Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-10-12
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

! Qll) Republican says that ne has cured
! several colts and COWS that had been bitten
on the nose by rattlesnakes, by rubbing
! spirits of turpentine on their heads.
| Never overwhelm your friends by
| begging them TO make themselves at home,
or they will soon wish they were there.
| Show by your actions rather than your
words that you are glad to see them.
"A well-informed writer says that more
than 1000 acres of the best timber in
America are cut every year to supply the
demand for railway sleepsrs alone. In
single year the locomotives in the United
States consumed $55,000,000 worth of
wood.
"A Scotch agricuturist says he has
long been Of the opinion that ball smut in
wheat is fungus propagated by adhering
to the seed, and unless this fungus is de-
stroyed before being sown all the grains
infected by 1t are sure to produce diseased
ears.
For cramps in horses, an exchange re.
commends the rubbing of the affected
parts with a wisp Of hay for ten minutes
as beneficial and should friction alone not
| remove the tendency to cramp, the parts
affe cted should be rubbed occasionally with
a solution of camphor and olive oil, in the
| proportion of one part OF camphor to four
| Of olive OIL
Apple Dumplings.-Take three-fourths
Of a pound Of beef suet, chop fine, add
little salt, and -four and water enough TO
make paste. Then, having praviouslg
pared and cured your apples, roll out the
paste for each dumping, ill with apples,
and roll up in cloths, pinning each Cloth
TO keep it tight. Have the water boiling,
and let the dumplings boil steadily for one
hour Western Rural.
An exchange says that fre-proof
fence can be made by following these di-
rections snake wash OF one part fine
sand, and one part wood ashes, well slfted,
and three parts lime ground up with OIL,
and mix them well together. Apply this
to the fence with a brush the first coat
thin, the second thick. This adheres to
the boards or plapks so strongly as TO re-
sist either an iron tool or fire, and Is be-
sides, impenetrable by water"
A correspondent of the Rural Gentle
man is strongly in favor Of ashes TO pre-
vent rust in wheat, and has proved them
| of great value otherwise. He says ashes
operate as manure upon the wheat, even
in the limited quantity OF eight bushels
per acre; they strengthen the stem, giving
it substance and solidity and they afford
lust that kind Of pabulum or food which
is best for the development and perfection
of the grain, and will, in his opinion, pre-
vent the ravsges of The fly in wheat.
After the tops of onions are dried
down, and are ripe, then the sooner they
arr gathered and marketed the better. AS
they do not all ripen at once, IT is well TO
pull, clean and cure them by piece meal,
rushing them into market as asst as ready,
as some will rot, aud if left in the ground
after the fall rains, are apt to take on
second growth. If onions are pulled by
men. potato hook is about as good as
ANYTHING to loosen them from the ground !;
but the better way is TO HE boys to loosen
them by hand; then they are in no danger
of being bruised or punctured by the in
strument.-RurI NeD Yorker.
"A recent English writer puts in
strong plea for turnips, accounting them
considerably superior to carrots or man
gel-wurzels for mich VS. The mix IN
duced by msngels is large in supply, but
of poorer quality and not nearly 80 pro-
ductive Of cream as that resu ting from
the use of turnips; and the faint given by
the former roots is more Objectionable ana
less easy to obviate or overcome TO a pas
p sable UpRfcc. II OI Caiioeo, viz ohty A~~
ommendation is the absence OF all I'M
pleasant taste in the butter, as the mix is
neither SO abundant nor b rich as that
obtained by turnip feeding.
AS the season for digging potatoes is at
hand. It is well to consider the most eco.
nomical mode of dealing with the small
ones. Often farmers are SO mistaken az
to save them for seed bu. as the seed Is,
SO will the crop be. Plant small potatoes,
and the crop will be small potatoes"
Small potatoes may be fed TO hogs in such
a manner as to return fair value. But
they must not be fed raw. The result OF
all the experiments we have heard or read
of as we'll as of those made by ourselves,
shows that potatoes are much more pront-
allie when fed cooked than when fed raw.
The extra labor and fuel are well PAID for.
A GOOD plan is to boil them in large iron
kettle. set in an archway of rough stone
(Which economies fuel), and boil few
bushels AZ time. When cooked they are
dipped out, with all the water, into bar
rel, and peck Of corn-meal mixed with
esch bushel of potatoes. The meal is
thus thoroughly scalded. When the mess
Is cold Il NAV b. fed. If two barrels are
KENT. one will be always cool, and viii DC
somewhat fermented, while the other u