The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-04
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm. Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS Ard NOTES FOR ALL.
Open Air silos-Seed COrn-BIackIeg
-WesDing CaIves-See Gull
ture-Ringworm
INDOORS AND OUT.
HINTS Ard NOTES FOR ALL.

Lard may be made perfectly sweet by
: boiling pared potato in it.
For poison oak battle in cream anC
, gun powder twice day till cured.
Be careful about feeding sorghum
after warm, wet weather during winter
40 matter how we'll stacked. as The
b ,1psr forms an acid that will Kill stock
E.
4 fock Of common fowls can be very
much improved by using well-breC
! cocks; two are sufficient for any ordiig
airy flock, and in the course Of year OF
two It will be found hat they have been
worth many times their cost.
An exchange gives this cure for ring
worm: Take the common yellow or a
maroon leaved dock, and make solu-
uon. using vinegar as the solvent. APP
ply frequently. Strong alum water Is
also recommended for the same pur.
pose.
4 square built, well muscled horse
viii stand more work and more hard
hips than two lank, loose jointed ones,
and not require as much food as one OF
hem. A half-breed Norman is worth
four scrubs in the harness, or two in the
market. -Er.
Where heaps Of weeds or brush have
been burned the following crop is usual
ly very vigorous. This is not due to the
ashes, for where these are entirely re-
moved the same good results follow.
The burning OF the surface soil disinte-
crates it, and makes whatever fertility
it has available.
Farmers who raise corn should bear
/ In mind that the best time for selecting
! their seed for next year is when the
crop begins to ripen in the field. After
! gathering the largest. earliest ripening
/ ears from those stalks bearing two full
grown ones, trace them, hang in a
warm dry place and let them remain
until planting time. -
II the soil on which lawn has been
established be light and ieaehy, then it
will be necessary to lay on every
autumn plenty of rotten stable manure
not only for fertile lg, but as retainer
Of moisture. II the soil is clay loan
and the lawn has been properly pre-
pared, then but little top dressing is re- |
CURED, especially of heavy dung.
Some western farmers advocate keep.
ing their swine in the yards every morn |
ing IN the fall of the year until after the |
dew is off the grass. The reason given |
is that during kceoI nights the germs of !
hog cholera are thought to collect upon !
the damp grass; also that the air at the |
surface OF the earth is laden with ma |
laria poison, which owing to the hog |
carrying his nose near the ground, is |
taken into the system, and is liable to
produce disease.-Ez.
For sharpening tools, instead of oil,
which thickens and smears the stone, a
of glvcerine is recommended.
The proportions of the composition vary
according TO the class of tools to be
Sharpened. One with a relatively |
large surface IS best sharpened with
clear fluid, three parts of glycerine be-
ing mixed with one part of spirit. a
graYer having small cutting surface
only requires a small pressure on the
stone; and, in such cases, the glycerine
should be mixed with only two or three
drops of spirits.
No forage plant receivesless care than
the common hitezeloyer. It is seldom
sOWn, and wherever it has once been
sown seeding is not needed. Yet il is
not weed, only appearing on land that e
would otherwise be bare from failure of
other clOvers and grasses Although
its small size precludes it from being
cut for winter use, it springs up so =
quickly when cropped that rich land
will produce great amount of food per
acre. No plant is better adapted to the =
dai -yman's use in producing milk and
butter. In the best dairy regions fields ,
are kept seeded with white clover for :
COWS to pasture.
A well-broken borse is much prefer y
able to use in breaking a young horse d
and long drives on wagon will organ
re colt quicker and better than any
hing else. For our own use, we much h
prefer TO break colts at first with bit p
ing rig. This gives them a better T
mouth and more wholesome respect Z
or the bit than any other method. +,
Two weeks of the biting bride. three %
lours day, with the colt turned out I
~ himself in safe lot with a good
ence, Is worth many dollars to horse
II after life. Never tie colt or an old
horse with an old or insecure halter: for
the colt never knows that he can
freak his halter, he will very soon give r,
Up trying. breeders Journal =
Healthy animals require no other P
axatives or indeed any medicine Cor pl
ect by wise alterations IN quantity or In
quality of food; improving their shelter Pr
nd bedding, and though last but not In
east, curry and brush fine stock with p
are. 1t is one way to keep out vermin. %
entilate the skin and promote blood o.
REGULATION and healthy perspiration. q
{ is fact that fine COW needs such a.
andling more than a horse; we have %
nown good stock raisers to curry their 4
Ows twice day, just before milking at y
lorning and lightly at evening Itpays
D watch for symptoms of sickness in 81
our stOck-refusal Of food, expl ession OF
I the eye, character OF the excrement, l.
II give ready tokens of ailment, and an
nouid be attended to with remedies th
! time Study your stock and know 50
leir peculiar characteristics, as they Ia
re many and complicated IA m
General James s. Brisbin recon- W
lends the following: When calves are an
.4hoed, take one part of garlic, one de
aIt OF sulphur and two parts of lard tn
T RI, the garlic well, and mix the bcll
mole together. Take a sharp knife and lo'
ARK an lnclSion just through the skin en-
Inc SIDE OF the calf's neck: then in. pr
TT the finger and work down a little so me
to make a sack between the flesh and N;
lie skin Put in a small hall of the no
'oVe mixture about the size of a small M
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