Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-01-25
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A FARMER in Southern Illinois keeps
his sweet potatoes by putting them in
boxes or barrels with dry cut straw to
keep them from touching one another.
and in a place where the thermometer
will not mark below 60 degrees Fahren-
helt
AN excellent disinfectant is readily OBJ
tanned by dissolying a bushel of salt in a
barrel OF water, and with the salt water
slack barrel of lime, which should be
wet enough to form a kind of paste For
the purpose Of disinfectant, this home
made chloride of lime is nearly as good
as that purchased at the shops and drug
stores.-Rural Neac Yorker
An eminent pomologist in Brussels,
De Johnghe, has succeeded in obtaining
Weil-grown apples and pears in dry sea
sons by watering the trees from time to
time, and by making holes in the ground
underneath them and occasionally intro
ducing some liquid, but not very highly
concentrated, manure. This application
is stated to be particularly important at
the time when the fruit is setting.
WINTER Doors FOR HORSES. The Hdr-
ness journal advocates the use of winter
boots for horses to prevent i'll effects of
exposing them to mud wet and ice.
They should be made of light, soft leath-
er, and lined with felt or flannel they
need not extend up more than half way
between the fetlock and the knee, but
must come well down over the top of the
hoof They require to be well fitted in
order 10 keep them in their place, but
must not be tight, particularly around the
fetlock and below it. They fit much bet
ter and are loss liable to cramp the leg
when laced than when buckled on.
BoNED HAM-Soak nicely cured ham
the night before you wish to cook it, in
tepid water. Next day place ii in large
dinner pot of water of the same tempera-
ture, and boil it briskly eight or ten hours.
Take it UP in wooden tray, let it cool
and carefully take out the bone, cut it
clear at the hook and loosen il around
the bone at the thick part, with a
thin, sharp knife, and slowly pull it out
Then press the ham in shape and return
il to the boiling liquor. Take the pot off
the fire and let the ham remain in it, until
cold. 1t is like beef tongue when cut
across in slices.
CEMENT TO RESIST ACIDs.-The Chem
ac0J Neacs gives the following recipe for
making cement that will resist sulphuric
acids: Take caoutchouc 4; nell this by
gentle heat add from six to eight per
cent. of the weight of tallow, taking care
to keep the mass well stirred add dry
slaked lime SO as to make the fluid mass
the consistency of soft paste and, lastly
add 20 per cent. of red lead, whereby the
mass, which otherwise remains soft, be-
comes hard and dry. This cement resists,
according to DR. Wagner, boiling sui
! A &c IL,
twice its weight of raw linsecd oil, aided
by heating, and the addition thereto of an
equal weight of pipe-elay, yields plastic
mass which also resiStS most acids.
A PRETTY WAY TO TRAIN FUCHsh-
When slip has grown six or eight inches
high, nip out the top down to the next
set of leaves; it will throw out branches
on each side. Let these grow eight or
ten inches, then nip out as before, the
tops of each branch when grown the
same height as the others, then nip out
again; then procure a stick the size OF
your finger, eighteen inches in length;
take hoop-skrt wire, Irvine back and
forth alternate, through holes made in the
stick equal distances apart; place this
firmly in the pot back of the plant, tie
the branches to it, and you will have,
when in flower, a beautiful and very
graceful plant Having one trained in
that way last season, it was the al.
niration of all who saw it.-SmaU Fruit
H6c0rder.
JACK FROST often steals his way into
the house, and makes sad work among
the pet plants which have been 50 care
fully tended and SO greatly treasured. Ii
such q mishap occurs, an exchange says:
. - =. 4 Al arm
to thaw out by the side of stove, as you
would frost-bitten chicken. Let them
remain where they were frozen; close the
window shutters or drop the curtains, so
as TO make the room quite dark; then
sprinkle the plants with cold water direct
from the cistern, and wait for the result.
/ Do not allow the room 10 become warmer
than a. degs. for twenty-four hours. ii
a few drops of spirits of camphor are
thrown into the dish Of water before
sprinkling, it will be all the better.
Plants treated in this way, though frozen
SO badly that water will freeze in drops
on the leaves when sprinkled, yet by
keeping the room dark and cool for
an entire day, they will come out I'M
harmed"
A LADY sends to the Rurdl Ner Yorker
J the fOIlOWlHg recipe loi piSSei ''h5 NSS,'
which she has used for several years, with
good success: In August | generally
commence saving, and am very careful
to save only good and fresh ones. take
boxes which hold about 200, put on the
bottom a layer of oats, and set my eggs
all point downwards, SD that not one
touches the other, until the layer is nun,
then cover with oats and make announcer
LAYER, and so on until the pox Il
full. and then cover and set in cool, airy
Mace. where it does not freeze, until USED.
have followed this way for the last
twenty wears, and can not say that ! ever
lost more than one or two out OF MY,
and then generally found that 1t was
knocked or put down unsound. l use
small boxes. so that | can use first the
egps which / put down first. i nave
never thought Of changing my way, al
though have read so many ways 10 90 IL,
for instance, in ashes, in fat, in lime, IN
lime water and even vanishing theni, DC.
cause my way seemed to me the Simplest
and cleanest, and am sure to have goodI
eggs next February and March, which
lsy in now, as / can have good eggs
now There is no danger of having any
musty taste to the eggs if you keep 1nelh
. ..yon. and ire careful to use uIh