The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-05

your smith put nice light tip on your
animal and drive him as YOU would any
horse.At first, if he gets footsore, do
not worry over il. Should it be con-
venient to let him rest for day, well
and good; If not, keep him going; he
will go much better than with shoes.
In three months time he will have
sound, healthy foot = what but few
horses have that wear shoes. If any
body tells you that you will ruin the
feet Cf your horse, laugh IT them; tell
them to go and look at the horses on
the North side street railroad; they
drive winter and summer with tips.
am told they never have a horse with
corEs. Ehe more you allow your horses
foot to be cut the more trouble you will
have with his feet. Investigate the tip,
then try them. Don't do so because
tel you. 1t is the only way OF shoe.
ing.
a writer to. Farm and Home. saws
that he sowed a bushel and half of
salt on five plum trees, ten years old.
their crop of plums had always been de-
stroyed by the curculio. The salt killed
all the grass under the trees, and he sup
posed the trees were killed also. The
next spring they bioomed profusely,
and bore lull crop of plums free from
curculio, the first crop for years. He
thinks the salt killed the worms in the
ground when they were changing from
worms 90 the perfect insect. We hope
some of our readers will try SAT-, which
should be done now, before the worms
leave the fallen plums to enter the
ground. This they always do to under
go their change from worms to the
beetle state. If salt is now applied of
course IL will not keep the curculios
away this year and make a crop of
plnms, but will kill the crop of the cur
cullos that will kill the plums next year.
Randolph Peters also claims that the
use of a peck of salt, and from half
bushel to a bushel of ashes will make
full crops of plums. Spread the salt
evenly over the entire ground.
Another one recommends that salt in
small quantities is good for most trees,
ounces and plums. Too
freely used it will kill the trees.
There is another consideration too
generally disregarded in constructing
stables for farm animals, and that is the
placing of the hay-moW before or above
the animals so that the fodder receives
their breath with all the impure exhala-
tions of the lungs. Few ever stop 10
think that there can be anything wrong
in this, yet there can be little doubt that
the quality and healthfulness of the
hay is greatly affected in this way.
1t is evident that in constructing
barns and stables, when har is stored in
lofts over the stable the latter should be
tightly ceiled so as to exclude the breath
of the animals from the fodder. The
shutes or tubes through which the hay
descends from the loft should be tightly
closed at the top and all reasonable pre-
cautions taken to preserve the fodder
from contamination from the exhala-
tons of the animals. The stable should
then be connected with a rooted ventila-
tor on top of the barn by tubes so as 10
enable all impure air that will ascend
to rise and pass off into the outer at
through shutters in the venti
lator. Pipes should admit pure air, but
should be so arranged as not TO cause
draft upon the animals. Undoubtedly
a portion of the heavy carbonic-acld
gas that settles to the lower part of the
stables will flow out i'll the surface pipes
and portion, by mingling with the air
of the room, on the principle of ''diffu-
sion of gases" will rise above, but we
doubt whether any device has yet sue
ceeded in so expelling the carbonic-acid
gas from a dwelling or stable that it
should hear no greater proportion to
the air of the building than it does to
the external atmosphere.-Ee.