The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-28
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Strawberry Culture Isteins =
Lambs -Lubricator Head
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!, 10 clean zinc: Dissolve two ounce
OF alum IN one quart of vinegar, use a
) not as you can, afterwards rubbing dry
Dahlias should be planted in th,
spring, IN mellow soil, as soon as al
danger OF frost has disappeared, anc
the ground is not too wet.
Laying hens should have low perch
They enjoy it much more than sittine
on box or anything else, and it is bet
ter TOR them. because nature says so.
When you have spilled ANYTHING or
the stove, or milk has boiled over and >
sutficating smoke escapes, sprinkle tbf
spot with a quantity of salt; this viii
stop it.
Empty spools are nice to use to hang
towels and clothing on. Drive nails
through them so the head will sink In
the end OF the spool. No danger OF
rust in using them.
A good rule for baking potatoes is to
wash and boil them in the usual wav
till nearly done and then finish by bai-
Ing. They are whittier and more meally
than when baked the old way.
A writer recommends lime and salt,
mixed with soft feed. as an excellent
remedy for chicken cholera. He claims
that he entirely stopped its ravages in
large flock in few days by It's use.
An Arab maxim says if you have a
long days journey before you, spare
your horse at the start. and let him fire.
quently walk to recover his wind. Con-
tinua thus until hehas sweated and dried
three times, and you may ask of him
whatever you please. he will not leave
you in difficulty.
When limbs of trees have been sawed
off early in the spring, the exterior wood
becomes dry in few we eks and should
then receive a coating. An old and
much recommended application is a
solution of gum shellac in alcohol. ap-
piled with brush. And common oil
paint is just as good.
Do you want a lasting lubricator for
wagons, machinery, etc.? Mix with
good castor oil enough plumbago or
black lead to make paste, thick as bat
ter dough. | have travelled over 200
miles with this for a lubricator, and
then found it still coated the axle of nv
buggy almost perfectly.
Fowls are frequently troubled with
"Scaly Legs" Minute insects are the
cause and coal oil the remedy. Thor
oughly wash their legs, every other day
IN coal Oil, until the scales loosen and
drop off. Then rub on lard or sweet oil
every other Gay until the legs are
smooth. The coal oil kills the insects.
DR.. Sanborn, of Illinois, states that
he protected completely from rabbits
and mice his six hundred pear trees
with a wash of lime and water, with
enough copperas added to change the
color to deep green. Some cheap glue
was added to make it adhere to the
trees. Neither rabbits nor mice would
touch the tree thus treated.
If shut up nights, most of the eggs of
ducks may be saved; shut up ali the
time, they will stop laying. They will
sometimes lay in nests prepared for
them in their roosting house, but do
not build nests for their own until near
" done laying and ready to sit. which
is about the last of Nav. Taking their
eggs away will not prolong their lay
ing.
A little grain fed to both ewes and
lambs will push them ahead and fit the |
lambs Tor early market. when they will |
bring twice as much as later ION in the
season. Put the grain racks right in the |
field and give them gill each of OATS
and corn. By doing so big price may
be had for the grain and both pasture
and fodder saved which they would re-
quire if not sold.
Experienced strawberry cuIturists say |
if the ground must be stirred at all in |
4 hno oh ha
than one-eighth of an inch, and never |
after blossoms appear. The less the
soil of strawberry beds is disturbed in
spring the better; only pull the weeds
that make their appearance. Of the |
of mulching they are fully
convinced, having observed that all the
plants that had been muIched last
winter were doing well, while those left
were more or less seriously
injured. ..-.-.--r
Every farmer who owns bees should
SOW some seed of Alsike clover, mixed
with his other grass seed, whenever be
seeds deTn q field. 1t grows as tall as |
red clover, unless it be the mammoth,
and very much finer for hay. Try it
and you cannot help being pleased with
it. 1t stays in he soil much longer
than red clover, and spreads little in
same manner as white clover. Bees
work on it as readily as on white clover
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Having seen some discussion about
the shape of eggs TO determine sex, saws
B correspondent OF the Farming World,
[ can say from experience that to OBJ
tain the desired result, or FREEDOM ma
lion Of either sex, you have to mate
fowls as follows: For cockerels, mate a
one-year-old eockerel with hens not
more than two years old. and you will
get the desired results. For breeding
pullets mate a three year old cock with !
one year old hens. 1 have never had
any exception to this Iule. II
A correspondent of the New York !
Times sends to that paper modifca- ,
ion OF one of Mr.. Mattieu Williams
recipes for converting cheese into pala- Z
able and digestible food. Although q I
lyspeptic, he finds the dish excellent, /
md has been able to eat 1t without dis e
comfort: Three thick slices of bread 5
veil buttered; one-fourth of pound OF i
my kind of cheese, grated; four eggs. '
veil beaten; salt and pepper TO taste: i
,ne and half pints Of milk; lay the {
bread in layers in baking dish: scat t