The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-31

He that would thrive, must rise o:
i've. Yes, but il one rises with the
birds and beasts, he must retire to
,leep at the same hour that they do.
Carbonate of soda and alum. one
teaspconful of each to twenty pounds
OF butter, mingled with the cream in
the cnurn at churning. is used in
England TO harden butter.
Excellent feed for horses may be
made OF barley, cut when partially
headed out. After cutting allow it to
cure and then stack in small stacks.
A number of our farmers are in the
habit OF cutting and curing both
wheat and barley in this manner. A
aecond crop may be easily raised by
flooding the stubole Immediately alter
rakin0 up the grain. Cut it about
the first of August, or whenever far
enough advanced, and there will be
plenty of time for the next growth to
come before cold weather. We ad-
wise farmers when their grain is thin
and heading out short, to cut it and
raise a second crop. In the second
growth several stalks will come from
one. Considerable nay may be made
in this way from thin spots in the
fields. 1t makes better hay than
meadow. ard is especially recon-
mended for stations and mares that
have colts.-Minnesota Farmer.
HARDNESS OF GALLOWAY CATTLE.
It Is their long. thick. shaggy hair
which protects them from frost and
storms, showi e that, like the buff
falo, they are admirably adapted to
the winter climate of our great west
ern plains and the foothills Of the
Rocky mountains. For this reason,
and some others, think the more
OF this breed there are placed at
the west, the more profitable it will
be for the ranch men. Their beef
is FIRST quality, and in consequence
OF being destitute of horns, the cost
OF their breeding and rearing and
also OF transportation to market is
less. In Scotland, when they wish
to increase the size for p PARTICULAR To-
cations, they cross the Galloway
cows with compact shorthorn bulls.
This produce proves hardy also,
heavy weights at three years old.
Their meat is we'll marbled. tender,
Juicy and free from patchiness =
correspondence of National Live
Stock Journal.
The following further reference to
the merits of the Vigor Grass" re
CLEAN from the correspondence in The
Prairie Farmer:-So grea. ia its popu-
lsrity that 1t is advertised aud sold
under the name of Arabian Ever
green Millet. Evergreen M:llet,
Green Valley Grass, Drouth-prcoi
Grass, Egyptian Grass, Caba Gra.s,
etc. Other namea will probably soon
spripg up, and this grass be adyer-
tised as something entirely new.
Here the Johnson Grass has been
known for over forty years, but only
within the past five or ak years has
it been brought to tie notice OF the
public. 1t belongs to the corn family
OF grasses, Sorghum Haispenae beiug
its botanical name. I. is thus de-
scribed by Commissioner KiiIehrew,
OF Tennessee: ct rises with a stem
from four to twelve feet high. accord
ing TO tho soil on which it grows
erect. smooth leaves. linear, fexuous,
graceful. curling down at the ends
like corn; flowers, in psnicle at the
top, at first green. changing TO
brown" 1t will grow upon any land
that will grow corn, and upon allu-
val lands it will yield from five to
ten tons OF hay per annum, and can
he cut from three 10 Blk times, sc-
oording % location.
DR.. P0ar es, IN g famous Book of
Grasses. says: ''Johnson Grsss is
perennial and b AS oane-hke roots, or
more properly, underground stems,
from the 9 "a OF a goose Quill to that
of the little finger. These roots are
tender, and hogs are fond OF aud
thrive on them in the wipter. The
roots literally FIJI the ground near tba
surface, and every joint is capable OF
developing bud. One busbei of the
extra-cleaned iced is suhcisn. for
one acre OF land. The leal, stalk.
aud panicie OF this grass resemble
those OF other sorghums. Ii grows
on any land where corn will grow.
and like the latter, the better the
land the heavier the crop. On rich
lands this culms attain the size OF
one half inch in diameter, ana a
height OF upward of seven feut. 1,
should be cut while tender, and then
all live stock are loud OF il, for a few
weeks sre suffi Iient to render it so
course and hard that animals refuse
it. or eat it sparingly."
tits the best drouth proof grass !
ever knew. stands hard trsmp;np
f. ezing two and one half TO three
feet deep did not xii it. While this
is not winter grass. it comes the
earliest OF any in the spriLg, remain.
lpg in vigorous growth until tlos;
cuts it down in the jsu. For the