Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-03
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

silver spoons by rubbing them with a rag
dipped in sulphuric acid, and washing it
OF with soap suds.
1t is said that the leaves Of the conf
mon walnut tree, placed over doors, win
doys and mantel-shelf, or in wreathes or
punches everywhere IN the house, will
drive flies away.
-" Drink ice-water sparingly," is al
important maxim to every person, in sun
mer. The hotter the day the less should
the stomach be loaded with food or drink.
All kinds OF herbs should be gathered
on dry day, just before or while IN bios
som; tie them in bundles and suspend
them IL dry, airy place, with the bios
SONS downward. When perfectly dry,
wrap the medicinal ones Ia paper and keep
them from the air; pick off the leaves OF
those which are to be used in cooking ,
pound and sift them fine, and keep the
powder IN closely corked bottles
-Girdled Trees-A Pennsylvania cor
respondent of the Rural Nep Yorker
writes that he had three apple trees cir
died last winter. He took three Old boots,
cut off the legs and slit them open; put q
shovel full of fresh cow manure to each
leg and tied one around each tree, cover
ing the girdled part tsbout three inches
wide all around) and then threw couple
of shovels full of earth against each, to
retain the moisture. They have continued
70 grow as before, thriitilly, although the
weather in April or May was very dry.
Swelling in Horses Feet-If the
swelling is accompanied with great heat
and tension Of the parts, aud more particu
/ larly by cracked heels, then mild aperients
and fermentation are good beginning !;
but where any fiacidity exists, slim
ulants and tonics we have found the SOW
erign remedy Take of powdered sui
phate of iron, one ounce and half; pow
dered gentian root, two ounces; nitrate OF
potassa, one ounce; mix and divide into
twelve powders, and give one night ana
| morning. z, mixed up in cut OF soft feed, with
no more water in the feed than will keep
the particles together Feed the animal
generously and well, and give little eS
ercise daily American Stock Journal.
Grass for Horses There is no better
medicine to keep work horses in good
condition during simmer than bite of
grass Horses that have such slow work
as blowing are better out in the field at
night where they can get such grass as
will keep them feeding half the time.
They should, however, have their regular
feed in the stable before being turned out,
AS the grass will not answer in place OF
more substantial food. Never let a work
horse spend the Sunday nor any holiday
in the stable. Turn him out, if he does
roll in a wet spot and give occasion for an
extra cleaning on Monday morning. He
requires just such a change of exercise
and feed to keep him in good health
Hearth and Home.
The Gnrdener$ Monthly says "The
test of good gardener is to be found in the
way he Trims his fruit. Your shoddy iel.
low taxes all that nature will give him.
He buys the largest trees he can find, be-
cause they will bear fright away" and he
expects not merely specimen or so o; a
kind, but pecks, if not bushels, from new
| IMPLANTED trees. But as he becomes among
the refined and educated in the pursuit he
gradually learns that nature loves best the
| patient waiter. The grapevine. especially
suffers from over-bearing. Two or three
branches usually come out from each fruit
bearing branch. We should always cut
one away, the one farthest removed iron
the main stem, and in many cases leave
only one-the nearest one Ito mature.
A correspondent of the London Field
says that he protects fruit from the birds
by taking ball of gray, or white linen
thread, fastening one end OF 1t to one OF
the twigs of the tree or bush, and then
! crossing the threads backward and for
ward from twlg To twig in dozen differ
! ent directions. The threads will last two
| years. II is not necessary that the thread
should be white; il ought rather to be
/ fine and dark, a thing to be felt, not seen.
! He has watched the birds and seen them
/ come boldly TO settle on the trees; they
strike against the threads which they
! deem to be invisible snares, and fly off in
terrible hurry To protect peas and
other seeds, he simply stretches thread,
sometimes two, along each drill about two
inches from the ground, supporting it at
that heigh. by little forked sticks. If III :
| line is put much higher the birds do not
! seem to care for it, as it does not touch
them. Something which touches them,
! and which they do not well see, Is the
| grand secret of alarm.
"A correspondent of the Rural World
saws the caulifiower is rough feeder, con-
sequently the soil can hardly be too rich
for its growth. Decayed vegetable matter
is favorite food for it, though compost OF
muck, ashes, and lime or plaster, proves
An excellent substitute. Soap suds is bene-
fetal 70 it, Frequent hoeings, especially
in dry weather, hasten its growth II is
the natural tendency of the plant TO shell
ter and protect the head while form, with
its large leaves The effect Of this is To
blanch the head perfectly, and remove al
disposition to toughness which an expos
ure TO the atmosphere would be likely to
produce. Whenever the leaves show an
inclination to grow away from the head
they may be easily brought to cover it by
drawing them over it in the morning.
They will soon grow upward in place Of
downward
Annie Brown, a notorious snake.
woman" in Ohio, who has been battling
the physicians in various places for some
years, but who has lately been an inmate
of the Wayne County Infirmary, has At
last been discovered TO be fraud. DR.
Firestone, under whose watchful eye An
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