Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUG6EST1VE.
A wRETcHED contagious disease is once
in while propagated by careless BARRIERS
and, as BARRIERS must be patronized some.
times, q recommendation in the London
Medical Press is worth remembering. The
razor should be dipped in hot water and
then wiped clean. This will effectually
kill the germ of mischief and be protec-
ton that can be depended on.
A ToP-DREssING FOR CoRN.-Corn is
much benefited by a stimulating manure
applied in the early stages of its growth
A valuable compost for this purpose is
made by mixing hen manure, wood-ashes,
and plaster. Keep it dry until used. A
handful may be sprinkled on each hill as
soon as the young corn appears. The deep
color and vigorous growth will attest the
efficacy of the application. Lastly, but
| not least, the cut-worms don't like 1t.
THE "five-year rotation" adopted in
England for light loamy lands is: First
year, roots; second, barley; third and
fourth, clover; fifth, wheat. The advan-
tages Of this system are that land gets a
thorough cleaning, and q mellow seed bed
it prepared for the barley; and young
sod is held to be, when broken up by a
single blowing, good preparation for a
sound seed-bed for the ensuing wheat
crop.
j. WILKINSON proposes, in the Harry
land Farmer, a plan for what he calls a
".symmetrizing rack and manger," which
consists simply in placing the feed box SO
high that the colt can only reach the food
by arching the neck and raising the head
nearly as high as possible. By this means
he claims that great Improvement can be
made in the style and symmetry of horses
designed for the saddle, the coach, or the
road.
THE editor of the Germantown Telegraph
says that the suggestion that the trunks OF
apple trees should be shorn of all the
boughs and allowed to sucker, and some
of them when large enough, grated, will
prove failure. The grating of the ordi-
nary suckers growing from the trunks of
old trees can rarely be done with success.
He tried this, anc the CRAFTS all died at
the end of the second or third year. Far
better to graft the old trees whenever
there is any smooth barked wood near
enough to the main bough.
FACT In SWEET POTATo CULTURE.-A
writer in the Country Gentleman says: l
believe that experience has settled the
somewhat anomalous fact that the sweet
potato is improved by successive cultiva-
ton on the same ground for series of
years. The more the soil is enriched by
the proper stimulants, the better will the
product be both in quality and quantity.
The principle of rotation does not apply
in this instance. The most successful Gull
tlvators have found this to be true by uni
form experience, and the fact know can
be attested by the most reliable testi-
mony.
CLEANSING VANISHED PANT.-In
cleansing paint which has been vanished,
there is nothing better than weak tea. All
the tea leaves from several drawings
should be saved and boiled over early in
the morning Of the paint cleansing day.
If boiled in an old tin pail or pan, the tea
can be easily strained off for use. Wet q
flannel in 1t, and wipe the oak grained
paint, and you will be surprised at its
brightness No soap is needed, no milk !;
the tea is the most capital detergent ever
invented. Wipe the paint dry with a soft
cloth you will find that very little elbow
grease is needful. White vanished paint
is cleansed as rapidly with it as the
grained.-Boston Journal Of Chemistry.
THE advantages arising from planting
evergreens in orchards are set forth by F.
r. Elliott, in the Journal Of Horticulture.
He says The ameliorating influence of the
evergreen extends really but about fifty
feet yet within that distance the bodily
action of man feels it perceptibly, and so,
reasoning with careful observation of ami
NAL and vegetable life, each year tells me
more and more that to insure success and
further development of either, certain
warmth and shelter, etc., must be had. In
the animal it is by means of artificial shell
ter and clothing in which they can be
placed but in the vegetable it must be the
subduing influence of one plant upon
another, and the evergreen, from long ex.
perience, is proved the safeguard and
ameiorating nurse of the diciduous tree
To MAKE EMBROIDERY PATTERNS
The traced patterns for embroidery are
printed, when many copies of the same
pattern are required. when few are
needed, they are made by hand, as fol-
lows: The drawing is made upon paper /;
they lay the drawing upon an even cloth,
and perforate all the lines with fine
needle, close and even. Then take finely
powdered charcoal, three parts resin, one
part in fine powder; mix and tie it in a
piece of porous calico. so that it forms a
busting bag. Lay the perforated drawing
upon your material, hold down with one
hand, rub the busting bag over the draw
ing; the dust will fall through the holes
and form the drawing on the material
Remove the paper drawing, lay blotting
paper over the dust pattern, and 60 over
It with a warm flat-iron. The heat will
melt the resin and fix the drawing.
DIR. LETzRRIcH, the pathologist. who,
some time ago, published his observations
on fungus, supposed by him to produce
diphtheria, has recently made series of
experiments with another form of fungus
growth, which he believes to be the cause
of the very infectious disease, whooping-
cough. The spores found in the expector.
ated mucus causing the irritation and
cough hing, were allowed to vegetate into
larger masses, and small portions were
then introduced into young rabbits by an
opening in the windpipe. The wounds
thus made soon healed, but the animal be-
came affected with violent cough. Sew
eral animals thus deceased were killed,
and the air passages in each we're found to
contain very large quantities Of similar
fungus. These observations, SO important
to the advocates of the germ theory, have