The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-25
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND. NOTEszFOR ALL.
Seed Corn-sorghum-ye
rs Baroneters-cut Flowsrs-
Typhoid Fever.
INDOORS AND OUT.
HINTS AND. NOTEszFOR ALL


! Dust silk dresses with piece of fan
mel.
Good sleep and good health go to-
gether.
Hsrtshorn will restore colors taker
out by acids.
Tin ware washed in soda water viii
look like new.
Castor oil softens boots and shoe:
which have been hardened by water.
Cut flowers may be kept fresh in
i water for fortnight if you mix little
: carbonate of soda in the water.
Horses may be taught to canter slow.
ly and gracefully by riding them under
the saddle for long distances up hill.
1t is said that bottle of bromide left
in a closed room all night. with the
stopper out. will destroy all infection
and insect life.
Select one tree in your orchard and
give II ample dressing of manure and
wood ashes. Then compare its growth
and productiveness with Others not thus
fertilized.
A gentleman says that after losing
100 chickens by the cholera, he found
that a tablespoonful of soda mixed with
quart of milk and given with the food
was cure.
One of the old, exploded notions is
that plants in living rooms are un-
healthy. Strong scented flowers may
be so, b1t q single lamp burning in a
sleeping room vitiates the air more than
q window full of plants.-Er.
A strawberry grower says some straw
berry plants are naturally barren, and
should be pulled out and treated as
weeds. He goes over the patch when
the plants are in blossom and pulls up
all plants that have net blossomed.
Save the last fourth of the milk from
the COW in separate vessel and pour it
directly in a cream jar. This portion OF
the milk is so rich in butter fats that it
pays well to churn it all, and saves the
labor OF setting and skimming.
Reports from ten silos in one county
in New Jersey State that ensilage made
more, better and cheaper milk than
other feed. Customers once using en-
sllage milk prefer ii to any other. With
corn meal 1t makes an excellent beef
ration.
Verbenas detest any but fresh, sweet
soils. II the plants are at standstiIl,
by shaking out and repotting in rich,
prove quickly. The plants need to be
kept near the glass to obtain sunlight
and have plenty of air.
All the refuse dust and uneaten hay
should be cleaned from horses managers
every morning. The cows will pick it
over and Eat whatever is of value, but il
is fed TO horses there will be great deal
of dust from it, and this in the managers
is often a cause of heaves.
After the cold waves have come and
gone the amateur bee keeper, anxious
as to the condition of his bees. is liable
to thump on the hives or in some way
disturb them to see If they are yet alive
This should never be done, for in so do
ing the bees will ill themselves with
honey, which proves very injurious, en-
gendering dysentery.
Old potatoes may be cooked in a nice
way by frying them whole. Peel and
boil in sailed water, remove from the
fire as soon as done so that they may
remain whole; have ready one beaten
egg, and some rolled crackers: first roll
the potatoes in the egg, and then in the
brown, or drop in boiling lard.
1. Don't overcrowd you hen house.
.. Keep you buildings well ventilated.
8. Keep everything clean.
4. WhitewaSh is cheaper than cholera.
aud fumigation more profitable than
lice.
5. Sunlight is as necessary as corn.
8. Don't underfeod or oyerfeed. and
don't forget that fresh water is abund
ant and cheap.
Bees are said to be better than baro-
meters for foretelling the weather. A
writer says he has proven from close
and continuous observation that on the
approach OF thunder-storms, bees other.
wise gentle and harmless, become ex-
cited and exceedingly irritable, and will
ut once attack any one. even their usual
attendant. approaching their hives. A
succession OF instances are given in
which the barometer and hygrometer
foretold a storm, the bees remaining
quiet, and no storm occurred.
Hen manure is almost exactly identi-
Gal IN quautF ana eject with guanO. and
may be used in the same manner. Ex-
cept on very rich soil it should not be
used in larger quantities than $50 or 300
pounds per acre, as It would only slim
uiate strong growth which could not
be Re up in vigor. AS a change of
manure on rich garden soil which Is
heavily cropped it may be used to ad-
vantage. The best way to preserve il
is to keep il dry or mix 1t with earth.
Its value If free from foreign matter and
dry, is $50 ton.-Ez.
There is no doubt but both the quality
and quantity or the corn crop of the
west can be increased fully on hundred
per cent. without in -reasing the acre
age. The only reasonable way to bring
about this gratifying result is by plant
ing early, hardy varieties of corn. II Is |
a well known fact that Northern grown |
SEED Is best in all latituoes. Taking |
corn from North 10 South is always o.
Low ed by eoOd results. On the o her /
hand Southern grown seed planted in /
higher latitudes is invariably followed |
by failure. Northern grown corn is