The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-29
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
HoIsteins-CoIts-Baspberriss-AppIe
Dumplings-Rhsumatism-
Stry chime.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL

Unsunned rooms cause unsOund
health.
The milk must be clean to get good
To remove mildew, soak in butter
milk and spread on the grass IN the
sun.
SEARCHED shirts will iron easier II they
are allowed 10 dry after starching. so
that they req ire spr.nkling before iron.
ing.
1t is now pretty we'll settled that bees
want and ought TO have salt, and CLEAN
ings IN bee culture suggests salt brine
poured on sawdust placed near the
hives.
Egg mullins should be MADE as fol-
lows: One and half pints -four. half
tablespoonful each lard. sugar and salt,
three eggs, one pint of milk. two table
spoonfuls Of baking powder. Bake in
hot oven fifteen minutes.
Carriages and farm wagons might De
made 10 last twice as long if only few
moments were spent each week during
the wet weather in Tightening up the
bolts that hold the wagon together.
Where the hens are confined the best
grass for them Is that which Is taken
from the Lawn mower. and especially If
II Is cut in short lengths. The lawn Is
usually seeded with mixed grass seed.
and the hens can therefore be given q
variety, but white clover is best.s
Rheumatic and neuralgia pains can
be relieved by the following mixture:
One ounce each Of aqua ammonia and
alcohol. Dose. a email teaspoonful
taken in a wineglasSful of water three
times day after meals. -Four doses are
generally effective.
a growing inability to sleep in sick
ness Is ominous of a fatal result; in ap-
parent health it indicates the failure of
the mind and madness so, on the other
hand, in disease or dementia, verv
slight improvement IN the sleeping
should De hailed as the harbinger OF
restoration.
The American Bee Journal says tansy
strewn around the hives is recommend
ed bv some bee keepers to keep ants and
reaches away. A sponge wet with
sweetened water might be put in a wire
cage TO destroy them. Borax. salt or
gum camphor. or powdered cloves scat
tered where the ants or reaches congre-
gate, VIII drive them away.
Sage custard is both nourishing and
palatable. 1t is made by soaking two
tablespoonfuls OF sage in a half pint Of
cold water for an hour and a half, then
boiling il in the same water until il
looks clear; add a lumber of sweet
milk, and let this boil for minute or
two, and sugar 20 your taste; when
taken from tie nre add one well beaten
egg and flavor to taste.
Too many farmers get less good than
they might from their pear orchards
because they allow the fruit 10 ripen on
the trees as they would apples. Few
pears will be at their best If treated
thus. Plucked when fully grown, and
kept in a warm or cool room as their
ripenlng is desired 20 be fastened or re-
tarded, the color and favor OF the fruit
will be much better than il would if al
lowed to remain on the tree. Some OF
the best sorts rot 81 the core II left on
tn, trees until the fruit begins 20 turn.
Look out for the black knot" on the
plum and cherry trees, says the Farm
journal. These knots are caused by q
vegetable parasite called "Sphaeria Nor
bosa." II developes from spores which
are waited about by the wind. No tree
is safe IN the orchard where one tree is
affected. When once affected il will
not take long for the whole tree 10 be
come us less. The only remedy for this
evil is TO cut of all the affec, ed branches
and burn them. Nothing short of burn
ing will ill the parasite.
Raspberries are very nice for winter
use, but / find IL more convenient 10
keep them dried tnan canned. / pre-
hte in 1fng
them on plates. and then dry in the
stove oven, after the FIRE is pretty well
down, so as not 10 scorch them They
are quickly dried, snd when done can
be packed away in Jars or even in tbicE
paper bags. They are excellent for
sauce in winter. and make good pies
and puddings. The only precautions
requisite are not 10 store them IN q
damp place, and 10 cover closely, so as
70 keep out insects SIX.
Breaking a sitting hen has been
problem, and hundreds Of suggestions
have been made in regard 70 the best
method. Many Of the proposed RENE
dies are cruel and infiict unnecessary
punishments on the po.r hen for simply |
endeayoring to satisfy her natural in I
clinaiion. The easiest mode is 20 make /
q box composed of strips Of lath. IL 4
lath, which y cleaper, LE.e Top, sizes i
and bottom Of that material, and place 4
the box on some kind Of support. 50 /
that il viii not touch the'ground, or
suspend it from hook There being
free circulation Of air all around her,
she will soon become disguised
Buttermilk biscuits are excellent If
the successful painter did his
colors-' with brains" A heavy hand
and heavy wits can result IN nothing
but sodden selidity. Onequart OF nour.
one teaspOonful OF soda sif:ed three
times with the -four. and = teaspoontul
OF salt, one pint of really sour butter
milk, one tablespoonful .of melted but
ter. Sift -four. soda and salt into
bowl, stir butter and milk together and
pour into a hole in the flour. Nix
quickly and with as little harding As
possible. Be careful on this point, also.
not to get the dough too stih. Have
your oven ready and hot. AS soon as
the biscuits are cut out put them IN and
bake
Holsteins VIII probably give q greater
a.HH No.