Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-09
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Poor feed makes poor cows: when
we hear Of cow that gives milk IN un-
usual quantity or quality we set it down
for certain that her owner Is q goOu
feeder.
Tomato Catsup.--Take six pounds OF
ripe tomatoes, sprinkle with salt and let
them stand day or two, then boil and
pass through colander, then add hall a
pint Of vinegar, teaspoonful each OF
cloves, pepper, ginger, and cinnamon ana
boil one-third away. Bottle tightly ana
shake well before using
Remember that one blossom allowed
to mature or 60 to seed Injuries the plant
more than dozen new buds. Cut your
flowers, then, all of them, before they be-
gin to fade. Adorn your rooms with
them, put them on your tables, send bou-
Duets TO your friends who have no flowers,
or exchange favors with those who have.
You will surely find that the more you
cut off the more you will have.
Soda Biscuit.-Take a pint of sweet
milk, half a cup of butter or sweet lard,
teaspoonful of soda, two of cream tartar,
and, if lard is used, little salt Put the
cream tartar in pint of flour, rub the
butter through it, and add the milk con-
| tanning the soda. Mix as soft as possible
| to roll, cut the biscuits small, and near an
| inch in thickness Bake Immediately
and very quickly.
The following is said to be sure test
of horses age:-After horse is nine
| wears old wrinkle comes over the eye
! lid, at the upper corner of the lower lid,
| and every year thereafter he has one we'll
defined wrinkle for each year of his age
over nine. If, for instance, a horse has
three wrinkles, he is twelve years old.
Add the number of wrinkles to nine, and
you will always obtain his exact age.
When seed terminates its first efforts
are to send root dOwnwards into the
soil and leaves upward into the air. The
seed contains within itself the elements
of nourishment for this process. The fur
ther extension of roots depends upon the
extent and healthy action of the foliage,
hence any destruction of foliage during
growth will have correspOndingly weak
ening action on the roots, and to that ex-
tent impair the vigor of the plant. So
far, then, as the weakening influence will
encourage fruitfulness, we may ''prune in
summer for fruit"
Every person who owns carriage
and farm implements should always keep
good wrench, which can be adjusted to
| fit nut Of any size that may be employed
on freight wagons or farm implements
! The woodwork of implements and car
riages frequently shrinks trife, so that
clips, bolts and braces have an opportuni-
ty to work a very little then, if the nuts
are not frightened, the parts commence
wearing or the nuts soon work Off the
bolts, so that the pieces are liable to fall
apart. The same is true of rivets, espec-
tally when they pass through woodwork.
They need to be started in after the wood
has shrunk, and then drawn up tight with
a riveting hammer.
There is no use in manuring land to
grow weeds; in buying tools to rust out
under stone wall; in erecting buildings
to rot away for the want of paint and
care; in buying animals and leaving them
to the unhindered action of disease in
accommodating manure to fill the air with
its exhalatiOns and the brooks with its
teachings; in raising forage to floor a
barnyard with; in buying land to yearly
lose its strength and virtue; in growing
crops to feed unheeded insects. Yet
more than one Of these defects may be
seen in almost unrestrained operation on
every farm in the country, and the extent
1
of our farmers is greater than would be
believed.
-Butter-making.-It requires both at
tention and experience to produce butter
in the shortest time. If the cream be too
warm it froths great deal, and thin
liquid appears in the vessel, especially at
high temperatures; when the cream is too
cold it froths too, but appears thick, like
freshly-fallen snow. In the latter case,
the cream ought to be warmed, and in the
former, cooled. The appearance of the
butter globules also serves to indicate
whether the cream is too warm or too
cold. In the former case the globules are
soft and melting in the latter, hard; in
both cases slower churning is advisa-
BILE. Old cream produces butter sooner
than fresh. A temperature between
seventy and eighty degrees is best in
churning, and the cream should be
skinned off. Fresh air and strict clean
illness of the vessels are Indispensable
Scientific american.