The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-29
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm. Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Sowing Wheat Covering Rose Bushes
Testing Butter-Bad Driy-
ing-Hot Drinks.

tng-Hot Drinks.
The man who has not natural likin
for horses will never make a successful
horseman.
Ants at times become very trouble
some around and about the hives.
thorough application of strong sal
prime in the nests will destroy them.
Select your seed potatoes and stor
thenr in boxes, barrels, or pits, and labe
them. Exposure to light will not huy
potatoes intended for seed, but render
them unfit for food.
The Lancetsays that the pain ofneural
gic headache experienced by women
caused by hairpins. The nerves of the
scalp areirritated by the hair being draw
tightly back, and put on the strain.
One of the incest things for a sicl
room is a sand-bag. The bag should b.
made of fanuel and filed with clean
dry sand, the bag may be then covered
with cotton or linen to prevent any
sand from sitting out. 1t is easily
heated and is much pleasanter to ust
in warming the hands or feet of d SICK
person than bottle of water or brick
and retains the heat much longer.
There is" says the Scientific Amcri
can, "a qualitative test for butter SO
simple that any housewife can put it
into successful practice. A clean piece
of white paper is smeared with little
of the suspected butter. The paper is
then rolled up and set on fire. If the
butter is pure the smell of the burning
paper is rather pleasant; but the odor
is distinctly talloWy if the butter is
made up wholly or in part of animal
fats" n
Now that fowls are soon to be con
fined in winter quarters, lay by your
stock now, that they may have sup
ply of some green food. Cabbage. tur
nips and beets are excellent, and should
be fed raw. Potatoes boiled and mixed
with bran make an economical food for
poultry. This should only be fed in
the morning, and always given warm
a small quantity of salt and pepper
added will be relished by the fowls and
tend to keep them in health.
Commenting upon the discipline of
a large street car horse stables in New
York, an exchange says: The feed con-
sists OF hay, oats and corn, with plenty
of rock salt. This is put in the horses
managers where they can lick it as they
want it. The managers long expert
ence, has taught him that this plan is
better than feeding the salt to the
horses at intervals, as they may have
been without it in that case too long a
time and so hurt themselves by eating
too much at once. Their own taste for
salt he considers their best guide.
In the northern regions, lay down the
rose bushes, and cover with evergreen
boughs; in places where the common
brake can be had, it is well to collect it.
as 1t makes a splendid protective COW
erlng. Old leavesSof course, can be
used for the same purpose, and there is
nothing better, the difficulty is to get
enough OF them. First. bend down the
rose shoots and fasten the tops to the
ground with peg, then draw soil up
about the base as high as possible. and
afterwards cover with whatever materi-
al is to be obtained, keeping it in place
by poles of sufficient weight to prevent
by the wind.-Vick's Mag
azine.
Last week we published clipping on
fertilizing lawns, by a top dressing of
manure. On the same subject Vick's
-4agdzlae says: DO not cover the lawn
all over with stable manure which is to
remain there all winter as an offense to
the eye, the nostrils and the feet. There
IS nothing more disgusting than this
turning a lawn into a BARNARD. and
there Is no necessity for it. Stable ma
nure IS worth as much for garden crops
as 1t is on the lawn, and it is doubtful If
any one has too much of it for the
former purpose. A good dressing of
bone dust or ammoniated superphos-
phate early in the spring, will keep up
the fertility of the lawn, and will not be
noticed" We will add that the manure
8 the cheapest and the handiest to most
iolks.
Bad driving will often fatally injure a
horse in a few miles; when skillful
driving would make the journey in less
lime and leave the horse as fresh as
when he started. Drive slow when the I
animal is full of food and water; but |
after the muscles are limbered and the |
ystem emptied, increase the speed. 4
Then check up and let the horse cool !
III before stopping and there will be 4
ess danger OF taking cold and of stiff
muscles, and less necessity for rubbing
lown. -
Drive slow up hill and down; and
make good time on level ground and on +
noderate descents. Never keen the
anne gait and speed for long time: for
change of gait is equivalent to rest,Ii
5 IL rests one set of muscles and puts
mother set in USE A good driver will II
lake five miles q day more with less
hurry to the horse.-Er. II
1t seems to me that sand is pecuIisr-
: valuable in the culture of all tender
ulbous plants. Some, indeed. believe
lat it is to its breadths of warm moist
acts of sand that Holland owes her
re-eminence, as a land of dubious I
overs. Be that as it may. however.
deep sandy soil well enriched with COW
anure is there the rule in bulb culture !
Id even here on light dry lard we find
lat all our bulbs are benefited by he I
6 entirely surrounded with coarse
nd at planting time. Not only are 4
ibis so treated stronger and more
'althy, but we find that they increase
a much larger ratio if sand be pres
{ than without it. Many, l believe.
u off their tender bulbs by planting A
EN- in earth heavily enriched with s
ude manures. So far as my own ex-
rience goes, nelplsn I like the direst ,
pllcatlon OF manure to their roots u
lbOuS flowers least so of all. The &
st plan is to SO bury the manure b
at while the body of the thick roots q
bulbs is in direct contact with the q