The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-03
The Farm, Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Ritter Milk = Strawberries - Deep
Plowing-SPaying Heifers-
Separating ButtermiIk-


reen stirred a spoonful of ginger
Sweetcn. if desired, and drink as hot a
possible. | gave these directions to
lad who was shaking by the stove, ant
his mother told me 1t broke the chill u
once, and in half an hour he was GU
playing.
The advantages of mixed food 70
sheep will receive more attention In tn
future. 1t is said that they do mucl
better on grain and roots together thar
On either Separate. The roots keep tn,
digestive organs of the sheep in prope
condition for the better assimilation o
the grain. and also appease the appetit,
for green food. Keep them contenteC
and therefore more thrifty.-NGtionG
s>iocswas.
A recipe for boiling new potatoes
Wash she potatoes clean, then rub the
skin off-never use a knife-and put
them into boiling water, in which is a
little salt, and boil quickly; when dry
lay in a dish and spread little butter
over them Or boil some milk, put in
a spoonful of butter. and thicken with
4 fittle flour, wet smooth with milk
then, when the potatoes are cooked and
laid in the dish, pour this gravy over
Them.
A writer in an exchange says. that he
was troubled with the smell of garlick
or wild onion in his milk. To obviate
this he put the cows in the stable al
aooat three o'clock each afternoon, and
fed them on hay and gave them their
grain rs usual. The result was all he
anticipated, a rest of three hours allow
ed this scent TO pass OF in the other
secretionS, though previously it was
very strongly favored milk and butter.
Me same course would probably be an
advantage when the milk tastes of
other foul weeds in the pasture,
Those who wish to breed a dairy
herd must devote their energies and
good judgement to that end. and make
Il Study. 1t is not necessary, in COM
meneing a dairy herd, TO start with
thoroughbred females. The sire in the
herd should. however, be athorough-
bred animal, that not only can be, but
is recorded in the herd book. 1t is a
prevalent practice for men who have a
dairy bull to sell, to claim that it is
thoroughbred. but not recorded Could
be. You know, but 1 never went to the
trouble of recording my cattle" The
expense of recording is small item,
ana it guarantees the purity IF the
animal. The foundation on. which a
man intends to build years of work
shonld not be open to any chance of
being defective.
A country editor who keeps a fine
horse, and who is good judge OF horse
Tesh, gives as his plan OF feeding
horse: Keep all feed boxes sweet and
clean. Cut about ten pounds of hay,
Tree from dust, and put it in tight,
clean box. Pour over it enough hot
water TO wet it, then put in three or
four quarts of Underground oats and
corn, and stir well; a little salt may be
sometimes added. When cool feed. In
keeping horse fat. there is as much in
see driver as in the feed. A horse well
carried and rubbed with wooden rag
stterTard, is sure TO make q Sleek-coated
horse, and when well groomed is, We
may say, half fed. A cross and nervous
dnYer will ill the horse with fear and
dread, and will rapidly run him down.
Use any animal kindly. Always be
arm and make it mind, but never get
excited. A cooT-headed driver makes a
lcng-hesded horse.
Last week we published an item from
tie Western Rural on making muley
CaStle by dehorning them. Here is q
dipping from another exchange. which
differs somewhat, but then our readers
must remember the old saving that
you pays your money and takes your
choice.
The removal of horn from an
animal is very painful operation, as
the core of the horn is part of the skull,
and Is covered with an exceedingly SEN
Stiye membrane. But it is quite easy
and almost painless operation to pre-
vent the horns from growing in a Young
animal; this is done by cutting an x
on the skin over the soft nub of the
embryo horn. raising the flaps and then
cutting away the scale or root of the
future horn; the skin is laid down ana
Is covered with tar. or the nubS may be
eauteriZed with white-hot iron. which
destroys the horn. This operation is
infinitely less painful than castration.
Vt even docking the tails of lambs, and
yet, says the New York Times, some
foolish and ignorant persons declaim
against 1t as an excess OF cruelty not to
De tolerated, while they approve of
docking tails, Sitting ears, and al of
castration.
The question is often asked: "Hoy
does deep blowing make the soil moist
err l believe it is an accepted fact
that wherever warm air comes in con
-@ANN y tN-A q ANNa NOOlCA NAl1u llSclI the
water in it condenSeS into dropS. On
warm dsY we see il often on the outside
of pitcher OF cold water. Fogs and
dewS are made in that way. and our
rain, most Of il. coming up from the
gulf in those heavy currents of warm
air that We frequently have. When we
pulverize the soil deep. the warm air.
which IS full OF moisture. penetrates
down and all through it,and the ground
being cooler than the air. condenses the /
Eater into drops, which answers in /
place OF rain; SO the deeper and the /
more we pulveriEe it, the more moisture (
il viii collect from the air Not only I
that, but as warm air is rich in food for |
plants. It serves in place of manure, I
TOO. Thirty years ago there was ter I
Ebie drouth in the east. Professor +
Names, large market gardener, had (
had his ground Under drained and sub I
Soiled, and his crops, whese he could. (
were cultivated with a Suhsoil pillow. A
committee went 10 see his place after
nine weeks drought. and found every
hing fiourishing as # there had been
plenty of rain. His corn Ut was the /
ID Of Septemherl was estimated at
2laety bushels 10 an acre, while on land
cultivated in the usual way. near by.
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