Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-25
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

LEARNING will accumulate wonderfully
If you add little every day.
HAPPNEss.-Help others, and you re.
lieve yourself Go out and drive away
the cloud from that distressed friend 8
brow, and you will return with lighter
heart
IT is said that trace Of blood in a pail
OF water, so slight as not in the least to
affect the color, can readily be detected BY
the use of acetate of zinc, the value of
which for this purpose has but recently
been discovered by Cunning.
EXPERIMENTS recently made in Glas-
gov have demonstrated that ir,n bolts ex-
posed to frost cannot stand SO great strain
as those unfrozen. With gradual strain
the difference in favor of the unfrozen
iron was 2.3 per cent; with sudden
strain, 3.6.
INDIAN BREAD.-Take one quart of but
termilk, add soda Gas for biscuit), one tea
spoonful salt, one tablespoonful molasses,
one egg, one-third Shorts" or coarse
flour, and two thirds corn meal. Stir
thick, steam two hours, and bake one
hour.
The use of nitrous oxide gas, says Dr.
McLaren, in the Edinburgh Medical
Journal, should be avoided in all cases of
disease of the lungs in which the breath
ing is much embarrassed, and when there
is evidence Of either serious brain or heart
disease.
JOHN CARNKs writes to the Lima (O.)
Gazette to say that potatoes should be
planted with corn, or something that will
shade the potatoes. He says: 1.-THE po-
tato- bugs lay their eggs on the under side
Of the leaves, and if the sun does not
shine on the leaves, the eggs cannot
hatch"
PROTECTION AGAINST MOTHs.-A cor
respondent of the Cabinet Aaker gives the
following recipe as one which has kept the
moths out of furniture warehouse for
ten years past: Flour Of hops, one drachm !;
Scotch snuff, 2 o.; gum camphOr, l OF;
black pepper, or ; cedar sawdust, 4 OF.
Mix thoroughly, and strew, or put in
papers among the goods.
Corn planted early should not be COW
cred 80 deeply as that planted later in the
season, as, at first, the warmth of the suns
rays has not penetrated deeply, and the
grain, if covered deeply, cannot grow.
Deep covering in cold, wet seasons, is
often the cause of the failure of seed corn
to grow. The same seed planted later in
the season will grow with greater GER
tainty.
IT is estimated that 5000 pounds, or
three tons of sugar-beet leaves would be
obtained from an acre Of land In Europe
these are either plowed under or fed to
cattle. AS they cannot, usually, all be fed
fresh, they are sailed and preserved in pits
dug five or six feet deep, on the bottom of
which layer of two or three inches of
chopped straw is placed; On this layer
four or five inches thick of the leaves is
placed, very small amount of salt being
used The same alterations are continued
until the mass is two or three feet above
the ground, when it is covered with two
feet of soil. From 60 pounds of fresh
leaves 40 pounds of the preserved leaf mass
is produced.
How TO MIX MUsTARD.-Mustard
should be mixed with water that has been
boiled and allowed to cool; hot water de-
stroys its essential properties, and raw
cold water might cause it to ferment. Put
the mustard in cup, with small pinch
of salt, and mix with it very gradually
sufficient boiled water to make it drop
from the spoon without being watery.
Stir and mix well and rub the Jumps well
down with the back of spoon, as mustard
properly mixed should be perfectly free
from these. The mustard pot should not
be more than half full, or rather less, if it
will not be used for a day or two, as the
mustard is 80 much better when fresh
made.-ErcAange.
WHITEwAsH.-The Country Gentleman
has obtained recipe for making white
" GnvQrnrnanf
House Board, on light houses and fixtures:
Stake half a bushel of fresh lime with
boiling water, keeping it covered during
the process Strain it and add peck OF
salt dissolved in warm water, three pounds
of good rice put in boiling water, and
boiled to thin paste; half pound of
Spanish whiting, and a pound of clear
glue dissolved in warm water; mix these
well together, and let them stand for
several days. Keep the wash thus pre-
pared in kettle or portable furnace, and
when used put on as hot as possible, with
painters or whitewash brushes.