The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-02
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Prolific Potatoes Ducks Turkeys
GroomiDg-rraciug Paper
Cough syrup.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.

| wipe not 0aL-lrOnS on a.clOln WEI
with kerosene 10 prevent them seorch-
ing.
To clean ivory, rub it with bicarbon-
ate Of sodium applied by means OF q
toothbrush dipped in warm water.
New tins should be set over the fire
with boiling water in tEem for several
hours before food is put into them.
Baked milk Is very nutritious. Put
a halt gallon of milk in jar. aud tie il
down with writing paper. Let il stand
in n moderate oven eight or ten hours.
II will then be like cream.
To keep insects out of bird cages. tie
mp a little sulphur in bag and suspend
II IN the cage. Red ants will never b.
found in a closet or drawer. il q small
bag of sulphur be kept III those places.
Keep all stable manure out of the
strawberry patch. unless you know IL 10
be tolerably free from weed seeds. II l.
cheaper to buy and apply commercial
! fertilizers than to be pulling weeds all
summer.
The flea beetle that eats the leaves OF
the radish and young cabbage and cauli
flower plants must be kept in check by
frequent Swinging with water, or by
spflnkling ashes, SCOT, or air-slaked
lime over the plants.
Waterproof varnish can ne made
with one pint of turpentine, one and q
half plnts of linsced oil, seven ounces
of litharee, one ounce OF sugar OF lead.
Strain and apply with a brush to linen
or calico and dry in the sun or in a
warm place.
Bread pudding is an economical way
Of disposing of dry bits of bread or
cake. Place in baking dish, cover with
milk, and soak several ht urs on back OF
stove; three or four eggs beaten lightly.
sugar, salt, flavoring; add TO the soaked
bread, stirring carefully, that it may
not be too finely broken, add more milk
if necessary and bake.
Coughs are frequently arising from
col0s, and this recipe for q cough syrup
is so excellent that ii should always be
kept on hand in every family: One
ounce thoroughwort. one ounce slippery
elm bark. one ounce extract OF licorice.
one ounce fiaxSeed. Simmer together
in one quart of water unit the strength
I is thorouhlY extracted. Strain careful
| ". Add one pint be. n0lasses and one
half pound of iosI sugar; simmer
them all together and when cold. bottle
tight. Dose: one tablespoonful as often
as the case seems 10 demand.
Ducks grow very fast and require fire.
quent feeding. For that reason they
should be fed often. and the more nour-
ishing the food the better. Give soft
food for the first month. with grain,
ami plenty of grass and meat. Ducks
are very yoracious, which induces some
10 suppose that they are improbable.
but no reed is lost. They make up for
it IN rapid growth, and the cost OF the
food need not exceed five cents per
pound. This figure is the result of act
ual experiment, and what has been
demonstrated by one can be accom-
plished by others.
1t is well known fact that colony
of bees cannot long exist without a
queen. and she must be such an one as
has met a drone and become fortified
in order TO lay eggs that will produce
working bees; these are essential to the
welfare OF the whole colony. The
queen. If prolific, is capable of laying
1000 or 5000 eggs daily during the
honey harvest. Just in the same ratio
as the eggs are deposited in the cells by
the queen. so they will hatch out and
become full grown bees in twenty-one
days. Queens over Two years old are
apt TO become barren, and should be
superseded with one Of greater yigor
ar d more prolific.
A stock OF bees destitute of q queen
will usually protect their drones. hence
we advise ali who desire 20 save their
drones known to be pure to place them
in 4 queenlsss colony Of bees. The
drones are the male bees and are only
useful for mating with the young queens
at swarming time, which operation
usually takes place on the wing in the
afternoon on the day the queen is five
days old; however much depends upon
twenty -four days to hatch the drone |
from the egg and twenty-one for hatch |
ing the worker bee, and only sixteen |
days for Matching the queen.
A convenient method for rendering |
ordinary drawing paper transparent |
for the purpose of making tracings and |
of removing its transparency, so as % /
restore its former appearance when the 4
drawing is comnleted. has been invent
ed by Mr. Puscher. IL consists IN dis 4
solving a given quantity Of castor oil IN
one. two or three volumes of absolute l
alcohol. according 10 the thickness OF
the psper. and applying il by means OF 1
a sponge. The alcohol evaporates il /
few minutes and the tracing paper l. 1
dry and ready for immediate use. The /
drawing and tracing can be made either 4
with lead pencil or Indian ink and the |
oil removed from the paper by miners
ing 1t in absolute alcohol. thus restoring |
its original capacity. The alcohol EN-
ployed in removing the first oil Is, of
course, reserved for diluting the oil used |
in preparing tie next sheet.
Grass lands and lawns are often in
Tested with the larval grub Of the May
beetle, or Ldchnosternd fiiscd. This vor- |
acious fellow is commonly known as the |
white grub" and is supposed TO re-
main in the lsryal state. in the ground. |
two or three years. 1t devours the
roots of different plants. but is especial
ly destructive 70 the grasses. Its pres
ence is made known BY the appearance.
in patches. Of dead and bleaching
grasses. and then is the time to attack |
the de2redator. Ny method has been !
TO pierce the sod with a steel bar 10 the |
depth of about six inches. and TO make |
the perforations the same distance |
apart. Into these holes | pour caustic I,
lime wash, from the spout OF a water
ing pot and the pulpy fellow is done !
for Altar A lanse Of a feu days the de- ]