Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-10-05
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

PUDDING WITHOUT MILK OR Eaes--
Half pint of water, half pint of mo
lasses two teaspoonfuls of soda, one tea
spoonful of salt, thicken to quite thick
batter, stir in either berries or raisins, and
boil three hours
Do DAILY and hourly your duty; do it
patiently and thoroughly. Do it as 1t pre-
sents itself; do it at the moment, and let it
be its own reward. Never mind whether
it is known or acknowledged or not; but
do not fail TO do it.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
tlenaan who has tried keeping three cows
exclusively on green sowed corn since
about June 1, last, finds the milk steadily
diminishing His experience with sowed
corn fed in connection with grass has been
very favorable.
To SET THE Color OF CoTToN
DRESSES, large double handful of
bran, put it in saucepan and set it over
the fire, allowing it to boil thoroughly in
quart of water; when thoroughly boiled,
strain the bran and throw the water into
that in which you are about washing your
lawn or chlntz dress. Let the dress soak
for an hour or 80 in it before washing. In
stead of starch, use a weak solution Of
glue-water and iron on the wrong side.
If we would establish the habit of
drinking water freely in the morning,
soon after arising, commencing with small
quantities. increasing gradually as we
learn to relish it, until the chief portion
taken during the day is before breakfast,
it will promote the health to much
greater extent than it ordinarily does, era
dictate disease from the system, and become
a most decided luxury in time.--Scsentifc
american.
| LEMON JUICE IN DIPHTHERIA MIR. Re-
villout, in paper presented last summer
to the French Academy of Medicine, as
serts that lemon juice is one OF the most
efficacious appliances for diphtheria, and he
relates that, when dresser In the hospital,
his own wife was saved by this timely APP
plication. He got three doz n lemons and
gargled her throat with the juice, she
swallowing little at the same time, In or
der to act on the more deep seated parts.
| The do tor has noted numerous cases OF
complete success obtained by this method
| of treatment.
THE Germantown Telegraph SAYS that
of all the crops raised in the United
| States Indian corn, or maize, which Is a
better name, is the most important and
valuable, as it is the largest in extent and
| commands the greatest cash value, and IS
applied to more useful purposes than any
other. 1t may be regarded, too, as the
most wholesome. Every animal, and
every granivorous bird, from the partridge
up, prefers it TO all other grains and as to
man, if not popularity upon an equality
with wheat, as an article of diet, IL Is next
TO it. In pork making ii is Indispensable
THE Santa Clara (Cal) Farmers Cub
says "In dry seasons the poorer soils
yield better grain in proportion than soil
which is richer. II seems, from the re-
ports that have reached US, that the far M
ers generally have been astonished at the
unusual quantity of grain from unpromis-
ing fields The reason assigned is that the
rapid growth OF the straw, in the better
land, txhausts the moisture in the soil be
fore the head Fl Is out, and hence a light,
shriveled grain; while the upland, not so
good, has produced less straw, and thus
retained sufficiency Of its moisture TO
mature plump and healthy seed"
THE question, Does vaccination lose It's
protective powerY is one which Is discus
sed anew on the occasion Of every fresh
outbreak of epidemic smallpox, such ss
that with which Lopdon Is now afflicted
The best ob.crvers are of opinion that
when vaccination has been properly p r
formed, and when the system has been
brought thoroughly under the influence OF
the modified form Of the disease induced
by the vaccine matter a person Is no more
liable to take the small pox than If he had
formerly had the smallpo itself. The
nece ssity of revaccination is due usually
to tie fact that the operation is impertectly
performed, and the disease imperfectly d.
veloped.
FIREwooD, GREEN OR DRY.--We have
heard it stated that green wood gives out
ia burning greater heat than dry wood.
Now IL is only necessary 10 reason for
a moment to perceive that this statement
or bel eff must be fallacious. Green or
unseasoned wood contains twenty-five per
cent. more water than air dried or what
is commonly called dry or seasoned wood.
Then, in burning one hundred pounds OF
green wosd an excess OF twenty five
pounds of water must be evaporated. To
evaporate five pounds Of wafer one and a
quarter pounds of wood are required. 30
that in getting rid of the excess of water
in green wood, loss of over six per cent.
is incurred. This will consume one cord
out Of every sixteen. This Is the direct
loss. The indirect loss we estimate much
higher. 1t can not well dc reduced TO
figures, but Is sufficiently palpable for all
that 1t Is exhibited in late breakfasts,
badly cooked dinners, "cakes which are
dough" and bread sodden and indigesti-
bic; also, in disturbed tempers and gene
raj domestic unpleasantnesa, which not
seldom occur in consequences. If the
winters supply Of wood were now gotten
up, saved and split, and piled up under
cover, certain gam In money or labor
would be made, while prolific source Of
inconvenience and irritation TO the females
of the family would be avoided. -HeartA
| and Home.
Feeding Chickens.