The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-29
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Dairy, Garden
Orchard, and Household.

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interest that they will becoDs every
body's columns, by containing snort ait
pitby items of interest to everyone o
TIE HERALD's readers. Therefore, tn
editor invites correspondents to sent
items Of practical receipts, hints, or sug
gsstion that may have occurred in tn
experience of our numerous and varie,
o'asaes OF readers, ard he will andeavo
to put them 10 such shape IS to give tn
public the benefit of the information
A most effective remedy agains
pulmonary consumption is alleged tC
have been found in aluminum esnC
its compounds. The discoverer bsseI
his opinion on experiments made
UPON rabbits 80 we'll as on observa
tons in his medical practice.
The rapid growth and dense shade
which buckWheat makes give it grea
value as a weed destroyer. Ever
thistIes can be kept down by il If The
land ia sown as soon after blowing a:
possible, and the first thistles tina
appear are pulled or cut out with 6
hoe.
It is advisable to look to your fruit
trees during the next tour or five
weeks, and trim out some of the
upward shoots. II left to themselves,
the trees will make too much wood
and a careful trimming will throw
the sap into the fruit clusters OF next
season.
A correspondent of the California
Rural Press says be cleared his poul-
tryshouse of mites, with which it was
overrun, by sprinklipg the inside
with the water in which the potatoes
for the household dinner had been
boiled. Two applications cleared
them all out.
Corn ia the very best food to feed
whole to setting hens because it
digests very slowly, the hens do not
get hungry so often and its oily pro-
perties tend to prevent q disposition
to commence laying. Obviously
therefore whole corn is the very worst
fooi to feed to laying hens.
There is no need Of botheriug about
a cows pulse TO 6pd cut If she is well
or not; simply lolk at her nose. II
well, it will be moist and cold; if
feverisb, dry aud bot. She is like
dog in this respect. 4 starring coat
or hollow eye are also points indi-
eating trouble, and as sym otoms I
disease they are more to be dreaded
than the dry nose.
An eminent veterinary surgeon
contributes the 70 lowing 20 an ex
oh9Lge,in reference ID h0rass' craoS-
ed Goef-; Blister the cOronary band
with ointment O: c4ntharides-1 to !
Of lard. This will stimulate a new
growth OF hoof. Do not allow the
blacksmith to rasp the periople Of
the walls Keep a wetswab wrapped
around the foot during the night and
you are likely to grow a sound hoof.
Save the spent tea leaves for few
days, then steep them in q tin pail Or
pan for half an hour: strain through
a sieve, and use the tea for all varnish-
ed paints. 1t requires very little
elbow polish, as the tea acts as
strong detergent, cleansing the paint
from all impurities and making il
equal 10 new. 1t cleans windows and
sashes and oiic'oths; indeed any var.
nished surface is improved by lis APP,
plication. It washes window-pau,
and mirrors much better than water,
and is excellent for cleaning black
walnut and looking>glass frames. It
will not do to wash unvarnished paints
with it.
The following statistics are practi-
cally and permanently useful, and
show the percentage of nutrimens
which each article mentioned affords:
peas, boiled. SO; barley, boiled, 90;
corn bread, baked. 81; wheat bread,
baked. 80; rice, boiled, SS; beans,
boiled, 81; rye bread, baked, 70; oat
meal porridge, "a; mutton, broiled,
80; plums, raw. 90; grapes, raw, 81;
beef. raw, 26; poultry, rosss. &c;
pork, roast, "a; veal, fried, "a;
venison, oroiled, %; Goldfish, toiled,
81; eggs. whipped, Is; apples. law,
10; milk. raw, z; turnips, boiled, 4;
melons. raw, 8; cucumbers, raw, 9
per cent Journal of Health.
An exchange says: The groo ming
o. horse is very important part Of
the owners duty to his animal. It is
a means for securing the necessary
action of the skin, which is one OF the
most effective excretory outlets of the
animal system. The skin excretes q
much larger quantity of matter than
the kidneys and the bowels, but as it
consists of vspor the copiousness OF
the excretion is not noticed or even
But this excretory func-
ton OF the skin makes it indiopcnsa-
bic, for the healthiul condition of the
horse, that thorough grooming twice
a day should not be neglected. The
brush Is the best Implement for this
purpose; but few men whose business
- "a IN cora for hor,os do th.;-