The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-28

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| following information in reference to
poisonous canned goods. Its of inter-
| est to everyone, and should therefore be
read carefully.
The cases of sickness resulting from
eating canned goods never were caused
by decay of the contents.
They were cases of corrosive poison
ing from muriate of zinc and muriate of
| tin. -
Reject every article of canned food
that does not show the lineeof rosin
around the edge of the solder of the
cap, the same as is seen on the seam at
side of the can.
Reject every can that does not have
the name of the manufacturer or firm
upon it as well as the name of the com
pany and the town where manufactured,
standards have all this. When the
wholesale dealer is ashamed to have his
name on the goods, fight shy of them.
Press up the bottom of the can; If
decomposition is commencing, the tin
will rattle the same as the bottom of the
oiler of your sewing machine does. If
the goods are sound it will be solid, and
there will be no rattle to the tin.
Reject every can that shows any rust
around the cap on the inside of the
head of the can If housewives are
educated to these points, then muriate
of zinc amalgam will become thing OF
the past, and dealers in "Swells" have to
seek some other occupation.
Fanny Field says in the columns OF
the Prairie Farmer: How to make hens
| lay in the winter, when eggs bring the
highest price, is one of the things that
ano one who keeps poultry for profit
wants to know, but how many farmers
ever stop to think that comfortable
poultry house goes long way toward
inducing hens to lay when the mercury
gets below freezing point? By com
Portable house do not mean one that
can be warmed artifcially, but one so
constructed that the temperature inside
will be above the freezing points, even
when it is several degrees below zero out
side. Such houses need not be expen-
sive; cheap building materials of some
kind-stone, rock, straw, prairie hay, or
rough lumber and building paper-are
within the reach of the poorest farmer,
and "gumption" can do the work. Now
is the time to build. Don't put it off.
You should have the house done and
the fowls in it before the cold, rainy days
and nights of late fall get along.
A gentleman living down east gives
his experience in feeding calf to make
it weigh 1900 pounds at one year old
1t weighed 119pounds at birth and gain
ed 1,070 pounds in 365 days, or nearly
three pounds per day. The calf was fed
new milk three days, then fed on milk
set twenty-four hours and the cream
taken off. The second week very little
oil meal and wheat middlings were add
ed. During the second month one pint
of oil meal, one half-pint of wheat mid
dlings and one gill of corn meal were
added to the milk. The meal was Scald-
ed with one quart of hot water twelve
hours before feeding. The meal was
increased as the calf would take it, and
the milk increased until one common
sized pailful was fed at each feed. Be
sides this it had grass in the summer
and good hay in the winter.
E. P. Roe. the noted horticultural
novelist, says: | keep Catawba, Isabella,
Diana and Iona grapes by picking them
in clear day, using grape scissors, so
as not to handle much, removing all i'm
perfect berries, and putting in clean,
dry, earthen jars, in layers bunch
deep. fill the jar in this way and then
place a double sheet of paper over the
, top layer, and put on the lid. 1 next
| paste strong, unbleached muslin entire
ly over the lid, completely covering the
, opening so thatno air can enter. When
this covering has fully dried and hard
:, ened, the jars are buried on dry knoll
{ sufficiently deep to be beyond the action
of frost, a stake being placed over each
Jar to locate it.
An excellent lime was for painting
! outsldes of wooden buildings and fences
can be made as follows: Take the usua
quantity of fresh lime, slack it with
/; water, and when the lime has made the
water boil, add a moderate quantity Of
grease and salt. Too much grease is as
bad as too little. Add qaantity of fresl
, COW dung to the liquid, sufficient tc
make it as thick as it can be applied
with an ordinary white-wash brush
Add coloring if desired, and stir it W
thoroughly. This makes creamy o.
| pasty paint that makes the wood partial
/ ly fire proof besides keeping out storms
Marshall P. Wilder says that al
asparagus bed may be made to "las
: twenty or thirty years; that the plant
the crop never fails He did not believ
in the economy of expensive prepare
l ton of the bed; it has been pretty wei
established that annual applications o
E manure are sufficient. The great secre
in applying manure is to have it wei
: decomposed and put it near the surface
;. He thought very large stalk OF aspara
gus more watery and not as good a
those of moderate size.
J, The old English adage, "Let aspara
. gus spin (grow up when new peas com
; in" is, in Great Britain, common
e practice, and although for time som
t is cut later than June, it usually is bu
e sparingly. Their beds are often quit
t old, and yet are in good condition. Her
r the practice is to cut it as long as peopl
t will buy it, which will usually be a
y July. The old shoots should not be Gu
5 off until killed by frost and quite dry
Il then apply the manure, which fork i
d next SPRING E1.
1t The Dairy tells us that cement foo
:, is not the best for dairy, as it absorb
Il the drippings of milk and becomes fou
a in a short time. A good floor is {
e matched planks, with tight joints an
e painted, so that it will absorb no moi:
e lure. Whatever drippings fall from tn
'e churn may be washed off such foe
without leaving any traces. Brick
II quite as absorbent as cement. A flag
stone floor, with close joints set i
cement, is the best of all.
HapS Journal of Health says a tow,
folded several times and dipped in he