Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-16

Apple Tapioca Pudding and
core enough apples to fill deep pudding
dish, sprinkle cinnamon in each apple
where the core came out, add some hne
white sugar, little piece OF butter, then
about tablespoonful OF tapioca for each
apple, over the whole, and fill up with
cold water. Bake until the apple is ten
der. 1t is a very nice and simple desert.
Consumption of Food,-As a general
rule, cattle, horses and sheep eat three
per cent. of their live weight of food per
day-that is, very near their own weight
every month. But there is a vast differ
ence among them as to the profitable re-
suits of their consumption OF food. Some
will merely keep alive, while others will
increase in weight and size, or produce
milk in much greater proportion Tor the
food consumed.
-"Breaking in" Boots and Shoes-I
Never break in" boots Or shoes. Ii they
are not easy when new, don't take them,
for ne boots will break your feet oftcner
than your feet will break the boots. 2. II
you go on breaking in" boot leather, you
will need special last made with all
sorts of knobs and protuberances to cor
respond with your distorted joints. Then
you will be sorry. 2. Ii you have large
feet, admit it in all honesty, and have
your boots made accordingly. Then you
will be happy. 8f
"A horse should not be old until he is
twenty, and we have known many very
vigorous several years in advance of that,
and the secret of the longevity was not in
the peculiar vitality in the horse, but a
genuine humanity of the owner. 1t does
not injure horse TO labor any more than
it does man, and it is only by over-ex-
ertion, exposure, and ill-treatment that it
is faded at time when il should be in its
prime. When we learn TO exercise human
itv towards animals for the right of it,
which should be sufficient incentive, they
will find second compensation in the
way Of absolute money profit,
The following rule for estimating the
dressed weight Of live hogs we find in a
late number of the National Lire Stock
Journal: "From the first 100 pounds de-
duct 25 pounds from gross; from the sec
ond 100 pounds deduct 121a pounds; from
the third 100 pounds deduct 6 Il pounds
all over the third hundred is net. Thus a
hog of 300 pounds live weight will give
1854 net weight, and, as general rule,
432l pounds only should be allowed for
shrinkage on every hog of 800 pounds or
over. A hog of 100 pounds will net rs
pounds; one of $50 pounds, 1881 one OF
200 pounds, 1921; one Of $50 pounds,
2O9I." This, of course is only as close
an approximation as can be given for the
general average of hogs as brought To
market IF they are thin there is more
shrinkage; if large and well-iatted, and
especially if pure bred, they will often
shrink even less We have known in
stances where the shrinkage amounted to
only one-sixteenth of the live weight.
Socially Begets Knowledge.-The
temper of men depends largely upon theil
knowledge. Ignorance renders them sns
picious. A farmer who does not read the
papers, who does not study the markets
is likely to be suspicious OF whoever offers
him price for his products, and his igno
rance and suspicion combined are quite
likely to lead to an excess of credulity
when once thrown off his guard. This il
the fruit of isolation. 1t is quite as nee
essary to the farmer that he meet, talk
and consult with men of his own profes
sion, as well as those employed in Other
vocations, as that he should pillow and so v
If he would be successful. The friction
which intercourse gives rubs off the mold
and rust accumulated by isolation gives
him new ideas which propagate others fol-
his brethren's use Hence the meeting
of farmers, even if nowhere else than al
the post-ofiice or corner grocery, Is not tc
be condemned; nor Is the time spent In
such intercourse, if it does not beget vic
ious habits, i'll spent 1t is to be com
mended, rather.-Neao York World.
How to Manage Horse.-A beauti
full and high-sprited horse would never al
low shoe TO be put on his feet or any per
son to handle his feet In an attempt 10
shoe such horse recently he resisted al
efforts, kicked aside everything but an
anvil, and came near killing himself
against that, and finally was brought back
to his stable unshod. This defeat was
just on the eve Of consigning him to the
plow, where he might work barefoot
when an officer in our service, lately re
turned from Mexico, took cord about
the size of common BEDFORD, put it in
the mouth Of the horse like bit, and tied
it tightly on the animals head, passing his
left ear under the string, not painfully
tight, but tight enough to keep the cal
down and the cord in its place. This
done, he patted the horse gently on the
side Of the head, and commanded him &c
follow, and instantly the horse obeyed
perfectly subdued and as gentle and obe
dient as a well-trained dog, suffering his
feet to be lifted with impunity, and acting
in all respects like an old stager The
gentleman who thus furnished this exceed
ingly simple means OF subduing very
dangerous propensity, intimated that it i:
practiced in Mexico and South America
IN the management of wild horses.