The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-22
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm. Orchard, Garden
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL
Wintering Cattle = Early Maturity
Fertilizing Lawns-Exercise-
Big Feet,

the trouble by the use or common table
salt, applied to the gums by the ball OF
the finger.-Er.
Not every man can make extensive
and accurate experimentsin farm work,
but all can take good paper and keep
themselves posted as to what other peo-
pie are doing. Troy Times.
Boil heaping half peck of potatoes,
mash them, add two quarts OF mixture
of bran and shorts, tablespoonful OF
salt, hot water enough to mix into a
stiff mass, and you have breakfast for
your forty fowls.
To prepare marble cement, soak
plaster OF Paris IN a saturated solution
of alum, and bake in an oven; after
which grind the mixture to powder.
! Mix I'D with water like plaster when
wanted. It sets hard. and may also be
used for glass and metal,
1t is now proved by measure ent that
American women have smaller feet
than English women. The reason for
1t is not so satisfactory as the fact.
English women walk more, their feet
are larger. but they average better
health, and beautiful upon the noun
tains are the feet of her who is In good
health.-Er.
A new method for securing pure milk
has been adopted by company formed
in New YorkSCity Fresh. pure milk,
is bottled and corked when first taken
from the COW, and Immediately heated
in water or steam. both under the pres
sure of the atmosphere. 1t is then
cooled. after which it may be kept a
year without undergoing any change.
1t is surprising how much a little ten
cent bottle of glue helps to keep things
from growing shabby. A corner falls
out of your bookcase or bureau-it is
lost or mislaid-and the piece of furni-
ture looks poor indeed with that CLEAN
O: pine against the black walnut. But
if you have one day in the week for
mending, all is kept tidy with little loss
of time and without expense.
Early maturity, accompanied by the
choicest of quality, must be the one
great aim of the breeder and feeder
Within the past ten or twelve wears,
much progress has been made in the
earlier maturing of fattening stock. In
various parts of England and Scotland
cattle and sheep are being fattened one
year, and even in some cases two years,
earlier than formerly, and the cry for
young meat is fast becoming universal.
They find it profitable to fatten of bull
locks at the age OF from fifteen TO eigh-
teen months.-Er.
The greatest incentive to growth of
grass is to fertilize the lawn freely.
Autumn application of old rotted ma
nure, to be raked off the following
spring, after the strength has been con-
Veyed to the soil, will bring best results !:
next to it in efficiency is ground bones
with the addition of ground gypsum,
sown broadcast early in the season.
The latter is superior in one respect
more lasting; its effect is discernable
for several years. Unleached wood
ashes is always in order as a top dress
ing; very invigorating to growing grass.
In preparing, bees for winter every
apiarist should be sure that each colony
has at least thirty pounds of good
capped honey. 1t IS also well to cover
warmly above the bees with carpeting,
old blankets, or sacks of dry sawdust
or fine chat. As soon as cold comes,
or just before, the bees ought to be car
ried into cellar, if one is at hand. The
cellar should preserve a temperature at
about forty-five degrees-from forty to
forty-hve degrees. In such a cellar
with enough good food there will be no
loss. The temperature must be kept
above thirth-six degrees and below
forty eight degrees.-Er.
The woods and roadways are now
StreWn with the autumn leaves that
have dropped from the trees. They
are an admirable thing for the fowl
house floors, whether of earth or board
ing They are clean, light and absorb
ing. The dry grain feed may be scat
tered among them, inside the house,
and the fowls will pick and scratch for
kernels as long as one is to be found
thus affording them the exercise they
need in cool weather. It is a good plan
to gather the leaves in quantity, if con-
venient. and store them away in the
barn cellar. or otherwise under shelter
from the wet, where they can be had
handily as may be desired from time to
time during the winter. A good supply
may be thrown into the houses now
and these will last a month or more.
They can then be removed to the COM
post heap or scattered about the small
fruit trees in the garden, if you have
one, or buried near the grape vines to
auNdnIdS6.-l-I.
Something may be learned by obser7.
ing how a horse picks up his feed. eithe 7
in grazing or when fed in the stable.
One will have a very good idea OF the
sensitiyeness of the upper lip, and how
cleyerly the horse gathers in the choice
heritage or hay, and rejects the waste.
This mobile, prehensible lip is constant
/ " in motion, and by its sense of feeling
| separates the selected food from thai
which is rejected. The horse cannot
see the heritage exactly under the
mouth. but the lip pushes away the
undesirable food, and gathers with the
greatest precision, that which Is select
ed from the rest. In a weedy pasture
this instinct of the lip is brought into
action in a most peculiar and interest
/ ing manner, and exhibits IN a striking
degree, the exquisite sensitiveness OF
the delicate nerves of this organ. One
who has seen this action of the lip, and
realized the great sensitiveness of it
will never permit himself to practice
the excessive cruelty of putting q tWitch
about horses upper lip for any pur
! pose, for the torture of il must be very
great indeed.-EE.
Foot rot of sheepis easily contracted,
by the peculiar formation of the foot.
The horn Of the hoof grows downward
over the sole, and unless it is worn away
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