The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-21

thus stored decay more rapidly when
removed from the pits than similar fruit
stored in a dry house with an even
| temperature, only a few degrees above
the freezing point. When apples are
kept in pits for the spring market, they
should be shipped as soon as possible
after being removed, and not to a very
distant city. Pitted apples will need
! frequent asserting when exposed for
sale. The apple crop this year is heavy.
and only the best fruit should be stored
! III any manner. Let it be remembered
that fruit keeps best in a dry, cool, and
! dark room. Pits are inexpensive, and
! if well made, not large, the fruit separat-
ed from the earth by straw, and when
| opened. quickly marketed, there need
be no great loss of fruit.
Iowa Homestead: We notice in travel.
ling over the country, a good deal of the
wild pea that Professor Stakes says is
killing the horses in the Missouri val
lev. This is not the pea vine. but a
bush with pods, in which are hard black
seeds. We have seen it growing freely
in pastures where the land has not been
long cultivated, and out on the open
prairie, but have never seen a stalk that
had been cropped by horses or cattle.
It is not a hard thing to eradicate, and
the farmer should whip out his knife
and make an end oft every time he sees
it.
An authority recommends the follow
ing plan of Strengthening and dressing a
fat sheep:
First, he withholds all food from the
animal for full Ia hours or more before
slaughtering, but gives in the mean
time all the water it will consume
When ready to slaughter he has all
things in readiness, in order that the job
may be accomplished in the shortest
time possible, then the sheep is hung by
the hind legs and the throat quickly cut
severing all the main arteries at once,
andt he moment life is extinct the work
of disemboweling is accomplished, and
the skin taken off in the shortest time
possible. The results meat of the most
delicious flavor, without a faint of the
rank, offensive odor and equally often
sive flavor so often accompanying meats
of this kind. He never selects lamb
full grown sheep, from two to thr zee
years old.
All foods, says an exchange, II not al
ready soluble (meltable) in water, have
to be so altered within US that they be-
digestion. Starch, for example, which
forms fve-sixth of our daily bread, is
utterly ineffective to use while it re-
mains as starch, because of its insol- |
utility; but in the act of chewing, the |
silva which we add to our bread begins |
to convert the starch into sugar livery |
much like the sugar of honey, and so |
renders it soluble in order that it may |
in due course be carried into our blood, |
and there do the work of giving US |
power or heat. Cane sugar in like man
ner, although soluble, requires altera-
ton, and this alteration is also brought |
about by contact with the saliva, and |
the result is a sugar, as in a previous |
case, nearly identical with the sugar of /
honey. Honey, on the contrary, or the |
sugar that we find in grapes, is already |
in the condition for absorption or assim
ilatien, and really no kind of work has !
to be performed upon it before it is /
rendering us service as force
or heat producer. Honey is therefore,
given to mankind in the most agreeable
form, both for food and medicine. 1t
produces healthy digestion, and holds
defantly that monster of torture, indi
gestion, at bay. Pure honey should be |
used freely in every family, Honey |
eaten upon wheat bread is very benef-
cial to health.
Children would rather eat bread and
honey than bread and butter; one pound
Of honey will reach as far as two pounds
Of butter, and has besides the advantage
that is far more healthy and pleasant
TO the taste, and always remains good,
while butter soon becomes rancid, and |
often produces cramp in the stomach,
sourness, vomiting, and
iiarrhea.
Digestion GALL potent in its effects on
The mind as well as the body depends
argely on the food Poor food received
INTO a poor stomach is the cause of
many unhappy homes, while good,
healthy food. received into a healthy |
stomach, becomes an CANCEL of Peace"
to many household.