The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-12
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Garden, Orchard
and Household.
SOME REFORMATION FOB ALL.
aov 90 Mako Raisina = To Avoid
pisease-TO Store Potatoes -
A Remedy for Cold Feet
Other Hints.
The gurface soil of pot plants should

Sat before your children examples OF
cleanliness, order, punctuallity, delicacy,
noliteness, and proper care Of manner.
Remember that sheep are fond of
s-,rcuIent food and will not thrive when
Kent on dry food only. Like other
snilnals, they relish a variety OF materi-
as.
The following is said to be a cure for
ockiaw Takea small quantity OF spirits
az tiJrDentine, warm It and pour it on
he wound, and relief follows in one
minute.
Plants touched by frost should be
freely sprinkled with cold water, to thaw
tbem gradually. This should be done
10 a temperature of thirty-fiVe degrees
10 forty degrees.
It Is especially necessary to store
potatoes intended for seed III dry place
where they will not sprOut. Potatoes
that have SprOuted are weaker and more
inclined 10 disease than those that do
not sprout until planted.
Peel and cut mp rich, ripe peaches and
tomatoes, and mix them In the proper
don of one part peaches TO four of
tomatoes (the production may be varied)
sweeten slightly, and let them stand one
or two hours before serving at breakfast
or tea.
A trial was made last season in Scot
and 10 test the feeding value OF an acre
of Swedish turnips. as compared with
eabbages for fattening sheep, and 1t was
found thatthe cabbageS were worth very
nearly $50 the most
Late pears, with an equal quantity OF
sweet rusty-coat apples, make excellent
preserves. Use half pound Of sugar
70 one pound Of fruit. If you cannot
Get the pears the apples alone are nice.
Gut them in quarters, stick whole Glove
In each quarter, and put few sticks OF
cinnamon in the syrup.
Many good milch COWS are hard milk
ers. Tie use of hot water, as hot as
the hand can bear 1t, in bathing each
test. lust previous to milking, and
thoroughly soaking them, will enable
YOU TO milk in about half the usual
lime. Of course you viii wipe the teatS
lightly with a clean dry cloth before
commencing TO milk, which should be
immediately after using the hot water.
81 wish to say q word about "three
Bquare meals, each followed by q glass
o. bourbon, in consumption. Doctors
used to bleed cOmSumptiveS. 1t then
seemed sensible treatment, as the pulse
often ran up to one hundred and twenty
and the cheeks showed Inflammation
Now thefashiOnis stufing and stimulat-
ing. Then, now, and ever, the only
effective treatment in consumption is 4
nutritious, abstemiOus diet, avoidance OF
alcohol, cleanliness, with Vigorous skin
friction, much sleep, fresh air day and
night, and much exercise in the open
air. The saddle IS the best exercise for
eonSumptiVeS, because it IS the only
vigorous one which the consumptiVe's
lungs permit him to take. Within forty
years have seen several hundred con-
sumptive5 cured by such treatment
Do Le,giS's Monthly.
Whenever q case Of CHAMBERS or farcy
detected, the animal should be killed,
and deeply buried or rendered, for
these diseases do not recover; and not
outstanding the farcy buds may dry
up and heal over, and the discharge
from the nose cease for a time, the
ANIMAL is still able to contaminate
others, and is always dangerous. Those
which are suspected of being infected
should be separated from, and kept
apart from the healthy. The stables
should be carefully cleaned and disin-
Iected with lime wash, containing crude
earbolc acid; blankets, brushes, curry
combs, wagOnpOles, pals, water-trOughs,
mtchlng posts, harness, etc, should all
be disinfected with carbolic acid and
water-One to twenty. Healthy animals
should not be hitched to posts, buildings
or other places used by the public. No
strange horse or mule should be per
mlttep to enter private premises for
purpose OF feeding, watering or hitch
ng. No animal should be purchased
until most carefully inspected E1. +.
How to make raisins. The best are
made of the MuScat and Malaga grapes,
both or which require a red clay soil.
Inc Sultana grape makes the Seedless
falSIn. The grapes are spread on trays,
TWO teet by four, two inches from the
ground. When partially dry, new tray
Is placed over them, both turned over.
ana the first one taken away. This is
repeated until well dried. They are now
hard, and the stems break easily. They
are next put in large box to sweat.
when soft, box the size OF the one
t.Ley are to be packed in, is placed on
uie scales. This box has an iron bottom
which can be drawn'out. After spread
. Jug IN the wrapping-papeT, the raisins
AIe put IN five pounds at time, and
pressed until they fill a certain space.
ms Is one layer. The bottom OF the
ID OLdNu OF, ana. IQlS layer let INTO
box below. This is repeated until the
- packing is full. The sugar which
forms on them Is from the fruit itself.
iihey are sometimes used when dry be-
4ore putting in the sweat-boy These
are called dried grapes. May kinds
make very good dried grapes which will
not make raisins.-[ Selected.
The American Garden, notes the pre-
yalllng opinion that vines make houses
Qaind, for which reason there are not
nearly SO many cottages and houses
94eautitied with vines as there should be.
II Is only when the climbers are allowed
70 cover the caves, and obstruct the
cutters, or find their way under the
shingles, that they become objection
able, and these conditions should of
course be guarded against. To the same
e4ect the Gardeners Monthly remarks:
vines should always be kept cut down
9eioW the roof. It is little trouble to
W THIS every year, but we cannot get
even our shoes blackened without some
trouble; Those who know how beauti-
al and cosy looks a cottage covered
S S1sh vines, viii not object TO few
t tiours labor it requires to keep vines
I'm stopping up the gutter. Vines
aefauy make wall dry. The millions
u TTootlets by which they adhere to the
I'll TTiis absorb water, and an examination