The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-03
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Seed Wheat-H essian FIy-PloWinR
Orchards-Weaning-Old
Potatoes.

| carefully.
Rub the stove briskly few times with
piece Of old newspaper and 1t will
remove the grease spots and give it a
good polish.
| Keep a shoemaker's milestone in
/ your kitchen for putting a keen edge on
Knives A dull knife is the bans OF The
housekeePer.
Air-slacked lime sprinkled literally
| among potatoes as they are put IN the
bin after being dug. is often proven
tive of the rot. It seems to destroy the
fungus.
While planting the tree do not try to
rattle the dirt among the roots by Shak-
ing the tree up and down, fer this draws
| the fine, hair-like roots out of place, but
| does not push them back; it folds them
up and gets them all out Of shape.
It is a fact that pastures which
have become SO thoroughly run out and
oVerrun by briers and bushes as not TO
be worth fencing for cattle pasture, by
wears will be brought into productive
condition.
To make apple preserves: Take ripe
apples, pare and core them and
mince them fine, then take three-fourths
of pound of sugar to one pint of water,
and boil this for one and half hours,
then add the minced apples and boil for
an hour longer, but do not stir them,
lest the sugar will cause them to burn.
Not to exceed one hundred sheep
should be kept in a flock during the
winter. In making divisions of the
flock those of the same size and strength,
so far as possible, should be put together.
Put the old and feeble ones by them
selves. Breeding ewes should be by them
selves, and Wethers and Eeaned lambs
in other pens.
A cold, wet fall will give fruit of gen
orally inferior character as regards
sweetness and a better favor. Apples
ripened slowly will keep better during
the winter, and for late varieties it is no
to have the ripening process
completed in the cellar. But for most
other fruits warm weather at ripening
greatly improves their quality.
As no good traveller, after having fed
his horse reneWs his journey in a trot,
but with a slow walk gradually increas-
ing his pace, so in getting up to add ess
an assembly for a continued effort the |
first few sentences should be uttered In
a low, slow tone, gradually intensified.
otherwise the voice will break down in
very few minutes with coughing or
hoarseness.
One of the best and cheapest devices
for blowing to prevent baking trees in
orchards, is a short Whifletree with the
hooks for the traces on the back, and so
fixed that the traces have to be placed
over the end. Thus when the Whiffie
rubs against the tree, the latter is pro-
tected by the leather. There was once a
patent on this device, but it has long
since expired.
The practice of closely screening seed
pats and wheat, to get only the largest |
and plumpest kernels to SOW, cannot be |
too highly commended as a practical |
means Of improving the quantity of |
these grains. By such plan only the |
b. st grains are allowed TO terminate and |
their kind, and in course of |
time, by this process, it may be noted |
that there is marked improvement in |
both quality and weight.
Two years ago l wrote an article in |
the american Bee Journal against the |
use of old comb in section boxes: After |
experiments since, have not |
My mind. Many bee keepers |
get them filled, some after extracting |
partly filed sections, and others placing |
them again on the hive with the combs |
partly filled with honey of the previous |
year. 1t is true the bees will fill such |
combs rapidly; but they are difficult to |
keep from sOuring, and are never so nice |
as combs built, on nice, thin foundations. /
Ia.
TheHougnest and hardest hands can |
&c made soft and white in a months |
time by doctoring them a little at bed
time, and all the tools you need are a |
nail brush, a bottle. of ammonia, box |
Of powdered borax,s and a little hne !
write sand TO rub the stains off, or cut |
OF lemon. which viii do even better, for |
the acid of the lemon. will clean any
thing. A little ammonia or boraX in |
the water you wash your hands with. !
and that water just luke-warm, will |
keep the skin clean and soft. A little |
mixed with the water will /!
Ihiten the hands. Scientific american.
AFrench authority gives the follow
ing recipe for a transparent cement I
which possesses great tenacitY and has |
well fstoppered bottle 10 drschms OF |
with 1919 drachms of non
caoutchepc cut in small |
pieces. Solution is readily affected, and |
when it is completed add ~ dracbm |
Of msshc. Let the whole macerate
from eight to ten days without the |
application Of any heat. and shake the
contents of the bottle at intervals. A |
perfect white and very adhesive cement |
is the result.
Gradually during the last few years.
American diarymen have more closely
confined their cows, and kept them
warmer than ever before, not only
keeping them in warm stables, but
to artificial heat, and giving
them warm water TO drink. Thus far,
all testify to the beneficial results aris-
ing from these practices. Its not the
nature of the COW to exercise much.
She prefers, in the open field, to crop the
grass until her stomach is full, and then
lie down in the shade and peacefully
chew her cud, with dreamy EXPIRE sion
Of the eyes that denotes rest and enjoy
ment. She does not run and cavort like
the horse. This is not her mission.-Ec