The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-25
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Dairy, Garden, Or
chard and Household.

Have our farmers ever tried feed
ing potatoes to their stock? Good
sound tubers are splendid food for
COWS. 1t would be more profitable to
turn part of the potato crop into but
ter and beef, in this way, than other
wise disposing OF the "murphies."
A correspondent of the New York
World has long practiced charring
refuse corn cobs for his hogs. When
thoroughly blsckened be sprinkles
the cobs with ealt, This induces the
hogs to eat them greedily. His herd
has never been troubled with the "hog
cholera"
A Wisconsin man recommends an
other remedy for milk fever which be
says has effected 8 cure in ten cases
which have come to his knowledge.
tits as follows: One and one-half pints
of lard, ard a half pint of kerosene;
to be given in new milk, warm, and
repeated IN two or three hours il nee
essary.
A Colorado dairyman says: have
experimental considerably in this
business, and have come to the con-
olusion that every frst-olass COW, let
her be Jersey, Shorthorn, Ior Hols-
tein, will earn her owner from seven
ty-fve cents to dollar per day dur,
ing toe summer and fall months. In
addition to this she will raise her calf
with the SKINNED milk, besides fur
nishing food for several shoats young
hogs) late in the season after her pro-
geny have gone to grass.
The International Health Exbib;-
ton is to open in London, England,
next month. Sauitarians are expect.
ing good results from the display of
the numerous appliances and inven>
tions, when studied by the numerous
visitors who will inspect the exhibits.
The health OF inhabitants of large
cities in particular, requires the aost
complete methods of sewage and ven
tilation. There is q large field for
improvement, in these two branches
alone, to say nothing of the numerous
o-her sanitary requirements,
Mr. Simpson lately stated at meet
ing of the British Dairy Farmers As
ISOLATION, tina! his COWS had decreased
the flow of milk by wheat straw with
which they were bedded. He had
proved this to be fact by substituting
some other material, such az ferns,
which the COWS would not eat. foribed-
ding. By 90 doingshe had. in a herd
of twenty-four COWS, obtained an Ia
crease OF two quarts OF milk per day
On an average per COW. tits the conn
mon practice among farmers to feed
mich COWS on straw and whole corn;
If fed on clover hay and bran and
meal slops they would produce almost
twice the amount of milk.
The Japanese are said to eat more
fish than any other people in the
world. Meat eating is q foreign inno-
walton, with them. and confined to
| the rich Japs. On the contrary we
are of the opinion that the Americans
| and English. heat the world as eaters
of animal flesh. John Bull' has
every reason to consider the genuine
"blarsted yankees" as being "chips
of the old block" TOR if the latter can
not get away with as much "bull
beef" they use an equivalent amount
of other meats. A change to abstemi-
ousness from this kind of food and
greater indulgence in the digestion OF
the fnny tribe would undoubtedly be
| more conducive to our national
health.
Sanaowers may be made profit
able crop, by cultivating thems and
| obtaining oil from the seeds. at
least it is being done in Russia and
India, so we learn from an exchange.
Here in Utah We have an indigenous
kind, that grow spontaneously and
proli6cly in many plsces-in fact are
treated as Weeds-consequently are
small and puny, producing diminutive
flowers and seeds. The Russian sun.
flower seed can be obtained from seed
stores, and is the one to grow for pros
fit, producing mammoth flowers and
large seeds. The seeds are excellent
for poultry and Of advantage to cattle
and horses, when fed in moderate
quantities. We advise our farmers to
Try and cultivate patch OF them.
Now is the season for planting corn.
One of the snxieties OF the farmer. is
to prevent the corn seed being eaten
and destroyed by birds, mice, etc., be-
fore i. vegesatss. Scare-crows are
only a partial remedd or relief from
the winged raiders. Snesring or
covering the corn-seed With coal tar,
ia recommended by the prairie farmer
as the best protection. Here is what
it Gays: The best way OF tarring is tc
place the corn in an old kettle, pour
ing On the warm tar and stirring with
q paddle or long handled wooden
spoon until the kernsls are well cover
ed. To fit it for handling dryin plas-
ter. This coating interferes somewhat
with using the corn-planter, but
where crows and black birds are num-
erous loss of time in planting ia far
more than compensated for by the
nrotection afforded. Some farmers