The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-20
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm. Dairy, Garden
Orchard, and Household.

I 1.-The purpose OF the editor is to make
the Indoors and Out" columns of such
interest that they will becoma every
oody's columns, by containing snort and
pithy items Of interest to everyon, Of
The HERALD's readers. Therefore, the
editor invites correspondents to send
items of practical receipts, hints. or aug-
gestion:, that may have occurred in the
experience of our numerous and varied
classes OF readers, and he will endeavor
to put them 10 such shape as TO give the
public the benefit of the information
The new strawberry beds should be
looked after and kept perfectly clean
OF all weeds and grass.
Indian corn, fed a. an exclusive
diet to laying hens in confined quar-
ters is iniudicious, and unprof.a BILE
toward the production OF eggs.
| Good dry quarters and pastures free
from vet are best for sheep. II the
sheep were as carefully attended to
as the dairy COWS there would be
fewer complaints of foot rot and dis.
temper.
| A Wisconsin citizen has five year
olt--half Alderney and Ayrshire
COW that gives thirty-seven and hal
pounds of milk to a milking, and
turns Out sixteen pounds of butter 8
week.
L To clean your horses names o.
tails from dirt and dust, says thi
sportsman and Breeder, put a littl,
kerosene on them, and then Wasl
them with Iborsx water, which vii
prevent the hair from coming out.
The safest and most instantaneou
emetic known is tablespoonful eacl
of salt and ground mustard stirre'
QUICKLY in half pint OF water AMI
swallowed promptly; almost as in
stantly is any poison taken into .h
stomach vomited up.
The Prairie Farmer says: Vine
= any contagious disease ia actuall
present among the fowls, and it b
comes necessary to thoroughly cleans
and disinfect the poultry house, in
stead of mixing the whitewssh in tt
usual way, dissolve half pound {
copperas (sulphate of iron) in pai
tul OF hot water, and use that to M
the wash with.
Keep the poultry quarters cles
and halt the battle against disesl
among the fowls ia won. Mar
costly fowl houses fail to Zee
healthy their Inmates, principal
because OF the absence of thoroue
ventilation. Use coal oil freely on 6
perches, bottoms of nests, etc.
will prevent insect breeding, as We
as being disinfectsnt and deodorize
There is no danger attending its u,
in the chicken house or CD the chic
ems. Whitewssh the house thoroug
ly.
A cali may be raised with milk,
follows: Tie up in a cloth three
four pounds OF dry rye -four and bt
it for six hours. When this ia CO
ut CRATE off from it two ounces o; Ga
meal; boil the Cruel we'll and strs
10. odd oold yofor ~ rod,,o =, t, .,
heat of new milk and let the CD
drink 1t. Four quarts is enough 4
one meal. Add to it a teaspoonf
each OF salt and sugar. This is eivl
81 twice day. As s1on as the calf vi
take it give it little soft hay. II
Cruel must be well boiled and increa
ed in quantity gradually as the cs
grows older. This quantity is for
month-old calf; for a younger Oh
two quarts at meal is sufficient.
A correspondent of the Michigs
Farmer Gays: I have no regular tin
= TO breed COWS, allowing them as
rule to bring as many calves as tn
are disposed to. As no great aohiev
ment was ever made and meyer Dug
TO be made without study and wor
% go no man ever bred and impro we'd
herd of Shorthorns without stud
thought. and practice. And as ri
the more q man thinks the more
reads, the more he practices int
ligently, the surer be will be of gu
cess. A drone in any branch of bu
- nees ia, and ought to be, failur
The laws which underlie the breedil
/ of Shorthorns are equally true OF
10 breeds of animals of 8 dOmes'
nature. though differing in the pu
poses for which they are bred
]. ". Walker, of Franklinton,
c., again writes to the Deseret New
i'll reference to the ''Vigor Grass"a
says; Ny letter to the News, "Et
to utilize our Dry Lands" has csus
some inquiry; and l would answer
stating, that the "vigor" gras, b
shown itself equal to the task of liYil
and growing vigorously on even tt
dryesi lanes where there was
suficiency OF moisture in the lal
ca during April or May. August or s.
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