Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-28
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The latest remedy for cholera is char
coal. Take one ounce of pulverized char
coal, one ounce brandy, one ounce lauda-
every five minutes until relieved.
TO Polish Tins.-First rub your tins
with damp cloth; then take dry flour
and rub it on with your hands; afterward
take an old newspaper and rub the flour
of, and the tins will shine as well as if
half an hour had been spent rubbing them
with brick dust or powder, which spoils
the hands.
Every farmer or mechanic should pro-
duce his own mutton rather than pay such
an exorbitant price as is demanded for
beef. Procure two or three sheep, put
them in clean and comfortable place,
feed them on from one to two pounds each
of corn and oats daily. This will fatten
| them in few weeks.
Recipe for Picking Cherries-3 lbs
of sugar to one quart of vinegar; (if your
vinegar is very strong reduce it with wa
| teri; spices to taste; this for seven lbs. of
| fruit; when the syrup is hot put in the
cherries; cook them well but not until the
skin shrivels; watch them, and have them
as plump as when first picked from the
tree; we put ours into cans and seal them
up hot.-Westera Rural.
To Pickle Sweet Apples.-To one
peck of apples make syrup of four
pounds of sugar and one quart of vinegar
! Boil the apples in the syrup until tender
and then take them out and save the syrup
| for another sauce. Put the apples in a
jar, boil FIVE pounds of sugar and one
quart of vinegar with some cinnamon and
cloves twenty-five minutes, and pour it no,
over the apples. This pickle is delicious
| discriminating Ants--In reply to the
query of c. Babcock in the Tribune as tC
the best mode of exterminating black ants
Tor any other ants), | can strongly recon-
mend the application of powdered cyanide
of potassium in and around the ant bed
An application of about quarter of an
ounce is generally sufficient; but if neces
sary, a second will surely give them theil
quietus. 1t is, however, important to beal
in mind that this salt is deadly poison
extreme care is required in its applica
tion.-COr. ". Y. Tribune.
In healthy condition, the skin i.
kept supple by an oily secretion, which
answers the same purpose as oiling leath
er. During warm weather this secretion
I
is more abundant than in cold. When i
is insufficient, the skin becomes dry anC
harsh; and in those parts of the body
where the skin is thick and subject Il
much motion, as on the hands, il readily
cracks or assures. The amount of this
secretion is so much reduced in colo
weather that the frequent washing of tn,
hands with soap causes them to chap read
| nd ic he M a
is not thoroughly washed off. The alkal
in soap is usually in excess, and this com
bines with the oily secretion, and so de
prives the skin of its natural lubricator
To prevent the hands from chapping, then
be careful to wash all soap from them il
clean water This will ordinarily suffice
if not, it will be necessary to make gooC
the removed oil by glycerine, honey, nut
ton tallow, etc.
Edmund Osborne, of Grecntown, Ind.
| writes to the N0rttaoesterN Farmer: &"
few years ago, rather by accident thar
otherwise, part OF my hogs got into tn
orchard, and rs found they were dOin,
good work in picking up the windfall az
Piles, allowed them to remain there. Du
ring the season all those that were not II
the orchard had the cholera and more %
less of them had died, while those in th
Misunderstanding like one third of tn
whole lot-were thrifty and healthy al
the season, none of them dying with an.
disease and that, too, with nothing but
fence between the two lots of hogs."-
There is no doubt (says the NattoHa
Lire Stock Journdi) that in its season
4 fruit is conducive to the health of all AM
I mails, especially to such gross feeders a
swine. So far as it promotes genera
health, it assists the system in throwing
off disease; but it can scarcely be regard
ed as preventive, or specific cure TO
any particular complaint.