Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-18
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Mr.. ]. P. Whiting, of Detroit, raised
some squashes and cucumbers last year in
his cherry orchard, and used tobacco dust
plentifully on the vines to Danish the
squash hug, striped-bug, etc. The insects
were destroyed, and SO were the cherry
trees; not one of the latter is now alive.
Whenever beet seeds are sown late in
the season their termination may be
fastened by soaking them few hours in
warm water. If seed drill is used, roll
ing in dry plaster, ashes, or some similar
substance, will be necessary to absorb the
moisture Oh the surface, and allow them
to readily separate.
-Ofthe application of bone dust to the
soil, the Country Gentleman says: 1t may
be applied at the rate of 800 or 1000
pounds per acre. As it is not very solu.
BILE manure, and acts for long time, it is
not very important how it is applied, pro-
vided it is evenly distributed and well
worked in. If for drill crops, it may be
applied in the drill by sower, or other.
wise or it may be sowed broadcast and
narrowed in.
Milk Pancakes.-Put four yolks and
two whites of eggs into pint Of milk, and
dredge in flour, and you have smooth.
light batter; add teaspoonful of grated
ginger and glass of brandy. Well heat
some FIXTURES in your firing pan, and fry
your pancakes of nice brown color.
Drain them carefully from the fat, and
serve with pounded and sifted sugar
strewn over them. Garnish the dish with
sliced lemon.
When color on fabric has been &C.
Il a1J, 9TH 1Cct
ammonia is applied to neutralize the same,
after which an application OF chlorofom
will in almost all cases restore the original
color. The application of ammonia is
common, but that of chloroform is but
little known. Chloroform will also re-
move paint from garment or elsewhere,
when benzole or bisulphide OF carbon fails
Boston Journal Of Chemistry.
Orange Pudding.-Peel and cut five,
good, sweet, juicy oranges into thin slices,
taking out all the seeds Pour over them
a coffee cup of white sugar. Let pint
of milk get boiling hot by setting 1t into
some boiling water add the yolks of three
eggs, well beaten, one table poonful Of
corn starch, made smooth with a little cold
milk. Stir all the time, and as soon as
thickened pour it over the fruit. Beat the
whites to stiff froth, adding tablespoon
of sugar, and spread over the top for
frosting. Set it into the oven for few
minutes to harden. Eat cold or hot for
dinner or tea. Substitute berries OF any
kind, or peaches, if you like them better
than oranges. Western Rural
TO Broil Ham.-Slice the ham very
thin, and soak the slices in hot water for
about an hour, changing the water several
times, and always pouring 1t on boiling
hot. This process extracts the super
fluous salt, as well as makes the meat
tender. After soaking, dry the slices, with
a cloth, heat the gridiron, lay on the slices
and broil over clear fire. Cold bolled
ham may be sliced and broiled, and served
with eggs. Of course the slices need no
soaking. Try this method, and see if it be
not great improvement upon the ordinary
method of "fried ham, and the, eggs
fried in the ham gravy.-Rur@ Ne1
Yorker. 80.
ID. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, in then
new seed catalogue, advocate rotary crops;
they say that if the same kind OF plans
are continued in the same soil, only pof
ton of the properties of the manure APP
piled is used, while, by judicious roIa'
ton, everything in the soil, or manuh,
suitable for vegetable food, is taken up
and appropriated by the crop Anolnei
reason for rotation of crops IS, that som'
crops are so favorable to weeds that II c Wv
tinued long upon the same grouns wv
labor of cultivating them Is mucn
creased, while, if raised but once In apiave,
and followed by cleansing CROP NV
weeds are easily kept under.
Sugar Beets for Hogs-l ma Nv. ,pat
actual use this last summer and faii, 'sl
sugar-beets are good food for hogs.
planted the beets last spring for the pm,
pose of steaming them with potatoes. pS
the value of potatoes proving reiaIiv.g
more than that of pork, tried cook sas
them (the beets) alone, and feeding .a gan
raw-both ways giving much satisIacuoSs
to me and apparently to the hogs. ioear
that in feeding them raw they were eavsS
with great relish, tops and roots, pom
store and fattening hogs, and the imp;H,
sion left upon my mind was that. irou
stinctive manifestations of swlnlsn NY
tite, the beet is one among the many G
cles of their food that is not mucn ~
proved by oookisg.-COr. Gern'1"s0S" :"
eoraph.
The inquiry as to the proper wy ;srs
skin young calf, or "deacon," i .au'
answered by 8. Winnie, of koc ,ssIys
MINI: "Take two poles, about . ':.S
feet long; fasten them together !. VIA Zach
cross piece about three feet ionE 1.-THE
end then put two legs In one enc tbe
frame to raise It about one foot iiomarob
ground, and let the legs run up ta, ToIIsr
six or eight inches; then MAKE .,stvo
four to six inches in diameter, and D0'sN Now
holes through it at right sngie I'D skin
kill your calf and rip It Is usaaa ovn the
s S1i.Pss to ss the forward then zee
calf with it's neck on the lower @ ,rIshs
Of the frame, and fasten It Their ths neck
cord then fasten rope around 'p S.rf 70
Of the skin and let that rope TUE '0.en turn
the roller, and with Two sno. ~ of nice
s sns elsaa not {. having g; q e @
damage it, and the work wiii .aDcn;red by
less than one-half the time ieq