The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-06
The Farm, orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Bees-slobbering Horses
Disinfectant

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teeth, and must be supplied with san6
and gravel IN order to carry on the wori
OF grinding the food.
The great secret of sweeping without
making big dust is 20 have damp
broom, take short sweeps and keep the
broom near the floor.
II little chicks get troubled with lice
dip your fingers in kerosene oil and rub
il on the tops of their heads. l have
found it an effectual remedy. and 1t doe:
not affect the chickens in the least.
Whole cloves are now used to exter-
inmate the merciless and industrious
moth. 1t is said they are more ehectu-
al as destroying agent than either to-
bacco. camphor or cedar shavings.
The French method OF administering
castor oil 10 children is to pour the oil
into a pan over q moderate fire, break
an egg into it and stir up: when it is
done flavor with little salt or sugar or
current jelly.
The practice of pegging down ever
blooming roses so that they will cover
known to produce very pleasant results.
proves quite satisfactory.
Early cut hay is the best. do not
mean cut when half grown, but Just in
its prime, before the seed has developed
and the stalks become woody. Hay
that stands until it goes to seed before
cutting, is but little. If any. better than
straw.
To prepare an egg for sick person,
beat the egg until very light; add sea
sonIng to taste, and then steam until
thoroughly warmed through. This will
not take more than two minutes. The
most delicate stomach will be able to
digest it.
There is no mystery about making
neats-foot oil. The only thing necessary
is TO boil in a kettle as many cattle's
feet and hoofs as can be obtained, aud
skim off the oil until no more rises.
From the four feet OF one animal a pint
OF oil is generally obtained, and il is
well worth the trifing cost of making
il.
Cheese bars are 4 very edible pastry.
Make them from. the pieces left over
when making pies. Cut strips three
inches long and two inches wide.
ed cheese and the merest dust of cay
enne. fold the fpastry lengthwise over
this. sift cheese on the top, and bake
quickly. Eat while warm.
The only cheap fertilizer available in
the sense of getting valuable material
at a low cost, is our barn manures.
These are rich in material, and all they
cost is the saving. No farmer among
US has been able to make his business
success and neglect this cheapest of all
sources Of supply OF the material
wherewith to keep up the fertility of
the soil.
If your bees are weak. give them
frame of brood from a strong hive.
Knock on the hive several times, five
Eefore opening it. All feeding
and manipulating should be done in the
evening, so that II any uproar is started
in the apiary, you will have the dark to
assist your retreat. II one is naturally
nervous, it best to wear bee veil at
first and when manipulating the colonies
work gently and avoid jarring or fret
ting them.
Butter has a great affinity for odors.
If in cellar with roots and vegetables
it is bound to absorb more or less of the
matters. If placed in a re-
frigerator with kitchen viands. il will
get an odor from all, and is the worst
place it could be put. Cream is still
worse in its love of companionship of
things. Keep your butter
and cream away from all odors possible.
There has nothing vet been found as
good as the old-fashioned milk-house
with running spring.
Chicken cholera can be cured, as 1
know from experience. After trying
several remedies. finally used stroug
tea made of white oak bark, which |
used in the drinking water as a proven |
tive. When a fowl was taken sick |
used it pure, giving several teaspoon'uls |
at time, four or five times day. |
have taken fowls so far gone that they |
we're past eating or drinking, and cured /
them in a few days with this simple |
remedy. As disinfectant 1 use crude |
carbolic acid, pouring it on boards in |
the chicken house and on the perches, |
coops, etc, or anywhere that the fowls |
frequent. If you viii try this plan for |
! while, removing all infected fowls |
from the flock, and keep the surround
ngs clean. you viii soon get rid of the
Housekeepers who have not a carpet /
sweeper can hardly realize what they /
are missing. The implement makes /
light of the daily work of taking up the |
lust and dirt from carpets. It can be
rolled back and forth by a child or weak
person who cannot handle broom.
The dirt is gathered up by rotating
brush, which receives its motion from
he movement Of the sweeper. An
)ther point; little or 10 dust is stirred
ID in the room to settle again, reduir-
ng later brushing or wiping up. The
evolving brush is encased, and the
gathered dust is deposited in the case,
n a way that saves il from being circu-
aied and deposited again. on carpets
md furniture. Such a sweeper is far
eSs wearing TO the carpet than is a
room, and viii last for years.
As the cheated term" approaches.
.xpect congestion of the liver, asthma
lie attacks" and cholera morbus.
is possible. Headaches will
fleet those who are very bilious.
Abov~ all things keep the bowels free,
~ means OF little common sense ex-
'rcised in the matter of dist and exer-
use. Use a greater proportion of
yatery vegetables and juicy fruits. and
ess 81 the more 81 lid foods. Berries