The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-15

Where farmers XIII DuL lew. Sueep
during the season they can make better
use of the pelts than to sell them If they
know how to preserve them. For mats
take two long-wooled skins and make
strong suds, using hot water; when it
is cold wash the SKINS in it, carefully
squeezing them between the hands to
get the dirt out of the wool, then wash
the soap out with clear, cold water.
Then dissolve alum and salt, each a
half-pound, with little hot water suf-
icent to cover the skins, and then let
them soak in it over night for twelve
hours, then hang over a pole to drain.
When they are well drained spread or
stretch carefully over board to dry.
When they are a little damp have one
ounce each of saltpeter and alum pull.
verified, and sprinkle on the flesh side OF
each skin, rubbing in we'll. then lay the
flesh sides together and hang in the
shade for two or three days, turning the
under skin uppermost every day until
perfectly dry; then scrape the flesh side
with a blunt knife to remove any
remaining scraps of flesh; trim off pro-
iecting points; rub the flesh side
with the hands. They also make good
mittens. Lambskins, or even sheep
skins, if the wool ,be trimmed off even
iy to half or three-fourths inches long
make beautiful and warm mittens for
ladies and gentlemen, and the girls with
little practice can make them.
The inquiry is often met with in the
columns of the agricultural press as to
what to do In cases of scours in calves.
Jersey calves are especially liable to this
dreaded disease. The cause is frequent
lU nuorlno6ino hn cfnmaah no.
yond the capacity to digest-in other
cases the mothers milk is too strong,
thus producing Irregularities and clog
ging the digestive apparatus. A good
plan, and one that scarcely ever fails of
success, is to Immediately separate the
dam from the calf as soon as the symp-
toms appear; dilute the milk with one
third or one-half warm water, and
teach the calf to drink, allowing it but
moderate rations of this weakened food
until it RECEIVERS sufficient strength for
full allowance. If the calf becomes
much weakened by the fast required by
this course, change to another COW will
often work wonders, allowing it to suck,
in moderation at first. When this is
done, COW should be selected that is in
milk about as long as the mother,
though this is not entirely essential in
every case. The mere change of diet
will frequently produce an entire and
speedy cure in the worst of cases. The
milk of some cows is poison to the calf
when taken in large quantities, and
very soon results in death, unless
counteracted, and this change always
being guarded in the quantity, to avoid
overfeeding-is wonderfully sure in its
beneficial consequences.-Ndtt Lire
Stock Journal.
A healthful and invigorating practice,
that costs nothing but trifle of reso-
luteness and due care to modify the dose
according to the vital force of the in
dividual, consists in gong into pure cold
air in the morning before breakfast, in
haling freely and exhaling slowly and
forcibly, so as to fill and rinse every cell
of the lungs. Then rinse the millions
of pores of the skin by way of securing
their full and proper action. This is
done by exposing the whole skin to a
chill, by going out lightly clothed, or,
without going out, exposing the barred
skin to bath of chill air or water. The
reaction from this brief exposure is
what drives out through all the count
less skin pores the clogging particles
that make up the waste which must
pass off by the skin to preserve health
and glow and hearty feeling. The effect
of this opening of the skin pores is i'm
mediately felt, if the reactive flow takes
place, and is delightfully."- agreeable.
The body feels warm and light; the
spirits rise, everything seems easy and
bright, and soon the appetite feels the
freshening effect and breakfast is en-
joyed. A Turkish towel helps to start
the food of reaction indoors, and some
active stir soon brings it on out of doors.
Those already enfeebled by illness or
mere confinement must take care to
make the chill plight or brief as not to
lese the essential and necessary reaction
on which all depends. AL sedentary
persons should make it rule to develop
this health giving glow at least twice a
| day, at going to bed and at rising.