The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-06
The Farm, Orchard, Garden,
and Household,
HINTS AND NOTES FOB ALL.
Pruning Roses -Asparagus-Flie :
Filling Silos-Beeswax-C
Cumbers.

better quality.
Frequent applications of a wash o.
carbolic soap will save horses from an
noyance by flies, but the best protection
is full-sized cover in the open air anC
a rather dark stable when at rest.
Don't salt fresh meat while frying
until it is nearly cooked, as sailing
makes the juice of the meat run out
more and the meat is not 80 tender.
A better plan for removing grease
spots than by applying hot iron is to
rub in some spirits of wine with the
hand until the grease is brought to
powder, and there will be no trace of it.
Ia doing up laces, if they are rinsed
in milk, Instead of starch. that will
give the natural stiffness, making them
like new. Powdered borax added to
starch is a great improvement for white
shades, muslin dresses, etc., as they will
not become limp SO easily.
Electricity doubtless is the source of
many vet undiscovered wonders. An
exchange says that cholera can be pre-
vented by using any substance that will
put current of electricity in the nose.
A decomposing piece of copper is able
to do it. The copper should be wet.
Pigs confined to their pens and not
allowed access to fresh dirt, are apt to
become injured by a strain across their
backs, often losing the use of their hind
legs. A little spirits of turpentine rub
bed along the back bone will remedy
the evil, at least Temporarily. Turning
out in the field unringed is the best cure
though an animal once affected is liable
to return of the attack.-Er.
Fruit trees whose limbs begin TO bend
with load of fruit. should at once be
relieved of a part of their burden. A
tree should never hang so full as to en-
danger 1t. The sooner the young fruit
is picked off, the better il will be for
both the tree and the remaining fruit.
Apples and peaches color better and
have a much sbetter flavor if thew do
not hang too thick Two apples ought
never to touch.-Fdrm, Stock and Home.
A COW that is troublesome TO milk
may often be put to good use by setting
her to sucking successive calves, and
thus fattening them for veal. One
such animal, SO ugly that no mixer
could get near her, sucked her own
calf and afterwards four Others, which
brought her owner more
than fifty. dollars. This was as much
money as the milk would have brought
In butter or cheese. and with much less
Wintering sheep depends much on
,he condition of the flock at the begin
ling OF the winter. Sheep that are low
iesh in The fall hardly ever Improve,
out keep going down hill. until be-
ore the springtime draws around, their
BELTS are hanging in the shed. See,
hen, that your tlocks are insgood con.
iition, and if there are any thin ones
among them. separate them from the
,est, and give them little grain each
lay until they have gained their wonted
7igor.
The question of 'unshod feet" NAV
pc briefly treated as follows: When
your colts or horses have nothing 10
10 that can be called work, let them 90
barefoot by all means.
IL they have contracted feet, corns.
frogs, or are suffering from
any of the many evils that follow in the
rain oil bad shoeing, use them gently
n tips.
If your horses have hard work to do
hey should have feet fit for the work.
md if they have these, good sensible
'hoeing will do them no harm.-Ee.
1t is the practice OF many to cut down
the tops OF the asparagus stalks as. soon
IS Killed by the frost, but this is believed
,y some good culuvators to be wrong
because 1t leaves the land ex posed dur
ng the entire winter; besides it leaves
me hollow stalks in position to catch |
me water every time it rains. II the !
'ed Is to De immediately covered with a |
heavy dressing of manure we do not |
mink the cutting of the stalks in the |
autumn VIII be very injurious, butif /
ne manure is not to be applied until
ne next spring the old stalks had better
lot be removed. Sailing was once SUP
posed to be necessary, but now the most
:areiui culuyators not only do not be-
leVe that sailing is beneficial but OF
POSITIVE injury both to the vigor and the
luaiIty OF the asparagus. Manure rich
n potash Is now believed TO be of more
Value to the crop than Salt-Er.
Picked cucumbers are wholesome
md palatable. / do not mean those
from the grocers. which are
put up in England wi b man
fractured vinegar that is slow poison.
out grown, picked and put up al home
With home made cider Here is an ex-
,ellent recipe which quickly converts
into crisp. appetizing pickles
lot affected by season or climate. To
ZACH hundred OF cucumbers, put a pint
If salt, and pour on boiling water suffi-
,ient to cover the whole. Cover them
light to prevent the steam from escap-
ug and III this condition let them stand
'wenty-four hours They are then to ]
aiken out, and after being wiped per
ectly dry, care being taken that the
skin is not broken, placed in a lar IN
which they are to be kept. Boiling
vinegar (if spice is 70 be used it should
pc boiled with the yinegar) is then 70 be
put to them, the jar closed tight, and in
fortnight delicious, hard pickles are
produced. as green as the day they we're
Upon vines.-Ez.
The American Bee Journal gives the
ollowing method of its correspondent
or extracting beeswax. Make 8 can
u neaTy tin twenty inches deep and
,nlrteen IN diameter, with tight bottom
Two ana one-hah inches from the bot
ON put in tin spout, five inches
rom the bottom l solder on several
ugs. upon which rests a wire screen
ecurely fastened into q tin rim that can
,e taken out at pleasure. This leaves