The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-18

on had better put thei.4 in the grease
tub or fling them ont OF the back door
and by all means ship your butter
fresh.
We have never been troubled with
the feas in seed beds when plants are
up; we mix SCOT and hen droppings to-
gether and give the plants good coat
ing when the dew is on. This is all that
| have ever found necessary. After
setting out, the green cabbage worm IS
our next enemy. The best and safest
remedy is Persian insect powder. The
best way to apply IL is with the insect
powder gun or bellows. The powder
NAV be diluted with ten times its bulk
of fiour or wood ashes, or it may also
be stirred in water and applied with
| sprinkler, with a fine rose, or with
| LIQUID atomizer bellows.-Ex.
A writer in the Michigan Farmer says
| that Scotch snuff is n sure remedy
against sheep pests. His directions TOT
applying it are the following: Open the
fleece in several places on esch side, or
all the way round them is the better,
and sift in little OF the snuff A
second application is seldom necessary
l have tried it and it proved satisfac-
factory. L is cheap and harmless, and
If you Will try il you will be SURPRISED
at the result, and would soon be willing
TO offer a prize for every tick found
upon your sheep.
The cheated term" is upon US, and
summer comrlaints. in the forms OF
cholera infantum. dlarrhea. and dy-
ssntery. prevail. Patients need, hrst
OF all. pure air; next, pure food, and
next a warm bath daily. When the
bowels are hot and painful, apply the
wet napkin. When there is gripping
pains without much heat. apply fomen-
tations. The diet tor infants should be
mothers milk only when possible, or
cows milk; with oatmeal, or finely
ground wheatmeal. well cooked, for
larger children. Very few children who
are not dTugged or oyerfed die of sum-
mer complaints.
Do not give the young turk vs. any
water for four or FIVE days. My favor
tie food for young turkeys is cornmeal
made into dough and cooked in the
ashes until it is veil done, then crum-
bled and made moist with sweet milk;
feed this until they are large enough to
eat wheat and milo maize: then feed
wheat and maize at night. Keep their
coops very clean and Dry; if they get
damp, clean out well and sprinkle with
dry dust or sand Make the coops so
the sun can shine IN them every day.
Never let young turkeys out in the dew
as il is very injurious TO them. Keep
them out of the rain when young, as
they cannot stand dampness. After
they are two months old they will not
be much trouble: they will then make
the greater part of their living for them
selves on grasshoppers and other in
sects.
II bee colony is weak, the stronger |
colonies will rob il. This may be pre- |
vented, however, by care. 1t is well |
known that when the entrance is large |
enough the stronger colony will attack |
the weaker in large force, rushing into |
the hive in such numbers as TO over |
power the inmates, and in short time |
all the honey will be carried off All |
colonies have guards at the entrance of
the hives, who examine every bee that /
attempts to pass in. These guards are |
relieved about every three hours, and /
they do nothing but attend the entrance. |
II the entrance is large tie task is more |
difficult, and the guards cannot give the |
alarm soon enough to prevent capture |
by 8 stronger colony. II, however, q |
strip be fastened over the entrance, and |
a space be left large enough for single |
bee to pass in and out, the guard will |
beat back the attacking party in detail /
and prevent any number OF the enemy |
from entering. II the colony has been |
depleted 10 such an extent as to render |
il very weak, il is b. Sc however, to al
low the stronger one TO absorb IL, as the |
members of the weaker colony that are |
not slain will join the others and work |
with them in the quarters from whence |
they came. leaving the hive ready for |
the first new swarm.
An English stockman makes a curl
Gus inquiry concerning ensilage, and /
advances a strange theory as to one of
its effects on breeding stock. Here are
his words: That ensilage Is a process
OF great value upon q breeding farm is
now established. Probably it is of /
greater promise as a security again; /
midsummer drouth than against winter !
scarcity. What seems most wanted is
that some persons who used il during /
last winter for breeding ewes and cows \
should report upon the effects of this |
kind of fodder upon fecundity. Several
circumstances have occurred to FIX in |
the writer's mind the belief that much.
may be done to combat the propensity |
70 bsrrenness (which inbred aud arti-
ficially reared animals certainly do fire. |
quently display; through great atten-
ton to diet; not merely to the amount |
and quality Of food all-tted TO the cat
tie, but 70 its condition The acidity Of
ensilsge cannot be an unimportant fac
tor, considering how acids are known TO I
affect the human constitution. 1t is
stated in the report of the Ho ker herd
that a young COW barren for three years
bred in 1886; it would be curious 70
know If ensilage feeding in any way
conductive to revive fertility. Change
OF scene and water is known frequently
to have succeeded in bring ng back idle
cattle to usefulness; it may very well be
that serving herd with fodder in an
unusual form may exercise considerable
influence upon its breeding condition"
'-Ez.