The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-19
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
.st,aIian Oats-Pure Water-Mak
ing Mules Cattle = Horses
Eyes-Ants.

Soonging the head frequently. VIII
sage tea will prevent the hair falling
out
Pickles or vinegar will not keep in
lar that has ever had any kind OF greaS
in it.
In making arrangements for tn
spring crops. Keep in mind the fodoe
crops. Perhaps more feed can De ob
tanned from an acre IN corn todoer tnai
in any other single crop.
its a mistaken idea to cover car
net with drugget in the belief that
saves il. What wears out the carpet L
the grinding on the floor. and the pro
lection should come from beneath
Charcoal has been discovered to be q
enre for burns. By laying piece Of
cold charcoal upon a burn, the pain
subsidies Immediately. BY leaving the
charcoal on one hour, the wound is
healed.
The culture of flowers is one of the
few pleasures that improves alike the
mind and heart, and makes every true
lover of those beautiful creations OF
infinite love wiser, purer, and nobler.-
James Vick.
nicely as when fresh, if they are dipped
n moment or two in cold water, then
nut into a hot oven for five or ten
minutes. They will turn out as light
and crisp as when first baked.
Practical experience has proven that
sheep intended for the butcher, should
be fattened as quickly as possible: Two
months is ample long enough Tor the
fattening process; longer time deter
ioates the mutton.
A pan of sliced raw onions placed in
room where there is present con-
tagious disease, will absorb the poison
and prevent the disease from spreading.
The onions should be buried every
morning and fresh ones cut up.
On very rich land, with early sowing.
one and one-half bushels of barley Is
enough for an acre, as 1t will spread
from the root and give larger heads
than with heavier seeding. But if bar
ley is sown late, two and even two and
one-half bushels may be sown with adj
vantage.
Take as many eggs as you have
mouths to fill, and for each egg COM
the crackers, and add cup of milk for
every four crackers; stir all together
with little salt; put piece of butter
as big as an English walnut in spider
and when melted add the the mixture,
and stir gently till cooked,
Ant colonies in hills, may be destroy
ed by perforating the mounds and pour
ing in a dilution OF crude carbolic acid,
made from one pound of acid to two
quarts of water. A gill of this liquid
will be enough for a small ant hill
After the mixture has been poured in,
the hill should be battened by few
strokes from the back of a spade or
shovel
The Australian oat "a new Variety is
giving great satisfaction where it has
been grown. It's head shoots out pan
icles on all sides, it has stiff straw and
ripens two weeks earlier than other oats
sown at the same time. This is an i'm
portant point where the crop is to be
followed by wheat, and gives longer
time for preparing the seed-bed and
secures greater compactness of the soil
The Australian oat will weigh from
thirty-eight to forty pounds per bushel
Er.
Most people, in examining the eyes of
horse, turn them te the light. Very
little can be told by such view unless
the eye is very defective. First look at
the eye in stable not very light. Then
bring the horse out of doors, and if the
pupil of the eye is much contracted it
indicates good eyesight. If the pupil
Is nearly the same size in dim or bright
light. the eye is poor and the horse is
likely to go blind. The windows in stable
should be in the rear, never in front
They should be so arranged as to throw
light on the eye obIiquely.-E1.
By all means front your hives south,
southeast or southwest. Some will tell |
you to front them north, but these peo-
pie have never tried it on a large scale, |
or else they have never tried both WAYS |
comparatively in the same location. |
We have tried it once willingly and |
twice by hazard, to our greatest sorrow. |
and this on not less than twenty hives
at a time. North exposure is not so |
bad when used for summer only, as for
wintering; but If you have to take your |
bees out of the cellar early, when thew |
need all the sun, you will soon decide in |
favor of the southern exposure. Due
east or west will do better than north.
hut not so well as south.
The London Garden saws: If Won |
merely make a mixture of SCOT and |
water, you have crude and dirty thing
10 deal with; and the right way is to |
put bushel of SCOT into weIl-made |
canvas bag, into which heavy piece of |
old iron has previously been thrown as
: sinker; then tie up the bag tightly,
and throw it into tank or large butt of
pure rain or river water. None of the
crude carbon makes its escape; bat you
have all the ammonia and other essen
tial component parts of the SCOT, which |
are really soluble; and either fer syring.
ing or watering. it is of the utmost
value.
Common barnyard manures are not
adapted to growing the best grapes,
though they are much better than no
nanuring. The faults of stable manures
are an excess of nitrogen, causing ex-
eessive growth of vine and too little of
mineral fertilizers which produce the
frCit. An application of potash in
spring or any time dvring the growing
season is very beneficial Old country
vineyards are MANFRED almost exclu-
siVely by the ashes from the burned
trimmings Of grape vines. These ashes