The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-11
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL
Worn out Farms Peach Borer =
Roses Chambers -sChickens-
Queens-Bay Windows.
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To drive away rats: Get from the
drug store some bi-sulphide of carbon
and pour down their holes. Every rat
will leave the premises within twenty
four hours. 0
Bran is capital ingredient to be in
cluded in the ration OF breeding am
mails, as it contains so large percent
age OF phosphate of lime. thing very
essential from which TO grow the bones
of the offspring.
A mixture of rain water, cologne and
gIycerine should be kept by those who
are troubled with roughness OF the skin.
Amply to the face and hands after wash
ing. Bean water is also good for rough
skin. Put handful in a bag and dip II
in warm water and wash with 1t.
In all crops that come up thick and
require to be thinned. every days neg
iect after the plants are large enough
/ to be thinned, reduces the yield OF the
crop. Beets, carrots, radishes, lettuce,
parsnips, and all such crops, should be
] thinned as soon YOU can get hold OF
them with thumb and finger.
We have seen the following suggested
as a means for detecting glanders: A
bucket half full of water should be held
under the animals nostrils, and the
mucus permitted to drop into il. IL the
substance remains on top. spreads. or
dissolyes, the disease is not CHAMBERS:
but If the drop remains undissolved
and sinks to the bottom, il may fairly
be assumed that il is.
Were breeders enabled TO compre-
bend the number of horses that are
| ny the ofraafa nfn
city each year, they would not get the
idea very soon that there is any danger
of an over-production of the class of
horses that are suited for such work.
II should be borne in mind also that
the greater part of the horses used for
CITY purposes are of the best classes.
and that to supply this demand good
stock must be bred.-Er.
A correspondent Of the Beekeepers'
Magazine, as 10 how 10. find the queen
in order 10 remove her from the hive,
which he has successfully ACCOMPLISHED,
says: Put over a hole in the top of
any hive a surplus honey-box with one
or more glass sides: have no other box
on: smoke the bees in the hive slightly
at the entrance; then commence drum
ming on the hive smartly, as when driv-
ing bees out. Watch the box on top
and you win see among the first bees to
go up into the queen"
A bride to prevent a COW from suck
ing herself is made as follows: A head
stall is fitted with buckle and strap on
a ring On each side; a stout surcingle Is
/ fitted in the same way. A tough rod of
| hickory OF white oak is fastened on
each side of the COW from the belt to
the bride; this makes il impossible for
the COW to reach the teats while IL does
not interfere with her feeding. There
is no cure for a COW that sucks herself
except 10 slit the tongue for an inch
and a half at the end and middle. II
this is objected to the animal should be
iattened and killed.
OF grains, the hens seem to approve
most highly of corn; this fed on the
cob-to furnish employment-in the
kernel, cracked. crushed, ground in
meal and in cob meal. As a staple of
diet il is too heavy and fattening, ex-
cept as cob meal. have never used
any food which liked better than corn
in this form. But il can only be OBJ
tanned by taking the corn to mill in the
ear and having it ground; or. at least.
it is not for sale in our markets. The
poultry eat il eagerly; il seems TO
fowls in good, healthy condition.-Er.
The hair shows the breeding of an
animal very plainly, and more atten-
ton should be paid 70 its quality. A
well-bred animal will always show Its
blood in its fine, glossy hair, and If any
animal shows a departure from this
rule it is either out of health or some
thing is wrong with its breeding. A
coarse, rough-haired animal is gener-
ally coarse grained. sluggish and mac
tive, and many times also i'll natured
and vicious, and especially is this true
of the horse. A fine, bright. sleek,
clean-haired horse always has nerve,
action and endurance, generally coupled
with nervous but gentle disposition
EI.
A lamb will live on very little milk, il
II Is kept in a warm place, and has a
warm blanket on il. By the time il is
two weeks old, il will begin to pick
clover leaves, and when three weeks old
il will lick little meal or eat oats with
its mother. When a eve loses her
lamb. / always put her in a close pen or
box and use her for a wet nurse to heip
out the lambs which are short. and II
the lambs own mother happens to be
feeble, or TO have but little milk. make
her the adopted mother and let her rea:
the lamb. A twin lamb can often be
reared in a much better way by caus
ing some eve to adopt il which NAV
have lost her own.-Er.
Tender roses, and all such as are pot
grown. should be planted in the spring
and summer only; the hardy sorts Il
dormant, can be planted both in the TAI
and spring. IL the situation be NOT toe
much exposed where the roses are to b.
set out, We prefer fall planting for All
hardy kinds. Dormant plants set out
in the spring should be planted early,
for no plant suffers more from being se,
out late than does the rose. The tea
scented and others that are pot-grown
shonld not be planted until all DANCE
OF spring frosts are past. There need
be no hurry for these, since roses fi,al
have been grown in pots are sent oui
with balls of earth, and the roots no,
being disturbed, or only to a small ex-
tent, the plants 20 right on GROWING
The plants should be put in friable. T;ct
soil. and firmly pressed in with the foo,
or Qf pot grown plants) with the
hands, taxing care not to bruise tho
rOots.-Ex.