The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-05
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard, Garden.
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Sheep Grubs-Apple Borers-CurcuIio
-Shoeing Horses-Dy sentery
Cholera:

For ivy poisoning nothing is better
| than simple lime water. Those exposed
to ii must apply it several times day.
If it.once gets fairly started il is diff.
cult to entirely cure it, until it has run
! its two weeks course.
a correspondent recommends, TO an
exchange. the following as cure fol
grnbs in the heads of sheep: Give
! lime. with little bran and Salt. The
lime penetrates the head and causes the
sheep to snort out the nit or worm.
Iron is one of the best tones for fowls, a
few drops of the tincture or handful OF
rusty nails being placed in the drinking
vessel. Cayenne pepper Is an edged
tool and is generally given much too
freely. Too much of it Injuries the
stomach. Assaf9tida and gentian are
both good. Charcoal stimulates and
purifies. Give ii in pieces of convent
ent size, and the fowls will help them
selves when they need it.
Mix the droppings of chickens in thin
alternating layers with road dust, dry,
pulverized loan, dead broken turf,
powdered charcoal. coal ashes, or other
absorbent, and after some weeks break
it up and pulverize it well. 1t will then
be ready to apply to the land, and will
be beneficial to almost any crop which
needs ward manure. In the absence OF
the shove absorbents which should be
at'least double in it bulk scatter itin thin
layers with common Country
Gentleman.
When a new mich COW has her calf
fol CHI hnl
the milk, apparently for the purpose of
saving it for her offspring. 1t will re-
quire kindness and patience to over
come this habit. The operation of
milking Is pleasant for the animal, and
if she is given a mess of warm Stops
while being MIXED her attention will be
so diverted that she will yield without
remembering her calf. 1t is important
to milk clean from the first, as reten-
ton OF milk in the udder Injuries it and
tends to decrease the yield.
Dysentery is another of those dis
eases which are frequently fatal in sum
mer and autumn. 1t prevails in the
fall of the year. when the nights are
cool and the days hot. When the dis
ease comes on, the patient should at
once keep quiet; avoid exercise or labor
of any kind; if possible, lie down, and
confine himself strictly, during the
whole course of the disease, to por-
ridge made of milk and -four well cook
ed, or to farina Cruel, or Tice-water and
boiled rice. No vegetables or fruit can
oe allowed, nor meat. nor meat-broths !;
and spirits, or stimulants of any kind
are absolute posion.
Trees girdled by mice may be restored
ii the part injured is kept covered with
foot or two of moist earth. Last
year we had some large apple trees
girdled by mccall the bark removed
for six inches or more all around them
We banked up the wet soil two feet high
around the trees, and they are now
nicely covered with new bark. The sap
from the body OF the tree viii exude,
and if kept moist by the dirt, will soon
form a soft growth of new wood where
the injury is, and it will in due time be
covered with bark. Last year we saved
fifty trees by the plan we advise. We
banked our trees and trod the dis solid
ly around them.-EI.
A poultry Journal exchange says:
We have dutifully urged upon the at
tention of our readers the Importance
that attaches to preventing vermin
from getting a foothold in the fowl
house, and especially among the laying
hens.
ii any of our friends have thus neg
lected to see to their premises in season
to prevent this state OF things, now is
the time to fumigate the houses thor
oughly, by burning sulphur and resin
inside it, first removing from within IL
all the fowls and chicks.
Then apply a coat of whitewash and
the place may be renovated. The birds
must then have a good busting with
carbolic powder and fine sulphur. to rid
them of their enemies, and render them
once more comfortable.
A Massachusetts correspondent calls
our attention to the publication, about
thirty years ago, of very successful
cholera cure, introduced in this way:
The captain of an emigrant ship,
coming from Europe, had lost many OF
his passengers by cholera, although
freely dosing all who were sick with the
remedies then usual. At last he made
a prescription of his own = one tea
spoonful of red pepper and a table,
spoonful of salt to half pint of ,oil-
ing water: this to be given as hot as
POScAbAOi W C'SAy PoeACAS hAcN
taken. 1t is said that this simple
remedy acted as charm, curing all the
cases on board that ship, and attaining
general popularity during
the time OF that cholera visitation.
Scientific american.
Look well to the ronnd-headed apple
borers. They make their appearance as
perfect beetles this month, after three
years existence in the laryal state in
the tree. We obtained some apple trees
of local nurseryman and found few
borers in them. We thought we had
caught all when set, but We find few
this spring almost ready to leave the
tree. They are all DESTROYED at once,
but it is expensive, snd takss tine to find
them. Better spend ten dollars now
than have the orchard infested with
borers, from which we hope to De al
ways exempt. We advise for the borer
wash of one pound of caustic soda to
a gallon of water. Use brush or rag
fastened to a stick, and thoroughly wash
the n dy of the trees with the solution,
near the roots, at least two or
three times during the summer, The
eggs are deposited in June and July.
and the soda wash kills the young
worms before they enter the tree
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