The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-13

wien i6,e1 needed heat very hot in the7oven,
nut in its case and ills ready for psss-

| nut IN its case, ana HIS ready TOT NSVE
Ez,s - f-1.' fs.-c~ - a.-.z--..E
TbefolIoWing tribute stot the farmers
fsirhSuI wiee,.is from an exchange ..Sbe
is up before daylight, on cold, freezing
mornings. to burn corn, scald potatoes,
Get a kettle of warm water, land. Quito
Give her poultry a steanIing, breakfast.
IThe scerohed- corn is. eaten TaFenOpSly,
| along with tepid water and clabbered
i,miIK.l WHAT'S the result?d Eggs blythe
1 basketffif. $50 LAYING hens SheniHg them
I oIftgrafidIT. 1t makes the people stare
| to see her bring inlthTftST five to forty
| dozen eggs at a trip, when they are sell
ing at 25 to 80 cents dozen. And she
does tbs, TOO. with the greatest OF OPP
position and disadvantages, old rattle
| trap coops, and yards made up of any
thing and everything she can put to-
gether IN the shape of something to
Shell Ter the little chicks and older fowls
from storm; She has the reputation OF
having the largest turkeys. the hardest
chickens and the biggest ducks of any
in her region of country. Given warm
poultry houses, commodiou ards, and
generous bins of feed. with a little en-
couraging help by hand and work, and
she could treble her presen income and
beat the eighty-acre farm four to one on
profits.
An interesting homemade method of
natural decoration consists simply in
taking glass ,or,goblet and placing in
the interior a. little common salt water.
In day or two a slight mist viii De
seen upon the glass-hourly this will
grow, until in a very short time the
glass Will present a beautiful appear
ance., the glass being enlarged to twice
its thickness and covered with beauti-
full salt crystals, packed upon one an
other exactly like some peculiar fungus
of animal growth. 1t is necessary to
place dish beneath the glass as the
crystals will run over. if the term can
be used. The glass can be made addi-
tionally beautiful by placing in the salt
and water some common red ink; this
will be absorbed, as il were, and the
white surface covered by blue or any
color by the introduction of ink or tints.
No more simple method OF producing
Inexpensive and beautifully ornaments
can be imagined. and by using different
shapes of vases and shades, an ENDLESS
variety of beautiful forms can be pro-
dueed, pleasing alike to young and old. |
Scientific american.
One of the suggestions: made, by a re-
port OF the Kansas Board of Agr:cul |
ture. for guarding againstraVages from |
the Hessian fly is that the land be mas
tured with sheepnso The CONSEQUENT |
close cropping Of the wheat IN tNOven- /
Der and in December may cause many I
9t theleggs. 1arEe and fexseeds to be /
1eSITOy ed --l So .1o -gfsE fsf,, as 80. =
Z The eggs, says this report hatch in
shout -four days after they are laid.
5eyeralsofs the ,maggots or laTyR make
'heirzwaY down to the Isheathing base OF
he leaf and ,reBlain between the base
1bthe leaves and stem near the roots,
lansing the-stalk TO, swell and the plant
o turn yellow and die, Blythe end Of T
November. or from thirty to forty days
iftenEthe wheat IS .sew1.sthey. assume /
he faxseed state, ana may, orr remev-t
ngthe lower LEI YES be found as lit lie,
'rowns Ovals cylindrical. ,smVoth bossIes,
little smaller. than grains of rice. They
emalnIh theYh at until warm weather.
D April 4the- larva rapidly transfer ms
ITO she pupac within It's, faxseed skin, !
ne fly emerging from its case about the T.
nd Of 7ApFiis The eggs, laid By this first
r spring brood of flies Soon hatch, this
rood of Risggotsa live but few weeks.
be dazseed state IS soon. assumed. and 7
ne autumn or second brood of flies ap-
ear in August In some cases there
lay be two autumn bToodst the. earliera
4ugust1lbrODd giving rise,tosa third set Z
flies in September ~ 1