The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-31
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard, Garden
and Household.
HINTS AMI NOTES FOR ALL.
Protecting T ees - Peach YeIl0Ws
Storing Apples-Cream-
Chilblain 3.
rs AMI NOTES FOR ALL.

Damptd soda will usually remove
fruit stains from the hsnds.
If you feel "out of sorts" try the
effect of apples and abstinence as
remedies.
Honey may be taken to advantage in
the early stages of diptheria, also for
coughs and colds.
When eggs are scarce remember that
one tablespoonful OF cornstaTch will
take the place of an egg in sDything you
cook.
Lay the green peel of a cucumber
where the cockroaches will get at it.
They will eat greedily of the poisonous
juice and die.
Keep carbolic acid always convenient
! tor use. 1t is one of the best disinfect-
eradIcators that can be used. A small
quantity need only be applied at a time.
Cooked celery is said to be specific
! for rheumatism. Cut the celery into
! fine pieces and boil it until soft. The
patient should drink the water in which
it is cooked. Serve the celery hot upon
! toast.
For the violent internal agony termed
collie, take teasponful of salt in a pint
of water; drink it and go to bed. It is
one OF the speediest remedies known.
| The same will relieve q person who
seems almost dead from heavy fall.
Dr. V. Poulain believes that the rea-
son that cows milk so often disagreeS
with children is to be found in the fact
that cane-sugar is used to sWeeten it.
He says that for thirty-three years he
has used the sugar of milk with the best
possible results.
Ny neighbor says he can buy good
horse-manure at the stables, few miles
from here, at $1.o0 per load. Successful
market gardening requires about eighty
loads of such manure per acre, " sich at
SLIGO each for the manure, and so cent
for carting, would call for an outlay of
S120. Manure at this rate must be con
sidered very cheap.-Ex.
The following, for chilblains, is a sure
cure: Take handful of dried pesch
leaves and pour boiling water on them,
and let them stand till cool enough not
to burn the patient, then place the feet
in that water fifteen minutes. Do this
two or three times and it will effect
cure. Gather the leaves before the frost
touches them.
Cows should be turned out little
while every day for exercise, no matter
how cold the weather may be. If
confined in stables day and night, thew
cannot develop heat to resist chilling
winds, and will shiYer at the slightest
draught of air. Farmers recognize the
necessity for exercising horses in winter,
but small amount of exercise is equally
important for COWS. It may slightly
diminish the flow of milk, but the
animals health will be improved, and
she will be better breeder.
Your trees should be protected from
| the winds by having a mound of earth
at the base, in the form of shary cone,
twelve to fifteen inches high This will
also serve as a protection from the
attacks of mice. When the snow
becomes deep enough to cover the
mound, mice may work under it while
it is light, and then the proper thing TO
| be done is TO tread the snow around the
tree with the foot. To prevent rabbits
from gnawing trees, go to the slaughter
house and get pail of blood, and with
wisp Of grass or brush, smear the
trees from the ground upward and
beyond their reach. This is perfect
| protection, as these animals have a
great aversion of blood.
Cream must not be allowed to freeze
in winter. If necessary keep it in the
house to prevent this; in this case it
must be covered tightly with several
folds OF clean linen, to prevent the odors
of cooking, ETC., penetrating it. As
milk and cream do not sour naturally
in winter, and cream set for butter
should always be soured Immediately it
will be necessary to cover closely by the
IRE, bowl OF new milk until sour, and
add 1t 10 the cream. Well favored
butter that will keep, cannot be made
from sweet cream, but the cream must
be, as it is termed, "sweet-sour. " Cream
that is not kept properly stirred and
aided well, will become, mouldy and
rancid, entirely losing the "sweet-sour"
so necessary to the making of good
butter. The churn should ALWAYS be
thoroughly scald% before churning.
and in winter it should be slightly warm
when the cream goes in.
One of my friends who has made
apple orcharding the practice study of a
lifetime, and who has at least twenty
i've acres IN bearing trees, raises from
one to tive thousand bushels of apples
annually, has explained to me his bro
cess OF preparing, preserving and keep
ing his fruit for market, which | think
worthy of being generally understood.
His apples are harvested when fuIly
ripe, being carefully picked from the
tree separately by hand, and placed in
small baskets, so as to guard against
bruises as much as possible, and special
care is exercised in handling them
throughout. at the approach of cold
weather they are placed in huge bins in
the house cellar, where they remain
until wanted for market. The windows
of the cellar are so arranged as TO open
and close easily, and when the weather
admits, air Is kept constantly changing
fresh and new to supply the place of the
old. By means of Thermometers the
temperature is kept from two to four
degrees above freezing when possible.
but pure air being an especial element.
Ed.
/ The Ohio Farmer has the subject. how
to make hens lay eggs.-Put two or
more quarts of water into a kettle. and
one large seed pepper or two small ones,
then put the kettle over the fire. When
| the water h0ils stir in emma oo,reo