Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-16
HOME, Farm AND GARDEN.

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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
DIR. Poillon, French physician, says
cold can be cured by inhaling hartshorn.
The inhalation by the nose should be seven
or eight times in five minutes. @
The Hartford Beard of Health official
ly resolves that neither the flesh nor milk
or cows that have been afflicted with the
cattle disease should be used for period
of at least thirty days after convalescence
Eggs in Wintcr.-Samuel Woods, of
Rogersville, Pa, gives the following MS his
plan for making hens lay, when the
dreams are locked and all the landscape
i, clothed In white': "First give the
fowls ell-potected building, with some
straw or hay. Then place number OF
boxes in different places for nests Mine
are twelve inches square and Twenty-Five
inches long, made tight, except one end.
A small board is nailed on the open end 10
keep the nest in its place, and LAID ON It's
side; this protects the eggs Since this
plan was adopted, my hens have paid for
it richly in eggs, while my neighbors DO
not get any, la easfsga a8iv
How to Cook Old Fowls. For the
possible benefit of some other young
housekeepers, | wish to tellthem how TO
cook an old chicken. Prepare as for
roasting, then boil, three hours in COW
cred pot, with one Gu rt Of water, 70
which add two tablespoonfuls OF vinegar ;
after which put in a pan, in hot oven, for
about one hour, to brown, The liquor In
| the pot TO be prepared for gravy; should
the water boil away too much, more
/ n II laI The q 20 mo-
| is as tender as young chicken, and some
| think richer and better. IS sg4a
Baked Potatoes. Potatoes are more
nutritious baked than they are cooked in
any other manner; and they relish better
| with those. who have not been aecus-
| toned to eat them without seasoning.
Wash them clean, but do not soak them.
1 Bake them as quickly as possible without
burning in the least Assoon as they are
| done. press each potato in cloth SO as 10
crack the skin and allow the steam to es.
| cape. If this is omitted the best potatoes
viii not be mealy. They should be brought
| Immediately to the table, as they will
| soon become solid and lose their flavor.
l. "A correspondent Of the Country Gen
asnma says that the principal point in the
successful culture Of the Linn bean, il
| to get the bean well started. The best
| way Of doing this is to plant in a hill Of
light earth, made so by sitting the soil, il
1t can be had in no other way. A shovel
| full of well rotted manure should 60 into
each hill. He mixes sand and muck, and
| after placing each seed bean with thu
germ downward in the hill, he Sits the
covering over 1t through a willow sieve
Corn planting time Is about the right time
10 Tho offar ctlfi vya
ton is the same as for the common pol,
bean. IS fU1}Hs! AeH y fffefa ef8l
n Collie In Horses.--T. s. Mitchell, M
D., writes to the Raral -Nep Yorker; :
here hand you a prescription for collie loi
any kind) IN the horse or mule, that has
stood the test Of seventeen years actual
experience. without a case OF failure
will here obligate myself TO pay $50 foI
every horse that dies from this treatment
if the owner agrees to pay 80 for curing
| the hOrse.g Htssar Y@e 0h 4gisa
t tsSssss% ii III: ..t. III: a.
W sHaeew good
LIZ Water. .,..f'i. 'Ptk
mix, and drepch through the mouth
once in two and a-half hours, never oft
ener. After one drench the horse will eat
| in twenty minutes"g ig3yf t,lit91 ast
IS-Fence Posts. 1.-The following expert
ence ON the, mooted question whether
fence posts will last longer when set in
the same position In which they grew, or
sice porsa, il given by writer: Some
twenty three or four years since set q
fence, inclosing house and door yard--a
rail and banister fence. The posts were
sawed from good sized, first growth red
chestnut logs. To saw them tapering, one
half Of them must be sawed to ret In the
ground top down, and the other half bot
tom down. The posts were set promiscu-
ously, and 70 this day there has been no
distinguishahle difference in their lasting
quality, unless it be where some OF them
had more sap on than others, and these
gave out first without regard 70 which end
was Get down. 9l sfid fsfliii" gdi II
Cure for ,Rheumatiam--The man we
speak Of suffered much from rheumatism
Fl hfs Hight arm, 30 much SO that he was
uDt absG 10 raise his arm 10 his head.
Neyerthelsm helwas compelled 10 perform
some necessary operation on one Of his
stocks OF Bees. and while doing 70 was
sttif Z m the thumb Of the rheumatic hand
Immediately the hand and arm commenced
TO swell, hut a. the swelling increased the
rheumatic pain diminished, and in halt
an hour his Rheumatism was gO1e.
"A fsw months sitter this, being much e.
posed to wet weather, the .malsdy ~
turned. He procured some bees and com,
PEELED them TO sting him In the upper
partO his hand Snd FL hess than fifteen
ninuaes - Ms fsse iAsa the halady<