The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-05
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Drilled WhSat-Pesch Wine-CeIsry-
Pink Eye-FatsOning Sheep
Carp-Ammonia.

California papers report the discovery
OF new wine-peach wine, made from
the juice of soft ripe peaches. 1t is
said to be the finest favored and most
delicious wine ever discovered.
If ants are bothering your bees OF
hives. 1t vii: be well to sprinkle plenty
OF salt about the hives, and if there
should be any aunt hills near your
aplary make good salt brine and pour
on plentifully.
This is "orange sauce" Take two
oranges and squeeze then into cup OF
I water, add one cup of sugar, a table
spoonful of butter, and thlcken with a
little -four or corn starch. Let it come
20 boil and serve either hot or cold.
/ Ii is nice with soft "ginger bread or
! apple dumping.
Since it is we'll known that impure
water produces fevers. dysentery and
| other fatal diseases in mankind, 1t is a
fair inference that bad water is not good
for farm animals, especially for dairy
COW Bad water will make bad and
unwholesome milk. A cow ought not
to drink water that is not palatable and
wholesome for her owner.
If farmer had but five or six inches
OF soil lying on smooth rock, hard and
impervious, he would expect only mod
crate crops, and exhaustion would soon
! be reached. But it is not much better
to have such shallow soil on compact
earth never penetrated by the plow
| Break the earth below, at least enough
70 test it, for it may be mine of wealth.
Sulphide of potash, in the practice of
| tho ndffnr Of WfNH1o
| proved all that has been claimed for it
by the English press as a DESTROYER of
mildeW on roses, chrysanthemums and
! some other greenhouse plants. A
| quarter Of an ounce dissolved in a gal
! lon of water and thrown on the affected
foliage with fne-rosed syringe will
wholly destroy the fungus, and the
leaves will not be injured
II is such IN easy matter to make
good bread when one has good yeast,
that want to give my simple recipe tor
potato yeast. Pour two quarts of boil
ing water over one quart of raw grated
potatoes; stir quickly, and when par
TALLY cool, add One-half te3eupful of
sugar and sas much salt. Keep warm
until it rises; then bottle for use Er.
Pink eye" in horses is a scarlet fever
a horse afflicted with it generally COM
mences to improve on the seventh day
after the attack, but is usually months
in entirely recovering. Young horses
take the disease more frequently than
older animals, although the latter are
not always exempt. The trouble is self
limited ordinarily, SO that palliative
treatment is all that is required.
! Drilled wheat requires less seed, only
about half as much as broadcasted: the
seeds are planted at more uniform depth
the plants are in a slight trench little
below the general surface, and are less.
liable to be heaved out by frost. The
drills are eight inches apart; by taking
out every other one, the seed may be
put II sixteen inches apart and the
wheat cultivated in the spring, If one
desires it.
l prefer to skim when the milk has
Just changed from sweet to sour, but in
very warm weather it is difficult to do
so, especially among our farmers, who
have not yet the proper place for milk.
DO not let the cream get too old, churn
often, a great many have only few
lacows, and it requires two or three DAYS
ito gather enough for a ehurning: to
those would say. salt your cream as
you skim it, it will help 90 preserve it
and make sweeter butter.
When horses are fed clean oats with
nothing else they do not digest them
They get little or no benefit from them.
In order to make horses grind them up
and masticate them properly, YOU
should put handful Of hay with the
cats. Then they eat them, digest them,
and get the full benefit Of them. Oats
make muscle; corn makes fat. Men
who own trotters feed little corn, but
the best oats. Corn is both fatte1ing
and strengthening at the same time. 1t
Is n; g TO Iced haEses the same
thing all the time. Thar enjoy Variety
Just as much ass man does. In the
winter time good thing to give q no sc
is about ten ears of good sound corn. :
As many of our farmers the corine
lSh and e&rly winter will turn their at
ten hop 'tG feeding sheep for the shanaE
Dies, Ne Eln make sOme suggestions in
the premises. Let US say the fatkeniRg
OF EheeP should be commenced before
the grass 4ails, and q half pint q day Of
gram Is enough for sheep at first. They
snopld nave roots or Vegetables of some
are FequEee than With the common shaV
feed. In three months they can bear
two quarts Of grain a day If thew are
brought to 1t gradually, and have green
food enough TO keep their stomacbs 10
order. Marketing half-fed sheen is
wasting what you. have gwen them.
The last few pounds are the cheapest to
the feeder, and add to the value of the
Hhole.-Ex.
For long the German physicians have
been familiar with the fact of the use
fitness of fatty food in the treatment of |
neuralgia and other nervous affections.
Later on the chemist has found that a |
phosPhorized fat Il 1ecitheiml is the |
special ailment of the brain and of the 1
nervous system generally. 1t would |
seem that brain exhaustion is common I
ly the result of exhaustion of this com, |
pleZ fat, just as anemia is the exhaus- |
ton and non-renewal Of the blood cor
puscles, and the inability to form new
store. Rest and lessened demand upon
the nervOus system allows of a new
storages towards which, however. fat
and Phosphorus Rre essential. When /
the sssImilative powers are no longer
able TO break up phosphate of Iime-the
ordinary source of phosphorus-then
this must he supplied in a formless
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