Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-01-18
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

HUME, FARM AND UAkDEN.
An acre contains $500 square feet
20S24 feet squire make an acre. Ten by
sixteen rods make an acre. A city LOT
one hundred feet long, by twenty-five
feet wide, is somewhat more than one
sixteenth of an acre.
DO not keep fattenng hogs too late in
the season unless you have extra warm
pens for them Fattening animals do not
take on much fat in cold weather, unless
the conditions for warmth and good feed
ing, are better than ordinary
Adam Grim, of Jefferson County,
Wis, commenced the bee season last
spring with 2S5 swarms, and at its close
increased the number to GAG, from which
| he gathered a honey crop of II 900 pounds,
realizing him in cash $4,100
The Irish TURNER'S Gazette recon-
mends Chloralum for the farmer as dis
infectant; which has been introduced
with great success AT Dublin. 1t thinks
this might be introduced into stables and
other places on the farm with good re.
suits.
Oyster Sauce When your oysters
are opened take care of all the liquor, and
give them one boil in it, Then take thu
oysters out, and put TO the liquor two OF
three blades Of mace; add to il some
melted butter, and some good cream; put
in oysters, and give them Il boil
Hollow Horn Remedy. THE follow
ing remedy can be relied upon: Firsi
put little turpentine between and back
of the horns; then take two teacups
l,1 g,,l1 G rnlt IL,
each ear-both at the same time-Oncc a
day for three successive days. This CURES
the hollow horn every ime.-Erch0"ge.
When color on a fabric has been de-
stroycd by acid, ammonia is applied 20
neutraliZe the same after which an april
cation of chlOroiorm will, il is said, i'm
almost all cases restore the original COler.
The application of ammonia is common :;
but that of chloroform is but little known.
Choroform will also remove paint from
q garment or elsewhere, when benZOlcOr
bisulphidc of carbon fails.
The Boston JolTaai Of Chem,Stry says
that house plants ought to be stimulated
gently, once or twice a week. Rain
water, so refreshing TO summer tiowels,
always contains ammonia, which aio
abounds in all liquid manurcs. An oune
of pulveriZed carbonate of ammonia, dls
solved in a gallon of water, will maxi
spring water even more stimulating t
plants than rain water A table spoon
ful of guano to pail of water will make
stimulating liquid manure.
Apple Dumplings Take one quart
-four, one tcaspoonful soda or salcratus.
and one egg. Add "A pinch of salt ant
sour milk sufficient TO make moderately
stiff dough. Roll this out to the thick
ness Of three-fourths of an inch and cut
as for biscuits. Put them in boiling
water and let them boil ten minutes, no
longer, or they will fall and be heavy.
Cook apples as for sauce and spread on
them in your plate and eat with swceten'
ed cream. Any other fruit answers in
place OF apples Western Rural.
"A correspondent of the CountIy GEN
heHaH in referring 10 the surface draining
of wheat fields, mentions plan, which Is
bv blowing two burrows each way, so ar
ranged that the last one leaves an open OF
dead furrow. Then give these burrows
thorough narrowing, making all fine and
smooth this partly fills up the dead FUR
row, which is then cleaned out by plank
furrow- cleaner that takes a sweep of some
six feet-three each way-and spreads
and smooths off all taken from the dead
furrow. This is done before the wheat il
drilled in. When cutting the crop tho
reaper is not interfered with by these
gradually sloping drains. This Is certain
ly an Improvement on the common mode
but il is attended with much more labor
and expense
|, The New York Obseruer says: The
most convenient and satisfactory way tc
keep eggs fresh that we have ever tried, Is
to punch numerous holes in tin pail, MI
il with fresh eggs, lower the pail with the
eggs into kettle of melted tallow, which
il as hot as can be without burning ones
finger when thrust into the liquid then
lift the pail out quickly. and the melted
tallow will flow out, leaving thin coat
ing over every egg. Let the eggs be re
moved as soon as possible from the pal
and be placed on the ends in a keg or bar
rel, which should be kept in a cool cellar
until wanted for use We have kept egg
in this manner more than six months, SC
fresh that expert judges supposed they
were just laid. AS the eggs are so mucl
colder than the tallow, thin pellicle o
ly, which will render the shell imperyiou
to air.
A German agricultural journal OBJ
serves that farmers usually pay little at
tention to the length of the burrows to b.
plowed in field, and yet great waste o
labor is the necessary consequence OF un
suitable arrangements in this respect
The turning Of the pillow and the com
mencing of new furrow requires more e&
ertion in the plowman and the team thar
continued work on a straight line anc
how great may really be the loss OF time
from frequent interruptions in shor
turns, may be shown by the following
calculations In field 225 feet long, 81.
hours out Of 10 are spent in redirectinf
the pillow with length of SIS feet,
hours are sufficient for the purpose, ant
when the plcw can proceed without inter
ruption for 800 feet, only ~ hours OF TIT
daily working time are consumed. Hence
the rule to make the burrows as long al
circumstances VIII admit.