The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-30
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Picking Pears-Fat Turkeys-Filter-
ing Water-Whitening Elan.
nels-AIcohoIism.

4 very effective remedy for palpita
ton of the heart is powdered mother
wort mixed in molasses. Take a tea
spoonful occasionally.-Eg.
Small pieces of soap left from washing
can beused by putting them in baking
been perforated. This used in your dish
water will save the largest cakes.
A practitioner states that he can cure
an attack of catarrh in few hours by
causing the patient to inkale s'eam
from a jug of coiling water on which q
pinch or two of camphor has been
| thrown.
1t is beyond dispute that salt and sui
phur are beneficial to live stock of all
kinds, if fed occasionally as medicine
Sulphur should never be given alone,
Numbers OF animals have been killed by
such carelessness. Mix thoroughly to-
gether and thereis no danger ina mod,
crate use of sulphur and salt.
Pumpkin or squash soup is almost q
national dish in France. Indeed, the
first mentioned vegetable is scarcely
employed there for any other purpose
than soup-making. To two quarts of
thoroughly cooked pumpkin or squash
allow one quart of milk. plenty OF but
ter, pepper and salt. Serve with toasted
bread.
Says the correspondent OF an ex-
change: Il was induced, by the repre-
sensations of an old woman, to make
the trial. in dysentely and diarrh@a, of
tablespoonful doses of pure cider vine
gar. with the addition of sufficient salt
TO be noticeable; and it acted so charm
ingly that have never used any thing
else"
We advise the early picking and
marketing of pears. Early picking al
lows the growth and ripening of the
wood and making buds for blossoms the
coming year. The fruit is not only bet
ter in quality for being picked early and
house-ripened, but the tree will give a
better crop and finer fruit the following
year,.
Many farmers have demonstrated to
their own satisfaction that better results
can be obtained from a moderate guam
tity OF manure applied after the land is
plowed, the manure being covered and
disk harrow, than by spreading il upon
In the former case it is leftnear the sur
face, and as it becomes soluble ike plant
roots appropriate al, the fertilizing ele-
ments.
When chicks are patched in Septem-
Der they viii do no harm in the garden,
and in fact viii DO much good; if any
weeds are permitted TO ripen they will
be sure TO find them and eagerly devour
them. In some weedy gardens flock
Of chicks will find weed seeds enough to
furnish about all the food they need,
thus two important objects are accom-
plished, first, the garden is cleared of
weed seeds, and second. the chicks are
furnished with their food. - Mass.
The growth OF most weeds is mainly
by eXhausting the surface soil, as they
get less from the atmosphere or subsoiI
than cultivated crops or grasses. Hence
when ploughed under rs green manure.
the earlier the work is done the better.
With some weeds among clover earlier
blowing is necessary than would be de-
sirable for the clover alone, in order to
prevent weed seeds ripening. Sorrel and
red root. where they appear, have to be
plowed un0er before the clover is fully
in blossom.
Flannel which has become yellow |
with use may be bleached by putting it |
for some daysin solution of hard soap |
to which strong ammonia has been |
added, The right proportions are one !
pound and half of hard curd soap, |
fifty pounds of soft water, and two |
thirds of pound Of strong ammonia |
solution. The same object may be at
taihed in a shorter time by placing the
flannel for quarter of an hour in a |
weak solution of bisulphate of sodium, |
to which a little hydrochloric acid has
been added.
As soon as the cocks and the pullets |
are four months old, they may be dub
bed, if OF the Leghorn breed, or where
the combs give promise of being very |
arge. To do this, use sharp pair of |
'hearers. or a razor. Cut the comb and |
gattles close, and battle the parts with |
strong alum water. Coon the fowls I'M
ii bleeding ceases, and anoint the
parts with wood-tar, to which a few |
lrops OF carbolic acid has been added.
Il the bleeding IS profuse, sprinkle fine |
alum over the surface of the |
,uts. The process, though apparently /
;ruel, will save much pain to the birds |
Turing the winter from frosted COMBS
Er.
Pastures which have become so thor
,ughly run out and over-run BY briers |
md bushes as not to be worth fencing |
or cattle pasturing, by being given over
% the sheep for few years will be
brought into productive condition.
Any pasture used for cattle or horses |
nay profitably have as many sheen !
added to the stock as there are acres in
he pasture, and the pasture viii! be !
benefited thereby. Sheep eat so MANY !,
,inds OF plants which cattle and horses |
'efuse that the addition OF few sheen
~ keeping down those plants which |
,ther stock refuse, really increases the
,roduct of grasses for other stock
Ex.
Grain fed to the right kind of animals
'esults in better land and conversion
nto more valuable form, and one for
which there is growing and permanen.
iemand. Neither in Europe nor Amer
ca, as we have shown in the former
ssues OF the Journal, has the increase
n live stock kept pace with the increases
N population, and this too, with grow
ng taste and demand on the mart of Tho /