The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-14
INDOORS AND GUT.
The Farm Orchard, Garden
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOB ALL.
window GArdenirg-Best MiIrh Cow
sheep Bree.
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If YOU keep your feet yarn it is
almost impossible 70 take cold
A dish of hot wat,r set in the oven
prevents cakes, etc, from scorching.
To clean a carpet on ne Aoor, sprinkle
with cornmeal and SAL, and sweep OF
Cold slice potatoe- fry and taste bet
ter by sprinkling a Il Tablespoonful OF
-four over them while fr. ag.
For Group, give a Tablespoonful! CT
molasses or brown suga-. IL which :
half Ieaspoonful pulverized alum has
been naked.
An excellent homemade axle grease
is said 10 be made of two parts ialIow,
two parts castor oil and one art OF pull
verified black lead.
A red lantern is a splendid thing to
keep animals wild away, aud we never
had sheep or lamb injured where they
were used around the corrals.
When boiling any kind of meat, cab
bsge, onions, ETC.. put in a piece OF red
pepper the size of a fg=-cent piece, TO
destroy the unpleasant odor.
Everyone should keep bottle ready
OF equal parts strong lime water and
swee. oil, well shaken together. t. use
on burns and scalds or for cbap?fc
hands.
Never sleep in b close room with all
the doors and windows closed: at least
one window should be partly raised or
let down from he top so a. 10 admit
fresh air. without allowing q draft or
current IN the sleeper.
Sheep will no. breed at all seasons of
the ear ,e's two crops Of lamb could be
had IN the cycle. remarks the Farm and
Field. Ewes well cared for and housed
in the winter will manage TO raise three
crops OF lambs in two years and three
months. From May until October the
eve will not breed. Frequently she will
not before November. Merinos seldom
have twins. II is the Downs breeds
that multiply the fastest.
The strength Of q horse is in proper
ton to its health, and the latter depends
on its food and sIabling. Some cases of
blood poisoning have been reported and
which are traceable 70 sudden change
in diet, and TO the drinking of stagnsht
water. Some farmers conclude that so
long as animal refuse is kept out of the
drinking pond, no bad results can ensue.
1t should never be forgotten. all putrid
matters are sources Of disease.
If we get q good start in window
gardening, and are able to keep the
temperature pretty nearly even, we
shall likely succeed. The reason that
so many fail with their plants IN winter
Is because there is such a variance in
temperature. Through the day the
temperature may be very high. but
before morning il sinks very low. II
cannot be expected that plants will bear
such changes in temperature without
injury.
According to Prof. Johnson, over one.
half the saline matter Of blood consists
of common salt. Stint the supply OF
salt, and neither will the bile be able
properly to assist digestion, nor the
cartilages be built up again as fast as
they naturally waste. From this we see
that the use of salt is a daily demand
which the animal system makes upon
the food provided. The sailing then
once a week. or once a month, is 8
neglect similar in quality, though not
perhaps. in quantity with the failure 10
furnish the needed grain, hay, or pas
tire.
On the plains. cattle refuse, in many
districts, to eat salt thrown TO them
simply because they find II in their food
and water. placed there in ample guam
titles BY the genial hand of nature. II
they can not satisfy their needs in this
: way, they will be seen sucking old
!, bones. or licking some salty, alkaline
baRk-thus satisfying any cravings
they may have for it, and. at the same
time, sharpening their appetiJes for
, pasture. But how Is II With the cattle
in your pastures and barns? They sre
either not sailed at all. or in such guam
titles, and at such long distant periods,
that it becomes more of an injury than
good. To salt the food. If grain would
be means of BEAUTIFULLY distributing
il but If on grass meadow ticks would
be healthful means for its supply.
~. writes to say that some of the
white fungi known as Puff-bslIs are
very nice when peeled, cut inc slices,
: and fried; but it is unsafe to eat any
Puff ball. except that so-called Giant
-Lycoperdon giganteum. When this
is young. and perfectly white inside and
out. IL is good eating when cut in slices
and fried with butter. Several smaller
Puff-balls are white inside when young.
We have quite recently heard Of case
which very nearly ended fatally. and
which caused intense suffering for sew
eral days. The mischief was brought
about by eating raw q very small por-
ton of the white substance of one OF the
smaller Puf-bails. In regard to fungi
as TO all other objects of food. it is ne
cessary TO know What the things really
are before eating them.-Tick's AdgG=iR,
for November.
Continued fevers, especially of the
typhoid form, may succeed those of the
remittent snd intermittent type. wher
ever the remote causes of fever are
sbundan:. They are not owing 10
maleria so much as TO animal excrets-
barn-yards. hog-penS. cesSpools, etc.
IL is for this reason that the various
phases of putrid fever-camp, Jail. hos
pital, etc. prevail wherever human
beings and animals congregate without
regarding the code of Moses in the mat
tiers OF personal cleanliness and hvgienic
conditions. AS fever is an effort OF
nature TO rid. the system of impurities.
the fever should not be suppressed nor
subdued with bleeding and drug
poisons. On the contrary. il should be
regulated and directed so that the pr =
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