The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-28

Here IS another way Of Kidding houses
of mice Scatter red pepper in mice
holes and fill up with salt cement.
The bones thrown out In cooking o.
from the table are much too valuable to
be wasted. Burned or ground they are
excellent feed for poultry, and this IS
perhaps the best way to make the phos-
phate they contain available as a fertii-
izer for crops.
The season has again returned when
bathing Is one of the most delightful OF
pastines. We caution our readers to
remember the danger attending bath
ing or swimming in running streams OF
clear water. They are yet ice cold and
liable to give cramp. fatal frequently to
the most experienced swimmers. No
danger of cramp in salt water.
The following is an excellent wash for
che teeth: Dissolve two ounces OF borax
in three pounds of boiling water, and,
before it is cold, add one tablespoonful
of spirits of camphor and bottle for
use. a tablespoonful of this, mixed
with an equal quantity of water and ap-
piled daily with soft brush. will pre-
serve the teeth, extirpate all tartarous
adhesion, arrest decay and make the
teeth Dearly Wnite.
The good effect OF feeding charcoal to
fattening stock, causing animals to lay
on flesh more rapidly, IS generally at
tribured TO its power to neutralize acids
in the stomach from the alkah which
charcoal contains. But this charred
wood is nearly pure carbon, and there
is not so much mystery in seeing it
changed to another form of carbon In
animal fat. 1t is quite likely that char
coal often serves as food rather than as
medicine.
Many farmers think that as soon as
wagon-felloes, begin to shrink, they
must go at once to a blacksmith-shop
and get the tire set. Instead of doing
that (which is often damage to the
wheels. causing them to dish), if they
will get some HnSeed oil and heat it
boiling hot and give the. felloes all the
oil they can take, it will fill them up to
their usual size and tighten to keep
them from shrinking and also to keep
out the water.
An authority deplores the lack of
Judgment displayed by farmers IN the
preparation of hay for winter feed;
quantity not quality being the consider
alton. They cut this crop at all seasons
to suit their convenience, or from false
economy endeavor to do the work with
out sufficient number of moving ma
chimes to secure the crop before the
grass has run to seed. Hay made from
grass after the seeds have formed will
have no more nutritious value than
straw.
You can make ginger beer as follows:
Turn four gallons of boiling water on
four pounds of brown sugar, or two
quarts of molasses: add three ounces of
cream Of tartar. and the same of GIN
ger; stir them well and put into cask.
When milkwarm, put in one pint of
good yeast, stopping the cask closely
and shaking it well. Bottle it in about
twenty-fcur hours. In ten. days it
will sparkle like champagne. Two
or three lemons sliced in will
much improve it. 1t is ex-
Oellent in warm weather.
The pig is no exception to the rule
that all domestic animals require salt.
The few animals which are fed Stops
from the house will get some salt in this
kind of food, but not enough. and ttey
do better if mixture of salt and ashes
Is left where they can eat as they wish.
Many believe that lack of proper sailing
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droves are kept and given grain and
water. When men are deprived of salt
serious diseases result. In some re-
spects the internal structure of human
beings resembles that of the pig.
Only tin pals are suitable to be used
BY dairymen. All milk should be care
fully strained; doing so from the pail
through wire strainer is not sufficient;
it should be strained through cloth also
otherwise the whole will be injured.
There cannot be too great care as to
cleanliness in handling milk. All pals
should be kept clean. This is best
secured as follows: The pals. when
taken new from the shop, must be care
fully washed with soap and water. If
sour whey is put in the cans, they
should first be washed with cold water
and then with soap and water In
every instance the pals should receive
thorough scalding with boiling water,
and once week they should be secured
with salt. ~
The remedy for cut-worms is to keep
watch every morning, and when you
see plant wilted or cut off, dig up that
worm and kill it. To head of fhs green
caterpillar that is so destructive, L
watch for the first appearance of the
white butterflies and give my children
ten cents per hundred for all they will
kill. Last year they caught, on four or
five thousand plants, nearly one thou
sand, That, doubtless. prevented the
Matching of hundreds of thousands of
worms. l also let a flock of young
turkeys run in the patch. and they ate
a great many and never harmed cab
bage. My average price per head one
year with fanother, has been about FIVE
cents. An acre of land will raise i've
thousand without crowding, and where
large numbers can be sold, will pay de-
cidedly better than wheat at seventy
i've cents.-0hio Farmer.
There is just as much profit in hav-
ing the colt under subsection while the
dam is in use upon the farm, as when
driven upon the road. The same
trouble, and perhaps more frequently,
may arise from heated milk while per
forming heavy work: and too, there
are many chances for the animal to
ipjure itself, If at liberty, by attempt
irg to jump over harrows or.mowing
u aehines while they are in motion.
Crops are often injured by colts I'M
haltered when the mother is drawing
the cultivat0r In the corn field.
Even if the colt is usually to be kept
in tho hiram while t11o7 dan, iS =, tha 49,