The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-07

Dried orange and lemon peel burned
on coal in a SICK room are good deodo--
izers.
Cover plants with q newspaper before
sweeping. Also put a little ammonia
upon them once q week.
A flannel bag stuffed with hops and
wrung from hot vinegar, laid on the
ear, IS one of the quickest, and surest
cures for ear-ache.
To prevent lampwicks rom smoking,
they should be soaked in vinegar and
then thoroughly dried. IL is said that
they will never smoke If this process IS
adopted.
II rats are destroying your young
poultry, sprinkle u liberal supply OF
cloride of lime in their holes aud run
ways; this will soon drive them away
Finely powdered air-slacked lime
sprinkled in the potato bins, Is said 20
be an excellent preventive OF the rot
by DESTROYING the fungus. II will do o
harm to try it.
a slate with pencil attached is handy
TO hav: in the kitchen, on which to jot
down articles you wish to buy when you
the very things you wanted most as is
often the case.
Nothing else will 50 help the the flow
ing milk of the COWS Just now as pail
ful Of ripe apples chopped into slices
and sprinkled with the meal. IL pays
ss well to grow apples for the stock : Il
net better-as TO grow roots in the field.
-Ez.
For those who are going 10 feed sheep
for the shambles this coming winter,
now is the time TO begin. A sheep will
thrive more one of these mild days than
il would in ten of cold weather. Il
takes less of feed TO keep up the animal
heat
All root crops for culinary use are
better stored in heaps 10 the field, pro
tected from air and frost until the pros
pect of severe weather warns owners to
move them into the cellar. The cooler
they are kept in either situation, the
longer they will remain sound.
Calves frequently have scou-s or
diarrhea, caused by too much and too
rich milk. Give q pint of -four Cruel
twice Q day; IL the are in pain add 1<oz.
of laudanum in one dose; in very bad
cases add u OF. of prepared chalk don't
continue after noticing 3 change for the
better.
We VIII remark TO those who have
ounce trees TO winter that they should
be mulched as a protection against
extreme heat and cold, as the roots are
small and usually near the surface. The
ounce bears every year, bu, requires
some care and may be pruned annually
with advantage.
II is important that strawberry plants
should be covered with some course ma
terial before severe freezing weather.
Coarse stable manure, clean straw, or
corn stalks may be used. This should
be raked OFF early in the spring, or may
be raked around the plants, and
between the rows. TO retain the moisture
and keep the berries clean.-kI.
ANY one who has ha6 the misfortune
to iuiure the coating Of q rubber um
brells will be glad 10 know that il Is
not without remedy. A preparation Of
dammar varnish and asphaltum in
about equal quantities, with little tur-
pentine, will make an easily applied
coating, which makes the umbrella
about as good as new again. Spots on
gossamer coats and clo6ss can be
covered with this also.
A chicken house to be good needs not
to be expensive. EIcavate two feet, make
the house four feet high in the back and
seven in the front. This will give the
roof such a pitch that il may be made Of
feather-edged boards without breaking.
Bank up the back 10 the roof and the
sides as high as you can Make the
roosts all on level close 70 the ground.
Line with tar paper or MANILA; put one
or two windows IN the south, or II the
cracks be well bsttened, the paper may
be dispensed with.
Sort the sheep. Put all that have
long. slim teeth, slender makeup, and
light fleece, into good feed, grain them,
fstten them, and turn them over TO the
butcher, for they are not ut for the
breeder-don't delay. Put the lambs
into good pasture, and give them some
oats every day till you turn them into
good pasture next spring. Remember
that one of the most important lessons
that science and experience have taught
is this: Feed given TO young animal
gives twice as much profit as tie same
feed given TO the same animal when
past middle life. Keep the animal IN
good flesh from the start; when 1t is not
gaining you are losing all you have 'ed
to it.-Hlgh 7. Brooks.
Candied orange peel is an excellent
subs, itute for citron in making cakes,
pies. etc. II tastes and looks much like
citron. To make it 1 cut the peel of
oranges in quarters, lay them in blood
warm water and let them soak two or
three DAYS or until the bitter flavor is
extracted. The water is changed fire.
ouently and kept at the temperature
Then I put the peel into
fresh water and boil very slowly until II
can be pierced by 8 fork. Next after
draining off the water. ! put the peel
into a thick syrup made OF graduated
sugar and boil slowly, until nearly al
the syruo is absorbed. Then 1 spread
me peel on platters. pour the rest of the
svrup over il and dry in warm oven.
Fruits are eaten for the sake of the
scids starches and sugar they contain.
Tbev are composed of fruit ana grape
sugar. OF mElic, citric and tartaric acids,
ID pectose. OF vegetable jelly, and OF
oils. Dates contain much
sugar. and are. therefore, very nntri-
lions while thew also have much starch
y their composition. Figs contain over
n ~ cent OF sugar. and about per