The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-24

editor invites correspondents to send
items OF practical receipts, hints, or sug.
gestions, that may have occurred in the
experience of our numerous and varied
classes OF readers. ard he will endeavol
to pu. them in such ashape as TO give the
public the benefit of the information
A rusty iron nail or two dropped
into toe water in which boqaets oil
cut flowers are placed, will make the
flowers retain their beauty ard
fragrance longer.
An exchange informs US tina: in
California they have discovered thal
the caster bean plant is efficacioas ia
killing grasshoppers by the mill en-
1t now appears that il also useful Tor
killing flies, multitudes OF which are
found dead on or under the plants.
Never feed a horse on musty hay;
it may do for COWS and oxen, but
often brings fatal lung diseases upon
horses. Hay that is dusty from
ordinary road dust blown over it in a
dry time should be well shaken and
sprlnkled before being fed to horses.
i American Cultivasor.
A. B. Allen, an extensive dairy
owner, prouounces the escutcheon
theory fallacious. and ignores it in
selecting dairy stock. In selecting
good dairy COW for ourselves, he
says, in doing so properly We pay
attention almost entirely to the shape
of her body, the size and form OF the
bag when full, aud also when empty,
together with the sizs and zig,za OF
the milk veins.
Lend and Water auggests the fol
loving plan for compost pile: In
ONE convenient plsce lay down
sound floor OF concrete and have a
roof to cover it but open at the sides
Upon the floor collect weeds and every
other kind of waste vegetable matter,
road-scrappings, border edgiDgs, in
fact the greater the variety and the
more of it the better. Keep it moist,
not over vet, and turn It over occa
sionally, at the same time little salt
may be sprinbled over it with great
advantage. When sufficiently De
composed this will form mos. vslu-
able manure. highly rich in nitrogeo
in such q form as to be readily taken
up be the crops. US ths liquid of
cattle end the domestic liquid waste
from tho house, ana {, vii surprise
many what eteEe c. cod manure
will soon soountlistee
The Londou JoaTns u Horticul-
ture has tia following: I is an inter-
esting question % aeee rtain how far
bees 60 for ioed. ''The question we
cannot answer wigh accuracy. Our
experience in this matter goes dead
against the wonderful stories that are
told il some booke. We read OF bees
flying four, seven, and twelve miles
for foods OR bees viii perish and
die for want OF food within three miles
OF good pasture. Our beeg, here,
never find the hundreds OF ceres OF
heather, which cover Carrlngtc n
Moss within three miles oil them. In
fine, sunshiny weather bees go farther
from home than they do in dark,
cloudy weather. But even in the
best aud brightest Of weather in June
and Jolly, very few if any, find thtir
way home to their old stand il re-
moved three miles off,"
The Breeders Gazette has the fol-
lowing cure for apople1y commonly
called milk fever in COWS. Dr.. Bridge,
well known Philadelphia veter-
aralD, sage:
LIST. Place the COW in position on
her brea.t,tie rope around the horns,
elevate the head to natural hei ght,
and fas.en the rope to the ceiling.
I'd. Give the following: Pllyerized
gum csmphor. 3 draohms; pulver-
lied barbados sloes, l OF !; p liver
lied gentian. 2 drachms. Dissolve
the camphor aud aloes in half an
ounce OF nitric ether. This is to be
made into ball with some meal, aud
then by hand placed surely over the
CLOTHS or swallow.
81. Rub the back we'll every hour
with the following Imminent: Equal
parts of turpentine, aaus ammonia,
sweet oil and water.
4th. Place wet cloth behind the
horns, and keep it wet with cold
water.
9th. Draw of the urine.
6:h. Rake on. the fe ,es.
9Th. Dash cold water in face ire
queDtly.
9Th. Keep the adder well MIXED
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