The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-29
INDOORS AND OUT.
TIE Farm, Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
makrne DEMONSTRATING Back Grapes
oxford down Sheep-Large
Milk YieIds-Exercise.

Don't allow destructive insects to get
The start of you this season.
emf ont the thin shoots from currants
and the fruit will come larger.
Use a currycomb on the. cows in
sprfng to take out the loose hair.
Don't undertake to till more acres
than you can cultivate thoroughly.
Experts in Bookkeeping agree that at
least TWENTY-FIVE colonies on an average
can be kept to the square mile. Forage
can be largely increased by planting
aisike clover,
Michigan farmer gets rid of Canada
thistles by the use Of his sheep. lie
nuts q small quantity of salt on the root
OF each thistle, and the sheep eat it off
close to the ground.
The common little spotted lady
beetles, or lady-bugs, are among our
most beneficial insects, and Professor
Inter thinks that they might be colon
ICED on house plants aud other Yegeta-
non infested with plant lice.
One Of the best places in the world-if
one can have a green house-ln which
70 keep roses is the k zen. There is
always more or less mgis- ure in the air
from the cooking. and so long as the air
is moist the better the growth of the
roses
Twenty or twenty-five hives should
produce enough honey TO pay an ordin-
nice thing to fall back on when ordinary
crops peter out, and it p better than
running a credit account at the store
The rust on goOseberries will usually
disappear If the bushes are thinned, and
the old wood taken ont, and the soil
veil pUlverised around them, the grass
removed, and literally MANFRED with
Rne manure and ashes. The berries
viii show vast change in both quality
zud quantity.
4 New Orleans doctor calls attention
10 very simple fact which merits at
tanti0n from medicine takers. If the
medicine is mixed with very cold water,
and a few swallows of the water be
tBken as preparatory dose, the nerves
Dt the organs of taste become sufficient
y beDUmbed to make the medicine
aeariy tasteless. The method will not
disguise bitter tastes, but acts well in
oils and salines.
It has been discovered by Dutch
SCIENTIST that the gum which collects on
Ehe branches of certain trees-especial.
" the cherry, peach, plum, and others
bearing Stone fruits due to the disease
d the tree. The diseaseis produced by
u highly organized fungus, whose action
causes the formation OF the gum, and
L Is quickly reproduced in sound trees
xhe, they are inoculated with pieces of
tfae gum containing any of the fungus.
Chambers or Farey is very properly a
much drea led disease. We learn from
the Scientific AnlericGn that English
medical authorities are discussing the
sdslsability of doing away with the
eupllc watering troughs. There is a
possibility of the contagion being so
conveyed to healthy animals. 1t is so
highly contagious that several authen-
rtcated instances are known of its in
lection OF human beings who have
handled diseased animals, resulting
IA the most terrible and certain death.
If you desire to get large Weld of
nsa milk, give your COWS three times
i day, wafer slightly warm. Slightly
salted. III which bran has been stirred
at Tie tate que quart to two gallons of
water. You will find, if YOU have not
med thIS daily practice, that your COW
Ejl gain twenty-five per cent. immedi,
ately under the effects of it, and she
VII become so attached to the diet as to
refuse to drink clear water unless very
t6lrsty, but this mess she will drink al
most any time and ask for more. The
amount of this drink is an ordinary
gSater-paii full each time, morning, noon
md night Your animal will then do
her beSt.-IoWa Farmer.
ffAt several western fairs. -Oxforddown
rams were exhibited weighing 300
pounds for yearlingS and 400 pounds for
TWO years old. Admitting that they at
tgin only one-half those weights with
farmers, 1t requires but short calcutta
a0n 70 demonstrate that if our farmers
vii give as much attention to the pro
suction OF mutton as they do to the
growing Of wool, using proper breeds
ioE that purpose. sheep will paw a hand
seme profit We know of a flock of
SEfordS that have never received an
ounce Of grain, and yet, are fat enough
Tor market, the weights ranging from
IS: 70 80 pounds, and they all produce
TAR proportion of medium wool
ghich more than pays for their keeping.
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The recent delightfully."- pleasant
weather has given opportunity for out
door exercise, which should be INDUCED
IL by everyone. Brisk exercise is much
s0re beneficial than long. dragging
Eeary walking. The use of the skipping
rope Is one of the best exercises. When
you have become warm and opened the
pores with exercise, avoid sitting down
n cold draughtof air, unless YOU have
! srfficiency OF warm clothing to pre-
peIlt your becoming chilled. A neglect
ut 1hl> precauuon is the way most
colds are obtained. In nine cases out
VI ten ii bad cold is taken while the
stomach Is full; seldom or never on an
empty one. The reasons are obvious.
Congestion of the stomach robs the
skin Of its cold-resisting power
Those who require an excellent wash
EOr outside walls OF brick houses. etc.
viii find it IN the following: Mix the
powder from three parts silicious rock
quartz three parts broken marble and
sandstone, also two parts of burned
porcelain clay, with two parts freshly
SACKED lime. still warm. In this wav a
wash is made which forms a silicate if /
iEten wetted. and becomes after a time
Atmost Ike stone. The four constitu-
fnts mixed together give the ground !
eolor TO which any pigment that can be |
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