The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-21
The Farm, Orchard, Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Horse scratches-Ayrshir = Rowe
ling-Sheep Ttcks-FIaxseed
House ITrens.

from cracks by rubbing them once q
week with pure glycerine or castor oil
Place over the tight spot on the boot
or shoe cloth wrung out of hot water
The moisture causes the leather tC
stretch and thereby eases the boot.
Plaster of Paris mixed with water
sets so quickly, as to make its usage
difficult. If mixed with vinegar, instead
of water, it vii remain soft like putty
tor half an hour and finally set perfectly
hard.
For the violent internal agony termed
colo, take teaspoonful of salt in pint
OF water; drink 1t and go to bed. II i.
one OF the speedieSt remedies known
The same will revive person who seems
almost dead from heavy fall.
The greatest secret of correct feeding
is to give the fowls variety, and a
generous supply OF eggs may be ex-
pected, II the feed given is OF good
quality, and the prospect will be still
better l. the fowls are furnished with
good, clean, comfortable quarters. and
plenty Of water. Oats, or corn parch-
ed, Will make g splendid change of feed
for few days. and if fed warm is slim.
uiatlng and good for bowel complaints
especially if some of the grains are
parched till burned.
If farmer wishes to get the full ben
eft OF manure on his orchard, and
quickly, too, let him draw out load to
every tree that shows promise of fruit
so soon as blossoms can be seen, spread
it as widely as the tree extends on either
side, and ii nOssihle it is better to leave
it on the surface. The crops that can be
grown under a bearing apple tree are
not worth the labor of cultivating and
harvesting. They cost in injury 10 the
trees productiveness more than The
best crops grown in the open field are
worth I'd.
The richest and. finest feed g;rsil in
proper quantities to horses. shrep or
cattle, is t1aXseed. As rule orr west
err farmers have not got in the way OF
using it. The plants grow finely in
Colorado, and as Mr.. Cary Culver ex-
presses it-and hehas had much expert
ence IN using lt-"there is more vIrtut
in one acre OF it than in three of any
other grain" MIR. Culver last year had
me best winter fatted steers of any man
in the west, and it was manly owing to
rhe quality of feed he gave. His steers
got one pound and a half of haxseed
neal each day mixed with their other
feed.-Er
y correspondent of an exchange has
this to say of the use of the rowel on
calves for blackleg. and what to do to
keep the sore from healing up too soon.
| would take knife and strike hole
the dewiap at the point of the
brlsket; take i strip of muslin. put
some lard on it with as much heliebore
root as would make a pill about the size
OF a small pea; fold the muslin so as TO
put it through as any other seton. tie
the ends; 1t will make 4 sore that will
act as vaccination. Those who try
this will never have any more blackleg.
The nellebore root may be hard to pro-
cure. | could not get 1t nearer than
Kansas City or st Louis.
David Shappee says sulphur has
proved effective in removing ticks.
His practice had been to feed little to
the sheep, mixing with salt in order to
make it palatable, and he sprinkled sui
phur dust also in the wool. This treat
ment had never failed to rid his sheep
Of ticks. He advised making the an.
E,lication in good weather, the best tine
in autumn before cold storms. When
the ticks are suffered 10 remain until
spring they make keeping sheep in thrift
more difficult. and while the anim1lS
after >hearlng would % clean of insects
It would be at the expense of trouble to
The lambs, ticks leaving the ewes and
taking refuge in the short wool of the
ambs.-E.t.
1.-The observations l have been able to
make during a res .dence of several years
1n a farm, have convinced me that the
common house wrenis really one of our
most valuable birds, not. perhaps, from
What they have done but from the pos
'ibilities wrapped upin their diminutive
} )GieS. They are quite as social as the
purple martin, or the blue bird and
greatly surpass either Of these in the
.apidity with which they increase. The
aInented DR.. Kennicot. stated that
single pair OF wrenS carried 10 their
you g about a thousand inse cts in
Jingle day! Like all ycung, rapidly
growing birds, they are known to be
eaters. living entirely upon
Insects. The point upOn which most
tress is laid is this: That providing
hem with nesting places in our gar
lens, orchards or grounds, and not
flowing chem to b: caught By cats or
cared away by mischieyous boys, We
nay have scores if not hundreds OF
hem about us during most OF the lime
u which inst cts are destructive. They
return TO the same locali-
les year after year. "ZEr.
One important feature of Ayrshire is
he peculiar quality OF her milk, being
rich in what is called solid
natter, thus enabling her TO hold high
position as general purpose COW.
Is milkman's COW, she IS satisfactory
10Th To producer and consumer. she
VII give, in the course OF q year. large
mount OF milk. She does rot start Cti
With an enormous quantity. and then
% dry a long time, but holds out well
lp to within about three months ot
alying, thus distributing her milk along :
through the year, and in the aggregate
living large amount The quality CT
he milk, too. Is satisfactory TO the con
inner, being rich, pleasant tasting anu
( good color.
These same qualities enable her To .
roduce cheese that for quality ami
uan'i V is sec)nd TO none; or IL II
GEMS desirable 10 devote the mix L"
utter making he viii find large re
urn of butter for the number OF Cow.