The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-12
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL
Dispensing Flies - Grasshoppers
Cure Kicking Horse-Coppsras
D.sinfectant-COoi

Sow some white clover seed and ashes
on the bare spots in the pasture. twill
pay.
New York orchardists, whose trees
were infested with Iaphides, have found
tobacco water the best remedy.
Raise castor oil plant. Place some
of the leaves in the room infested with
flies. and they will all disappear as if by
magic.
An exchange says, that after trying
many methods for driving away or kill
ing grasshoppsrs, California family
resorted to sulphur smoke, and it proved
decided success.
An Iowa agricultural society recently
decided, after considerable discussion,
that the best time to prune nursery
and orchard trees is when the leaf is
from one-half to two-thirds grown"
The simplest. surest and safest
method of cooling the human body is
to submerge the wrists in cold Water for
halt a minute or more. Or better still
let small stream of cold water run on
the nerves OF the wrists, for the same
length OF time. The effect is refreshing
and delightful. Try it.
To prevent the ravages of the cut
worms on cabbage, take pieces of news
paper six inches square, tear slit in
one side to the centre and insert the
plant. Bring the slit edges together,
and place little earth or pebble in
the corners, and the work is done A
platform of paper is formed around the
plant, through which the worm cannot
penetrate.-Er.
Feed nothing to fowls kept up in sum-
mer except in a form for which they
method of giving good mess of soft
food in the winter is we'll enough, but
during the summer, if the fowls are
confined, they should be kept at work
as much as possible. By using leaves.
cut straw, or some coarse material, and
the food thrown into it the hens will
pick out every grain, and by constant
scratching, exercise themselves as well
as if allowed full liberty in the fields.
How to make nice present for an in
valid: Stuff a pillow with hops and
sweet and aromatic herbs of various
kinds. such as balsam, bergamot, pep
perrnint, pennyroyal, ros,, or rose
geranium leaves. The pillow may be
stuffed with one or several kinds united
These herbs sheald first be dried as
quickly as possible in the shade.
and spread out thlnly, so that
they will not mold. The out
side cover may be crocheted of silk rags
or crazy or mosaic work.
Tomato soup can be made in the two
following ways, and no one who has not
eaten it can have any idea how good it
is: To one pint of canned tomatoes or
four large raw ones add one quart OF
boiling water. Let the vegetables boil
till thoroughly mixed through the
water Then add one teaspoohful of
soda, when it will foam. Immediately
add one pint of milk. Put in plenty OF
butter, pepper and salt to taste. 1t is
then ready to serve. Tomato soup can.
be made without milk. To six large
tomatoes, or a pint and half of the
canned vegetables, allow one gallon of
water and boil thoroughly. Add large
piece of butter. Beat an egg to froth,
add little milk or cream and put into
the soup just before it is sent to the
table.
An exchange describes a continuance
to cure a horse from kicking. 1t was
nothing but an old wheat-saek filled
with hay, and suspended by a rope
from the ceiling, so that the sack hung
lust at the heels of vicious horse as he
stood in his stall. When the sack was
first put in position the kicking equine
let fy both feet at it as soon as 1t
touched him. but after ten or twenty
minutes of that kind of work he came
to the conclusion that the sack would
return as often as he struck it, and he
finally gave up trying to knock it out. ;"
This same horse which has reputation
as a kicker, can now be hitched to ally
vehicle. and he will not kick at any
thing that happens to strike his heels.
The man who prescribed the treatment.
SAYS that an horse can be cured by it.
One good feature about it is its cheap
ness.
An eminent physician says: A re-
catching cold Let the demon be ex-
orcised first from the medical, and next
from the popular mind. Let it be gen
orally known and believed. that few dis
eases are referable to the agency of
cold, and that even the affection COM
monty called a cold is generally caused
by other agencies, or perhaps. by
spe 'ial agent. which may prove to be
Inlcrobe. Let the axiom, "A fever
patient Eever ltches cold, be reiterated |
until 1t becomes a household phrase |
Let the restorative influence of cool, |
fresh, pure atmosphere be inculcated. |
Let it be understood that in therapeu-
Tics, IS in hygiene, the single word !
embo lies the principles which |
should regulate coverings and clothing. |
Nom medicinal therapeutics will have |
gained much when this reform is accom-
Dlished.
The boards of health OF several of The i
anger cities have been using copperas,
both IN crystals and diluted. as disin-
ectant with very marked success. Ii
las been demonstrated hat this mex |
DenSive chemical com ines the essential
Qualities of deodorizer and germ de-
'troyer in a high degree, and does away |
With the necessity of using expensive
that are in reality no more /
Effective. It IS OF the utmost import I
ince that every dwelling and outbuild-
ng be kept imperfect sanitary condition
II er,ier that the community us whole !
nay escape the ravages of epidemics |
ike the cholera and sother contagious /
diseases. For use ia cellars. outhouses,
tables. ETC.. scatter the crystal about |
RELY once week or SO. For use IN |
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