The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-11
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm. Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL
Diphtheria - SeOurs - Cattle Lice
Fruit Syrup-COckroache
HiccOughing


Of fruit trees.
To preueRt mustard plaster from bis
tering mix with the white of an egg.
If nutmegs are good when pricked
with pin, oil will instantly OOze out.
If the oven is too hot when baking
place small tin dish of cold water in it..
A small dose of turpentine given in
their feed will relieve horses troubled
with worms.
As grain feed for fattening steers
the following is given by stock raiser /:
Corn meal, eight pounds; linseed meal
three pounds; wheat bran, six pounds,
with hay.
An exchange recommends this for
whooping cough. At every coughing
spell administer teaspoOnfuI of iinseed
oil mixed with an equal quantity of
black molasses.
The MedicqlJournal states that very
slight refrigeration of the lobe of the
ear, by the application OF cold water, or
even saliva, will stop hiccough whatever
its cause may be.
Last fall we dug all the earth away
from our apple trees to prevent injury
from mice, and had none harmed at ali
while the previous year, by banking up
the dirt, we had serious inlury. The
shrew mice are the ones -that injure our
trees.-E1.
The Farm Journal says: In fytime
put brig crupper pad under the TAIL OF
the horse big enough to- raise it up so
the animal cannot hug it when II
switches over the reins. This a simple
continuance and a safe one. When un-
der the tail the horse cannot hold the
rein.
A correspondent of the Monthly Naq
dziHe Of Pharmacy, writing from Mes
slna, says: a bottle of bromine left IN
a closed room all night, with the stop
per out, destroys all infection and in
sect life. l have cleared places which
were injected with yermin, many times.
1t is far more effectual than tie vapor
OF burning sulphur.
''In shipping beeves to, market. we
select only few of the best from a large
herd, and never try to make few de-
slrable cattle sell a lot that are not
wanted. This is the gist of remara
made by an extensive cattle feeder.
OOANNNAOAA
sock men will do well to remember this
and see if the suggestion is not worth
adopting more generally.-E1.
An experienced and successful fruit
culturist speaking of the eurculio.
recommends to Salt your plum trees
with three gallons of salt per tree and
you will get plums." That amount of
salt sown around the tree now and
worked into the soil lightly so it will
not be washed away with the rains, will
kill the circuliO and ensure . crop next
season.
A fancy dish of pota ICES for tea is
made by dressing mashed potatoes
through colander; let them lle lightly
IN the dish just as they fall, then set
them in the oven to brown. They
should be well seasoned With butter.
pepper and salt before they are put
through the colander. If you like po-
tatoes prepared in this way, it is a
time-saving inv ention to have col. n Ter
made for this purpose Take an ordin-
airy tin pan, and have holes punched In
the bottom of the size you require; Is
will then take but a feWmoments TO
prepare large dish.
Autumn is the hunting season in many
localities; and the sportsman, as well as
many other readers, will be glad to know
the best means of protection against
mosquitoes and other annoying insects
An excellent preparation is a tinctuFe
OF Persian insect-powder made with eGW :
de cologne with or without the addition
of little oil of spearmint or pennyroyal,
according to taste. This should be APP
piled to all exposed parts of the skin,
and allowed to dry on. Olof origanum,
or oil of spearmint, smeared on the eX-
posed skin is also recommended.-Er-
Diphtheria, it is said, can frequently,
if not always be prevented by attacking
1t on the advance warning, or SYM
ptons, which nature gives. Prevention
is better than cure. An experienced
physician says: IAN attack of diph-
liberia is usually ushered in with high
fever and headache, and in children,
with nausea and vomiting. There is
great prOstration. Upon the tonsilS and
parts are seen white, snow
t1akey patches. In malignant cases. the
patches are often yellow, or broWnish.
and a terrible odor is perceived" Look
out for the symptoms.
One of the surest signs of improved
- lLS ScuCIdi CcuQcIlCY 10 SOW
many kinds of grass seed instead of
only the traditional clover and timothy
The best way TO make two blades of
grass grow where one grew before is To
SOW greater variety. By this method
the land is more fully occupied. each
kind finding the soiland conditions best
adapted to Its use. For sowing alone
probably clover and timothy are better
adapted to most soils than any of the
sorts that have lately come into promi-
hence. Where orchard grass IS sowII
alone it is apt to grow in punches, and
the vacant spaces between these, unless
seeded with clover or grasses, will be oc-
cupied by wesds.-EI.
The National Lire Stock Journal SAYS
that many experienced breeders testify
to the beneficial effects of raw eggs in
the case of scours with young stock.
They may be administered plain, but if
any trouble is found in getting the ami
mails to eat them they can be broken up
in milk that has been boiled. One e. &
makes good dose. This remedy has d
great advantage of being harmless and
wholesome, and Endorsed by practical
breeders of long experience. AS the
time Is at hand when young stock will
have to supplement the material nour-
lshment with other, or be Teaned alto
gether, it is well to be prepared with
)me simDle romodv tn he used on the