The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-25
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Devoushires- Rad H"ofs-Beeswax-
Fall Oats-Sporadie cholera
Economy Cakes.
INDOORS AND OUT.
HINTS AND NOTES FOB ALL.

Keep no more animals than can be
comfortably accommodated; otherwise
they prove an expense rather than pro
htable.
Dust is best removed from silk by the
use of soft flannel; from velvet il
should be removed by brush specially
made for the purpose.
With chicks any looseness of the
! bowels tends toward cholera. Those 50
affected should be allowed no Wa er and
should be given boiled milk.
Oil cloth should never be cleaned
with sOapsuds or with a brush; il
should be wiped with a clean cloth
wruDg out of milk and water.
It's a mistaken idea that a horse
must be kept in fear with the whip He
must first be taken in hand to learn the
70 &c. and gradually be made 10 under
stand by example the meaning of what
is said to him. Teaching horse is Just
like teaching child.
II freshly ground meal is put in bar
rels or boxes at once, there is danger OF
| its heating. and thus becoming injured.
To prevent this. run the broom handle
/ into the barrel or box several times clear
to the bottom. A number of round
holes will thus be left, which will serve
as vents, and prevent the meal from
heating.
Sporadic cholera has been treated
successfully with the following plain
and simple remedy: pills Of the extract
I of dandeliOn (TdrGIOctiHs deus'eonis), of
mandrake (POdOphyllUm peEtdtum), of
| butternut, (Tu9ldns ciHeTeGl. and of
! blood root (SlRquinITiuS cdnddensis)
eqnsl parts, mixed with Capsicum and
tie -four Of slippery elm Uinus fulUd J
with ablutons of sal soda water, etc. =
Rx.
When the long black squash bug
makes its appearance, look the leaves
carefully over. and the eggs will be
/ found deposited on the under side.
These can readily be destroyed and the
vines saved. The old bugs may also
be caught by placing a shingle on the
ground close to the vine. Al night the
bugs wilt crawl under it, and can easily
be captured and destroyed in the morn
| ing.
Sheep racks that are made for sheep
to fesd from both sides should have the
4.
made of Stats about four inches apart
and nearly vertical. II there is much
slant the chaff will fall from the upper
portion on TO the necks of the sheep
when they are feeding at the bottom.
Outside of this there should be box to
catch what drops, for il is natural for a
shee' to take q mouthfdl and step back
to eat L.
Pure beesTax is obtained from the
ordinary kind by exposure TO the in
The wax is sliced into thin fakes and
laid on-sscEing or coarse cloth stretched
on frames resting on posts to raise them
from the ground. The wax is turned
over frequently, and occasionally
sprinkled with soft water if there be
not dew or rain sufficient to moisten it.
The wax should be bleached in about
four weeks.
Fall oats were quite generally injured
by the severe weather in January, but
where the land has not been plowed since
an occasional stalk of oats may be found
which has survived the cold. 1t would
be well TO tage care Of these, and gather
them carefully when ripe. Their sur
vival indicates q hardness Of conStitu-
ton which viii stand extreme cold, and
a very desirable strain of winter oats
might be propagated from them. The
matter Is worthy of trial..
The ingredients should be all finely
e Ound and Will mixed together, allow
ing them TO lie in a dish or on a board
twenty-four hours, when they should
be put in tins or jars. The cost of all
should not be more than 80 cents. and
there will be two pounds of condiment
which cannot be purchased anywhere.
A dessertspoonful of this should be
given in the soft food for each score OF
hens on wet or cold mornings, and a
tsaspoonful for twenty chickens.
Stephen Beale. in Country Gentleman.
gives the following recipe for condi-
j mentfood.