Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Alum or vinegar is good to set colors
red, greer or yellow.
Sal sods will bleach; one spoonful is
sufficient for a kettle of clothes.
Save your suds for the garden and
plants, or to harden yards when sandy.
Corn Bread. One egg, one pint OF
sour milk, one pint Of sifted meal, one
tablespoonful of shortening, one tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in the milk,
and little salt Bake in quick oven.
Flowing Down Grass .-Notwithstand-
ing the utmost pains and care In plowing,
the grass, especially if long, will bristle
up in boards and tufts here, there and
everywhere, injuring alike the appearance
of the field and its capacity for growth
Do you wish to remedy this great Difficult
tys If so, use the chain and ball to your
pillow. No matter what kind of a pillow you
have, try them. A piece of ordinary trace
chain will do very we'll. Fasten one end
of it to your coulter, and to the other
end attach a round iron ball of from two
to three pounds weight-leaving the chain
long enough to permit the ball to reach
back to about the middle of the mold
board, and there let it drag along, on the
off side, of course.-Cdndda Farnaer.
Grape and Peach Pudding Sauce
Strain off the juice from stewed grapes,
sweeten to the taste, and thicken with
sifteG wheatmeal, not more than one
spoonful TO one pint of juice. Another
good sauce can be made by stewing tart
apple skins in barely water enough to
cover them, draining that off, adding an
equal quantity of grape juice, seasoning
Il, ,oI, ol irh hot
thick, sweetened juice of stewed or canned
peaches also harmonizes finely with
crane dishes. A delicious peach sauce
can be made by stewing peach parings
instead of apple, adding to the strained
liquor an equal quantity of the juice from
stewed peaches. and thickening and
sweetenng in the same manner.-iSctence
of Health.
To Train Driving Horse-ln teach
ing young horse to drive well, do not
hurry to see how fast he can trot. Keep
each pace clear and distinct from the
ether; that is, in walking, make him
walk, and do not allow him to trot.
While trotting, be equally careful that he
keeps steady at his pace, and do not al
low him to slacken into walk; the reins,
while driving, should be kept snug, and
him well in hand, that he may learn to
bear upon the bit SO that when going at
high rate of speed he can be held at
his pace; but do not allow him TO pull
too hard, for il is not only unpleasant,
but it makes him difficult to manage
National Lire Stock Journot.
To Destroy Field Mice.-Smoke, it is
well known, will soon destroy these little
pests, but how to introduce il into their
holes in an easy way may interest some
of our readers. Professor Nessler, OF
Carlsruhe, has devised sort of pellet
which gives off great quantities OF smoke
| when burning, so that it is only necessary
to put some of these into the holes and
| ignite them in order TO suffocate the mice.
| Their preparation is nearly rs follows:
Some tibrous substance, such as jute, is
soaked in concentrated solution of salt
peter dried, then dipped in tar, and, when
over it, When fully dry the jute fibers
are cut into little pieces like pills and are
ready for use. AS soon as they are ignil-
ed they are stuffed into the hole, which is
then stopped up with earth.
In the Gardener's Magazine is related
an interesting incident of q lady gardener
who gathered handful of the world-re-
nowned flowers, forgetme-not, and to pre-
serve them as long period as possible,
they were put in soup-plate filled with
| rain water The flowers were placed
near the window In a surprising short
space of time white threadlikc roots were
emitted from the portion of the flower
stalks in the water, and they ultimately
Termed thick network over the plate.
The flowers remained quite fresh, except
ing few of the most advanced, when
gathered, and as soon as the roots began
to run in the water, the buds began to ex-
pand, to take the place Of those which
faded, and up to the middle OF November
the bouquet-if such it may be called
WAS a dense mass of flowers, and a more
beautiful or chaste ornament for the in
door apartment cannot be imagined.