Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

He that thinks himself the happiest
man is really so, but he that thinks him.
self the wiscst, is generally the greatest
fool
NEVER give horse more than one pail
of water at time. If you think it not
enough, offer another by-and-by. In nine
cases out of ten it will be refused.
OYSTER SAUCE FOR BOILED TURKEY
Take two dozen large oysters, put them
in stewpan and let it come to simmer
not boil. Skim out the oysters, add
small cup of milk, teaspoonful OF flour
mixed up with q piece of butter as large
as an egg salt and pepper. Let it all
boil for ten minutes, and add the oysters
just as it is served.
To discover spurious greenbacks or ma
tional bank-notes divide the last two
figures of the number of the bill by four,
and ifone remains, the letter on the genuine
will be A; if two remains, it will be Is !;
if three, c.; and should there be no re-
mainder, the letter will be ID. For exam
pie, a note is registered 2, 461 divide
sixty-one by four and you will have one
remaining. According to the rule, the
letter on the note will be A. In case the
rule fails be certain that the bill is coun-
terfeit.-Erchange.
THE Boston Journal Of Chemistry says:
"The cause of failure in the use of con-
centrated fertilizers is often due to the
manner in which they are applied. 1t is
difficult for those who have been acuston-
ed to use bulky manures to realize that
the full fertilizing potency of bushel of
animal excrement may be held in large
tablespoon, and that handful of one adds
to plant structures as decidedly as several
shOvelflls of the other" 1t is only
question of cost in preparation.
A HEARTY laugh, which is ever in order,
stirs up the physical man from the center
to the circumference, and tends to i'm
prove the whole physical and spiritual
being. 1t promotes animal health and
spirits, and is to the man what the tides
are to the ocean; it stirs up the sluggish
depths, prevents stagnation, and keeps the
whole system fresh and wholesome. 1t is
what the Gulf Stream is to the ocean, a
vivifying and warming element. The
CONFUSION produced by hearty laughter
penetrates to the minutest blOOd-vessel,
and causes the blood to flow with fresh
ened impulse.
The ECONOMY OF COOKING FOOD
When wheat straw is fermented by means
of green, moist vegetable matter, as fresh
clover or grass placed in layers amongstit,
its quality as feed is much improved. 1t is
found that the process not only renders
more soluble the fibre of the straw, but
actually converts parts of it into starch,
sugar and gum. Accurate experiments
according to Professor Voelker, in Trans
actions of Royal Agricultural Society of
England, 1S71-have proved that the fer
menting process enabled fifty per cent of
the vegetable fiber to become soluble, while
of the unprepared straw only twentysix
per cent. is soluble When chaff of straw
is steamed in an ordinary feed chest, un-
der pressure of fifteen pounds per inch,
and allowed to cool gradually, the same
effect is produced, and one ton is equal in
nutrment to two tons unsteamed. Be-
sides, by mixing with it meal of any kind,
or bran, the flavor is diffused amongst the
mass and it is rendered much more palat-
able. In this way, even wheat straw may
be used as fodder, and great saving
effected. Hearth and Home.