The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-05

If yon are troubled with white speck
/ in utter. stir the cream every mernln
before it is ehurned, and the specks wi
not appear.
A fine drink for any time of the yea
is made simply by stirring teaspoon
full of oatmeal in tunbler of water
with or without pinch of salt.
The sparrow is worthless yagabond
and Will never make a good citizen
being a grain and fruit eater. The pee
pie of the West had better destroy him
Had the English Ennets, larxs or wag
! tails been imported, they might hav
been great blessing. When l was
boy in Cambridge County, England
these birds were considered as much
nuisance as rats or mice, by the farm
ers. gardeners. and fruit-growers. From
1841 70 1916 the people. in the rura
districts fixed a sparrow taxs and ap
pointed a man IN each village to bu,
the sparrows.-Er.
| We do, not. think that we can be mis-
taken in the belief that we should bt
far more successful in the raising o.
young chickens by giving them greal
deal more animal food than we are III
the practice of doing. Corn-meal mush
boiled potatoes. and similar substance
generally compose, as We all know, the
principal food of young chickens; but
we can see no reason Why these young
birds, should be 'exceptionslto the ordin-
ary rule of Young birds in general,
which feed very largely indeed chiefly.
on animal food, even those which, when
they are mature, live mostly on fruits
and seeds, are fed when in their nests
on worms, andinsects. We notice the
old birds all day long busily engaged in
supplying their young with food, but al
waysswith animal food. In fact. tis
very rare that We have seen anything
else. Why, then, should chicks be an
exception ?-Es.
When a,leather belt has been, slightly
injured byirain or by being wet in any
other manner. it should be dried as
much as possible and laps that may
have started can be fastened by little
cement, the composition of which. as
follows, is furnished by the Page Belt
ing Company: Equal proportions of
good glue and Prussian gelatine dis
solved in water, and cooked in attn
vessel set into a larger one Containing
water Do not allow the vessel con-
tanning the cement to set quite on the
bottom. 1t should be cooked until it is
quite thick and ropy; it can then be
worked into the places where the laps
are started by means OF knife. The
belt should then be hammered until
dry, and few pegs may be used, which
can be obtained from any local shoe
maker. Cut the pegs off, little from
the surface of the belt on the reverse
side, and hammer them down on, the
flatiron, anvil or lapstone. S+fH
Too. often farmers sell their best
animals, and the weeds are left on the
farm. The true rule is TO keep the best
always for breeding. Weed out the
poor animals and sell them for what
they WI bring. Get rid of them, for
you cannot afford to keep them. This
practice persisted in, you viii find fewer
culls among your herds ana fiocksa
large proportion, indeed, conforming to
the standard OF the best. And en-
phasize this statement TO those who are
engaged in handling thoroughbred
stock. While we expect general excel
lence and uniformity, every breeder
knows that there will be occasionally
an inferior animal even among thor
To the breeder who has
said long prices for his animals, and
who is anxious to realize from them at
once, it may seem hard alternative to
weed out and sell for ordinary prices
animals that he had hoped would realize
good returns. But it will pay.-Er.
Referring to the custom among Eng
lish Hereford breeders of leaving the
calf to take the milk from.its dam, the
result of which is that, when it does not
take the whole of it, the milking quail
ties of the cow are impaired, Mr.. ].
Darby, in the ChamJer of Agricultural
Journal, London, says: The evil has
often been noticed before, and have
always inferred that the very general
prevalence of the old established GUS
tom of Hereford breeders has been the
chief cause why Hereford cows have
such an i'll reputation Tor the dairy.
Sussex breeders adopt the same custom,
and their cows seldom are deep mixers;
put on. the other hand, the course be-
ing Systematically abandoned, both
uereferd and SUSSEX cows can very soon
De educated sufficiently as dairy animals
10 enable them to make very creditable
performances in filling the pail, In the
counties of Somerset, Wits and Dorset
arge herds of Hereford dairy COWS
ray be found, and if SO improbable
n the capacity of mixers they would
net be chosen to fulfil this sphere of
Isefulness. Consequently it is only
reasonable to, suppose that if in Here
ordshire and Shropshire calves were
,rought up by hand, and the udders of
heir dams MIXED out clean, the cows
night be made to serve two purposes,
n rearing young stock and, yielding
milk for ready sale or for butter. and
hat altogether their returns would be
ar greater than they are now found to
RE. These comments are equally
rue as applied to all other breeds of
.owS.
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