The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-07
The Farm. Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Cabbage Worms-setting Hens-Cur-
ing Clover-CarPet hoths-Acute
rheumatism


water to make it as strong as coffee
Drink as warm as possible.
Mouse holes in walls and closet
should be filed with lime, afterwar,
pasted over with plaster of Paris. mix
ed with water. 1t is a good plan t,
keep a paper ofthe latter in every hous
as it is useful in filling cracks, and il
fact, comes In, In many other ways int
household economy.
1t is a slovenly practice to take I
reaper into a harvest field without frs
cutting around the field with cradle
The like sis done, however, more anC
more each year. one reason for this stat'
of affairs being that few farmers have
cradles in good condition for using, anC
few men NOWADAYS know how to ust
cradles. "-Er.
The field pea is ready to cut before
cats, but you must cut when the pea i:
ready. The pea must not be allowed to
get quite ripe, for it shells very easily
and you may find the best part of the
crop shelled out on the ground. When
the pod begins to change color at the
top of. the vine, cut the crop at once
and do this when the dew is on it in the
morning. Better err in cutting little
early IMAM late.
The cheapest method of avoiding lice,
is to swab the roosts with coal oil once
week. 1t may be mixed in proportion
to one quart of coal oil and one gallon
of milk, as an emulsion. Now slack en-
ough lime in warm water to make buc-
ket of whitewash, AID to each bucket of
whitewash, add one quart of the oil and
milk emulsion. Use it freely on the
walls and every part of the poultry
house, and the lice will be destroyed.
Human beings do not experience any
thing more painful and troublesome
than boils. They can be effectually de-
stroyed by taking the following mix
ture: Two ounces of EPSON salts, one
ounce of saltpetre, put into a wine
bottle of spring water, shake it often.
Take a wineglassful three consecutive
mornings, fasting, then stop for three
mornings and then go on again until the
whole of the mixture is used. This is
a capital medicine.
An ointment for eradicating the ac-
eumulated matter from the legs of
fowls afflicted with scaly leg, may be
made as follows: Sulphur, one table
spoonful; carbolic acid Qiquid), one
teaspoonful; lard one ounce. Mix the
ingredients intimately, and after wash
ing away the dirt with soap and water
anoint the legs from the thighs to the
toes, well. Repeat the operation once a
week. Three or four applications will
usually be sufficient.
This is a recipe to make rice mullins:
One pint of rich milk, one quart of sifted
-four, one pint of soft boiled rice, three
Well-beaten eggs, tablespoonful of
sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, one of
soda and two of cream of tartar. Mix
sugar, salt, soda and cream of tartar
with the -four, and rub through the
sieve; add the eggs to the milk and stir
gradually into the -four; when smooth
light batter or paste add the rice and |
beat thoroughly; bake thirty-five |
minutes in buttered rings in pans
&c.
There is no such disease as hollow
horn. When cattle are sick their horns
are apt to be cold, but we must look
elsewhere than to the horn for the
disease. Indigestion is quite apt to be
the cause, and this is often accompanied
with loss of appetite indicated by
refusal to chew the cud. 1t is popu-
lar mistake to suppose that the cud has
been lost and must be replaced. We
might as well talk of putting an appe-
tite into a dyspeptic man. Exercise
and careful feeding will bring cattle
around all right, and men also, for that
matter.-Anertcdn CNIticatOr.
In horses the pulse, at rest, beats forty |
times; in an OK, from fifty to fifty-five, |
and in sheep and pigs, about seventy |
to eighty beats per minute. 1t may be |
felt wherever a large artery crosses a |
bone, for instance. 1t is generally ex-
anined in the horse on the cord which |
crosses over the bone of the lower Jaw
in front of its curved position, or in the |
bony ridge above the eye; and in cattle |
over the middle of the first rib, and in
sheep by placing The hand en- the left
side, where the beating of the heart can
be felt. Any material variation of the
pulse from the figures given above may
be considered sign of disease. If |
rapid, hard and full, it is an indication
of high fever or Inflammation if rapid.
small, and weak, low fever, loss of
blood, or weakness. If slow, the proba-
bilities point to brain disease; and if |
irregular to heart troubles. This is one
of the principal and sure tests of the
health of an animal.-Er.
Mr. Faville at a meeting of the Wis
consin Dairymen's Association:
About curing clover, I say cure your
clover IN the mow-put it into big
NOW, the bigger the better, and as tight
as you can make it. As to Just the ex-
tent to which it should be cured let it be
Just little wilted If the season is
wet. and the land and hav are full of
water, of course it must be dried more;
but in an ordinary season cut it after
the dew is off-remember that-and
that it takes good while for the dew
to dry off clover, and put it into the
NOW, net wet, but green. We usually
cure too much; it should be- green
enough. remember tried it, only on
The assurance of rich neighbor, that
# it burned up my barn he would in
1emnify me for all damage, and felt 8
pretty sure it would burn: but it did
not. 1t turned to a sort of reddish
brown, but the COWS ate it as greedily asa
fresh clover. Now this is Just what II
10 in good weather: Cut it after dewf
S off; leave it in cocks over night; turn
t over little next day. and the next
afternoon put it int the NOW. It's
rood plan to put layer Of straw over it / I
% absorb the moisture
Now we have not tried the above and
Will not positively endorse any thing. J
We have not tried or seen, or known Of J
is trial by men in whose judgement we :
lave confidence. But we have a large |
that Mr.. Fayille is right