The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-23
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
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Boiled starch can be much improved
by the addition of little sperm or a
little salt, or both, or a little dissolved
gum arabic. -la
Avoid blowing your breath among
the bees while handling the combs.
They are inclined to resent objection
able features in rather pointed man
ner s7 soa
Feed your poultry with raw onions,
chopped fine, mixed with other food.
about twice a week. 1t is better than a
dozen cures for chicken cholera.-Col-
orado Farmer. ro sf ,c m.
There is more waste in the potatoe
crops than any other, but if the smaller
and scabby potatoes are boiled and
mixed with meal for pigs they will pay
nearly or quite as well as the sound po-
taloes which have been marketed at low
prices the past two years. Other vege-
tables may be added to give variety TO
the diet. 49,.
Soak some tapioca over night. and ir.
| the morning boil until it is perfectly
clear, adding more water, from time to
time, as needed. Take some fine
peaches, cut them fine with fruit knife,
sprinkle literally with sugar, and when
you take the tapioca from the stove,
stir the peaches into it. Eat cold with
| sugar and cream.
To can peaches: Cut them in halves
and remove the stone; then peel each
half. If sugar is used in putting them
up, make syrup of pint of water
and half pound of sugar more or less !;
in this cook the peaches and can them.
Two peaches in each can left with
the stone on will give delicate flavor
OF bitter almond. More than this
would be unwholesome.
The Rev. L. l.. Langstroth, of Oxford,
o., says that from actual experience he
mas learned that spiders are one of the
bee-keepers' best friends to preserve
empty combs from the ravages of the
bee moth. This being the case we hope
that many of our Bookkeeping friends
will profit by the experience, and let the
spiders guard the empty combs.-Er.
Let housewives remember, and
kitchen help belnStructed, that the suds
from the waShtub cannot be put to a
better use than to be poured around
newly planted fruit trees and vines. 1t
will often literally t'saye their lives, -
and under any circumstances is valu-
able fertilizer. Care should be taken.
however. that the water be not too hot
before thus using.
When paint brush is-stiff ard hard
through drying with paint on it, put
some turpentne in a shallow dish, and
set it on fire. Let it burn for minute,
until hot; then smother the flame. and
| work the p-ncil in the fingers, dipping
it frequently into the hot spirits. Rinse
all paint-brusheS. pencils, ETC., in tur-
pentlne, grease with mixture of sweet
oil and tallow, to prevent them from
driving hard. and put away in box
out of the dust.-ET.
If you do not intend to ship your
butter, try this method of using 1t on
the table. AS soon as the butter comes
| draw off the buttermilk, and add strong
salt and water. Give the churn few
revolutions, so as to wash out the but
termilk, draw off the water, take out
| the butter. drain off the water as much
as p ,ssible, and place the butter on the
table in the granular state, without
working 1t. All the aroma will be re-.
tanned, and 1T will be a perfect luxury.
Hot weather, among other disad-
vantages, gives the housekeeper con-
| siderable difficulty in procuring good
yeast. An exchange gives recipe for
making SIX months yeast. 1t is thus
called because it will keep that length
/ OF time. Make very strong hop tea
and thicken with -four. let it ferment,
| then Stir in corn meal until you can
/ form cakes the size and thickness of a
| small cracker, say Two inches IN diane
ter, dry on dish in the shade. One.
third of one dissolved in a half-cup of
mitk-warm water will raise quart OF
| flour.
To can tomatoes: Immerse them in a
wire SIEVE in boiling water for minute
or two and throw into cold water. This
will make the skin come off Quickly.
| Peel and slice them, removing all inedl-
BILE portions, and put them into a CO.
| lander to drain; then put over the fire
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cans partly full, then put in two or
three whole tomatoes peeled cold. Fill
up with the boiling fruit and seal. The
cold tomatoes may be omitted if desired
The water drained off may be boiled
down and spiced for catsup.
August is good month to pinch back
blackberries and raspberries that grow
too freely. If kept in check the canes
will grow stalky and well branched, will
ripen up their wood very thoroughly,
and be in fine condition to withstand
the winter. Do not pinch back over.
grown,canes..too!freely late in the season,
Tor new and tender growth will form
which will be sure to winter-kili. When
blackberries and raspberries are cut
back as we advised last month, verv
little if any stalking will be reoui, ed
and crop OF fine, large berries will be
assured next year. There is no uce in
allowing long cane to form, the end of
which will be winter-killed, and when
in bearing will fall on the ground for a
want support and produce only few