The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-09

Oil thrown into ponds and standing
water will prevent mosquitoes from
In few weeks some of the hens VIII
begin to moult If so, keep them. Al
late, but retain those that moult early,
as they will begin laying before winter.
To kill bark lice, Professor Cook re-
commends the following: Put quart
of soft soap and gallon OF water into a
kettle and heat to boiling. and then,
while boiling, stir in pint of kerosene.
Douglas mixture Is composed of one
pound of copperas, two gallons Of
water, and one gill of sulphuric acid.
Give the fowls this mixture by adding a
teaspoonful to every quart of drinking
water.-Er.
The strawberry yeevil is said to be a
new pest. Itpunctures the flower stems
in the spring Later it destroys the en-
tire plant, and then buries itself in the
earth to breed thousands of its kind for
the next season.
Meat well cooked and chopped very
fine will do to feed the fowls OCCASION
ally that are confined on small runs. 1t
increases the egg production to a GER
| tain extent, but if followed up continu-
.ously it is decidedly injurious.
A German paper says that roof can
be made fireproof by covering it with a
mixture of lime. salt and wood ashes,
adding little lamp-black to give dark
color. This not only guards against
fire, it is claimed, but also in measure
prevents decay.
The Philadelphia Tress says the popu-
lar delusion that yellow corn is richer
in food elements than white is without
any basis in facts. Chemistry shows
that il there is any difference it is in
favor of the white, and yet looks have
something to do with it, as even pig
will, if left free to choose, first select the
yellow.
In order to keep machinery from
rusting. take one ounce of camphor.
dissolving it in one pound of melted
lard: take off the scum and mix in as
much fine black lead as will give it iron
color. Clean the machinery and smear
it with this mixture. After twentv-four
hours, rub clean with soft linen cloth.
1t will keep clean for months under or
binary circumstances.
Experienced lumbermen have always
held that timber cut in the spring was
not durable for building purposes. Re
cent scientific investigations show that
the richer the wood is in phosphoric
acid and potassium the more likely it is
to rot and mould; wood cut in the
spring contains eight times as much of
the former and five times as much of
the latter as when cut in the winter.
Too many horses are ruined by feed
ing up the colt as if for beef. They are
SOFT lubberS with neither yigor nor
stamina to withstand hard work or to
make successful breeder. French
breeders make their colts earn their oats
at two years old, hence they have the
bone ana muscle to withstand the
stone pavements of the cities of France
as no other horse can. We are here too
apt to let colts run without work until
they are matured. Do not let colt
run till three or four years old, and
then half kill him in breaking, and per
haps ruin him Sor life.-Er.
Dairymen should remember that only
healthy cows produce good milk. They
must never be heated or i'm any way
misused or unduly excited.
Regularity in the time of milking and
by the same person, secures the best
results. Insist on Clearly habits in
mixers. Filthiness is disastrous to
both producer and consumer.
DO not feed your COWS upon whey.
turnips or cabbage they are always in
furious to milk.
Mixing Of milk at differen! tempera-
lures should be carefully avoided. This
practice produces sour milk, and sour
milk makes sour patrons.
A correspondent of the RuraI Home
says this is sure remedy for laurel
poisoning. II do not keep Sheep, but
my father did, even in pasture that had
much laurel in 1t. He occasionally had
sheep poisoned with it, but his remedy
trouble.
Get sods from the brook side or under
the fences where no manure has ever
been, and soak and rinse them in water
to let the grit and gravel settle to the
bottom. Put the soft mud in the
mouths Of the affected sheep and in.
duce them to swallow it. and have
them drink the muddy water. Simple
as the remedy is never knew it TO fail,
though it may need several doses.''
In warm summer weather many per-
sons feel an Irresistible craving for
something sour, and often CRAFTY this
desire by free indulgence in pickles or
vegetables made acid with vinegar.
This demand for acids Indicates a de
ficiency in the acid secretions OF toe
stomach, and the demand for an arti-
fetal supply is natural one; but vine
gar is not the best substitute, Tactic
acid is one OF the chief agents that give
acidity to the gastric Juice of the
stomach in health. This is the acid OF
sour milk, and therefore one of the best
summer diet drinks that we can use is
1t buttermilk. 1t satisfies the cravings
Tor acids by giving to the stomach
natural supply and at the same time
furnishing in its cheesy matter a good !
supply of wholesome nutrition.
Whooping-cough usually commences
as common cold, though from the FIRST
the cough is rather more VIC enr and I
spasmodic than IN ordinary colds, and
not until ten or fourteen DAYS does il
assume the true distinctive form NJ
Encouragement, with severe shocks al
cough In rapid Succession, followed bv .
deep inhalation or whoop. This disease
if uncured, will continue from S;.t TO to
twelve, or even fourteen weeks Cbio1;So