Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-27
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J to feed to the fattening swine all they can
| eat 1t will cost at least two cents more
to make pound of pork in January than
| it does now. 1t is therefore dictate OF
economy as well as convenience to make
| the most of these mild autumn days.
-Ammonia for Bloat-A California
farmer recently cured, almost instantly, Q
COW which had suddenly become seri-
ously bloated from eating cucumbers too
| rapidly, by giving tablespoonful and
| half of ammonia IN half pint OF water
| The relief was immediate and complete
"A solution of FIVE parts of borax in
one hundred of water it is said will pre-
vent the putrefactive process in meats for
a considerable time; flesh, dipped in the
mixture and then dried resists the usual
processes of decomposition. For dissect
| ing rooms, the taxidermist, and those en-
gagged in preparing cabinet specimens OF
animal tissues, this solution can be put to
| important uses.
Hogs to fatten should have, especial
| ly, comfortable place to sleep. We re-
Gently saw in respectable farmers pen
six stalwart animals of this species, with
no place to rest themselves except in mud
| from two to four inches deep. AT least
| one-haf Of what was fed to them was en-
T, tirely lost by this utter want of attention
| to one of the prime necessities in this de-
partment OF farming.
Bean Porridge.--Boil fresh beef
bone (salt beef would answer If
| sufficiently freshened, though we never
tried iD in large quantity OF water, and
use the meat for anything you choose,
Let the liquid become cool, and remove
| all the grease. Boil a teacupful of beans
in three quarts of this liquor until thor
| oughly soft and in pieces; add little
rice, the necessary amount of salt, and
just before taking from the stove, little
thickening of some kind Of meal.
| Use ii about the thickness of Cruel or
gravies, and add a little milk when you eat
| HYGIENE Use of Tea-Dr. Adam
| Smith, in paper read before the London
| Society of Arts, recommends the use OF
| tea in the following cases: After full
meal, when the system is oppressed; for
| the corpulent and the old for hot eli.
mates, and especially for those who,
living there, eat freely or drink milk or
| alcohol in cases of suspended animation ;
| for soldiers who in time of peace take too
much food in relation to the waste pro-
| ceeding in the body; for soldiers and
others marching in hot climates, for then,
by promoting evaporation and cooling the
body, ii prevents in degree the effects OF
| too much food, as Of too great heat"
! Chicken Pot-Pie-Take pair of ten
der, fat chickens, SINCE, open and cut
them into pieces; wash them through
/ several waters with eight or ten pared
| white potatoes, which put into pan, and
after seasoning highly with salt and
black pepper, dredge in three tablespoon
fuls of flour; stir well together, then line
the sides (half way up), of medium.sized
stew kettle with paste, made OF two
| pounds of flour and one of butter. Put the
| chicken and potato into the kettle with
water enough TO cover them; roll out
| some paste for a cover, the size of the ket-
| tie and join to that on the sides; cut a
small opening in the center, cover the ket-
| tie, and hang it over clear fire, or set 1T
| in the oven; turn the kettle round occa-
sionally that the sides may be equally
| Drowned Two hours over clear fire, or
| i'm quick oven will cook it. When done,
| cut the top crust into moderate sized
pieces, and place 1t round a large dish,
| then with perforated SKINNER, take up
the chicken and potatoes and place in the
center; cut the side crust and lay 1t over
the top, put the gravy in sauce tureen,
| anu send all TO table hot.
| --Nails.-Every farmer who has had
occasion to drive nail into seasoned oak
posts knows its liability to bend and
break. If the point be moistened in the
mouth it will usually drive more kindly,
| Oil is still better, but then it is inconven-
| lent to dip each nail separately into it..
| Another point observed is that boards be-
come loose eventually from the rusting sf
| the nails, which, communicating to the
wood, cause not only an enlargement OF
| the nail hole, but the wearing away OF the
| nail itself, rendering the fence or the
| building shaky and insecure. This may
be prevented by heating any rough grease
until it smokes and then pouring 1t over
the nails TO be used. The grease will
| penetrate the pores Of the iron, and cause
| the nails to last, without rusting, an in
definite period Besides this no trouble
will then be experienced in driving them
into the hardest wood. The reason is that
the coating of grease prevents contact by
air. and consequently oxidation. Oxygen
| is the great destroyer of iron, and moisture
is the inducing cause.