Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-21
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Never sleep in room where there is
any green paper on the walls, as this color
is made of arsenic or lead: the former is
by far the most dangerous, being Sheele's
green, and is known positively by drop
OF muriatic acid on the green leaving it
white.
Referring to sowing oats with winter
wheat, as protection to the latter, and
subsequent benefit TO the crop, the Anaer't
can RQrdl Home thinks the experience of
farmers in Western New York is decided
ly in favor of having the wheat as free as
possible from any other plant.
To Can Honey.-A writer in the Bee.
Keepers Journd! says; In the first place,
it should not, in any case, be taken from
the hive until it is properly evaporated, so
as TO prevent sOuring. am well aware
that We cannot get as many pounds, to let
it Re main until evaporated, as to take it as
soon as it is deposited by the bees, but
what we do get is much better, and when
put an article into market, l wish it to
stand the test. When ready to put in
cans, it should be put in tin vessel, set in
water, and brought nearly to scaldiDg
heat Put in the cans while hot and screw
on the caps tight.
in regard to vine pruning, Mr. ID. Thomp.
son, according to his experience, ties cd
over and over again, the spur vie Ids q
larger but less compact bunch, more likely
to shrink than the hard produce OF the
wood closer home, which yields more
compact, neat, and service able bunch, and
generally with larger berre and sitter
footstalks, than the larger buds farther up
10 in 10 yxr tn i1I
of the produce of vine by the size of the
bunch. The aim of the family grape
grower is fine berries, and compact mode
rate sized punches in great numbers.
Grape Jelly,-Take ripe, juicy grapes,
pick them from the stems; put them into
a large earthen pan, and mash them with
the back Of wooden ladle, or with po-
tato beetle. Put them into kettle with
out any water), cover them closely, and let
them boil for quarter of an hour, stir
ring them mn occasionally from the bot
tom. Then squeeze them through jelly
bag, and to each pint of juice allow
pound of loaf sugar. Dissolve the sugar
in the grape juice then put it over a quick
fire, in preserving kettle, and boil aud
skim it twenty minutes When it is a
clear, thick jelly, take 1t eff, put it warm
into tumblers, ana cover them with d. u
BILE tissue paper cut to tit the inside. In
the same manner you may make an ex-
cellent jelly for common use, of ripe fox
grapes and the best brown sugar; mixing
with the sugar, before IL goes on the fire,
little beaten white of an egg; allowing
two whites to two pounds of sugar. Miss
Lesl4s Cook Book.
-Fsttening Poultry.-Poultry of all
kinds may be fatted rapidly if kept shut
up and in the dark. Three weeks is suf-
dcient time to make them as fat as they
can be made. In England, Dorking fowls
are prepared for the London market by
being shut up in darkened coops and fed
on a mixture of one pound OF suet chopped
fine, and one. halt pound OF sugar, mixed
with four pounds of meal. Milk is given
them for drink five or six times a day, and
under this treatment fowl will gain two
| pounds in weight in week. Young tur-
KEYS fed thus have been known to take on
three pounds of flesh in week. AS in
our markets heavy weights are highly
appreciated, it would be well for those who
have poultry to feed to try this plan.
Three pounds q week, or even two pounds,
added to the weight Of turkey from this
time to Christmas, would make the bird
weighing forty pounds-worth a dollar a
pouud in the market at least, birds OF this
weight regularly bring that price. In
shutting fowls in close coops it is neces
sary to place good supply of dry earth
under them every day, and TO frequently
remove their droppings Hearth and
Home.