The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-21

A strong solution or carboIc ACID ana
water, poured into holes, kills all the
ants it touches. and the Survivors
Immediately take themselves oil.
1t is some times very convenient to
fence off a part of a lot for keeping COWS
when no permanent fence Is desired; /
The farmer who has fifty to q hundred |
rods of portable fence that can be mo'N I
ed and set in half a day ismore nearly |
independent about fences than one
whose farm is criss-crossed every way |
by fences that in four years out or flVe |
are only nuisance.
To insure a good catch with winter
grain, timothy seed should be grown IN
crowd the wheat, especiallyif thewinter
| is severe. 1t will endure freezing and
thawing, which will entirely destroy
wheat. 1t is customary to add little
clover in the spring to fill gaps where
| timothy seed has missed The TWO
together make good hay for home use.
l. 1t has been demonstrated by
! thoroughly practical tests, that the plan
of setting milk by the ice-cooling system
is best productive of good cream and
first quality of butter The three
methods now practiced by dairymen are
the old way Of simply setting away the
milk in shallow pans in cool place, to
gradually become cooled down to the
Temperature of the room, or cellar; set
ting milk in pans or cans in an lee-eeld
room or box, and the use of modern
machine separators to take the cream
from the milk Immediately The second
plan of reducing the temperature OF the
milk, with the ice refrigerator or cooler
as soon as possible is the best method.
Warming the cream has also been
decided as being preferable to either
adding sour milk or cream, when pre-
pairing it for the churn.
Nearly all diseases to which live stock
are subject, are the results of neglect OF
the simplest sanitary rules, and may be
prevented by the exercise of alittle COM
mon sense. Never compost manure IN
a cellar beneath the stables, nor in an
adjoining shed. The foul, noisome gases
arising from the rotting mass, will poi
son the air throughout the entire build
4 ing. and To compel animals to,breathe it
, is The height,of folly, Fancy yentilators
, and clean floors will not remedy the
matter. Manure and all decaymg mat
ter must be removed to distance from
every part of the building, to keep It fit
for live animals. Farmers who neglect
these simple precautions need not be
surprised if strange and fatal diseases
: frequently break cut among their stock,
! and inflict upon them great loss. The
; fault viii be theirs alone. Never under
any circumstances change any kind OF
! stock suddenly from one kind OF food to
: another which they are not accustomed
/ to. Great and often permanent injury
! may result Let such. changes be grad
ual. For the treatment of hloat, use a
i. 4 NFN
should have them. They are cheap and
are often the means of saving the life OF
stock.-[Er.
The two Important points in the build
ing of Il stack Of straw is TO keep the
: middle full and tramped solid. Unless
/ this is done the settling of the stack will
. make the middle, which bears the greater
weight, so low that the outside straw
will slant downwards towards the centre
. of the stack, which will spoil, and witt
5 poor hands it is next to impossible tt
/ have the stack rightly treated; they vii
e stand and allow the outside OF the stacl
: to be built up around them and loost
I straw to accumulate. until they are IN
/; hole up to their waists, then they vii
i put a few forks full of straw i'll this hol
u to stand upon and go to work again
: Those whose work is to move the straw
:. back to the stackerS should stack th
T. middle also; and to do this properi'
+ they must Keep moving back and fortl
4 over It, These men should change posi-
: lions every half hour, the one fartheres
:, from the machine taking the place q
y the one at the straw carrier, allowing a
+ to move back one position. As tn
n nearer the machine a position is til
" harder il is, unless the men change pos
d rions some will have to work muc
n harder than others. For feed the mos
" valuable part Is the chat. and larg
accumulation OF this will be found unde
t, the straw carrier; it will pay to make
lie pen of fence rails, put the chaf in tn
y pen, and cover it with,a roof of board
lie or straw; if left at the end of the STAG
)r it is the first thing to spoil Fdrm an
IN Garden.
=, Manuring by blowing under gree
re crops, such as clover, buckwheat, ry
" and the COW or field pea, is practiC
~ ~ that when once adopted is likely to b
~ continued. One precaution should /
r Nv taken, if wheat crop is to be grow
~, ~ and that is that the growing crop shoul
!! be turned under :! sufficient time befol
-, seeding with wheat to allow the soil
a. settle. This process can be FASTENED b
" the frequent alternate use OF the harro
ie and heayily-weighted roller. 1t is fC
this reason better TO plow il; heav
in crop of clover in June. giving time for
a to decay. 4 very satisfactory metho,
nv if the growth OF clover is heavy is I
ut cut IL for hay i'll June, and then plo
m under the second growth in August, an
ut then harrow and roll the land frequent
Id before drilling in the grain. II
of mechanical condition OF the soil
a greatly improved by pursuing this plal
n The soil is made mellow and lively an
if more friable and finely pJiverfzed tina
ut it can be by the most careful plowin
he When clover, COW peas or other gree
i'll crops are plowed under, they add to IL
in soil important manurial constituen
rel that are available for the immediate u;
ON lof the plants. The three princip
be- advantages resulting from the systel
rn are the mechanical effects, the additiC
ill of fertilizing matter, and the reSultiI
be chemical effects. Experience has show
that a good crop of grass and weeds
other vegetable matter, when cover(
ry with soil and rotted, will furnish all
le' the needed mineral substances to NAL
IN a good crop of wheat, oats or corn, wit
,,et the exception of phosphoric acid, Whit
ne can be cheaply supplied by the apple
IN IN ton of two hundred pounds to the ac
he of Underground raw bone meal or 9th
Nn fertilizers containing a large per cent.
OF this indispensable substance. Witho
"a. going into the chemistry of the matte