The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-13
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm. Dairy. Garden
Orchard. and Household.

The purposs o: the editor is to make
the 'tIndoors and Out" columns OF such
interest that they will become every
oody's columns, By containing snort and
pithy items of interest to everyon OF
TIE HERALD's readers. Therefore, the
editor invites correspondents to send
items OF practical receipts, hints, or sug-
gestione, that may have occurred in the
experience of our numerous and varied
classes Of readers. ard he will endeavor
10 put them in such ashGpe as to give the
public the bere6t of the informatiOn.l
Cat of all the seed pips LETT on your
rose trees after the rose-lesves have
fallen. this strengthens the tree, by
diyertiDg the sap that would otherwise
be used to mature the seed.
Where flies are troublesome in a
room, they may be got rid OF speedily
by taking half {, sspooniGI ofground
black pepper, one tesspoonful 81
brown sugar and one tablespoonful OIL
cream. mixed veil together and pul
on plate.
TIE grapes on the vine are now at,
tanning considerable sizs. Thin out
the punches. picking off all the small
pany looking ones, so that the larger
ones may become the more luscious
liquid manure applied around the
roots once or twice each week will
help them materially.
A noted French physician assert:
that thers are more rutritive qualities
10 sweet 80 Ir-milk than in any othsi
one food that humans can eat. The
term sweet sour may seem anomalous
By il is meant fresh or good .oul
milk and not stale sour milk. Butter
milk is not near as good, The
curdled or sour milk may be eaten
with asvoring ofsalt, sugar or fruit
fresh or preserved. Try il once, and
you will repeat the dose.
An American Cure for Foots Rct,--
To equal parts in weight OF red leac
and pulverizsd blue vitriol add enough
nitric acid to make a thick paste;
after pairing the hooi until all diseased
parts are we'll exposed, apply with
paddle. Sheep should remain III
house With dry floor twenty-fuul
hours after being treated, unless the
weather is quite dry. when we much
prefer turning on dry, short sod but
care should be taken 20 prevent sheen
from crossing streams or mud.
A railkless COW, says Professor Shell
don, is su anomaly when she has the
faculty OF maternity, and ehe is an
abdardity ii domestication when she
only gives small quantity of milk
which is poor. Such COW is a fraud
and hunbug, and the farmer i,
fesble who keeps her. Milk is the
chief end and aim of a cows exist.
ence, and beef at the last. What We
want OF a COW is that she will give us
a calf and 600 gallons of good milk
in a year; commencing when she is
three years old and going on till she
is eight or nine. and then good car
case of beef for the butcher.
Plant sunhowers everywhere, where
you car find o place. about the barn
or fowl house. 1t is well known that
this plant is especially valuabls for its
health giving qualities. ALI that ia
needed is TO press the seeds under the
soil, and the plants will care for them
selves. On the margin of the sink
drain, near the out house or pig sty.
or in the unused runs of the poulsrv
yard. these plauts will be filing the
place of the health committee. and the
fall crop OF seeds will make a valuable
change of diet for the fowls during
the winter and spring.
Salt not only acts as tonic. but is
also powerful vermifIge, and stock
that are deprived of it are almost Gers
tain to be troubled with Intestinal
worms of various kinds. Horses.
cattle. sheep. and swine, poorly fed
and deprived OF the requisite amount
of salt and ealine food, are always
more or less afflicted With internal
parasites. Some shepherds even
claim that common salt is not only q
preventive, but a cure for liver
huke in sheep; but its efficacy in this
case has not yet been fully establish.
ed, for it is doubtful if salt taken with
the food can reach the liver in eufiici.
ent quantities TO destroy parasites
lodged therein, although it is barely
possible that it may do &C.
The following is from National Live
Stock Journal; But the important
question is, can pig feeders afford to
keep their pigs in such filth as breeds
disease and death to their herds?
When pigs have ouch foul wallow-
ings, they seldom get any pure water
and the foul water contaminates the
blood, snd brings disease. 1t would
be considered gross mismanagement
for dairymau to allow his COWS to
drink foul water. It is known that it