Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-15
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.


To Boil Ham. Boil it three or four
hours. according to the size; then take
up, skin the whole, as for the table; stick
in over dozen cloves; rub over half
cupful of sugar; sprinkle thoroughly with
pounded rusk or cracker crumbs, and
set into well-heated oven for half an
hour
Simple Remedies. Cotton wool, wet
with sweet oil and paregoric, relieves the
ear ache very soon. Black or green tea
stepped in boiling water, and sweetened
with loaf sugar, is excellent for the dyson
terry. A good quantity of old cheese is
the best thing to eat when distressed by
eating too much fruit, or oppressed with
any kind of food Physicians have given
it in cases of real danger.-Erchdnge.
Oatmeal portage, says writer IN
the Western Rural. is very healthy dish
for children, and may be made quickly,
by having saucepan of boiling water
ready. Put in little salt. AS ii boils,
drop the oatmeal in with one hand, stir
ring gently with the other. Boil itwell,
and keep stirring, as it burns very easily.
Pour into a basin, and in a few minutes II
becomes firm. Eat with cold milk, or
sugar and butter. 1t can be made pretty
stiff or thin, just as person fancies.
To prepare potatoes, boil till just
done; peel and throw into colandcr or
coarse sieve; break them up little; then
sprinkle in a little salt; add as much but
ter as for common mashed potatoes, and
enough milk TO enable you to rub them
easily through the colander. They will,
if not too moist, come through in strings
and fall In a light snowy mass into the
vegetable dish, which should be placed
underneath. Do not stir it, but send TO
the table just as it falls into the dish. IL
is very good.
To make good sausage meat, take
tvo.thirds ham and one.thrd fat pork ;
season well with nine teaspooniuls OF pep.
per, the same of salt, three of powdered
sage, and one of thyme or summer-savory
To every pound of meat, not heaping tea
spoonfuls, remember; warm the meat
enough SO that you can mix IL well with
the hands; then pack III jars. When
needed make up in small cakes and fry
in little butter, or simply alone. But
they must not be covered over, or they
will fall to pieces. Some like little CHINA
mon added. Keep where it is cool, but
not damp.
Every housewife should have three
br0oms at least, one Tor scrubbng, one
for sweeping steps, walks and dirty
places, and good one for floor and car
pet use. Old ones are just the things for
the first mentioned, and they accumulate
fast enough. When done using the best
| hang il up by having string in the end
of the handle, or, better yet, screw
with ring in the end one of these can
| be purchased at any hardware store foi
| two or three cents, and changed from one
| handle to another as the broom IL passed
! from its first to its second use. III moi
provided with means for hang
ing, set il away with stick downward
! 1t has come to be recognized among
horticulturists that pruning, while the
branches of trees are frozen, is not good
practice. The bending Of limbs whil'
! in this state often results in fracture, and
ahrasions in pulling out pruned branches
often result i'm injury To the tree. BE
! sides this, the evaporation from newiy
cut surfaces often results in shrivelinl
| the buds on the branches below the sur
! face. Better defer the pruning until Tho
trees are free from frost. The cut sur
faces. If possible. should -he -eet,%tfct
/
and prevent evaporation. A good ano
simple coating for this purpose Is thin
paint Of white lead and oil applied Will
! a small brush to the cut surface Wester7
| RaJM.
H. Calkins tells, in Western Rurat
| how to set fence posts, as follows: 1.-THE
| tools necessary are spade, crowbar, one
! or two iron mauls or sledge hammers
| and a bench about three and half feet
high and eight feet long. First, set stakes
where YOU want the center Of the posts
| then mark off the distance you want YOU
posts apart, and with the spade dig I
| square hole eight or ten inches deep; thcr
with the crowbar open hole twelve OF
! fourteen inches deep, each time ranging
with the stakes; fill the small hole Will
water; set in the post, with one hand tt
| hold il, while one standing on thu
! bench drives il down; then fill II
/ the dirt taken out with the spade
and tramp down. If your fenc,
runs through any wet places, only take
! out little Of the top sod and drive thu
post down three feet. 1t will require con
! siderable care to get the posts in straight
| line But they will be much better than
| If set In the ordinary way, besides you
| can drive them at least third faster
! Sharpen your posts during the winter
| Make long straight point on them. Posts
| set according TO the above directions viii
| never give way until rotten