The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-24
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm. Orchard, Garden,
and Household. 90
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Thistles Sparrows-B Beehive Mice
Grapes-sulphur Turkeys
fe Creeping Apron.

Remove the runners and all dead
, leaves from yiolets.
The wise farmer will build an ice
house, and store away some ice during
cold weather. tei 81
Set away a few pots of Strawberries in
your cellar. and in February or March
put near the kitchen stove. and they
will not only make beautiful show, but
give you an early taste. M
A better catch of timothy seed with
wheat will be had by sowing after the
ground has been dragged or rolled.
| This will break down the ridges between
1.-THE drill rows and prevent the bulk of
the seed from falling where as soon as it
starts it will come in competition with
the wheat roots. This plan will also be
much better for the grain crop.-EI.
| The turkeys for next years breeding
season should be selected and mated
now. One gobbler only need be retained
as one visit to the hen renders all the
eggs fertile for the season. Any number
of hens may be kept with gobbler,
provided he is strong and vigorous.
| Always procure q new gobbler every
year, and get one as large as possible
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Two best grapes, for people who want
grapes easily grown, of not the highest
quality, Concord and Worden; or OF
better quality, Eumelan and Barry, or
Wilder. Two white grapes: Duchess
and Niagara; Rebecca is better than
either, but more difficult to grow. Two
red grapes: Delaware and Brighton
Gartner is superb red grape, and is
quite as easily grown as any.-Green' s
Fruit GYOicer.
Look out for the mice. Your bee.
| hives make very comfortable resting
place for them. but you cannot afford TO
| let them nest there. Not only Will they
riddle the comb in the hive, but they
will be very liable to cause the death OF
the colony before spring. The less bees
are disturbed, the less honey will they
consume, and the more likely will they
be to pass the winter in good condition.
a little wire gauze or mouse-trap may
save you many dollars worth of bees
Anericaft Rural Home.
Sheep breeding is precisely like other
breeding The owner of an inferior
| flock need not necessarily sacrifice 1t
and replace it with thoroughbreds. He
may purchase a thoroughbred ram and
breed up with it. Some of the most
profitable f1ocks in the country are
grades. But a thoroughbred must be
at the head of the flock if we expect
certain results. With such a ram, i'm
provement goes on all the time. But
with anything but thoroughbred at
the head of the flock we do not know
what to expect.-E1.
The Indiana Legislature recently en-
acted that any person knowingly allow
ing Canada thistles to grow and mature
upon his land, or land under his charge,
shall be fined not less than So nor more
than $40; and for the second and each
subsequent offense, double the amount
of the first one. Supervisors of the
highways of the State who allow thistles
to grow on any road in their districts
are subject to like penalties as are also
road masters of railway lines who allow
the pests to grow about stations or along
the right of way under their supervision.
| This is a wise law and worthy of en-
actment in other States.-EG.
A very useful creeping apron may be
made by taking an ordinary apron
sufficiently long to reach the length OF
the dress and then up again to the waist,
where it is fastened by means of a draw
ing string run into the hem. This
makes a complete bag and affords
ample protection for the dress and
skirts, so that when your baby gets tired
of the floor and yoH wish TO take him
up. his garments are found quite IN
soiled. BY choosing small. figured cali
hot MI
aprons will be by no means unsighty,
and its usefulness will appeal to those
mo, hers who complain that they cannot
keep baby clean.
The habit of eating eggs is commonly
learned early in-the season, and gener-
ally from having eggs freeze in the nest,
and then crack open. The fowls soon
learn to pick the meat ont OF cracked
egg, and then to pick into an egg that
isn't cracked. Use porcelain limitations
for nest eggs, and gather the eggs twice
day during freezing weather. When
any fowl is caught eating an egg, utter
reproof as sharp as the edge OF
Ratchet, swung high toward heaven,
and brought down on the decapitation
block with all the force of your own
right arm-even if it eternally divorces
her head from her body! IL Will eLec-
tually stop her eating, and you can I'M
mediately make arrangements to COM
mence eating,-EG.
do not contend that in no case will it
pay to buy and feed old animals; on the
contrary, if comparatively lean they do
sometimes rapidly increase in weight
for a few months, and the profit is en-
HANGED if they can be eheaply bought
in. In nearly every case, however, II
will be found more profitable to buy
young beasts, since for the food con-
sumed the increase is almost invariably
more. and the profits on the whole VIII
be invariably larger and more certain;
If cattle are to be bought, fed and sold
without the elements of speculation
age is most important point IN deter
mining the profit or loss in feeding,
since the older the animal the less IN
crease will it make for the food con-
sumed.-Eaglish Paper. ..l.--..f
Many good farmers keep horses IN
stables during the entire year, except
when out at work. Those who do not
should at least get the horses unoeH
shelter at night and during stormy days
A sick horse is as unfit to work as is q