The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-17

One part of kerosene beaten thor.
oughly with two paEts of common soft
an efiectual remedy for red spider aHd
mealy bugs
+ Lampblack mixed.with strong vinegar
VIII mark-sheep so that the same can be
read for year, but will not injuresthe
wool, as is often done when sheep are
marked with tar or paint.
The Prdarie Farmer says that one COED
way TO give sick hog his medicine is
for one person to straddle him and take
4 hold OF both his ears, so that he will SIT
Il down; then another person should take
: an old bootFwith a hole cut in the,t toe
put the foot of the boet into the hog S
mouth andpour the medicine in the leg
! of the boot. Teri
] Where the family has single COW
and limited area Of ground, an econ
komical method of providing green food
las to SOW oatsaad peas together, and eut
Idhe same for the cow. Sprinkle with it
& little meal, and AIDA small quantity
of salt, and il will behjghly relished.
on the farm the oats and peas will be
found excellent for sheep.
One of the first essentials to a good
package, of butter is the use of pure
dairy salt. free from any injurious in
gradients, and that will retain the
flavor and good keeping qualities of the
butter. The use of poor salt, perhaps
more than any other cause, he's been
the means of mare loss to the dairymen
OF this country than can be readily
estimated. In sailing butter, one ounce
to the pound is what is generally used.
Farming is a slow way of making
money, but then there is law of com.
pensation about everything in this life,
and farming has its blessings that other
pursuits do not have. The farmer
is the freest man upon the
earth and the most independent.
He has more latitude and
Longitude. He has house in the coun-
try with plenty of pure air and good
water. If he makes but little in the
held, he has no occasion to spend but
little. He,ean raise his own hogs, sheep,
cattle and chickens. His wood costs
him nothing.-EG. -
The superintendent ofan experiment
al farm states that for three years past
ne has grown lima beans without poles
or stakes by persisting pinehing back
after they reached the desired height
almost that OF common bunch beans.
He is confident the crop is very per-
ceptibly earlier, and thinks it is increas-
ed in quantity the plant being checked
i'll its growth of vine. expanding its !
energy in fruit production. The Fyuit
Recorder states that on its farm some
were so treated, and they were loaded |
with fruit. Another of our exchanges
says: This practice originated in 1904. |
With John Lane, bailif for Hon. John
Lowther, of Scotland. 1t is based on |
the theory that at a certain stage of |
growth, the head of the bean stalk is |
not essential for the purposes of vege-
tatiDl. but by its luxuriance. it exhausts |
the plants strength. Lanes plan was |
to cut the tops when the first blossom
began TO drop. The results claimed |
were that pods rapidly increased in size,
and the progress of ripening was accel-
Grated, the latter so much, that harvest
time came a fortnight earlier than with
the uncut. The instrument with which
the cutting was done was an old scythe
blade set in wooden handle. 1t is also
claimed that the pinching back of pea
vines, strengthens the vine and makes
them more prolific. Instances are given
of the crop being one fourth larger on
rows so treated.
If there is one thing above another
that is essential in the disposition and
make up of man who engages in horse
raising and handling, it is patience. he
who cannot wait for the development of
the colt into the full-grown horse, had
better not attempt the rearing of horses.
The man who cannot spend hours and
lays in teaching the unframed young
'ters how to pull squarely against the
collar. to trot square gait on the road,
,r to handle themselves properly on all ]
occasions. should abandon the idea of
,eing horseman in any sense of the
word. To be a successful horseman
means patience and work in every sense
,ftbe terms. Manyhorses that might have
,een valuable have been ruined because
heir owners had not time to wait for
hem to mature. Many a trotting bred
lorse that might have been bright
light upon the turf has been ruined en-
irely by his trainer, who had not the
patience to develop his speed as his
trength and constitution would stand
t. This is matter of greater impor-
ance than many imagine, and in it is
involved dollars and cents with many.
t is not hard to discover the fact by
title investigation, that the men who
re the most successful horsemen and
Tho make the most money out of the
BUSINESS are the patient, persevering
zen, who are always willing, and have
be time to give their business plenty of
bought and labor whenever an occa-
ion required it.-Er. 7