The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-18
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm. Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Fall Plowing-Hessian Fly-washing
Butter-ChrOnic Coughs
Celery.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.

Take drink OF pure cold water before
breakfast.
Keen preserves in a dry place; seal
with -four paste.
After pairing fruit drop it in cold water
TO prevent it changing color.
Do not boil vinegar for pickles. Boil
the vegetables in salt and water, drain
and pour the vinegar on.
yerbenas to do their best must have
rich soil and a sunny position. have the
branches pegged down and all fading
flowers cut of.
Always use pure Southdown or Shrop-
shiredOwn bucks. One eighth or even
le.s of MerinO blood is sufficient to give
the desired qualities to the Offspring.
Chronic coughs, of obscure origin.
may frequently be found due to coilec-
tons Of impaeted wax in one or both
ears, and will be relieved by its removal.
Honey should be kept in the dark or
it Will granulats. The bees. knowing
this, work in. dark hives. If light could
enter. the honey would become solid
and the bees would starVe.
Celery boiled in milk and eaten with
the milk served as beverage, is said to
be cure for rheumatism govt. and a
specific Ill case OF smallpox. Nervous
people find comfort in celery.
When there is any indication of bed
sore abrasion, being, formed, a common
buffalo robe should be procured and
paced beneath the patient. the usual
under Sheet OF course, remaining be-
tween the body and the fur OF the novel
mattress.
\ horse cannot De kept sleek, no mat
ter how much grooming may be be-
slowed. without abundant exercise. A
horse needs his blood warmed up every
day TO keep his system properly regu-
lated. and to make his hair lie down
and be bright and sleek.
How to make egg bread: Rub well to-
gether one quart of meal. one-fourth of
a pound OF butter: add one quart OF
milk, and stir until free from Jumps
beat four eggs very light and add to the
batter teaspoonful of salt. Beat well
and bake in hot oven.
Experiments have been made in
France with electricity rs an agent to
prevent the incrustati0n of boilers
The passage Of a current through a
boiler not only caused the impurities OF
the water 10 settle rs loose powder, but
detached the old incrustation.
The quantity of seed per acre must
be controlled by the following condi-
tons: Early or lateness OF sowing, and
size Of the grain of wheat Sown, (less
will be required in small grains than
where they are large-sized). and richness
of the field sOwn. Richer land requires
less seed than poor land. The reader
will see that he must use his Judgment
to find the proper quantity of seed to
use per acre.-Er.
An old woodsman of Australia. who
used 70 catch snakes for pastime, SAYS
that raw onions bruised and applied as
soon as possible to the wound Is a GER
tain cure for the bite of all the veno
nous serpents of that country, except
the death adder. which he admits is sc
poisonous, and its poison is so quick il
acting That there is no known remedy
for it. That the onion is a specific fol
I the sting of poisonous insects of al
kinds has long been known TO the writer
OF this paragraph, who, when boy. in
variably carried one on expeditions
with companions against hornets nests
etc. 1t was found that the application
of onion juice would Instantly allay the
pain caused by the singing of hornets
yellow jackets, wasps, bees, etc.
Much loss has occurred to dairy farm
erS from trying TO breed for milk anC
butter exclusively on the female side
II an extra good COW has q heifer calf
il will probably be saved. and its milk
ing character will mainly depend on tn,
inherited prepotency of its sire. The
bull calves from the best mixers are
generally turned off 10 the butchers a!
of no value. Yet for breeders of dairy
stock these bull calves are very likely
more valuable than they would be i
heifers, 1t is the fact that value for tho
dairy is more. than likely TO be trans
mitted through the male line thai
makes the Improvement of dairy stocF
so easy. Select your best cows, breed
to Jersey or Holstein bull, and the
progeny, whether male or female, viii
be well worth raiSing.-Er.
In most cases, except violent injury
or winterkill. where trees have died, il
will be found due to 4 want of fitness. oil
soil. We have learned that an apple OF
peach tree would not thrive where one
had died Where there is an unftneSs
of soil. the new tree set will be sure to
suffer from the same causes as the first
and will also fail; not from death OF
disease inherited from the tree. but
from the natural soil which gives rise to
those diseases and will produce them
again. We have seen healthy trees cut
down, and others planted in the same
place. as near the old stump as possible
and grow finely. We have also seen
tree after tree planted in certain parts
of the same orchard, and all failed. A
friend of ours plan ed peach orchard
last year, and in one spot ten trees re-
fused to grow. The trees were all re-
placed this year, and all failed, and