The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-10
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard, Garden
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOB ALL.
rail- PIantfng-Preventin Smut-Fat-
tening TurkeYs-POtatoe Cheese
BOils-SCalds-Etc

When washing the Woolens, try a
small quantity of borax in the water
and see how it will help the work.
TIE weight of testimony is strongly
against washing butter. If washed at
All use pickle, never ice water or fresh
water.
Work your butter down hard, fire
and Waxy with the wooden worker.
Never allow the hands to come in con
tact with the butter. Use a sponge TO
remove the moisture IN working.
Merit in The individual cow is quite
as important, perhaps, as the class 70
which she belongs. the best COW OF Any
breed is as much above the average as
the poorest COW OF the same breed is
below 1t.
Common soda IS excellent for scOEr-
ing tin. it win not scratch the tin, and
viii make it look like new. Apply with
. niece of moistened newspaper ana
noish with a dry piece. Wood ashes
are good substitute.
When the color of silks has been
DESTROYED by any strong acid, 1t may be
restored by carefully Welting the spot
with strong soap latheT, TO which
little ssleratus has been added. When
the color has been taken out by fruit
stains ammonia will restore 1t.
In pairing potatoes or apples, we are
apt to cut our thumbs, more or less, not
deeplv enough 10 render the place sore,
and dish-washing, sewing, etc, are
uncomfortable for several days after
wards Pinning little strip of muslin
around the thumb when beginning the
pairing, will cost nothing, and entirely
protect the thumb.
Break in the colts when they are
quite young; they can be handled more
easily then. A colt three or four
weeks old can be learned 70 lead by the
halter, or to stand hitched, with far
less trouble than one two Or three years
old: get them used to the halAesS-
haudle their feet, etc /; in a word. have
them thoroughly broken when quite
young; only remember they are yOung,
and do not put them TO any 1Oork.
Boils are always an infection of pain
and annoyance. DR.. GOurgueS recon-
mends an ointment of tCur parts OF
fnely-pOWdered bOracic acid, One-half
part of benzoic acid, and twenty parts
Of vasseline. Itprompuy relieves pain,
and causes the disappearance of the
boil in three or four days. DR. Cham
OiOnierre also recommends a somewhat
similar ointment of the same strength,
and with the addition Of Peru balsam
about five parts) TO give 1t an agreeable
1dor, as an ef6cacious remedy Tor super
icial wounds, etc.
A more extensive use OF apples as food
at our meals will do much TO diminish
dyspepsia and biliOusness. Tney arr
.'loosening," and therefore tend 10
remove constipation-a prominent
cause of digestive arrangements. The
acid Of this iruit-one of the very best
known In aid Of digestirn-aCtS favora-
bly, on the liver, causing it to secrete the
bile, which is na[ure's catharIic, thus
this constipation While
eating them between meals must
derange the stomach-like the use Of all
food at that time-they are really very
food.
The following are approved cements
Tor joining marble and other stones: 1.
Soak plaster of Pans in saturated
solution of alum, then bake it in an
oven las gypsum is baked to make
plaster of Paris), and grind to fine
powder. 1t is then to ba used as
wanted. being mixed with water like
plaster, and applied. 1t "sets" into
very hard composition, and adheres
firmly. 1t may be used also for joining
glass to metal. 2. Clean riVer-sand,
twenty parts; itharge, two parts;
qulcklime, enc part; linseed-oil suth-
Gent to form a thin paste. This will
hold together pieces of stone, and after
time it becomes exceedingly hard snd
strong.
An old turkey raiser gives the follow
ing experiment. -Four turkeys were
Ied on meal, boiied potatoes and oats.
Four others of the same brood were
also as the same time confined In
another pen and fed daily on the same
article, but with one pint Of very finely
Pulverized charcoal mixed with their
Iood-mixed meal and boiled potatoes.
They had also a plentiful supply of
SSn9,srooal In their pen. The eight we're
NSlled on the same day, and there was
HlIerence Of one and half pounds each
IN favor of the fouls which had been
supplied with charcoal, they being much
1850 flA4O bA4- hAAOoS 1CAAE
favor.
| have had no experience in spring
i nhest fields, but when q boy on my
1atner's farm in New York, the winter
meat growers were greatly troubled
win smut; 1 might say everybody
except the few who followed my fathers
pan. 1t was this: Simply moiSten the
nneat thoroughly, sprinkle slaked lime
EYER the pile, a few bushels at a time,
9su-oVeIlng 1t over until it is thoroughly
liked. Not a head of smut ppeared
u slI ms held. On one occasion, 1 remem-
o Ut ne was short of lined wheat for
rGoUV an acre, and finished the field
. "1.n Hnttmed wheat of the same variety,
al, Ttu from the same bin, Result, little
zeal ,neaI on that acre, but full crop OF
--1U'' The lime should be tried.-Er.
h., " hen the flock has received no grain
:; 3u' corn the hens soon begin 70 refuse
. ms ms may particularly be noticed If
; ANAL Slllau quantity of oats and wheat be
CIV oao%h before them. They will at once
SJsef!y seize the grains of oats and
" nIeat, leaving the corn untouched. This
- jb,;ateates That the hens REQUIRE some
fTor,Ss else than that which they derive
o 1or ni.t me corn, such as the phosphates
for IlVfogen. After feeding oats or wheat
o.: while the hens will leave those
S.olus ana eat largely of corn. The nrO-