The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-31

NO ScHoOl Is more necessary 10 emu
rem than patience. because either the
Will must be broken in childhood, or the
heart in old age.-Rtchter. af
Poultry require salt as well as an
imals. A few pinches of salt in the
SOFT food, will make the food more
highly relished. as well as assisting di-
gesticn. and Keeping the hens in con-
dltion. Poultry, asa rule, do not re-
ceiYe sufficient salt, which IS a mistaken
practice. -aassfa.
A GOOD sized onion eaten raw, daily
for week or ten days, will cure the
painful cat-boils that manv persons are
liable to during the spring aud summer
months. This is simple remedy, but
1 very effective in purifying the blood and
graduating the tendency to these
boils.-Ez, f.aa
| The following method is recommend
ed by lady .housekeeper, to clean and
disinfect. carpets and as preventive
lof moths: Add three tablespoonfuls of
turpentine to three quarts of water
Saturate a large sponge with this mix
ture, squeeze it about two thirds dry,
and go over the carpet carefully. As
often as the sponge becomes dirty,
cleanse it., and take in fresh supply
of water.
One of the best uses to which the hens
may be applied. is that of scratching
the manure heap. They not only
find worms, grubs, and grains, as well as
other desirable matter. but they render
the manure fine, and keep themselves
in exercise. If the fine manure be re-
moved occasionally SO as to expose
the under layers of coarse material,
/ the hens will make it much more ser
viceable for gardenpurposes, where fine
SMALL seeds are to be sown.
Many ills arise from the wet condition
of the barns and barnyards in winter.
Foot rot in sheep, distemper in horses
and cattle, with coughs in pigs, all
come from too much filth and mud in
the barnyards and pig pens. While it
is not best TO drain the liquid manures
away, which should be absorbed by
some absorbent material, yet the
surroundings should be so arranged as
| to prevent as much water as possible
from reaching tho places where the an
finals resort.
Few orchards have the original num-
Der of trees as planted without break.
Nor is it generally best that they
should have. The vacant spaces are
now probably so filled with roots
that young tree would stand but little
chance. Instead of putting fly cents
in new tree, draw load of manure
where the missing tree stood, SO that
| its neighbors OH each side can get
their roots at it. This extra attention
will yield more and better fruit from the
trees now in bearing than can be got
by planting new ones. In fact, the /,
tac urIsh nroh a rHG x
that their owner has more trees than |
he is able to properly care for.-Er.
The nutritive value of beans is very
great, greater than almost any other ar.
ticle of food in common use. consider-l
ing their richness they are probably
the cheapest food we have, bnt some.
what difficult of dige stion, probably
owing to the fact that we rarely cock
them enough and masticate insufficient
ly. In preparing beans for the table
they should first be wall soaked in cold
water. then thrown into boiling water
and cooked of a medium consistency,
between fluid and solid, nei her too
thick nor too thin. They require some
acid when eaten, and q sufficient
amount of salt to lder them palatable.
They may be eaten with potatoes or
other vegetables which contain more
starch and less albumen rather than
too much bread or meat.-Er.
A successful Pennsylvania farmer be-
lieves red clover the most valuable OF
vegetables as a green manure or d
mulch. Sowing late in the spring on
wheat lands, and narrowing it down
with a common harrow, which will not
hurt the wheat, in his judgement pro-
duces the best results. Glover growth
is helped by lime and plaster. II
Large quantities of nitrogen are con-
tanned in the earth and air. and clover
absorbs nitrogen more than any other
plant. The plant and air work together
in furnishing an exhaustless supply of
food for all kinds of food plants.
Wheat and other cereals cannot OBJ
tain enough nitrogen from the air to
sustain them, but clover and other
plants with dense foliage can do so, and
when they are plowed down will furnish
nitrogen and other plant food for the
cereals.-E5. a
The following recipe is excellent for
the cure of roup or cankers; Put us
much of the chlorate of potash into
drinking water as will dissolve, with
tincture OF iron to color a little; and
teaspoonful cayenne pepper (powdered)
to two quarts of water; also cayenne
pepper two tablespoonfuls, and -four OF
sulphur four tablespoonfuls to four
quarts of meal, to be given In the morn.
ing. Keep broken charcoal and coal
ashes or gravel constantly before the
fowls. Give plenty of raw onions chop,
ped fine, and other greens. Don't fail
to have dry and comfortable quarters,
well ventilated, avoiding dampnesss at
all times. In bad cases give one half
of castor oil and coal ashes,
equal quantities, well mixed, Wash
the mouth and nostrls with
of potash water, using
small brush.-E1.
Says correspondent of the American IN
experience OF many years
in pea growing leads me to the conciu-
sion that the same varieties may vary
so much in different years as to g.ye tue
that they were very diner
ent kinds.
Some kinds should be planted tnlch
and others thin. had an Illustration
of this last year with Carriers FlTst
Crop peas that we're in bloom and nau
pods well set with peas when the Iros.
ha frnSt SrOD-l