The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-31

In feeding soft food ito fowls never
throw it on the ground, as gapes and
cholera will in time be the result. Make |
small troughs, and when the hens have !
finished their meal, clean the .treughs |
washing them occasionally.
A correspondent of the Fruit Recorder
says he has boiled leaves and stems of
plants until the juice is all ex
tracted, and finds the liquor deadly to |
lice, and many other
enemies of vegetstlon. 1t does not in |
jure the growth Of plants, aad the odor
remains for a long time 10 disgust in
sect marauders~
0ne of the most efficacfous means of
destroying TIE apple-go&ger worm and
other fruit insect enemies, is to turn the
hogs into the orchard, say fifteen OF
them to each two acres. Allow them to
pasture there over summer and next
season yozr fruit VIE be ensured. A
young orchard would, OF course, require
smaller proportion of pigs.
To syringe plants infested with the
black aphis with water at temperature
of 100 degrees, VIII kill the aphis, and
at the same time help the plants INTO
growing finely. The application may
need TO be several times repeated .--Er.
Thedblack aphis are rather numerous
this season, in the gardens OF this'city;
and those interested had better give the
above trial.
Fanny Field, the practical peultry
w0nan, saws, IN the Prairie Farmer: If
you want bone meal, oyster Shells, ETC.,
for your poultry and canrSt obtain such
things of vour country merchant, order
direct from the manufacturers; and
don't be fooled into paying anywhere
from twenty-five to fifty cents for any
lfind of ointment to cure scaly legs on
fowls, when coal oil is cheaper, just as
easily applied, and always at
Enand.
The best and most convenient label
for fruit trees is that recommended by
NJ. P. Wilder. president of the Amerl-
can Pathological Society. Take the
usual strips of zinc. put t3sem in water
for couple OF days, and then by being
produced; then write ontShe strip in
plain bold hand with good lead pencil,
say Fate17s No. 3 Den'tsbe discouraged
if the writing should be indistinct at
first; twill in a few days bebome as
black as'ink. Punch eyelets for copper
wire to attach them tie the trees"
A Michigan Horticultural Society
recently passed a resolution requesting
the City Council &c offer bounty for
the destruction of English sparrows-
which are said to multiply in the town,
and spread thence to theTural districts,
greatly5e the disadvantage of fruit and
grain crops" This pernicious immi
grant seems to be growing in disfavor;
a New York Tri6nHe correspondent
charac5erizes it as already an intoier
able nuisance" and states that ,'.in Eng
land farmers take everyepsssible means
to lessen its numbers; to destroy them
is an iMpossibility- It makes very
l,palatabse food" OF the clustering
raeatheredruffianS MisSormerod, Eng
Hands enthusiastic entciaolegist, says.
- Itappeaps to me that there is no doubt
Of the inquiry we are suffering from
sparrows, and that by agood watch for
the nests we might greatly reduce the
SANDERS" Our readersyWill do well to
note the above. One thing is sure. the
sRarrows sill destroy aud eat all the
cherries as they ripen- No cherry crop
f0c US while we have a crop of sparrows.
We have frequently heard it main
tanned that 1t is injurious and unwise to
permit ivy 10 cover the walls of dwell
lighthouses, as it must necessarily occa-
sion an internal damp, preiudicial to
human; health and comfort.Sby arresting
the gain and conducting it into the
crevEees of the walls, detaining it there
until 1T Oozes through and occasions
such Injurious .dampness as it must be
most desirable 10 prevent, -e7en at the
expense of sacrificing such an Orna-
mental covering as a lux0rzant and
evergreen or varSegated ivy. Now ex-
perience and reason testify to the very
opposite of this, and they are found
boldly asserting that no covering what
ever is behter calc9iated or more power
fal and uniformly tends 10 effect the de-
sirable object OF keeping the walls of a
house dry, both internally and exter-
nzsly, than q great coat of ivy on the
outside. Let any one examine any ivy
covered wall. and they will discover the
leaves hang down, one over another,
from the highest point to which the
plant attains to the ground, forming an
ornamental shield that casts off the rain
and prevents it beating against the wall,
conveying it from leaf to leaf downward
it ever coming in contact
with or noistening the walls: while the
eiinging nature of the plant. intended
1GE lllC PQE DOSC VI elUhCotOtls ILL Qobo llS
shoots into the crevices as roots and
elapers, according as it aseends and acts
as so many sucking engines, extracting
and drawing away for the nourishment |
of its own luXuriance whatever moisture |
the walls may be supposed to attract or
imbibe from the atmosphere. No walls |
are dryer, or so dry, as those to which I
ivy forms a permanent external cover
ing. Inside the shoots and next to the !
wall will be found in addition. coating (
of dry dust and eobwebs, keeping the
walls perfectly dry in the wettest of
weather, and that. too. on aspects most
ly exposed to the rain and least to the
cheering smiles of the sun. Depend
upon it, ivy ciinging against the wall is
4 protector from damp, not cause of
it. Let our readers plant ivy against
their dwellings without any fear of in
results. 1t is warm giving
agent also, as many can testify. The
Did prejudice against the employment
Of ivy as an external covering to build
nps Is readily dying out and will at no