The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-17
INDOORS AND OUT.
THE Farm, Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
uryFs AND NOTES FOR ALL
liking Back Peas and Beans-Cook-
ing Rice-Italian Bees-shabby
Notwithstanding Steel.

COT rid of every fattening cattle beas
bafore it.ist three yeas old. ~
look to it that your bee hives ar
,afer proof during the rains
An English sea captain says,Eats an,
20 can be got nd of by scattering
nnmmon .ohleride of kme around and il
t tSsir haunts. He says that 1t ha
never failed.
Tho Medical Journal states that a few
bondfuIs of common salt thrown dali,
ITO closets, and an occasional handful
Ito wash basins, goes far towards. eoun
inrscting the noxious effects Of TIT
nmnipresent sewer gas.
Rv means of a strictly vegetable diet
an eminent doctor states that heEhal
succeeded in Kidding himself of attacks
If goutv rheumatism. with which ht
has been afflicted for years, and %
which several Of his ancestors hac
died.
For damp closet or cupboard, which
lie liable to cause mildew, place in it 6
Soncer full of .quick-leme, and it viii
not only absorb all apparent dampness,
brf sWeeten and disinfect the place.
Ranew the lime once a fortnight, or as
often as it becomes SACKED.
THE shabby old harness or Araveling
satcbel may have the color restored by
an application of good backing, a sub
seouent brushing, a very slight oiling,
and an after-dnessing of gum tTagac-
anth. 1t is surprising what an effect
this,treatment has upon old and shabby
looking leather.
To make cheese buiScuit: Take two
ounces of butter, two ounces of -four,
two ounces OF grated cheese, a very
little cayenne pepper, and salt to taste.
To be made into paste and rolled very
thin; then cut in pieces four inches
longand one inch broad; bake very
light brown and send to the table as hot
as possible.
If any one wants cloth Steaning
hot to relieve neuralgia or other pains,
do not blister you hands by wrlnging
out of hot water. Wiring the cloth out
of cold or warm water and lay it in an
empty tin pan or wash basin, set the
dish on a hot stove; in three or FIVE
minutes the cloth will be as hot as the
patient can bear it.
Breeding fowls together indiscrimin-
ately, is sure to produce chickens which
are a disgrace to the breeder and the
place he lives on. If you keep only
common poultry, try and reduce your
flock to a uniform color as near as You
can That will be a decided improve
ment in very important direction to
any one who has an eye for beauty
E1.
7 MI FOL J, 4 t.
We take the whites of eggs and COM
mon barrel salt. Beat the whites of
the eggs. some; then stir the salt in Just
thick enough to enable you to rub it on
with your hand. Rub it on twice or
three times a day. We have cured
horses and COWS with this remedy. l
never saw anything better for astife.-
Er.
When contagious diseases, like
cholera, are prevalent, it is good plan
to look at the combs of your fowls
morning and evening, and remove all
birds which fail to show healthy color.
1t seems trifIng affair. but the chang
disease which would rapidly decimate
the flock, if the bird attacked were left
with the others till the disease was fairly
established.
A very fine preparation for making
steel very hare is composed of wheat !
-four, salt and water, using. say two |
teaSpoonfuls of water, one-half tea
spoonful of -four to one of salt; heat |
the steel to be hardened enough to coat |
it with the paste-by immersing it in
the composition, after which heat it to |
cherry red and plunge it in cold, soft [
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come out with beautiful white surface. |
It's said that Stubb's files are hardened /
IN this manner.
A recent traveller in Japan, says:
They do know how to cook rice through,
and for the benefit of grocers and con-
sumers in the United States, investi-
gated the matter.
Only just enough cold water is poured
on to prevent the rice from burning to
me pot, which has close fitting cover,
and is set on moderate fire. The rice
IS steamed, rather than boiled, until it
nearly done; then the cover of the
pot is taken off, the surplus steam and
moisture are allowed to escape, and the
nee turned out mass of SnOwwhite
Aernels, each separate from the other,
ana as much superior to the sOggy mess
HoAS SSG III The ODltCO ObdtCo do
mlealy potato is to the water-soaked
Fucle. l have seen something APP
preaching this in our southern States.
eut do not think even there they do
II as skillfully as it is done here, and in
me northern States but very few per-
sons understand how to cook rice
properly. 1 am sure that if cooked as
II III Is done here. the consumption of this
" lonesome and delicious cereal would
largely increase in America.
y Each of the varieties of bees now in
t fPs country varying for survival" as
cue cue "httest') has its distinguishing
TItHadnfacteristics. So far, however, the
1taLlans seem to possess more good
p ~ n and desirable qualities, than any
VI me other races, and hence are the
r rOst numerous and popular among ad-
sanGed apiarists. Their chief distin-
f. S,ItSnlng qualities are superior aimiabil- /
ny industry, and what may be called j
k sn or indomitabie energy in de- |
sn Jung their homes against invaders,
. so.l as robber bees and bee-moths, /, {
;S SE;. both of which they are quite
tt;, nall6le. They are in general dis
bfrsn Hgg by three beautiful yellow
5a roS across the abdomen. They also