The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-08
The Farm. Orchard, Gardens
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Frost Bites = Stable Rules = Cattle
Observation-Disclosures Feet
Cheese, etc.


wad of brown paper as far up under
the upper lip as possible.
Invalids who are notfortunate in hav
ing soap-stone foot-warmers, will find
bags of sand, heated in the oven. an ex-
cellent substitute.
DR.. Doane recommends equal parts Of
vaseline and turpentine spirits, with
little carbolic acid, as an excellent appli
cation for frost bites.
If you have a csae of neuralgia grad
ually coming on, remaining at its height
for a time, and gradually leaving, eX-
hibit dose of stannum and you will
certainly relieve yourself in a short time,
and the neuralgia will not return.-ET.
It is said the French have discovered
that a mixture of oil, naptha, quick
lime and water will destroy the winter
eggs of the phylloxera without injuring
the grape-vines. The remedy is efficient
and cheap, and winter is the best time
to attack the scourge.
When plants in the Seed-bed by the
kitchen. window come up long and slen-
der it shows that the temperature is too
high. This is the most common fault
with amateurs Ia dollhouse gardening.
Experienced gardeners take care to air
frequently making the plants more
hardy. Unless this is done large num-
bers viii be lost in transplanting. and
the labor in growing them will be worse
than wasted.
Some interesting experiments have
been made in France on the advantages
of giving water to milch cows, warmed
instead Of in its natural cold state. At
the agricultural school of st. Remy, two
COWS were fed on the same food. but one
was supplied withs cold water and the
other with water heated to 113o Fair.
| The latter yielded one third more milk.
Veterinary Professor CorneviR has OBJ
tanned similar results.
Sippel recommends the following as
the best way to obtain nearly all the
juice OF raw meat:
Cut one pound of best lean beef in
slices about one-third inch thick, and
lay the slices, one alongside of the other,
on strip of muslin six inches wide and
a yard long; sprinkling with fine salt.
Now roll up the whole strip, tie string
several times around, and put in an or
binary press. After half an hour, about
one-haf pint Of red transparent juice
will be obtained.
Bee-Keepers should impress on the
minds of their customers that extracted
honey is far superior and nothing like
the old strained honey. For it is a fact
that not one person in fifty understands
that by machinery specially prepared
for the purpose, the comb is rapidly re-
volYed, the honey is throw out of the
cells, and the combs replaced in the
hive to be filed again, and again extrac-
ted. This gives pure honey, not
strained honey, containing dead bees,
bee-bread, scraps of comb, etc.-Ez.
The following directions are credited
to Lord Hampden. They are worthy of
a conspicuous place in every stable:
Up hill-Whip me not.
Down hill-hurry me not.
On level road-spare me not.
Loose in stable-forget me not.
With sponge and water-neglect me
not.
OF clean water-stint me not.
| Of soft dry bed-deprive me not.
! Tired or hot-leave me not.
Sick or cold-chill me not.
/ With bit or reins-oh, jerk me not.
When you are angry-strike me not.
Every farmer should keep a can of
/ the following mixture: Kerosene, two
quarts; linseed oil. one gill; rosin, one
! ounce. Melt the rosin in the linseed oil
and add to the kerosene. Coat all steel
or iron tools, wherever bright, with this
when they are to lie idle, If for only a
! few days. 1t will not take half a min
ute or half teaspoonful of the mixture
/ to coat pillow when one has finished
using it, and it viii prevent all rust and
/ save half a days time in cleaning it
when 1t is again needed, besides saving
the team many thousands pounds of
! extra pulling. Coat the iron work OF
/ the mowers and reapers with it when
! they are put away for the winter. A
little rust is only little thing, but it
makes much difference in the aggregate.
I know whereof 1 affirm when | saw
that during every hard winter upon
| these western plains, especially in Mon
tana and Wyoming, thousands of
cattle perish from thirst. It is impos-
4 sible, probably, to form an ADEQUATE
/ conception of the dumb misery of the
poor brutes as they wander painfully
over the bleak plains in search of water.
which is everywhere frozen; but enough
may be realized to render its contem-
! platiOn, by persons of ordinary sensi-
bility, sufficiently appalling. The
/ horrors of thirst, as experienced by ship
/ wrecked mariners and desert explorers,
have often been the theme of moving
/ song and story. We cannot conceive
/ OF wretch base enough to wantonly
leave horse or a COW to perish In their
stalls for lack of water. The man who
would condemn the meanest cur to
I die OF thirst would be Justly execrated.
/ Yet such is the fate which, under the
only methods OF conducting the stock
business that our present land laws
! favor, annually befallS thousands of orr
domestic cattle-Er.
A doctor in the PhrenologicaR Journal
says that he has tried this cure for a
feion IN many cases and has never
known it to fail: Take common salt.
roasted on a hot stove until all the
chlorine gas is thrown off, or it is as
dry as you can make it. To a teaspoon
ful, and also teaspoonful of pulver-
lied CASTLE soap. add a teaspoonful of
Venice turpentine; mix them well
into a pOultiee and apply to the felon.
II you have ten felons at once make as
many poultiees. Renew this pouItice
twice day. In four or five DAYS your
felon viii, If not opened before your
poultice is first put on, present hole
down TO the bone, where the pent-up
matter was before vOur Doulffce