The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-18

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The best cure for harness wounds or
horses Is burnt leather. Rub the ashes
on the sore and a cure is soon effected
You may avoid the unpIeasantness to
the eyes when peeling onions by sitting
in draught OF air. or by an open win.
dow or door, while doing 1t.
Red raspberries should be set two feet
apart in rows. and when kept well
worked the first year they will fill up
and form q continuous hedge of plants
good for ten years or more.
1t is claimed for Polled Angus cattle
that they stand the winters better than
any other class of cattle. They have
no horns to freeze off, their hides are
as thick as a buffalo's. and they seem
peculiarly adapted 10 q cold climate.
Rams often fight desperately. bruise
their heads, and the maggots get in the
bruised places and kill the sheep. Many
valuable rams are lost in this way every
season. and where several aged rams are
kept together, they should always be
blind-folded, so as TO prevent their
fighting.
The following is a refreshing disin-
fectant for a sick room. or any room
that has an unpleasant aroma pervad-
ing it: Put some fresh ground coffee in
a saucer. and in the centre place small
piece of camphor gum. which light with
q match. AS the gum burns allow suf-
ficient coffee to consume with it. The
perfume is very pleasant and healthful,
being far superior to pastiles, and very
much cheaper.
The great difficulty of many dairy
men is 10 keep their COWS clean or from
becoming encrusted with their weddings.
This is very easily remedied il little
attention is paid to the construction of
their quarters. They should be so built
as TO have place just large enough for
the COW to stand and lie on. two or
three inches higher than the main floor.
and with thorough drainage. This will
make it just as easy to keep The COWS
clean as horses.
A few years since, says a writer, 1 had
an old pasture that had almost run out,
covered with weeds and patched with
moss. l mixed few barrels of salt and
wood ashes, and applied about two bar
rels of the mixture per acre. covering
about half of the lot. The result sur
prised me- Before fall the moss had
nearly all disappeared. and the weeds
were rapidly following suit, while the
grass came in thick, assuming = dark |
green color. and made fine pasturage.
The balance of the. lot remained un-
productive as before, but the following |
year it was salted, with like results.
ADanish agricu' taral scientist and eI-
perimentalist, has issued book claim |
ing that earthIng up potatoes is pre- |
ven tive OF disease. He says those VaIi- |
cites which root deepest are most free |
from disease, and that the spores of the |
fungus which cause rot are conveyed |
through the atmosphere to the plants. |
and can only reach the tubers by being |
carried by the rains through the earth |
or dews down through the main stem of |
the plant. He recommends earthing |
up potatoes as protection, saying that |
though the WELD is not increased. a re-
markable freedom from disease is |
noticed where the plants are earthed up |
as much as they will bear.
Every one, of course, feeds to his flock
more or less corn or oat meal made into |
mistake of mixing with il so much
water as to give it the consistency of
thin slushy paste. at once difficult to
pick mp with their delicate pointed bills
and impeding digestion by weakening
the digestive fluids with too much moist
ure. Corn meal, especially should have
Just enough hot water poured over it to
moisten and partially swell the minute
particles and cause them TO fall apart
rather than adhere to each other.
Bee keepers remember that constant
spring feeding n suitable quantity, if |
carefully carried out, will, in q short |
time, produce = marked effect on your |
stocks. II hive in good condition is |
treated thus, il is surprising how soon |
the amount of brood will increase, and |
the young bees. as they hatch out, will |
add to the strength of the hive, and |
make itpossible for still larger amount |
of brood TO be produced. Should the |
hive already contain supply of sealed \
store. il Will not be necessary, or desir-
able. to give the bees any syrup until |
the store they already possess is in great |
part consumed. Instead Of putting on |
the feeding bottle, we need merely to un |
cap the honey in the hive little by little |
The bees viii commence restoring it
excitement in the hive will ensue-and
the queen, thinking honey is plentiful.
viii commence laying with a will.
The way to keep the baby from be
coming spout y 10 let II CIV as little
as possible. 1t will gain strength of
mind TO endure its necessary ills all the
sooner If il is allowed TO suffer as little |
as possible from Ills that can be avoided. |
Its wants should be anticipated, its !
sources of discomfort should be re-
moved as soon as they arise. without |
waiting for il to cry; il should be pre- !
vented in every way from forming the |
habit of crying. Study its exp resSion;
when it is tired of playing on the floor, !
take il up and dane il about the room,
and let il look out of the window for |
few minutes. In little while il will be |
glad to go back and play on the floor |
again. II ii is necessary to resort to |
discipline, be careful to seize the right |
moment for it. If you want the baby |
to learn 10 60 TO sleep without being !
rocked. choose q day when il has been !
unusually bright and happy all the |
morning. wait until twenty minutes or |
so after the regular hour for its nap. |
then give il a cup of milk part crlarly |
sweet and warm and nice. make It's
little bed soft and cosy lay it down gen
tlv and soothe il with little kissing and /