The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard, Garden
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOB ALL.
PlOwing-aousing shesp-BIinders-
Turksys-Cider-Po uItry-
RHeumaJism

The best aids TO a good complexion
are cold water, pure soap, healthful
food, good digestion, and reasonable
outdoor exercise.
A busheI of lump lime in the cellar
VIII absorb much of its dampness, and
| a peck OF powdered charcoal IN shallow
dishes, much Cf the bad smell.
Equal parts of ammonia and turpen
tine VIII take paint out of clothing, no
matter how dry or hard it may be.
Saturste the spot two or three times,
then wash out IN Soap-suds.
l have cured many cases of rheuma-
tism by advising patients TO leave bed
rooms shaded by trees or piazzas, and
sleep in rooms constantly dried and
purified by the direct rays of the sun
EG.
Farmers, pIow deep and thoroughly
The resources OF the soil do notend alb
rupuy at four or Eve inches N depth,
yet there are hundreds of farms
where all beneath is terra incognita be-
cause no effort has ever been made 70
explore.
The air being in itself one of the most
important curative agents, and acknow-
lodged SIS such by medical practitioners
of every description, no disease caH be
thoroughly cured when there is a want
OF fresh, pure air.
All small apples and others defective
IN form or damaged by worms have
their best market on the farm as food
for animals. II packed with sound
fruit, even in small proportion. they
reduce the price of all even to the point
of loss.
Extra cold weather will granulate
honey. Granulstion Is a good test of
honey. Bees should never be fed while
storing honey, unless upon extracted
honey. It would be of advantage TO the
bee-keepers of Utah If they would adopt
uniform hive and frame.
Turnips will stand frost better than
any other root except the parsnip.
They are best stored in pits, but all the
white kinds must be got out early and
sold. or they will become pithy and
worthless. Yellow turnips, especially
of the Swedish variety, are better late
keepers, but they also should be stored
| in pits.
Binders on horse are always worse
than useless. This animal has intelli-
! gence enough to be more afraid of what
! he can't see than of what he can. The
| binders invariably chafe the eyes when
a horse is in motion; and if they do not
/ injure the eyesIght, as they often do,
/ they are a perpetual source of useless
| discomfort.
| The american DGiryndp says that
/ the dairyman who buys 8 big cow with
a view of selling her carcass for beef
| when through with her in the dairy, has
been aptly Hkened 10 the man who
bought an engine several times too
large for the WORK he had TO do, with a
view of selling it for more as old iron
when worn out.
a farmer who tried the experiment of
hauling manure from the barn yard in
winter and placing it in heaps on a
steep hillside, to see how much of its
value would be washed out by rains.
found that the increased growth of the
grass from the washing did not extend
i've feet 0erow the heaps. The winter
| spreading of manure always gives eI-
Cellent satisfaction on level land.
If the fields infested with white or
brown grubs are fall plowed or turned
are broken up, and large numbers OF
them perish. Many also fall victims TO
the blackbird and crow, which often
follow the pillow to pick up hese delicate
morsels as they are turned up to the
surface In this way these birds render
their most valuable services TO the
farmer The skunk is also great des
trOyer Of the cut-worm.
To make champagne cider, fresh cider
is boiled down TO two-thirds and is bot
tied while hot, two raIsinS aud 8 tea
| spoonful of white sugar, or as much
sugar candy, are putinto each bottle
the corks are tied down and the bottles
laid on their sides in racks in q cool Gel
lar. In few months the gas begins tC
form and the cider is fit for use. Cider
thus prepared and put in clean cask:
will keep several months. It is q gooC
thing to strain the fresh cider after i
has settled for six hours through some
clean washed sand which makes it verI
clear and bright.
Trees transpIanted in the fall, becom
: so firmly set during the winter tina
they start to grow in the spring vigor
ously, and suffer but little from the re
moval. In severe climates, fall planting
is not so successful. The trees, alread,
weakened and injured by removal. ar
still more injured by the severity of tn
winters, and seldom do as well as Ehel
spring planted. This is particularly tn
case in the northwest sections, and il
all such places We would recommend
spring planting. Ia the middle sec
rions, either fall or spring planting vii
be successful. The peach, plum ant
! cherry are usually best transplanted il
spring, and evergreen trees as late q
May.
This month the war on the turkey
b viii begin, and ii Is not too soon t
commence getting them in condition
Z The first thing to do is to give then
. plenty OF feed every morning and 8
night, so as to induce them 10 come up
The feed ,hould not be corn, as Their
: will be no necessity for getting then
very fat too soon. What you should d
is to force the young turkeys in groTtl
from now until within two weeks of tn
time for marketing them, which will b
early enough for corn. Young turkey
may be fed in the morning with cooke
vegetables, (pOtsuOes, carrots, turnip;
etc, thickened stiffiy with ground oat
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