The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-25
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard, Garden
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FeR ALL.
CIanders-Hcg Dfsease-6OOd Sheer
Apple :Pruning-LuDg Colds
-ROup.

Tomatoes are very nice with cream
and sugar.
Wrap fruit Jars with paper to keep
out the light.
Gum camphor kept near Silyerware
will keep it.freln discoloring.
For burns, apply eour wet with cold
water, as it quickly gives reilef.
Try hard cider. wineglassful three
times day, for ague and rheumatism.
For any kind of insect or bug in the
ear, wet your finger in the camphor and
rub the inside of the ear just as though
you was washing It.
an exchange speaking of giving red
pepper in food TO fowls says: We do
net advise its use except in very small
quantities. and seldom. Ground ginger
is just as cheap and much better.
Its dangerous to dreneh horses or
other animals E1th glass or stone bot
ties. IS pieces are liable 90 be Clipped
off and swallowed. Saw the small end
off good sized horn and pour the med
icine though this.
fOT COll on Tue tdkc quart "
soft water and put in 1t one teaspOOnfUl
Of ammonia: have the water as hot As
YOU can bear your hands in it; then
wiring out flannel cloths and apply TO
be chest. This will give speedy reltef.
The Scientific American says this mix
turefaithfully applied is sure and Ger
tain. death to bed bugs. Mix together
two ounces of camphor, four Ouneeseof
spirits of turpentine, one ounce of cor
-roSive sublimSie and one pint of aloO-
mol
Mr.. Savage, a Kansas fruit grover,
SsysVhat severe pruning Will produce
large apples stung with cooling moth
while large crop OF apples has less
damage from cooling but blight wiz re-
SHlt from moderate prnning.-T Tribune
aud fdrH1er.
Everyone should take advantage Of
the remaining fine weather, before win
ter storms set in, TO 1inish up al out
door work; repair stables, barns. sheds
and cOrralS so that COWS and all other
i've stock may be projected from inelem.
ent weather.
Prepare one dozen sweet apples the
same as 70 bake; place II kettle and
sprinkle one large spoonful OF sugar
over them; pour on, enough water TO
cover, and cover close and boil until
fork will 80 through them eaSy; take
them out carefully with a fork, drain
well, and place on plate; leave your
kettle over the fire and boil your Juice
down 70 q thick syrup and pour over
the apples. Best cold
Quite a Passable cattle stable may be
built with rough boards, By boarding
up inside also and filling in between
with straw To save lumber. quite
7 large spaces may be left between the
inside boards. II boards are used for
/ the roof considerable care Is necessary
+ in batting the joints 20 prevent leakage.
/ In all cases where the earth forms the
/ floor straw should be literally used for
litter. The warmth OF such 3 shed will
! be greatly increased by banking up the
/ outside with earth, leaving a shallow
ditch to carry eff the drippings from
the roof.-EE.
1t should be borne in mind. IN breed
/ ing horses, that good and bad qualities
/ are alike hereditary. 1t is lust as i'm
pOrtant then TO have 4 weIl-bred mare
/ as 10 have Well-bred horse in order t.
raise 4 good colt. This fact Is not re-
4 garded or as much Importance as should
Z be with the farmers. Too many think
/ that If the horse Is all right there can
! be but little question N regard to the
results, and then when a failure occurs.
/ the blame Is all laid at the door OF the
/ sire. Owners of good stations should
guard carefully the reputation of their
horses by prohibiting inferior mares
from being bred to them.-Er.
+ This clipping Is explanatory OF q dis
ease that IS devastating the Swinein
several Eastern States. where .tbev are
dying by the hundreds.
The disease Is thought to have origin
ateo by the hogs eating the. carcaSSes
+ or giandered horses, and il is very CON
/ taslouS and spreading rapidly The
disease shows itSefby the hogs refusing
TO eat, the eyes and ears swell I'D ana
break out with red blotches. the pruut
/ is hollow, high fever prevails, and the
afflicted animal suffers much rain
/ Death takes place IN few DAYS, The
! liver, lights md lungs are much effected
and soon mortify. Fat hogs and yonne
! pigs suffer most; short and broad hoes
/ hold out best against the disease. 1t Is
unlike anything else ever known in tins
locality, anu ne remedy Is. known.
/
! and consider the following from an eN.
! chance; suppose You start in with =
/ flock of ewes which were the lambs al
1 pure Merino mothers, and pure South
down or ShropShiredOwn father These
/ pure half-blooded ewes should get their
F fUll development before breeding. aad
+! dror their lambs when two years OF atse.
/ The 'uclIs used must be pure SOath.
down or ShropShire6own rs before
The eve lambs of these now being one.
/ quarter MerinoS, are the desired and
most profitable breeding stock. "a.
At the age of two years, between Che
middle of January and the middle at
| February, they should drop their llf>t
lambs. When properly handled and
! ted, these lambs VIII be fat and plnntp
IN May, Weighing perhaps sixty pound
each. This year such lambs sold Ion
I $3.50 per head, while lanhs Of mare
/ Southdown, etc, have 70 be kept Nntil
June, before being fit for sale. This
years prices have been much lower than
! in former years.
The old ewes shear from five "a seven,