Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-14
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Butter Making in Hot Weather.
When 1t is very warm and dry, we cool
our milk room by keeping wet sheets,
wrung on of cold well water, hung up in
the warmest p.rt of the room. Put q
small quantity Ct milk in q pan, and If
shelves are used, set up Stats an inch or
two thick, SO to les tie air cool the bot.
tom of the pan; be sure to skim before
the mix gets soar or thick, in twenty-four
or thirty six hours, and sometimes in very
warm weather in twelve hours Throw
handful of salt in the cream pail, put in
the cellar or othe, c.ean place, and stir all
the cream wen every time moe Is added.
The greatest care and neatncss in every
particular is necessary to make good ar
ticle Of butter Vermont Farmer.
TO make cold slaw, take nice fresh
cabbage-white is pref rable-wash, drain
it and cut off the stalks. Shave the head
into very fine shreds, with a cabbage. cut
ter or sharp knife. Place it in deep
china or earthen DISH and prepare for 1t
the following dressing: To halt a pint OF
cider vinegar add quarter OF pound OF
batter, cut in five or six bits and rolled in
flour; small salt spoon of salt and the
same Of ground Cayenne pepper Stir
well together, and boil in a saucepan.
Have ready the yolks of four eggs, well
beaten. When the mixture comes to y
boil, remove it from the fire, and stir in
the eggs. Pour this boiling hot over the
cabbage, stir it thoroughly through with
spoon, and set it on ice or snow, or some
cool place to get thoroughly cold before
being served at the table.-RurH Neto
Yorker.
-Superphosphate Applied in the Fail
The TACT that no demand Is maze upon
the soil for phQsphoric acid by Ih9 whea.
plant, until the grain be. ms 10 be formed,
seems to point to the iall as not beng the
proper season for applying super hes
pha,e. And yet 1t Is genera ly app led
with the seed Being m silly soluble, The
phosp horic acid Is In danger OF being Car
ried by the copious rains OF autumn and
winter, and the melting SHOWS OF spring,
beyond the reach If the roots of tIe
wheat. And here, probably, Is the reason
that we hear SO much Of The lack OF ex.
pected results after sppl. ing this maoure
Applied in the sprirg in The shape OF q
top dressing, it would be within reach OF
the plant at the season " hen It's 1e4uir
ed and this we believe to be the most
rational mode OF using it. We have hac
better results with superphosphste anc
guano as top dressing early IN spring
and hight narrowing immediately af,er.
wards, thsn with either sown with the seed
in the drill.--Hearth and Home.
Sweet Pork.-It is beyond doubt
that cleanliness has much to do with the
flavor of pork. Tire filthy state in which
many fattening hogs are kept has ten
dency not only to give rank taste to the
meat, but to render it positively unwhole
some. A very common mode OF penninl
hogs at this season is in u rail pen, with
out protection from the weather. Tn
consequence is that such pens are not ii
to keep living animal in; wet and filthy
cold ald uncomfortable as they are, hog
will not take on fat, and great proper
| ton of the food is wasted while they ar
kept in them, while the filth, considera
bic amount Of which the hogs will con
sumo, must be detrimental TO their health
and to the health of those who eat thei
flesh 1t is not only safer, but more eco
nomical, TO give fatteDing animals Rooc
shelter and dry Leds and litter, and keeE
them quite clean. The labor will be wei
repaid. American Agriculturist.