The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-21
The Farm. Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Tree Insects-Fruit Diet-Root Beer
-Dyspepsia-softening Cast
Iron-Croup

see II Lncy nave iVoSc SSS'iA Al sAiS ~! Z
OF feeding.
Sow some cabbage seed now to have
plants to fill the vacant places in the
cornfield or garden.
A tablespoonful of powdered gum
arabic to every pint of starch will give
beautiful gloss to cuffs and collars.
New linen may be embroidered more
easily by rubbing it over with fine white +
soap; it prevents the thread from crack
ing.
An exchange says: To cure warts,
cut a piece of potato and rub the wart
with it every night, letting the juice
dry on, and the wart will soon disap-
pear
Glass jars are preferable to tin cans
for the preserving of fruit. The acids |
| of fruit act upon tin and solder, which, |
becoming corroded, form poisonous
salts.
| If brooms are wet in boiling suds
once a week they will become very
| tough, will not cut the carpet, will last
much longer and always sweep like
new broom.
1t is stated by several who have tried
| it that handful of salt in the hill for
squashes will save them from the mag
got which works at the roots and de-
stroys the plant.
An accident in the Melbourne foundry
has led to the discovery that plunging
iron castings into mixture OF treacle
and water softens- the metal to sucn
4 degree that it can be punched, bored
and tapped as readily as wrought iron.
To make nice Rhode Island brown
bread: Three cups of corn meal. two
cups of rye meal, one teaspoonful OF
salt. two heaping tablespoonfuls OF
molasses; mix with water or milk SOFT
enough to pour in a pan; bake slowly
three hours or steam two hours anu
: bake one. A&
The following is a good recipe for
worms in horses: Powdered poplar
, bark. two ounces; salt, three ounces;
j mixed well. Divide this mass into three
parts. mix one with the food every
night. This will not only remove
worms, but also tone up the digestive
! organs, so that the parasite cannot ma
foothold.
In all cases where insects of any kind
, 1nfest trees, good drenching of water,
with one pound of potash to eight gal
Ions of water. two or three times
r week will kill the last one. The same
amount of copperas dissolved i'll eight
gallons of water and appliede in the
Same way will dispel all insects and has
n b tendency to make the tree hardy.
J; Good ripe fruit should form part Of
P the daily diet of all. 1t is especially 9
Il speclfic against worms, from which SC
S, MANY children die. A youngster who
lie has a plentiful supply of fruit IN It's
;. season will make his stomach a mos
Il inhospitable place for those parasites
~ II is not generally known that the juice
+. of fruits and especially those of aclC
Ii character, are more speedily fatal t.
e. stomach worms than are medicines
really poisonous, and which inJure tn
u u child in the effort to relieve him.
-. During the long summer days, whel
a. COWS fresh in milk have plenty OF grass
- they cannot carry with ease the burden
ne of milk produced between early morn
ing and the usual time for milking a
tie night. Milking at noon is good pla
:, in such cases, as it nearly equallzes IN
as intervening times. While the milk IS
the bag some of its fat Is being cor
sy stantly absorbed by the COW Henc
% frequent milking produces larger pr'
duct of butter, but the COW needs a
the heavier feeding to stand such a.
!. mand on her milk-producing capaclt.
N IF n person swallows any poiso
~ vhatever. or has fallen into conYuislol
th from having overloaded the stomacl
an instantaneous and very enecti'
be remedy is heaping teaspoonIul
re; common salt and as much ground mu
III ta-d, stirred rapidly IN teaGnp
nj
les Instantly. 1t is scarcely down Delore
nd begins to come up, bringing with II u
Remaining contents OF the stomaci
SIX and lest there be any remnant OF u
wo noison however small, let the white
~ an egg. and sweet oil or butter or lard
MS, several spoonfuls = be swallowed II
ne, mediately after vomiting; because the
the very common articles pullify larg
=. number of virulent poisons than al
2lS medicines in the shops.
-rd' Every family can make root bee
-. To each gallon of water ada hops, oil
, ant dock, yellow dock, sarsaparilla, dane
on lion. and spickenard roots tbrulse
each one-half ounce; boil about TWEEN
minutes and strain while hot; add eng
,;t, or ten drops of oil of spruce and sas
,ro. fras mixed in equal proportions; WI
on cool add to or three tablespooniuis
Yeast Two-thirds OF a pint OF hnoias
age, or one-halt pound OF white sugar q
arm it about the right sweetness. NJ
NTH these proportions for as many gali1
w as YOU may wish to make. It's best
lose ret the roots dry Tor dig them ana
Them dry.) OF course you can ada q
and other root known to possess medlci.
v+t properties. desired in the beer. Al
ali IS mixed let it stand in jar VII
; in cloth thrown over it to work about
hours. then bottle and set in 6
light place. This is nice way to take al
,.,- atiyes without taking medicine,
sa'is families ought to make it every spr
e in and drink freely. of it for several wee
!. and thereby save. perhaps, seVerai
uses lars in doctors bills.
Group in children is usually suo
and sometimes fatal disorder, ana
important to know its symptoms,
rate to have a reliable remedy at hand "
which to meet it. 1t often comes
ae sha denly at night, after the child mas
.nd der exposed, or out playing in q dal
man rough wind ddring the day. The E
wakes out of sleep with SUD
. hoarse. barking couch, often like
barking Of a hoarSe dog. and sOmeti