The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-05

If you are troubled with white speck
in butter. stir the cream every mernln
before it is ehurned, and the specks wi
zotappear.
A fine drink for any time of the yea
is made simply by stirring teaspoon
full of oatmeal in tumbler of water
with or without pinch of salt.
/ The sparrow is worthless vagabond
and will never make a good citizen
being grain and fruit eater. The pee
pie of the West had better destroy him
Had the English linnets, larks or wag
tails been imported, they might hav
been great blessing. When / was
boy in Cambridge County, England
these birds were considered as much
nuisance as rats or mice, by the farm
ers. gardeners and fruit-growers. From
1841 to 1915 the people. in the rura
districts fixed sparrow tax, and ap
pointed a man in each village to bu,
the sparrows.-EL.
We do. not think that we can be mis-
taken in the belief that we should bt
far more successful in the raising o.
young chickens by giving them greal
deal more animal food than we are in
the practice of doing. Corn-meal mush
boiled potatoes. and similar substance
generally compose, as We all know, the
principal food of young chickens; but
we can see no reason why these young
birds should be exceptions to the ordin-
airy rule of young birds in general,
which feed very largely indeed chiefly.
on animal food, even those which, when
they are mature, live mostly on fruits
and seeds, are fed when in their nests
on worms, and insects. We notice the
old birds all day long busily engaged in
supplying their young with food, but al
waysswith animal food. In fact, bis
very rare that We have seen any thing
else. Why, then, should chicks be an
exception ?-Ee.
When aleather belt has been. slightly
injured by rain or by being wet in any
other manner, it should be dried as
much as possible and laps that may
have started can be fastened by little
cement, the composition of which. as
follows, is furnished by the Page Belt
ing Company: Equal proportions of
good glue and Prussian gelatine dis
solved in water, and cooked in atm
vessel set into. a larger one Containing
water Do not allow the vessel con-
tanning the cement to set quite on the
bottom. 1t should be cooked until it is
quite thick and ropy; it can then be
worked into the places where the laps
are started by means of a knife. The
belt should then be hammered until
dry. and few pegs may be used, which
can be obtained from any local shoe
maker. Cut the pegs off q little from
the surface of the belt on the reverse
side, and hammer them down on the
fiatiron, anvil or lapstone. S+f
Too. often farmers sell their best
animals, and the weeds are left on the
farm. The true rule is to keep the best
always for breeding. Weed out the
poor animals and sell them for what
they W; II bring. Get rid of them, for
you cannot afford to keep them. This
practice persisted in. you will find fewer
cults among your herds ana tlocks--a
arge proportion, indeed, conforming to
the standard OF the best. And l en-
phasize this statement TO those who are
engaged in handling thoroughbred
stock. While we expect general excel
ence and uniformity, every breeder
Knows that there will be occasionally
IN inferior animal even among thor
)ugh- breds To the breeder who has
.aid long prices for his animals, and
who is anxious to realize from them at
1nce, it may seem hard alternative to
weed out and sell for ordinary prices
animals that he had hoped would realize
,ood returns. But it will pay.-Er.
Referring to the custom among Eng |
ish Hereford breeders OF leaving the !
,alf to take the milk fromits dam, the !
g -, ~
AXE the whole of it, the milking quail |
Darby, in the Chandler of Agricultural |
,ften been noticed before, and / have |
.lways inferred that the very general |
prevalence of the old established Gus
ON of Hereford breeders has been the |
hief cause why Hereford cows have |
UGH an i'll reputation Tor the dairy. |
ussex breeders adopt the same custom, |
nd their COWS seldom are deep mixers; |
'ut on the other hand, the course be- |
ng Systematically abandoned, both |
Iereferd and Sussex cows canlvery soon |
e educated sufficiently as dairy animals |
o enable them to make very creditable
in filling the pail, In the |
ounties of Somerset, Wits and Dorset |
arge herds of Hereford dairy cows !
nay be found, and if so improbable
4 the capacity of mixers they would
ct be chosen to fulfil this sphere of
sefulness. Consequently it is only
easonable to, suppose that if in Here
ordshire and Shropshire calves were
rought up by hand, and the udders of
heir dams MIXED out clean, the cows
light be made to serve two purposes,
I rearing young stock and yielding
lilk for ready sale or for butter, and
hat altogether their returns would be
IT greater than they are now found to
e.-Er. These comments are equally
,ue Jas applied to all other breeds Of
owS.
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