The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-29

nutritiye value is high; but there is
need of right preparation in order to
secure it. Thorough cooking is one OF
| the chief methods. Acids render then
insoluble, and they are kept in solu-
bic form by the action of alkalieS
Many cooks have learned this, and 50
to their own alkaline juices add little
/ potash or soda in cooking. Williams
not only approves of this addition, but
also claims that, IN order to aid their
digestion, it should be added to dried
beans and to soups in their eating.
Some varieties of beans are greatly
helped by being soaked in an alkaline
water before cooking. The French
make much use of the water in which
vegetables have been boiled as stock or
basis of soup. On account of the salts
/ and Juices 1t contains this ''pOtdge" is Of
! much value. Perhaps it is the constant
cooking out and throwing away OF these
saline constituents, so much needed IN
the system, that causes so much OF
rheumatism and neuralgia among the
children Of men. o- s
1 recommend shallow covering of
wheat, and perhaps one inch is about as
near right as it can be covered. This
has been made a matter Of careful eX-
pertinent, and it has been found that as
the depth is increased above one inch
the time before it comes up increases.
and the proportion OF seed that fails to
germinate also. sI
Ihere can be no question, l think, q s
to the superiority OF drilling over broad
casting. In our best season, when all
the conditions are favorable, broad
casting will produce as heavy crop as
drilling, but a hard winter, when we
nave severe freezing weather with but
little snow protection, the drilled wheat
Will endure the winter better and pro-
duce often double the amount of that
broad casted. / think also that from
four to eight quarts of seed per acre can
be saved by use of the drill, and this
alone would pay fer a drill in few
years. The fact that the drill deposits
the seed at a uniform depth is a great
advantage. 1t is a scientific fact not
generally known to farmers, that plant
can get no nutriment from the soil un-
til its leaves expand above ground but
must grow from the nutriment stored
in the seed. This is the reason why the
plant perishes or comes up weak and
siekiy if covered too deer.-Er.
A correspondent of Klouledge calls
attention to some of the disadvantages
Of hot drinks. Cold drinks. he says,
are natural to man, though most peo-
pie nowadays are so used to hot drinks
that they do not feel satisfaction. really
stimulation, unless they have them.
Hot drinks are injurious to the tongue
Tor they deaden its sensation, and after
taking hot soup or drink, the tongue
becomes quite numb, and unable to
-aste the finer 1avors OF dish. The |
'eeth are greatly injured by them, and |
many dentists say carries decay is due !
20 them alone. They crack the enamel, |
md thus allow carries to set IN. When,
,aries has once set in, hot drinks are |
common cause of neuralgia.
Hot drinks are especially hurtful to |
he stomach. They cause irritation of |
he nerves of the stomach. and conse-
luent mild Inflammation of that organ, !
% that after hot drink the stomach is |
ed and congested; in time a debilitated |
is set up. A temperature of !
90 degrees Fahrenheit also destroys.
he active ferment of the gastric Juices |
,epsin, and so leads to indigestion. If |
he stomach is at all disordered, hot
thinks give rise To much gripping pain,
nd in many cases to vomiting. In |
ases.of 0iarrh9a, too, hot drinks only
Increase 1t, while cold ones tend TO less
n it.
Thirstis not common IN winter. I'M
ess sugary, salty or spiced foods have
zen taken. In cold weather the air
more moisture than in holland
a cold weather there is less perspira-
ion. Hot drinks increase the volume
f heat in the body, and if that is not
equired, it is quickly got rid of by the
kin. Water is the best thirst-quench-
r, but if simple food be taken, the need /
# drinks will be small. Many vegeta-
lans drink nothing from month to
uices of the fruits which they eat But
'leasant drinks like tea. coffee, etc.
nay be taken lukewarm for long time
nth little apparent damage. The least
njuriousis cocoa, made with milk. and
flowed to stand until nearly cold. A
god test IS to apply the little finger to
be drink, and lift be not hot to il. then
may safely be taken.