Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-23
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

TT is said that few drops of carbolic
acid will cure musty smelling books. Ii
will also prevent smallpox. -
KEEPING HoNEY--To keep honey all
the wear round, let ii run through fine
sieve to separate it from particles OF wax,
then boil it gently in an earthen vessel,
skim OFF the foam which gathers on top,
and cool it in jars After covering these
tightly, set them away in cool cellar.
CARpETEp FLOORS When carpet is
taken up to be cleaned, the floor beneath
il is generally much covered with DUST.
This dust is very fire and dry, and poison
Gus to the lungs. Before removing IL,
sprinkle the floor with very dilute carbohc
acid, to kill any poisonous germs that may
be present, and TO thoroughly disinfect the
floor and render it sweet.
BoRERs IN APPLE TREES. best
plan to prevent borers from entering APP
pie trees is to wrap the base OF the trunk
with tarred roofing paper. "A piece 1901
or more wide is wrapped around the tree,
the lower edge of the paper extending
lust below the surface of the soil. Before
this is applied the tree should be examined
TO ascertain that borers have not already
entered Should any be found they must
be probed out or cut out --! Hearth ana
| Home.
! SAVE SoMErnING.-If your income is
! five dollars day spend but four Ii II i
/ one dollar spend eighty cents. III II l.
| but ten cents. spend nine. II il is three
potatoes, save half potato for seed. nus
YOU will gradually acquire something
while, if YOU spend and consume a. you
! 90. YOU Will never get ahead one inch II
! life, but every sunset will look on yot
poorer than az sunrise, because you VII
have used unprotitubly one day more 81
yomr strength and your allotted term %
! life
! NON-SMoKING CHNfNEYs. TO make 1
chimney so that il will NOT smoke the
chief point is Ia make the throat of tho
chimney not less than four inches broad
and twelve long; then the chimney should
be abruptly enlarged 10 double the size
and so continued for one foot or more
then ii may be gradually tapcred oil as de
sired Bur the inside OF the chimney
! throughout its whole length TO the top
should be pastercd very smooth witt
good mortar. which will harden with age
TIE area of chimney slounld be at least
half square foot, and 40 flew less thar
sixty square inches. The best shape for q
chimney in circular or many sided ~
/ giving less friction (brCk Is the best ma
tcrial. rs il is non-conductor) and the
! higher above the roof the better Scicn
tifie American.
HENS IN PLACE or DoGs--Thorc il
hardly family that does not throw away
enough table scraps 10 keep at least i
| dozen hens; and many that Keep a NUS
ance in the shape of n dog, that docs ne
good, bat costs more than dozen good
hens One dog in ncighborhOod is gen
! erally greater trouble TO the nciChbors
than flock of hens would be; for II hens
are well fed nj home, they will rarely Sc
away But who ever saw dog that was
not a pest, running across the newly mad,
garden and sticking his nose into every
| thing Kill oil the ours and give the food
10 the hens, and you viii find pleasure a'
well as profit in so doing. We wish thcr,
was II tax of 800 on every dog kept IL
( the country Those that are Of value al
watch dogs, could be retained, while tn,
host Of dirty, snarlinp, diTty ,"Is "o"l,
give place to some more useful and les
troublesome pet.-IRural New Yorker
LlyE-ST0CK. -- We would urge our read
ers to keep ever before their minds Tia
idea that AN animal is, SO to speak,
machine that, from the day Of its birth Z
the hour of its death, is constantly I'm mo
ton. II never stops whether asleep %
awake, in summer or winter night or day
it is ever running And the power re
quired 10 keep it in motion is derived from
the food, or from flesh and fat preyiousl,
stored up in the animal. In the aggregate
farmers lose millions Of dollars every yea
from not understanding and acting upoi
this simple truth. There are thousands o
calves, cows, and steers that on The first o
next April will weigh no more than the.
do now on the first OF November. All tn
food they consume during the winter i
used merely to keep up the animal hea
and sustain life. Aside from the total los
OF food, IAN animal SO kept, especially
young animal, il not in healthy con
dition, and il VIII take several months o
rood feed in the spring to give II goo'
start. An animal that will not pay 70
liberal feeding had better be sold for what
ever it will bring - American Agricu
turist.
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