Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-30
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Pork e-Make a nice crust, line a
deep dish with it, put in layer of pork,
then layer of apple, and so on alter
nately until the dish is sufficiently filed,
spice to your taste, add a little water,
and cover with thick crust. Bake an
hour and half. You will have an ex-
cellent dinner pie
1t is important that the temperature
of cellars in which roots are stored be
kept sufficiently low. A little above the
freezing point is right for them If much
warmer, early potatoes, onions and tur-
nips will sprout and become damaged.
No place on the farm needs to have a
thermometer kept there more than the
root cellar; and constant attention should
be given to maintain an equal and proper
temperature.
A LuDIcRoUs incident of the Bangor
railway celebration was the putting OF the
words. 'Welcome to the President, upon
the county iail, by Boston decorator en-
ployed for the occasion The Jail is "A
handsome building, and conspicuously sit
uated and the decorator did not know the
special purposes to which it was dedicated.
lie was somewhat chagrined to learn his
blunder. and hastily pulled the motto down
Just before the President passed BY.
DIR. Hall says that it ought to be ex-
tensivelv known that ordinary boiled rice,
eaten with boiled milk, is one OF the best
remedies known for any form OF loose
bowels. Its efficacy is increased II 1t IS
brovned like coffee, and then boiled ana
eaten at intervals of four hours, taking
no other food or liquid whatever; its cura-
tive virtue is intensified if no milk is
taken with it, and the patient Will keep
quiet in a warm bed; then ii becomes an
almost infallibie remedy
Farmers not unfrequcntiy allow their
cattle 70 remain out of doors, when the flrst
cold winter winds come, longer than they
should. They are not accustomed TO fros',
rs thcy will be in February, and thus they
are piinIched and chilled, very much to their
injury They should be kept in the stables
on these raw and windy days, all the time,
with the exception of being turned out 1or
drink in the morning, at noon, ana al
night. II will require less food to keep
them. besides attributing both to comfort
and health An hours sunshine at noon
is also of great value.
There is vast difference in the flavor
Of eggs. Hens fed on clean, sound gram,
and kept on clean grass run. give much
finer favored eggs than hens do that nave
access 10 stables and manure heaps, ana
cat all kinds of filthy food. Hens feealhg
on fish and onions flavor their eggs accord
;pglv--tbe same as cows eating onions, or
c.6hace or drinking offensive water, IND
mart a bad taste to milk and butter. Inc
ricber the food the higher the color Oh lhe
eprs Wheat and corn give the pes'
color while feeding them on DUCK
wheat cakes makes the eggs colorless, rem
dar;ng them unfit for some confectionery
purposes ,o,
AS soon as blowing Is over Tor the sea
son. il is advisable not to leave inc PiG" ~
the furrow or lying loose on the neaaiahu'
but 10 bring il home and house II a. caLe
fully as though it were alive, ana "oulu
suffer from the inalemencies on inc whi,
ter weather In fact, il VIII surfer anu ~
will the farmers pocket, II II lseXposeu 70
the rains and fTosts. Before u 10 Stomeg
away in dry place, It should DE washer
/ and secured, and when dry, coated win
! hot boiled linseed oil This VIII penetrhte
| the pores not only OF the WOOD Du' lhe
/ iron. and preserve the one iron, ui. ~.
/ and powder-post" (borer' "hich uesiYy
dry wood, and the other from rust II
| rakcs forks, scythe-snaths cfaene:, e.c.'
are thus treated, their eiastici'! = pie
served and their durability Increased
We have seen ashes used around
,,oacb trees with remarkably good results.
W. intend to use them freely in our own
knlantinp next spring. Weare leo 10 TINS
-, our own observation of its good efiects;
~ ~ yell as our experience: Unieacheo
ashes are good, but it requires a larger