The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-02

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horses Ms they should be cared for Is
much more rare than the ability 10 be q
good bricklsyer or carpenter. or 10 do
any other purely mecnanis al work. To
succeed with horses a man must be ever
watchfnl of them: he must get TO know
| them and love them. Their health and
| comfort must be his constant care. and
grooming must be a labor of love, and
not tifesome duty. Especially do
horses need care alter a spell OF hard
work, and every humane master will at
such a time wipe them dry OF perspira-
ion. taking off the harur-S II possible.
to do 20 even If be has TO put 1t on
again Immediately. Let the legs, from
the knees and hooks down, be well hand
rubbed. and " fevered from ov rdriving.
they should be bandaged In wet clotus.
TO take away the heat. Attention 10
these little matters will not only stiniu-
late the horses aff, ction and gratitude.
but will preserve him in good health
and prolong his years OF usefulness
EI.
Ton years experience has taught Us
TO manage young turkeys about as fol-
lows: | say US. for what success we
have in raising the young is largely due
TO aid from my better half. We set the
turkey eggs under common hens. nine
70 a nest. allowing the young poults TO
remain in the nest twenty -four TO
thirty-six hours after Matching. Then
remove hen and brood TO vermin proof
coop: confine for three days. then al
low hen and brood unlimited range
Shut them in about shutdown and open
soon after sunrise; feed little and often
the first few weeks; hard boiled eggs
mixed with oat meal or stale bread
crumbs for Two or three days. then curd
mixed with bread crumbs, dandelion
leaves or onion tops. After ten days
some cracked grain might be added.
At SIX weeks feed any Of the small
grains, not emitting green food and the
mixed feed with curd in; occasionally
dust in the food, charcoal. sulphur, and
bone meal. When nearly grown feed
all the small grains and plenty of cab
bage cncumbers or any other green
food. For fattening Iced plenty of corn
or boiled barley; also q cooked mush
made of corn meal; or of raw corn
chopped and bran mixed with skinned
milk. Don't forget 10 fe d charcoal.
Don't coop to fatten. Nothing frets a
tnrkev like confinement. Bronze tur-
keys. if abundantly fed. will range but
little and fatten quickly. Keep the
Young pOults free from lice, chills and
wet weather.-RHral World.
Professor A. J. Cook, in the New York
Tribune. thus summarizes the life-his-
tory of the peach borer, The little white
caterpill rs, with sixteen legs, that eat
the bark and sapTood. often cirdling
peach trees Just beneath the earth. and
causing gum to oOze ont, re peach
bOrers. A beautiful. blue. wasp-like
moth lays eggs at the base of the trees
in July and August. These soon hatch
and the little larve begins TO feed on
the bark and sapwood. When winter
shuts in. they will be from a quarter to
nearly ihree-qusrters of an inch long.
Next June they will pupate in their own
chips. and the moth come again in July
and August. The sure way TO destroy
these harmful borers, is TO dig them out
IN September and again in Apri! or
May. In September, because II left
later, they will do much damage But
some are ut this time so small that tney
will escape notice. and hence the neces
sity of further search in April. Ashes
DO not prevent egg laying; the carbolIc
acid and soap mixture will. This |
should be rubbed on the base of the |
tree in July. have butlittle doubt tho |
kerosene and soap mixture. placed un- |
derground. close TO the tree, would kill |
the Larvae, though | have not tried IT, |
Cold will not Kill the trees because of |
wounds made in cutting out the borers, |
but the wounds will heal more quickly |
if they are well covered with grating |
wax.
Early potatoes may be obtained from |
every family garden, If the following /
plan is practicable, and il seems so.
Says the correspondent of an ex-
change: After continual trying I have
ae lusf fnrrnA r,nnrn hsah !.
better results than any other, anc I will
giye it 10 the public 30 they can try il
for themselves.
As early in spring as weather and eli
mate permit, 2low your land intended
for extra early potatoes shallow, in or
der 70 turn under the weeds and rub
Dish IL there are any. Then drag il and
mark il two and a half feet by eighteen
inches, and in the crossings OF the
marks drop your seed potatoes on top
of the ground; then cover with straw.
coarse manure. or litter 20 the depth OF
three and half or four inches. and YOU
sre done, as neither hoeing nor cuIuvat-
ing is needed. About the time Won
think there ought to be good sized POI
tatoes on the vines take a hay knife and
cut the covering in the middle between
the hills both ways, which will enable
you to lift up the COY ering from one side
and extract the large tubers without dis
turbing the plants in any way. After
Won have accomplished this. press down
the covering as solid rs possible. and
, GU nor any one else can tell by the ap-
pearsnce of The vines which have been
and which not.
In this way you not only get early
potatoes, hut You also secure large
Weld, for the little potatoes are setting
AZ sin sf'er the larger ones have been
In 1881. 1 planted first on this plan.
I had piece of land about four rods
Iong. on the base about three rods wide
and running to point, thus forming n
piece OF about six square rods. From
this we used all We needed for family
consisting OF five persons. all summer
long. and in the fall harvested about
eight bushels Of splendid potatoes
Several OF my neighbors have tried this
plan. and 20 my certain knowledge have
succeeded as well as ] have.