlng to Farm.
BY HORACE GREELEY.