Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

A dairyman from Canada stated at
the American Dairymen's Convention
that he had kept oxen six or eight weeks
on orn-fodder alone. and worked them
all the time without loss of flesh. There
is substance in corn-fodder. The cattle
relish it.
DR.. Martin Sackett, of Westfield, gives
the following recipe for curing grub in
the head of sheep: One tablespoonful OF
butter, melted and mixed with teaspoon
full of spirits of turpentine. Turn this
into the sleeps ears once day, for one,
two, or three days, rs the case may re-
quire. He says that it never fails"
To remove warts on horses, procure
an ounce of concentrated muriatic acid
(spirits of salt and apply it to the top of
the wart, with thin, pine stick, morn
ing and night. The acid forms crust
which is easily taken off each day until
the wart is gone. 1t causes no pain,
and in due time the hair will appear on
the spot again. Keep the acid well corked
and out of the reach of the children
Alden jameson.
To make candles, writer in the
Western Rural says: Take one pound
of alum, one pound saltpeter, and add
water enough to dissolve by boiling
about two quarts--then add twelve pounds
lard, and boil till the water evaporates,
stirring it frequently until nearly done;
then stir all the time until done. This
makes candles superior to tallow, if well
done. When you buy saltpeter, be sure
you do not get coarse salt instead.
have used this recipe for more than twenty
years, when lard was cheap"
"A Canadian farmer says, although
white beans are Of no value for fattening
stock, yet they are the best things that
can be fed 10 young animals, as they con
tain the necessary material for making
bone and muscle. Fora young colt, one
pint of beans and oats crushed together
will be found much better than oats
alone. A neighbor of mine, a few years
ago, fed his store ewes with a regular
allowance of beans and peas crushed dur.
ing the winter, and as consequence the
next spring never lost lamb. They
were SO strong that they were on their
feet and tried TO suck almost as soon as
they were born.
All persons who had new windows to
wash will be sure to recollect the bothera-
ton caused by the streaks of putty-oil and
drops of paint More than half the labor
of removing these may be saved by TAX
ing wet cloth, dipping it into ordinary
baking-soda, and rubbing the paste thus
made thinly over the glass After this
has been suffered to remain about fifteen
minutes, it can be easily removed by
washing in warm, soft water, without
soap, bringing oil and stains with it. If
the glass is then rubbed dry, and after
wards polished with dry whiting and
channels skin, the most fastidious eye
can discover no blemish.-HedrM ana
Home.
When cows withhold their milk they
are commonly in dissatisfied state OF
mind, and therefore anything to draw
their attention from this condition
answers good purpose. We have always
succeeded by giving them mess OF food
to alnuse them while milking is going on
generally dry mea-so as to keep Them
long occupied. If they have sucking
calves, let them suck ut the time OF milk
inc. Driving them in a position so that
that their fore legs will stand on much
highcr ground than the hind legs, or on
lower ground, counteracts the animal 5
attention, and generally succeeds. 1t is
said that a weight on the small OF the
animals back as bag of gram, VIII
answer, but we know nothing of its efii-
cacy Am Stock journal.
In gardening, it is not usual Tor
farmers, even though they cultivate a
good garden, to commence operations in
the 'hot bed" before the first of March,
but good results may be realized by com
mencing in February. A crop of lettuce
and radishes may be realized before the
tomato, cabbage and cauliflower crop is
ready for planting out in the beds. Every
farmer should make the forcing OF plants
in hot-beds necessity to good living. IL
requires only little judgment and skill,
He has manure for heating, and, of course,
of hay any straw for covering the glass
in rough weather there is no lack. The
sashes cost but little, and the frames any
farmer can make, and the women OF the
household would gladly give their atten,
ton to ventilation, etc, in the absence OF
the "men folks" Once become interested
in gardening, there are but few farmers
who ever thereafter abandon it Heste1"