The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-29
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
HoIsteins-Colts-HasPberriss-ApPle
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Stry chime.
INDOORS AND OUT.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL,

Unsunned rooms cause unsound
health.
The milk must be clean to get good
To remove mildew, soak in butter
milk and spread on the grass IN the
sun.
SEARCHED shirts will iron easier If they
are allowed TO dry after starching. so
that they reg ire spr.nkling before IRON
ing.
1t is now pretty we'll settled that bees
want and ought TO have salt, and CLEAN
ings in bee culture suggests salt brine
poured on sawdust placed near the
hives.
Egg mullins should be MADE as fol-
lows: One and a half pints -four. half
tablespoonful each lard. sugar and salt,
three eggs, one pint OF milk, two table
spoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in
hot oven fifteen minutes.
Carriages and farm wagons might be
made To last twice as long il only few
moments were spent each week during
the wet weather in Tightening mp the
bolts that hold the wagon together.
Where the hens are confined the best
grass for them Is that which is taken
from the Lawn mower. and especially II
it Is cut in short lengths. The lawn is
usually seeded with mixed grass seed.
and the hens can therefore be given d
variety. but white clover is BEST
Rheumatic and neuralgia pains can
be relieved by the following mixture:
One ounce each Of aqua ammonia and
alcohol. Dose. a email teaspoonful
taken in a wineglassful Of water three
times 4 day after meals. -Four doses are
generally effective.
A growing inability to sleep in sick
ness is ominous of fatal result; in Ep-
parent health it indicates the failure of
the mind and madness; so, on the other
hand, in disease or dementia, verv
slight improvement IN the sleeping
should De hailed as the harbinser OF
restoration.
The American Bee Journal says tansy
strewn around the hives is recommend
ed bv some bee keepers to keep ants and
reaches away. A sponge wet with
sweetened water might be put in a wire
cage to destroy them. Borsx. salt or
gum camphor, or powdered cloves scat
tered where the ants or reaches congre-
gate, Will drive them away.
Sage custard is both nourishing and
palstable. 1t is made by soaking two
tablespoonfuls OF sag1 in half pint of
cold water for an hour ana half, then
boiling il in the same water until il
looks clear; add q tumbler of sweet
milk, and let this boil for minute or
two. and sugar TO your taste; when
taken from tie nre add one well beaten
| egg and favor TO taste.
Too msny farmers get less good than
/ they might from their pear orchards.
because they allow the fruit 10 ripen on
the trees as they would apples. Few
pears will be at their best If treated
thus. Pincked when fully grown, and
l kept in q warm or cool room as their
ripenlng is desired 10 be fastened or re-
| tarded, the color and favor Of the fruit
will be much better than it would if al
lowed TO remain on the tree. Some OF
/ the best sorts rot 81 the core IL left on
/ tn, trees until the fruit begins 20 turn.
Look out for the BLACK knot" on the
plum and cherry trees, says the Farm
| journal. These knots are caused by
vegetable parasite called "Sphaeria Nor
! bosa." IL deyelopes from spores which
are waited about by the wind. No tree
] =
/ affected. When once affected il viii
not take long for the whole tree TO be
come US less. The only remedy for this
! evil is to cut of all the affec' ed branches
! and burn them. Nothing short Of burn
I ing will ill the parasite.
Raspberries are very nice for winter
use, bat / find il more convenient TO
keep them dried than canned. / pre-
pare them by sprinkling sugar over
them on plates. and then dry in the
stove oven, after the FIRE is pretty well
down, so as not TO scorch them They
are quickly dried, snd when done can
be packed away in Jars or even in thicK
paper bags. They are excellent for
sauce in winter. and make good pies
I and puddings. The only precautions
requisite are not 10 store them IN a
damp place, and 10 cover closely. so as
TO keep out insects.
Breaking a sitting hen has been 4
problem, and hundreds of suggestions
have been made in regard 70 the best
method. Many Of the proposed RENE
/ dies are cruel and infiict unnecessary
punishments on the Dor hen for simply
! endeayoring to satisfy her natural in
clinaiion. The easiest mode is 70 make
a box composed OF strips Of lath. If
lath, which Is cheaper, nave Top, sloeS
and bottom of that material, and place
I the box on some kind of support. so
/ that il will not touch background. or
suspend il from hook. There being g
/ free circulation Of air all around her,
she will soon become disgusted.
Buttermilk biscuits are excellent il
mixed-as the successful painter did his
colors-' with brains" A heavy band
and heavy wits can result in nothing
but sodden selidity. onequart OF -four.
one teaspOonful of soda sif:ed three
times with the -four. and teaspooniul
/ of salt, one pint OF really sour butter
milk, one tablespoonful .ot melted but
ter. sift -four. soda and SAT- iRto q
bowl, stir butter and milk together ana
pour into a hole in the flour; MIX
quickly and with as little harding as
possible. Be careful on this point, sl-o.
not 10 get the dough too stiff. Have
your oven ready and hot. As soon as
the biscuits are cut out put them IN and
bake.
Holsteins VIII probably give greater
ouarsfr- IF milk than any Orner OrecO