The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-05
The Farm, Garden, Orchard
and Household.
NOTES AND HINTS FOR ALL.
How TO Cure Singing Horses - Quality
vs. Quantity in Cattle - Sweet
Butter-A Huge Concern
miscellaneous.


Michigan Agricultural College, the time
to nick pears IS when the stem separates
easily from the branch without break
ing.
silk bandkerchiefs washed in clear
WITH Dure white CASTLE soap look like
new, Do not iron, but snap between
fingers until almost dry, and then press
under q weight.
To restore mildewed linen, take soft
SOAP and powdered chalk IN equal guam
titles and rub all over the dlscoiora-
lions. Spread the linen in the sun for
an hour or so, then wash of.
California fruit-growers have discov-
cred that apricots bleached with sulphur
fumes and then dried in the sun are
superior to those that are dried in any
other manner or that are canned.
Hay water is a great sWeetener Of tin,
wooden and iron ware. Ia Irish diaries
everything used for milk is scalded with
hay water. Boil handful Of sweet hay
in water and put in the vessel when hot.
The Germantown Telegraph says:
Fresh clean lard rubbed on any kind OF
warts on horses or cattle viii remove
them on three or four applications. This
IS a certain and sure remedy.
Steel knives which are not in general
use nav be kept from rusting II they
are dipped in q strong solution OF soda
one mart water to four OF soda; then
wipe dry, roll in flannel and keep in j
dry place.
The recommendations. almost with
ont exception, in our poultry publica-
lions. Is to give animal food to our grown
fowls if We expect them to give Us more
eggs, especially in winter, when they
can help themselves TO re.
small dish of charcoal placed in
your meat larder will keep the articles
sweet AID wholesome almost as we'll as
ice. Charcoal is a great disinfectant.
Occasionally used Tor cleansing the teeth
il viii sWeeten the breath when nothing
else Will do It.
An exchange says: The day has gone
by when size IS considered before quality
in cattle The big, rough hulks of
enormous weights are passed BY in the
sale pens for smaller, but smoother and
neater cattle. These cOmpactly built,
SnOOth-bOdied beeyes are subject to less
shEinkage both in shipping and in turn
ms into beef, require less feed, and give
evidence OF possessing n greater h2rdi-
ness OF constitution, and are by all
means the most profCablef for the farmer
to handle. II farmers, in selecting
cattle either for breeding or feeding pur-
poses, would be assured that they are
obtaining stock that Will be profitable,
they must bear these points in mind, and
select more for quality than for size.
An exchange contains the following
practical views concerning shying
horses: The practice in vogue among
nine-tenths OF the human family with
horses that shy or scare at some UNI
natural object by the roadside, only
makes the horse worse instead OF caus-
ing him to forget the habit. When the
horse priCks up his ears and begins to
show signs OF fright, the common
practice IL TO rein his head directly to- /
ward the object which has caused his /
fright, and ride or drive him right up to /
Il. Often The lash IS used severely TO (
enforce this, and the poor, trembling /
beast IS made 10 walk right up TO the OBJ !
lect, be LIS lear what it will. This adds |
ddoubIy TO the frightful impression first /
formed, and riVets it in the animals |
memory, and instead Of being broken |
1.-THE habit 1t becomes worse and worse /
every time this is repeated. The est /
way 10 get = horse 70 quit his tries, is
TO use every possible effort TO divert his I
attention from whatever it takes fright /
at. This is done by tightening the reigns /
next 10 the object, then drawing hard on
the other, thus bringing the head round
in the opposite direction and causing
nm 70 Iook sway from the scare crow.
by practclng this method /: viii be /
seen thaC the animal Is made ~ forget I
the object of fright. 4 saddle horse
may be broken OF the perniciouS habit
10 TINS manner with eaSe. Driving
horSes are not SO easily managed, yet it
II can be done.
we are reminded of the tritc old say
ing that you cannot draw water from a
1fy wen, on reading in an exchange OF
me following: Two intelligent colored
uien are following the occupation OF
naFRes gardeners in South Carolina.
commencing in 1854 with eleven acres,
'ueF are DOW owners OF seYenty-fiVe
3cIG5 OF valuable land right n the su-
ogfDS OF Charleston, every acre OF
winch Is worked in vegetable and fruit
TITTops Il the most thorough manner.
ha9uIy weed, 10 be seen, and nearly
very crop showed the greatest possible
1e:It1Cty, and no wonder. for they use
ss11y Tons OF stable manure and one
~. y OF 4 ton OF guanO per acre. They
Ia4 Tie biggest and best manure heap
e'Cf saw III any market garden, having
eS1fIy learned the importance of that
i4tior 10 success. They erlpioy M
"NSfage OF seyenty-iive hands. or about
Ohe 70 each acre, Which is ahont tho
same IS IS required at the North. Their
"lhual profits on these seventy-five
1c'eS cannot be less than $2O.01i per
fear and may be much more. Every
It--hg indicated that they were up With
,ne Umes. They had the best blows,
arrows and rollers that money could
~ 10y and II was here for the first time,
~, - acknowledge, that l ever saw that
IN 1', ,-.. machine, the manure spreatier,
a. eSe- -Four Thousand tons Of manure
annually usedOn their seyenty-fiYe
nIosSeo u iaAd. tab fsrmeTSaud gardeners
49, make note of this quantity
acee 9ttIi9 over fifty tons of manure per
itseif me manure spreadeT will pay for
fro1-s 4liilahy times in a season, not only
VIZ WI. inc rapidity with xfich it does its
sn-oa,, but also from the evenness in
Tho .Ulilg ana disintegrating the manure
IN Cb~a,SIPs found TO be most profitable,
esnI;all rlesGoE are Strawberries. lettuce,
srorr iGNer ana cabbage, though they
cacpr,IaaIseay OF potatoes, tomatoes, /
nat .ioers ond melons. Here is a legiti-
nan OPPORTUNITY for some enterpriSing
90 Ill men in Utah to commence and
dde bose. Engaging in such a bona
q1i,eo industry could not fail to be
bro-N' successful here nR In Charleston