The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-23
The Farm, Garden, Orchard
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Cue for BlackIeg - To Make Best
Brine-About Shop Window
Many Other Items.

Cows should receive SlgnC c2rdlne
every day throughout the winter. The
curry-comb will not only clean theil
hides but is beneficial in other ways
1t does them good; all cattle like it, and
il aids them in becoming gentle and
docile.
The Mirror and Farmer saws. that
ample maggots were in all the winter
apples in the market last winter, and
we have already found them in the
Baldwin this season. They evidently
came to stay, and threaten to be the
worst pest that the apple crop has met.
Feed literally and it will pay. Feed
poorly and you will be the loser in more
Eavs than one. Next to liberal feeding
should come warm, comfortable stables,
properly made and clearly kept, with
plenty of good beddiEg for aattle to lie
upon. Much food is wasted by insuffici-
ent stables.
Blood heat is set down on Fahrenheit
thermometers at 9S degrees, but more
careful investigation has shown that the
temperature OF a healthy person is be
tween 102 and 103. One-half a degree
either way indicates an abnormal con-
dition, while one degree below would
make doctor shake his head ominOus-
". When a fever sends the temperature
up to los or 107 it depends entirely upon
the amount of fuel on hand how long
the fire will continue to burn.
Now is the time for warm clothing
flannel underclothing especially, atten-
ton to which will prevent taking colds
which may last all winter. IfyOu should
catch cold, take hot air, or hot foot
bath, and lie in bed twenty-four hours,
Eat as little as possible, or nothing but
4biy, crrnoI Rnffnr n 70 Cf for w ant
four hours; such fasting never hurts
anybody, but has done good to thou
sands. With a clean skin, in clean
bed, fast and rest; and the cold will sue
cumb.
The Drovers' Journal of Chicac-
marks that this is an age of baav ',.ef,
and we are now getting cattle at about
two years of age that are ripper and
better for the use of the butcher than
the four-year-olds and past that we ad-
mired so much a few years ago. 1t is
no uncommon thing now to have on the
Chicago market in one day twenty to
thirty car loads of cattle better than the
average of the show cattle Of six or eight
years ago. In other words, a very
prime lot of heavy matured cattle ar
irving once a week or so, is no longer a
notable event.
Inc ODuuFu GCNGttNtIft. IGtlNlilR 10 Il
correspondent, said that should
be kept at COZ; also that some author
tiles say So. To this, the Anleri-
can DGiryBlGa says: We under
stand that this reply has no relation to
the proper temperature of setting the
milk for the cream to rise, as the queS-
ton might imply. So far as the cor
rect temperature for keeping the cream
Is concerned, we are sure the lower
temperature the better, until you reach
the freezing point. Sixty or sixty-fve
is altogether too high to keep cream any
time alter it gets ripe, which it will do
In twenty-fOur hours. Sixty-fve is a
proper churning in winter.
An exchange has the following: Dur
ing the laSc TWO months about 200 head
of cattle have died in Carson Valley
from blackleg. A party who has tried
the following disinfectant claims that it
Is the best and SuTest known: Take one
third garlic ,One-third lard and One-third
sulphur; mix to a salYe; cut slip in
eeWlap, between flesh and hide, and
place about a teaSpoonful of the salve
IN this opening. One dose Is sufficient
This remedy has been tried in Carson
Valley and Amador County, Cal, and
has proved very effective. The disin-
fectapt used in Texas during the time
cattle fever ragged there is also very
good. Its ingredients are four pintS of
salt, One-half pint of sulphur, one-half
pint ofSaltpetre and One-hah gill of cop
peras. Feed the same as salt
DR.. Otis Mann, a veterinarian of
Springfield, Mass, says there are four
essential considerations in favor of
spaying old cows and heifers that are
undesirable to breed from.
First - They will grow one-fourth !
larger.
Seeond-They will give better quality
Of beef.
Thnd-The beef will bring from one
to two cents more per pound.
Fourth-A spayed scrub heifer will /
thrive and take on fat equal to a steer.
The risk is nominal if the animal is in 1
good condition and the operation is per |
formed in moderately fair weather"
The experience of Western stockmen
Goes not subStantiate the above ia refer |
ence TO old COWS, as spaying them gen |
orally results IN death, when turned ont 1
On range to care for themselves. Do /
mesueated old cows, well cared for in q !
god BAN, would doubtless do well and 4
make better beef after being sPayed. /
FOR helfers, 1t IS an excellent plan, and /
We commend its Consideration TO Utah
stock owners, only be sure to have a
careful experienced person to perform !
the operation.
The best receipt for making brine for
curing pork or beef is to add enough /
salt TO boiling water until the brine Is
strong enough TO hoat-a medium sized
potato; OF. pork may be packed in
barrel with three inches of salt between
each layer of meat. aud three inches on
TOP of salt, and all the space between
also filed with salt, and hard water
poured IN until it shows itself above the
meat There iSnO danger in having teo
much salt In packing pork For hams
ana shoulders use six pounds of salt, 7
t~oounces OF saftpetre, and two quarts
o. molasses, y or FIVE pounds of sugar for
1gO pounds Of meat. The meat may be
either packed in this MIXTURE, sprinkling (
some OF 1t on the bottom Of the case
elu between the meat and adding water
uIItn the mass Is covered, or 1t may be
Igoeed on the flesh side and the meat
tiiea up snugly together The mixture
shoold oe divided into three quantities,
S SI73 rubbed IN 81 intervals Of three days.
b mtefe haas are 10 be kept 8 long. time
f5eloIe using, two ponds more salt TO
~ ne iO5 pounds should be added, with
ne ne me quantity of sugar, salt, salt