The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-22
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Fall Plowing-Winter Rye-PotstOe
DigEing-MilkinE Tubes-iee
Cream, Etc, Etc.

Allowing poultry the run of the
orchard will aid materially in keeping
down injurious insects.
The use of milk in bread gives richer
hue to the surface in baking, and keeps
the bread moist longer.
Honey should never be kept in a cool,
damp atmosphere, or in a cellar, unless
II is scalded up, for it will gather moist
ure and sour.
Make the porridge over night, and
mold 1t in cups wet with cold water. In
the morning turn them ont. and eat
with sugar and cream, or with cream
only.
Western sheep men are gradually
comif 6 TO the conclusion that il is BET
ter TO keep their stock in small fiocks.
They are fencing their ranches in many
sections, into small tracts. and will raise
sheep in pasture rather than in herds.
Experiments made at tae Ohio State
Station seem TO indicate that better
crops can be obtained by sowing from
three TO five pecks of wheat per acre
than by heavier or lighter seeding. Oi
course every farmer understands that
the richer the soil the less the seed is re-
quired.
A good covering for grain stacks
should not b overlooked, as loss is in
evitable even with the best made stacks.
Some one recommends a covering of
boards extending clapboard FASH n
down TO the bulge on the sides. Handled
with care the boards may be made TO do
service for several years.
Very excessive effort IN a short space
OF time, as in running or Jumping n
rope, etc, has repeatedly caused instant
death by appopleIy OF the lungs. the
exercise sending the blood there faster
than it can be forwarded to the heart.
and faster than it can be purified by the
most infrequent breathing on such &C
casions.
One who has given il a thorough trial
reports that hen lice will not trouble
fowls where sassafras poles are used for
perches. OF course the droppinSs
should be removed frequently. especial
" during warm weather. Leaves and
boughs OF sassafras scattered around
the henhouse will help destroy or at
least scatter vermin.
Every year increases the acreage OF
fall ploTing, because every year farm
ers receive evidence OF the value Of IT,
In the first place the conditions for
blowing in the fall are all favorable.
The horses are at their best, the soil is
in good condition, the weather is pleas
ant, the crops are harvested or ont of
the way. and there is ample time for do
ing the work leisurely and well. II has
grown into farm proverb that frs queDt
tillage Is manure This means that the
earth is a great absorbent. and il thrown
up and exposed 10 the air il will gather
in the fertilizing elements which the
atmosphere carries. Fall blowing, |
viewed from any standpoint. pays. as |
farmers viii see after il has been thor
Dughly tested.-EE.
Who hasn't been plagued to death
With the striped bug which plays such
with squash and cucumber
zines. An Orange County farmer tells
low he subdues them: Get a bucket.
i'll it half full Of water. go into the COW
pasture and stir into il liberal guam
ity of fresh COW dung, then, with an
Nd broom or whisk of some sort, spat-
" applying too much. Repeat TIE an
,lication at ?, cry shower. or two or
hree times during the infancy OF the
,lanis. Last year l was abs Mt from
Tome several days on official business.
IN NV return ! went 10 look at NV
and melons and found them
iIerally swarming with striped bugs.
Another day and every plant would
lave been destroyed. | hurriedly mixed
md applied the medicine, and in five
Minutes not bug remained on them.
VERY plant recovered from the terrible
ugging il had received, and raised
ne crop.
Potatoes should be dug as soon as the
ops have fairly ripened and died down.
hey make but little growth =fter that,
nd what they do make is at the ex-
ense OF their eating quality. II the !
ellar is dark and cool. they may be
torcd for winter use, and will keep in
luch better condition there than re-
iaining Undug in the ground. III the
eilar i unfit 10 keep them in during
be fall months, they may be kept in q |
il IN the ground. taking care that the .
il is so located as to be cool. and that b
o water can enter into it either from I
boye or from springs below. II the \
otatoes are not put into barrels before 1
lifting, the sides of the pit should be |
ned with straw, and in either case II :
aould be ventilated by q pipe, or an !
4
raw. II is needless to say that the I
otatoes should be dry. and free from 4
nv adhering soil, before patting in the .
it, and that any which have signs of q
ecay should be carefully kept out I
oston CtltirdtOT. l
Formerly my way of milking has been 8
ke many do now, 10 squeeze the teats, {
hereby forcing the milk out. This was y
torment 10 the cows and besides IL re- I
lired considerable muscular exertion
milk six 10 eight cows. You have all ;
read Of the milking tube, i
II not enough 70 be satisfied with is Il
erits. Now l Will give you a simple
method which / think will Z
duce your endorsement of the milking
lbe. Take four small ouIlls one ana :
le-baif inches in length, have them 1
Ie right size. or, at any rate not too y
rye 10 20 in the teat, scorch the small =
nj so as not TO cut or scratch the teat. y
o no, try this on a wild or easily fright I
ed cow until you have learned how TO a
e them. l do all my milking with .
hes, and COWS that stand quiet and =
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