Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20
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-Raisin Pie.-Pare one lemon, chop
and boil the peel; to the pulp add two
thirds of cup of chopped raisins, one
egg, one cup of sugar, two-thirds OF a
cup of water and the peel when boiled.
Bake with two crusts.
Weeds should be kept down every
where. Thistles wild parsnips and car
rots, mulleins and burdocks, in neglected
corners and fence rows should be cut up
by the root, and the tops gathered and
burned Many weeds are now ripening
their seeds and if neglected will make
work for many years to come.
Poor Mans Pudding.-One cup of
strip; and if desired, one or two spoon
fuls of sugar, half cup of butter, one
cup OF sweet milk, one cup OF raisins
one pint of -four, one or two eggs, one
teaspoonful of cream OF tartar, half tea
spoon of soda, little salt. Put in a
pudding dish and bake or steam. To be
eaten with liquid sauce.
Cement for Glass, China and Wood,
Steep Russian isinglass twenty-touI
hours in white brandy, gently boil and
stir the mixture until it is well com
pounded and drop of it, cooled, will
become thick jelly; then strain il
through linen cloth, and cork closely.
A gentle heat will dissolve it, Apply to
the edges, place them together, and hold
them five minutes,
-Dyeing Ornamental Feathers Black
| Place them for twenty-four hours in q
soda bath that is not too strong, then
rinse well and place for twelve hours in
an per cent. solution of nitrate of iron
rinse well again and dye with logwood
and fustic If the black appears reddish
draw the feathers through dilute sui
| phuric acid and boil short time in o
weak bath of fustic.
-Stiffening Gauze-Good wheat starch
and white wax are employed, either colo
or warm according to the color The
| gauze on removal from the starch is per
! fectly UNFINISHED, pressed out and clappec
with the hands so that the starch may bt
uniformly distributed. Any meshes tha
may still appear filled with starch may
| be freed from it when the gauze /!
stretched on the drying pad by brushing
it with the hand or, better, with sol
brush. Small starched pieces can alsc
be placed on the finishing drum, since
the starch remaining in any meshes viii
| stick to the drum when the gauze is re
moved In this case, however, it vii
unavoidably have spotted luster on thu
| side next the drum.-H07per's Bazdr.
In Massachusetts, there is a STATE
Board of Health, which has been payinl
attention to the sanitary condition o
| farmers It's fourth annual report Il
| published, and an article on the above
| subject, based upon the reports of countr,
physicians, appears. This testimony, in
| Guiding evidence collected the pas
| twenty-eight years, shows that the aver
age life of the Massachusetts, farmer i
! sixty-five and one-fourth years-a create
! longevity than tina. of any other class
! Yet it is claimed that farmers might liv'
much longer if they were better ant
more carefully fed, lived upon more nu
| tritious and wholesome diet, ate will
| greater deliberation, and were careful
not to engage in active exercise too sool
after eating. They should eat NOR
/ fruit and vegetables, less of pork, pies
cakes, saleratus biscuit, take pains Il
protect themselves better from suddei
| changes of temperature, deodorize cess
pools, sinks, out-houses, and keep clea
back yards; change clothing and bath
more frequently. Such statistics an
suggestions are valuable, and deserve th
attention of farmers.
Pork Raising-My own theory 0
pork raising, based upon experience, oil
seryation and probably little philoso
ply of things, if written for the beneii
/ of others, would be about as follows
During the hot summer months i SHOULD
feed very little solid feed, such as corr
in the ear or uncracked | would keel
hogs upon green feed constantly, cithe
grass, oats or rye, and feed them at reg
ular intervals, once or twice per day
upon mashed feed, either shorts, chopped
oats or rye, buckwheat, etc; feed IL
troughs. When fed in this way, and a
the same time allowed access to waite
and shade, hogs will bear crowdinl
through the hot months, a very good time
if not the best to take on flesh. Thi
puts them in the best condition for corr
| feeding, which should commence abou
the 1st of September, when the new croI
is still soft and tender. Treated in thi
way hogs become probably as perfect a
| any method could make them. Upon thu
| whole, too, believe it the cheapest ant
most enonomicai.-Cor. Of GeTDadnt0D'
7elegraph.