The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-28
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard, Garden
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Peach Pruning-PlantiDg Seeds-CaSp
Food-Spring Chickens-Gin-
ger-Felons.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.

Cottonwood oil is excellent for occa-
sionally oiling the hoofs of the horses
which seem dry, brittle and hard. Use
it frequently when the boot is IN that
condition.
About forty apple trees to an acre are
sufficient, and these should branch low.
Never neglect thinning out the crop.
There is not any danger OF applying
too much manure TO the soil for apples
1t is not advisable, or profitable, to
keep poultry in very large fiocks, for
even with the best of care and food it
will be found impossible to keep them
thrifty and healthy for any considerable
length of time.
Hon. Hiram Smith, the great Wiscon-
sin dsiryman, does not find exercise
essential to the health of his COWS. He
only turns them out in the pleaSahtest
winter weather and he does not allow
them to run dry more than three or
four weeks,
Pimpies on any part of the body gen.
orally yield to a treatment consisting of
an abstinence from fatty food and the
use of some blood purifying medicine,
as mixture of sulphur cream tartar
and molaSses, or q small pinch of sui
phur in a glass of milk two or three
times week.
To destroy earth worms, in flower
pots mix little shell lime in the water
you use for it, at the rate of twenty
gallons to the half peck of pure, I'M
Stacked lime. Let it settle and water
with the clear liquid. After experience
ing the caustic properties of the solution
no worm can turn.-E1.
Plant the peach on high loamy soils
and use potash and the phosphates, A
solution of four gallons of Stacked lime.
two-quarts of clay, and two quarts of
fresh COW dung, thinned to proper
consistency, makes good wash. Apply
this to the trunks of the trees in May
and August, but at least every spring.
Those who do not care to run an in
cubator to hatch their spring chickens,
will find the hen turkey very good
substitute. The turkey has this advan-
tage: that she takes the place of both
incubator and brooder. The turkey is
a persistent sitter, makes good mother,
and will cover successfully nearly twice
the number of eggs as will an ordinary
hen, and care for three times the num-
Der of chickens.
A writer in the Eastern Medical Jour
nal says that the medical idea of tea
spoonful is one fluid dram. This is, in
fact, about the measurement of that
article as used by our grandmothers.
But this and the dessert spoon are now
made so much larger. than formerly
that they hold nearly two drains, and
people who measure medicine by them
overdose themselves. The tablespoon
remains as in the old days.
Ginger is adulterated with meal, rice
flour. starch, cayenne pepper, and man
lila rope. Ginger root has very fine.
hair-like fiber running through it, and |
this is found in the ground article.
Country people will not buy it unless
they see the fbers, and bits of manila !
rope are used to take their place in the
false arucie; The cayenne pepper
makes the taste sharper. A drop of |
ammonia will expose this compound bv |
turning it red. Chrome yellow, pois-
onous substance, is sometimes used for |
coloring.-Er. "a go
l wish to tell those who may suffer
from that terrible affection, felons of a
painless remedy that will effect per
feet cure in twenty-four hours, as l
have had occasion to prove within the
last three days. A lady came to me who
had been suffering over two weeks with |
a felOn on the end of her middle finger.
saturated bit of wild turnip the Size
OF a bean, with spirits of turpentine.
and applied it to the affected part. It |
relieved the pain at once. In twelve |
hours there was hole in the bone. and |
the felon was destroyed. 1 removed |
the turnip and applied healing salye, |
and the finger is well.-Er.
I will give little experience that 1 |
have planting small garden seeds. In |
the spring, when the ground is very full
OF weed seeds, for instance, for onion |
seeds, have your ground well pulyerized. |
Take a plank six inches wide, lay it |
down, take sharp-pointed stick, make |
drill along the plank, put in your
seed, then cover with fine dirt. one inch |
deep. Theniay the plank over the row,
ana IN about six or eight days. raise Il
When you see the seeds begin to peep |
through the ground remove the plank;
in two or three days you can see the |
plants the full length of the row. then
go to hoeing. Radishes and lettuce will
come IN five or six days.-Er.
A veteran pomologist, recommends
changing tne bearing year of apple |
trees to- edd Years, SO as to have crop.
of fruit each year. His plan is to thin
the blossoms from young trees one or
two seasons in succession when thew
first come into bearing, and thus the /
change is made. An experiment was
tried on trees fifteen years ago and com
pletely changed the bearing year. But
trees of that age require too much time
three or four hours to each tree-to
go over them. One should begin when
the trees are young. and Just beginning /
to bear, as then the work is duicklv
done and proves just as effeetual.-Eg
Bean porridge was one of the lannon's
dishes of our grandmothers. 1t was
made of beans soaked in-warm water
and boiled in rich pot-liquor, either
after the "boiled dish was taken off or
after a bone of beef had been boiled
Sometime boiled corn was added: this
with a little pepper and more salt. if
needed made a hearty and healthy
article of diet. which was Considered
best when nine days DID," Wheat
bread was sc. rely ever SEE n, except in
the best families, and then not regular
ly. The Indian hammock, or "boe
cake - baked on q Mate mr. hoard bafoo