Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-03
USEFUL AND sUGH ESTIVE.

USEFUL AND Suggestive
A TIMELY MoTTo FOR LITTLE FoLKs.-
Avoid unripe fruits.
If misfortune comes into your house, be
patient and smile pleasantly, and it will
stalk out again, for 1t can't bear cheerful
company.
How TO CURE WASP SrINGs.--Potash
water is the quickest cure for wasp stings.
A small quantity should be kept in a glass
stoppered bottle. Open the sting with a
needle, and put on one drop of the potash
water.-Erchdn9e.
GLYCERINE and litharge, stirred to a
paste, harden rapidly, and make a suitable
cement for iron upon iron, for two stone
surfaces, and especially for fastening iron
to stone The cement is insoluble, and is
not attacked by strong acids.
| THREE.FoURTHs of the difficulties and
miseries Of men come from the fact that
most want wealth without earning it, fame
without deserving it. popularity without
temperance, respect without virtue, and
happiness without holiness.
| KILLING GRAssHOPPERs.-An Austria
! liam paper states that if common larkspur
be sown in gardens and vineyards, the
flowers will be eaten by the grasshoppers,
which will suddenly die The writer
states that he has followed this plan with
success for years.
Mr. JOSEPH HARRIS says, in the Ame7-i-
can Ag,iculturist, that while he believes in
clover and that we cannot grow too much
Of it, it should all BE fed on the farm, and
he believes that fallfallowing, on clay
land, is more in accordance with the facts
of scientific farming than is the practice of
blowing under clover.
APPLYING PLASTER TO LASD.-The
Rural Nean Yorker says: Three bushels
per acre is enough for any crop II TO be
applied to corn or potatoes, throw table
spoonful on each hill after the first hoeing
| If to pastures, meadows or spring grain,
SOW broadcast as early in spring as you
can do it, doing it, if you can so manage
it, just before rain"
IF caught in a shower, and you get your
hat wet, brush il before it is dry. And so
of the horse When ne comes in wet with
perspiration smooth his hair with a coarse
! brush-a common broom is better than
nothing-in the direction you wish it to
lie when he is dry. The animal will feel
better and it will be only half the trouble
to clean him the next time be needs it.
WATERING TRANS OFTEN.-How many
times day does the plowman or driver OF
q team in the harvest field slake his thirst
Does it not occur to him that the horses
or oxen, which have been severely taxed
with labor, and have possibly been pro-
fusely sweating under the hot sun,
are in as great need Of quenching
thirst as hes When animals are kept too
long from water, they will certainly take
more than is proper for them, and many a
| 81 IF 20 ahu he
practice of watering, at least once between
feeds in the morning and again in the
afternoon, should be regularly followed,
and if fifteen minutes is thereby lost to the
pillow, it will be more than made up in the
renewed vigor with which the team will
take hold on its return.-Hea,th and
Home.
CLEANLINEss.-An neat, Clean fresh air
ed, sweet, cheerful, well arranged house
exerts moral influence over its inmates,
and makes the members of q family peace
able and considerate of each others feel
ings and happiness. The connection is
obvious between the state of mind thus
produced, and respect for others, and for
those higher duties and obligations, which
no laws can enforce. On the contrary, q
filthy, squalid, noxious dwelling, in which
none of the decencies of lite are observed,
contributes TO make the inhabitants selfish,
sensual, and regardless of the feelings OF
others; and the constant indulgence Of
such passions renders them reckless and
brutal Bee Keepers Journal.
AT q meeting Of the Potomac Fruit
Growers Association, member stated
that he had been successful in raising
good crops Of ounces, not by pruning to
single stem, as is recommended in the
books, but by permitting ii TO throw up
three or four stems, ana form a busLy
head. He prunes very little, merely taking
out or shortening cross shoots He per-
mits the grass and weeds about the tree TO
remain and decay on the ground, and gives
light dressing Of salt annually. He cuts
away blighted branches as soon as posi-
ble He has grown ounces for thirty
years, always with perfect success when
the tree was kept in the bush form, and al
ways with bad results when the single stem
style was attempted.
To TAN SQUIRREL SKISs.-Place the
hide on smooth, rounds slab, made
for the purpose, with two legs in one end,
and let the other end rest on the ground
drive nail in the upper end to hold the
skin while slipping from t1eshing. Scrape
off all the flesh with blunt knife, being
careful not TO tear the hide Then take
the brains Of the squirrel and work them
thoroughly into the skin this renders the
skin pliable. Then. to preserve the skin
from the ravages Of insects, scatter on
some powdered alum and little saltpeter.
Let dry; then stretch and work it until as
pliable as may be desired The above is
acknowledged to be very good recipe for
tanning all kinds Of fur, although there
NAV be better ones Ia use.-Erc2dRge.
In case Of assault and battery, where
a stone had been thrown by the defendant,
the following clear and conclusive evi.