The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-16

T. An English farmer saws: For tw,
winters | have placed SIX horses unor
the following weekly allowances: Forty
two pou DIS oats, twenty-eight pound
maize, twenty-One pounds beans twenty
one pounds hay cut into chaff. fourteei
pounds Oat straw cut into half. seyent,
pounds long hay. Otal, 19j pounds o
food per week per horse. Upon thi
food he horses have done admirably
while in constant work.
COleman's RprdL World: "Genera
purpO- e horses are ScarceSt commodit,
IN the market. By general purpo >es We
mean all, or nearly all purposes. O
course it would be impossible TO find a
horse su ttDle for heavy, slow work
ana at the same time successful race
morse either ut runnInsOr ;rotting; b
| tn re Ieral purpO It hOr ,e TO be desired
IN the one that Is pn, ,ibe to produce
! l, one that l. heavy enough. kind and
stout enough for general farm work,
| with style. beluty, action and speed
enough for saddle an light harness.
ASs1f9tida will be found valuable Is
1 medicine for the following u,e,: axe
tie cents worth of purified AsSafntida
ut y IN Il pint bottle, then IA ld two nz
of whisky; let it stan.l, shaking il hree
or four times Il ddv unti it is dissolved
q en- NIL the bottle with molasse$. and
shake well.
ID. fer infants from one-fourth to
one-h III ted,poOnful. Adults, table
SpOUnf l.
Ass &c ida is the best medicine known
Tor coli In infants. Given once or twice
day 1t makes the milk digest. prevents
coli and makes them hea thv.
Farmers often 10 fine horse with
colc, because they have not ii e remedy
al hand to cure it. ASSafetida is the
very best remedy known, and will al
ways relieve it in from ten to twenty
minutes. Every farmer should keen
some on hand for this purpose. You
can give the syrup. One-fourth of pint
AT dose, or give a pill the size of
sman marble, which the horse will chew
ana swallow. ASsafetida dissolved in
whisky and sprinkled in hens nefts and
about the chicken house. will destroy
insects and prevent diseases in chickens
and rubbed on the posts and walls of |
stable Will prevent diseases in horses.
A writer IN the LONDON Garden saws.
have seen some of the most moss |
grown, miserable specimens of starved |
orchard trees restored to fruitful condi- |
tion by making the ground beneath
VI! OA' UIO winner quarters or sheep and
pigs, feeding them the same time as if
they were in the farmyard with roots
and corn. The finest old specimens of
apple and pear trees are generally those
n an orchard next to the homestead
that Is used as a run for calves. sheen
pigs and poultry the whole year round
IN these orchards the turf is short. and
being full of nutriment, the trees keen
healthy, and prolific for an indefinite
period: Ashes, garden refuse. or anv
Kind of road scrapingS, or even scaven-
'ers' rubbish, may be utilized for in
rea>ing our supply of orchard fruits.
hey should be spread roughly on the
urface in the win .er, and in spring har-
owed and rolled down firmly. The
eSnlt will soon be marked improve
nent in the size and quality of the crop.
difference of opinion prevails as to
running or nCn-pruning trees, some
dopting one system and some another;
ut, be that as it may, I never knew )
ruit trees continue to yield good crops
Or any length of time unless the roots
'ere supplied with manure in some
Orm or other. :