The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-16
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Dark stock = Potato BeetIe-shsep
Catarrh-The Birds-saIting
Asparagus Soup.

about twice a week. II is better than
dozen cures for chicken cholera.
There is good authority for the state
ments that workers in lead factories
and smelters who drink milk several
times day are unaffected by the lead.
The grass should not be allowed to
! grow around young trees after plant
ing. as it stunts their growth and utter
| ~ ruins them. The ground should be
Kept clean aud loose around them, un-
I'll at least they are of bearing size.
Rain water often becomes very i'm
pure. Throw in two ounces of powder
ed alum and two ounces of borax to a
twenty barrel cistern of rain water
/ that is blackened or oily, and in a few
hours the sediment will settle, and the
water will be clarified and fit for wash
ing.
No more valuable help can be pro-
cured in the garden TO disturb and de-
/ stroy insects than a brood of ducks.
They devour immense quantities OF
| slugs and other injurious pests. and in
their continual ranging disturb what
they do not destroy. They injure none
of the vegetables unlessit may be young
cabbage plants.
A New York farmer states that he
uses only cbal gas tar 10 prevent the
ravages OF the potato beetle. He puts
gallon of tar in tub, over which he
pours boiling water. which is allowed to
settle and cool. This is sprinkled over
the vines with an ordinary sprinkler.
A gallon of tar. costing 10 cents, sufiices
for several acres Of potatoes.
Many persons are troubled with scurf
| or dandruff in their hair. A prepare
ton of one ounce of sulphur and one
quart Of water, repeatedly agitated
during intervals of few hours. and
| the head saturated every morning with
the clear liquid, will in few weeks, re-
move every trace nf dandri.if from the
scalp, and the hair will soon become
soft and glossy.
Asparagus soup should be made as
follows: Three pounds of kluekle of
veal will make a good strong stock.
Put the veal to boil with one and half
punches CT asparagus, gallon OF
water, and let it boil rapidly for three
hours. Strain and return TO the pot,
adding another bunch of asparagus,
chopped fine. and boiled twenty
minutes. Take a cupful OF milk. add
tablespoonful Of four; let all just come
to boil. and serve. Season well with
pepper and salt.
The short-sighted fruit grower says
shoot the birds, they are eating my
cherries" Why not say shoot the
children. they are eating my bread;
shoot the horses, they are eating my
oats. The few berries they eat are
but trivial loss compared with the ser
vice they render. Among the most
hafr FL fna frgc Oh h
does, nui-hatches, warbler. vifeos. fly
cstchers, swallows. switts. night hawks,
orioles, cuckoOs. quail, woodpeckers and
smaller hawss and owls.-Er.
After eggs have been under a hen
forty eight hours the danger Of destroy
ing their vitality by chilling is very
much greater than at any other period.
II is not uncommon for n hen 10 set the
first forty-eight hours without leaving
the nest, and then start out TO find food
and By some mishap fail TO return TO
the nest until the eggs have teen chill
led. She may set during the balance OF
the time with great regularity. but the
mischief has been done. with n result of
from fifty TO 8 hundred per cent. OF
"rotten eggs"
Young apple orchards. says ]. ID.
Hustled, should be annually cultivated
until ten years old. Barry ard manure
ard ieached ashes are among the best
and cheapest fertilizers, and literally
applied. tiey pay we'll When well IN
bearing the orchard can be seeded to
grass, provided il is kept fed short to
sheep and hogs. II the pigs are rung
when weighing sixty pounds or more,
thew will not bark the trees. Pigs and
sheep, kept IN the orchards during all
summer, year after year. will destroy
the codling worm, keep the grass short,
and enrich the land with their drop
pings. htla
As 4 general thing the fault OF eggs
not Matching, although fully developed,
is caused by the extreme dryness of the
shell, and an easy and certain remedy
can be given as follows: SprinklIng the
eggs with warm water every other day.
for ten or twelve days before Matching
tines, and II the shells seem ID be un-
usually thick, take a pail OF warm
water, about . hundred degrees, and !
put the eggs into this water two days
before they should hatch; let them re
main in this ten or fifteen minutes. All
the live eggs viii bob about" in a curl
Gus manner: then return ihe eggs TO
the nest. II the hen IS not quiet one.
this had better be done At night.
Continental farmers prefer stock of
dark color-russet, maroon. and black,
TO those OF a light color. for yielding
milk rich IN butter. Race influences
the secretion of milk: the Ayrshires
are better mixers than the Deyons. and
the Dutch and Brittany COWS to those OF
Moryan and Salers. Climate Is also q
factor to be rsckoned with. Humidity |
and uniformity of temperature pro-
mote secretion OF milk, while warm
regions check it-as the animals too |
freely perspire. Then the former eli !
mate favors the production ofabundant
forage. Cows are at their best miiking i
stage after their third calf Food exer- |
cises powerful influences on the guam
tity and quality of the MILK.
Geese usually pair, though an extra T,
goose will be accepted by the gander il /
she has no mate. Guineas also pair and !
mate. The drake viii take four OF five /
ducks TO his care, but in confinement |
the number may be increased. Asingle .
union of go5bler and hen turkey fer