The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-10

Now is the time to plant out gladioIus
bulbs, and if you want succession OF
flowers, plant a few every ten days until
the middle of July.
DR.. Flint is reported to have said that
many lives are lost by starvation owing
to an overestlmate of the nutritive value
of beef tea and meat juices. In typhus
and typhoid fevers, lie says, there Is no
good substitute for milk and eggs.
When tulip flowers begin to fade they
should be cut off. AS soon as the stems
of the tulip turn yellow, and the leaves
begin to dry. they may be taken up and
! thoroughly clean off the old skin and
dirt, and put away in paper bags, ready
for planting out again next October.
To remove clinkers from the stove,
sprinkle common salt on the Innings
when the stove is cold. Use plenty of it.
Build a moderate fire-wood and coal
and in day or two the ciinkers will be
gone. This is sure remedy. and does
away with the liability of cracking the
lining by the use of hammer and chisel.
Clam shells are used only for the salt IN
them.
A Vermont paper describes the man
ner by which hickory nuts which were
drying all winter were made to grow.
Under ordinary treatment the young
sprout would never reach the outside of
| the dried and hardened shell. Each
nut was placed in vice, and the screw
cautiously turned till the shell is heard
to crack-but not breaking open-then
dropped into water three or four days,
and planted in mellow soil; and most of
them grew.
1t is hard to estimate in dollars and
cents the exact value of dairy COW.
There is a vast difference in the milk,
butter or cheese-producing qualities be-
tween the different animals. This is
also true between different cows of the
same breed. All Jerseys are not equally
good butter COWS; all Helsteins will not
give an equal quantity of milk. even
though they are recorded in a herd
book; all Ayrshires will not produce the
same amount of good, rich milk, nor
are their teats all equally short.-Er.
Nothing can be more simple than the
culture required by the peach. 1t is
simply to keep the surface always mel
low and free of weeds. In other words
it needs only the culture that one would
give corn. For the first two years after
planting. hoed crops may be planted
between the trees with advantage; after
which time they require the entire
strength of the soil Grain crops of all
kinds are very injurious, and it is rare
that peaches will succeed in sod or
grass. In making the annual blowing
in spring, it is well to use a light pillow
blowing very shallow, that the roots |
may not be mutilated or disturbed
EI.
The stomach of an average sized horse |
will not hold more than from ten to |
welve quarts. The average farmer,
thinking he is doing the greatest kind |
less, feeds as if his horses had capacity
enough to hold bulk half their size. |
70 get correct idea of the size of an
lverage horses stomach, look at three
gallon bucket. Taking everything into
the decision is easily ar
lived at-feed oftener and in less GUAM |
titles. But the mistake lies in assuming |
.hatsueh an amount of food is needed |
They mny eat it all and do well. but |
very often they would do better on less.
It is safe to say that nine out of ten of i
he farmers throughout the country |
eed more to their horses than is neces-
'ary.-Er.
A bull ought to be the most handsome
If his kind. He should be tall and well
made, his head should be rather long.
,ut not coarse. as fineness of head indi-
'ates disposition to fatten; as it is de-
lgned by nature to be the chief instru-
nent both of offense and defense, it
,ught to present every mark of strength.
Horns clean and bright; large black
yes, lively and protuberent; ears long
md thin, hairy within and without:
nuzzle fine, nostrils wide and open;
leck strong and muscular, not incum-
'ered with coarse, wreathy skin, but
lrm, rising with gentle curve from the
houlders, tapering to the part where it
5 connected with the head; dewlap
hin, and but little loose skin on any
art.
His shoulders should be deep, high.
nd moderately broad on top; bosom
pen; breast large and projecting well
efore the legs, back straight ana broad.
ven to the setting on of the tail. which
hould not extend far up the roof, but
e strong and deep, with lank hair on
be under part of it; ribs broad and
ircular,. rising one above another. SO
hat the last RIB shall be rather the high
st.
The fore-thighs should be strong and {
muscular, tapering gradually to the {
nees; belly deep, straight, and also {
apering little to the hind thighs, ,
Thich should be large and square; roof
Ilde, particularly over the chine and =.
Ups or hooks; legs straight, short-joint-
d, full of sinews, clean and fine-boned; |
nees round, big and straight; feet dis 7
ant one. from another, not broad nor b
lrnlng in, but easily spreading; hoofs C
ing and hollow, hide not hard or stub =
orn to the touch; hair uniformly =
nick, short curled, and of soft tex
Ire, and the body long, deep and '
ound, filling up the shoulders and into q
lie groin. SO as to form what has not
Improperly been termed round or r.
arrel-like carcass.-Eg. L