The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-06
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard, Garden
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Sh nth Irns-FrOzen Apples-Cream-
Sparrows-CatarIhC Colds
Drinking Tea
Soak salt f h in sour milk.

Soak salt fl b in sour milk.
: Egg shells burned in the oven anC
placed upon he pantry shelves will keeI
bugs aWay.-Er.
, When ever Alarm O. g IS a laborsaving
implement for himself, let him think II
! something TO save his wife from kitchen
labor cannot also be secured.
A folded newspaper, covering the
chest and shoulders under a cloak OF
coat. will be found very comfortable in
extreme cold weather, especially while
riding.
Where are the reapers and mowers
these day.? If not carefully housed
the owner is sustaining a loss greater
than their wear during the working sea
son, and one which few farmers can
afford.
A horse should never he taken from
the stable IN muddy weather without
having mis- tail neatly tied up. 4 fine
tail will soon be ruined by allowing it to
drag in the mud.
If applied Immediately, powdered
starch viii take out many kinds OF fruit
stains on table linen. Unjust be LETT on
the stained spot for few hours, until
1t absOrbs the stain.
4 An excellent dish is fried squash. Cut
! the squash in thin slices and sprinkle
with salt. Let them stand a few mi
nutes, then beat an egg and dip the
slices in. ii. Fry in butter and serve
with sugar or salt and pepper, accord
ing to taste.
1t should be remembered that salt
water is said TO destroy lice completely
on cattle, with no possible injury TO the
animal. Salt can always be obtained
and conveniently applied. Carbolic
acid and sulphur are not always at hand
in a farmer house.
For beef there is no breed in my Opin-
ion equal to the ShorthOrnS, for early
maturity, excess OF weight, and finenesS
of texture in the meat, coupled with
Juicy fairness; and this breed and its
grades suit the beef grown best in all
climates and conditions where plenty
prevails either of grain or grass.-Er.
An English paper gives this as a
simple milk test. Take a highly-pol-
ished knitting needle, dip into a deep
vessel of milk, and withdraw it III an
upright position. If the milk Is pure a
drop of the fluid will hang on 10 the
needle, but if there be the least presence
OF water II Will prevent the adhesion OF
a drop.
Soapsuds applied to gooseberry or to
currant bushes will kill moss growing
on them The application may be made
at any time, but better when no leaves
are on. Several applications may be
required, bat as the suds is an excellent
fertilizer, the trouble will be more than
compensated for by the increased
growth.
This is q plan for saving frozen apples.
Before they are thawed stand the bar
Iels on the bottom head, remove the top
head and enough of the fruit so that
the barrel is full lacking one haIf of
bushel; then fill ~ BARREL rounding
full of clean snow, well packed down;
place the barrel in a moderately warm
room, and in a day or two the apples
will be better than before they were
frosted.-Er.
Miss E. A. Omerod. England'S ento-
moIogist, reports that her many CORE
spOndents all agree that sparrows xill
not feed on insects when seeds, grain,
fruit and other vegetable food is within
reach. She therefore advocates Judi
ciouS destruction of the house sparrow
for the protection of crops, but is care
jul to show chat the objection does not
extend to other small birds.
A lady says that most of her rooms
are swept but once a month. She wipes
off the carpet, after picking up all litter,
with a damp-not wet-woolen cloth
wrung out of warm water, to which she
adds few drops of ammonia, This
mode of cleaning for all rooms but her
dining room, she thinks preferable to
the usual weekly >sweepings. with their
accompanying clouds OF dust.
a correspondent of an exchange
says that a winter hen house was built
as follows: He dug down two feet above
the surface, rooted with poles and straw,
banked the earth against the sod, and
also six inches deep on the roof. Put
in a good window on the south side, fed
with corn heated lin the oven, sprinkled
lime water about the house, gave the
fowls lime water to drink, and the crate
full birds laid all winter.
Don'tuse the over-check rem. 1t is a
source of continued torture to your
poor horse. The tossing and turning of
the head and the general restlessness
are not evidences of spirit in the animal
but continued and unaYailing effort
to get a moments relief from pain.
Let the driver tie his own head back at
the same angle. and he'll scarcely have
the heart thereafter to continue the
punishment on his horse.
DR.. g. +. Dobbson asserts positively.
through the Lancet, that if this treat
ment for catarrhal colds is continued
for twenty minutes, and repeated three
or four times in as many hours, great
and usually permanent relief follows.
One drachm of camphor, coarsely powd-
cred or shredded, is stirred into a vessel
containing very hot water. A paper
cone, placed large end downward over
the dish, is the means by which the
camphorated steam is inhaled through
the nose.
It pays every stock owner to cook the !
food and feed it warm to the cattle.
However, in cooking food one OF the
most favorable results is the ability to
make musty or mouldy shay sweet, and
coarse fodder, stalks, straw, and chaff,
palatable and digeStible by means of
steam. The farmer has q great deal of
clTpb kinds Of food and II he 20 >, nm n