The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-15

Never wash raisins; wipe them with
dry cloth.
Stovepipes can be cleaned by putting
/ a piece of zinc on the Goals OF hot fire.
! The yapor produced carries off the SCOT
by chemical decomposition.
Try the plan of wintering a few
bushels of apples in a pit outdoors.
/ They need much less winter protcction
than potatoes, and Will keep fresh and
nice.
A pint of SCOT tied up in cloth OF
bag and immersed in four gallons OF
water makes an excellent stimulant for
bulbs, and should be applied about
twice week.
If your window plants become frozen,
sprinkle them very thoroughly with
cold water, and 1t will thaw out the
| frost from the leaves and limbs with
but slight injury to the plant.
We keep out the drone bees by ex-
Guiding drone comb; in neglect of this,
l can suggest no better plan than that
of certain California beekeepers, who
catch them in some of the excellent
drone traps and feed them to chickens.
-Er.
The best feed for moulting hens is
grain with a mixture of ground meat
and bone. with a tonic composed of
ginger, sulphur, and fenugreek, with a
| little tincture OF iron in the drinking
water. Such food will force the growth
feathers, and enable the hens to of new
moult easily without becoming debilit-
ated.-E1.
1t has seemed to US so certainly true
that little or no profit can now be ex-
pected from full-feeding cattle in winter
when they are not provided shelter,
that we have not tried this plan. We
have found it sufficiently difficult to
get satisfactory results from winter
feeding when the cattle are kept in
stables,-Er.
A mass of fresh COW or horse manure,
put in warm place, and kept moist,
will be inviting for insects, which will
deposit their eggs, thus breeding grubs
and other worms. Ii a shoyelful OF the
material be thrown to the hens every
day they will not fail to find many
choice and dainty TIT bits that might
not be obtained in any other way.
Young people, favor your eyes in
every possible manner. If you sit down
to read, manage to do so in way to
bring the light over your shoulder, Do
not front the light-it is very trying to
the optic nerves and in time viii injure
them. A little care inithis matter will
give you good eyesight ten years later
IN life than if you neglect such simple
and easy rules.
A red ink for marking clothes, which
is not attacked by soap, alkalies or
acids, can be prepared as follows:
Enough finely powdered cinnabar to
form a moderately thick iquid'is very
intimately mixed with egg albumen
previously diluted with an equal bulk
of water, and beaten to a froth and
filtered through fine linen. Marks are
formed on cloth with this LIQUID by
means of a quill, and are fixed after
they have become dry by pressing the
cloth on the other side with a hot iron.
-Er.
An exchange suggest that potatoes
may be prevented from rotting during
winter storage by the following plan
After the potatoes are carefully sorted,
sprinkle the bottom of the bins or
barrels with Stacked lime. Then put
the potatoes into the bins or barrels to
the depth of six or seven inches; then
sprinkle again with small quantity of
lime, and continue the process until the
bins are filed. A number of years ago,
when potatoes rotted very nearly as
badly as they do now. this plan was
tried and it saved all the potatoes as
above described. The expenseis small
as but a slight sprinkling of lime IS
required.
There is no way to make good cheese
except BY. using the aVh0le milk. Skim |
ming the milk at night and adding the |
skim milk to the mornings milk will 1
not answer. 1t makes a fair quality of (
cheese, but the difference in price of the
better article will be greater than the
value of the cream taken OF. Our
Canadian neighbors, knowing this fact,
nave secured the English markets, I
where American cheese was once in
demand. 1t does not pay to make
Door article. There is a small gain at
irst but heavy loss in the end.-Ex.
Every one should keep graiting-wax
N hand, ready for use whenever |
leeded, for it is valuable for various
'ther purposes besides that of grating.
Wounds made IN pruning large trees
yill heal over much sooner i coated
With this wax; and, If piece of bark
5 accidentally stripped from tree, the
lace should be covered over with it.
nd the wood viii remain sound and
lealthy underneath. The following is
good recipe for preparing this wax:
felt in basin one pound Of tal1ow, 1
wo pounds of beeswax and four pounds
f resin; stir well together, and keep IN
cool place in the dish in which It was
Melted. If beeSWax is costly, use one
bird less.
The best plan is to keep a bright look
Ut for newly laid eggs during bitter |
old weather, and remove them from |
be nests before they have lost their
Tarmth and reached the freezing point.
his can not, however, always be done,
nd the most careful poultryman will .
ave number OF frozen eggs on his
ands every winter.
Many breeders have made no use or
uch eggs, simply destroying them in
uch way that the fowls viii not get
hem and acquire taste for egg-eating- I
This is wasteful plan. as frozen eggs
re Just as good to eat as any others,
always that they are attended
O promptly. The best way is TO drop
he frozen egg directly into boiling
yater, and leave It for about ten min
ties. When opened. it viii be found I
o have a soft y0lk, which would not