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

lieved. Give the child light diet, no
meat, cake, rich or heavy food, but an
abundance of mucilaginous drlnks-rice
water, barley-water, gum-water or Irish
moss tea.
A gent who has experimental for. the
last four years on his farms at Gwy-
nedd, Pa, In preserving green fodder in
silos, has a silos capacity of 200 tons.
He says that by the operation of this
method he is enabled to easily keep one
COW on the produce of one acre of
ground. He fills his silos mainly with
cornstalks cutin three-fourth of an inch
lengths. A l0-horse power engine will
cut one hundred tons in day.
The introduction of the siios is likely
TO make considerable change in agri-
cultural methods. In England, where
owing to wet weather and late frosts
corn cannot be brought to maturity,
corn is now sown for fodder and cut
when the plant is in tassel, yielding
thirty tons to the acre. The fodder is
preserved in siios, and the corn is out of
the way in time for late crop of tur-
nips The English farmers find corn
the best crop they can raise for fodder.
The use of ensilage has been delayed in
this country by imperfect methods of
building the silos and by inattention to
the single requisite to success-storage
of the fodder in good condition and
through exclusion of the air. There is
no doubt that in those parts of the
country where cattle are raised and kept
over the winter silos must come into
general use as matter of farm econ
omy.-Er.
The following new remedies for
sprains are said to have proved efficaci-
Gus. DR.. Thomas L. Shearer recon-
mends and practices the use OF clay,
such as is used for making bricks. free
from gravel, dried, and finely powdered
in a mortar. This powdered clay is
mixed with water into a thick and
moist consistence. This is then spread
on muslin to the depth of quarter of
an inch, and applied entirely around
the part. Over this is placed rubber
roller bandage, just lightly enough to
keep the dressing from shifting. and re-
tain the moisture. This application
should be renewed every TWEEN y-four
hours. 1t appears, by this method of
treatment, that the most severe sprains
are cured much more rapidly and salts
factorily than by the old system.
The same authority states that pow
dered dried earth sprinkled on the sur
face of an ulcer, and kept in position by
adhesive straps, is capital dressing for
cases which are so weak that even the
weakest ointment tends to break down
the granulations.
Professor Brinton, another celebrated
practitioner, says that the best thing
for a sprain is to put the limb into a
vessel of very hot water Immediately,
then add boiling water as it can be
borne. Keep the part immersed for
twenty minutes or until the pain sub
sides; then apply a tight bandage, and
order rest. Sometimes the joint can be
silicate of sodium dressing.
The whip is the parent OF stubborn
ness, says the Farmers Advdace, IN
high-spirited animals, while gentleness
will win obedience and at the same
time attach the animal TO US. 1t is the
easiest thing imaginable to win the al
lection of animals, and especially of
horses. An apple, potato, or a few
Jumps of sugar given from the hand now
and then, will cause the horse to prick
up his ears at the sound of his masters
footstep, not with fear but with low
whinnying note of pleasure The con-
fidence OF the noble beast thus gained
will lead him to obey the slightest intel
ligent tone of voice or indication of the
bit. There is no such thing as bal1iness
to be found in horse thus treated; he
shows desire to obey, whereas a few
lashes of the whio, smartly applied, if |
he be horse worth having, will arouse |
in him spirit of retaliation ard stub
bornness that may cost the owner hours |
of trouble and possibly danger to life |
and limb. Horses are made gentle by |
kindness. They believe" in the master |
they love, and his voice will calm them |
in moment of fear, or induce them to |
struggle forward even when overladen, |
and when whip would be sure to bring |
them to a stubborn stand still. No man |
knows the true value of his horse until !
he has won his regard and confidence, /
as it were. The whip will never do this. |
A kind hand and gentle voice will act |
like q magic; thus we have known |
women who could handle and drive |
horses that would almost invariably |
show some vicious traits in-the hands |
OF male driver. We would like to see |
the whip wholly discarded.