The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-07
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard, Garden
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
seed Potatoes Vegetables-ClOver
p oiled Cattle = Bee Food
Starch Making.

Mustard will cleanse the hands afte
handling odorous substances.
Lime powder well sprinkled where
cocSroaches abound will drive then
away.
To relieve hoarseness and tickling il
the throat: Make a gargle OF the white
of an egg beaten to frOth. adding &
haif-giass of sweetened, lukewarm
wtter.
= loamy soil is best for fruits gener-
ally. and the best results are from deer
pi0ughing and subscribing, to allow The
roots TO penetrate deeply i'll search OF
moisture during dry weather. Pigs and
poultry running at large are our etticl
ent allies in the war against injurious
Insects.
4 correspondent OF the Orange Coun-
tv F1rner says lie prevents the white
grabs from destroying his strawberry
plants by planting between the rows u
humber of lettuce plants. The grubs
like the roots of the latter best, and Will
let the strawberry alone II fed with
them. Put out the lettuce as early as
possible in the spring.
q Clover should never be sown in the
Late summer or in the autumn. Its tap
root cannot penetrate 10 a sufficient
depth in so short time to allow 1t to
stand the winter properly, and II The
soil is inclined to heave 1t Is altogether
better to SOW both grass and clover ear
Is in the spring. Ii no other crop is
sown with 1t fair crop OF grass may be
cut the same season it is SoWn.
Il is the testimony of those who keep
polled cattle that thev are milder in
character and more easily handled than
horned cattle; besides this, such ami
mas are never worrying others OF their
kind, never hooking sheep and horses
and are altogether more profitable from
this cause than the common stock. 1t
would seem then worth while for farm
ers and stockmen to make further in
Quiry into the question of dehorning
cattle ii it may be accomplished at SO
little trouble and with so good results.
One thing that may cause the loss OF
many valuable horses at this time of
the year, is ignorance or carelessness,
that results in their catching cold.
Horses are exercised too violently, per-
haps, and then allowed to grow cold
suddenly. That is all wrong, such
treatment is likely to kill man, and it
is just as dangerous for a horse. After
my horses are exercised they are warm
ly blanketed, and my boys lead them
around my stables more and more slow !
iy A horse wants to cool off gradu-
ally.
The TURNER'S RcCieW says: Pear blight |
is the source of much annoyance to
fruii-groWers. OF late years it has been
recommended to seed down a pear
orchard 10 grass as a preventive of
blight The editor of the Gen mdHtOWH
Telegraph says: We never had tree to
blight in grass. though they were of all
ages, from three years up to one hun
dred and seventy-fve, and OF about ten
varieties, while scarcely year passes
in which we do not lose one or more by
blight in cultivated grounds.
Persons who raise cattle on farms will
always enjoy monopoly in supplying
the market with choice beef. The flesh
of cattlA unprotected from storms and
compelled to pick up their living dur
ing dro ghts and through the winter
will necessarily be greatly inferior to
that of cattle raised on farms where
they are protected from storms and
cold, supplied with water at all times,
and furnished with all the food they
need. 1t costs 70 more to transport an
animal that sells for six cents per pound
than one that brings but half that sum-
There are but few,legitimate branches of
business that pay better or are attended
By fewer risks than that of raising cat
tie or the comparatively cheap lands in
the west.-Er.
never SOW lettuce seed in drills, bu.
always SOW broadcast, and give the
plants plenty of room by thinning for
use as the plants grow. The beds being
marrow the thinning is easily done.
Tr-r~ - L
she plants exactly equal, but simply
Keep them from crowding. In this wav
l have grown very large heads without
hoelng, and as the plants keep the
ground shaded. no wedding is required.
Heads can be kept from going to seed
for quite while by cutting about half
way through the stem at its base, leav-
ing the plant just enough nourishment
from the roots TO keep it from willing !
w hen the heat of summer arrives, let ,
tpee must have cool, partly shaded !
situation, and an abundance of water
This Is the secret OF raising fine heads
Of lettuce in hot weather. Try the s
north side OF Q building or tight fence. :
OF 2 frame a-tifoialiy Shaded, and Won ;
VIII oe surprised Mt what can be done !
al -aiSiHE lettuce, even il midsummer.
-Nie.I's Nogq-iae.
ICY ucS-htS per should scatter ;
motherwort, c2tljP igwort. spiderwort.
wee, clover, and Rocky Mountain bee
piait seed in all the waste places sbout 4.
The ap.arS. These are harmless pIants L 1
r. the farmer, and as their presence Z
ADDS to the wealth of the country. ne .
= henefactor who causes their intro
duciion ana spread. Our bee-keeners
should siSnulate The growth of aIsike o
clover. Let them see that the ladies Il
have an abundance of mignonette in CT
the garden; and ever bear in minc that il
raSp berrieS give Us a luscious fruit. p
which costs verye little. and more-fur
y shes the bees with nectar that EQUALS :
that OF ciOverS and Eastwood. when
converted into honey. The Rocky
Mountain bee plant and mignonette do
well on light sandy soil; fgw ri and
spider plant do very poorly. 1t is well
10 note the natural soil of the plant,
and if we wish to change its habit. do it
gradually. that the transition be not
100 violent. FigIort grows talurally ic
III Tieh, heavy. moist soil. To change -
{ at once to lightest land is very ab- b
up transiiion.-Er.