The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-14
INDOORS AND OUT.
Tae Farm, Orchard, Garden
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.
Early Peas and POtatoes-Asparagus
Standardization Nests
Chapped Hands.

D6 not plant your trees the first few
warm days, wait until the-growiDg sea-
son has permanently commenced.
Wash black stockings thoroughly in
strong salt and water; wash again in q
weaker solution. and finish by thor
ough rinsing in clear water. Stockings
thus washed will not crack.
Discolored tea and coffee pots may be
leaned by filling them with water in
which two or thr tablespoonfuls OF
wood ashes have been placed, and let
ting it boil up, then wash thoroughly
with hot soapsuds, and rinse.
DO not think that when you see a
noble horse standing to carriage toss
ing BIS head and clamping his bit that
il is his pride. No, he is endeaVoring
to obtain a moments cessation to the
pain inflicted by his head being con-
strained by the short rein. - Country
Gentleman.
When one goes about the work OF
preparing the nest for sitting hen. let
MIN take care to fix the foundation cor
-ectly placing some moist substance at
the bottom. An inverted sod will
answer the purpose very we'll, or any
substance that will retain moisture for
any considerable time, furn shing the
same in proper degree to the material
above. 1t will gradually evaporate by
the heat of the hens body.-Er.
Dying with the yellowS" You hear
il wherever peaches are grown, and see
IL IN every paper which publishes fruit
repOrtS. IL is an ever ready excuse and
,1v roaSOn R,1f urbat i if9 Moth
ing but genuine, unauthorized starva-
ton. The seat OF the disease is in the
soil, not in the trees, and should be
treated aocordingly.-EG.
Glyeerine ointment for chappe7
hands Two ounces OF sweet oil Of
almonds, half an ounce of Spermaceti,
and one dram of white wax, melted to-
gether with a gentle heat. Remove
from the stove, add one ounce of gly-
cerine; add any perfume you wish, and
stir until the mixture is cold. Keep II
IN wide necked bottles.
Mustard is adulterated with sage
-four, starch, rice -four. and wheat -four,
and cOlored with aniline colorings. The
fraud can readily be detected, as the
compound becomes blue when treated
with a solution OF iodine. The COM
mon German and French mustard is
made up of a compound of mustard,
cracker dust, and cayenne pepper, and
is favored with sugar, oil, and vinegar
to suit the taste.-ET.
This is the secret of how we raise our
earliest peas. 1t IS simply to soak the
peas and then keep them in a warm
room till they terminate. As soon
as the frost is out of the surface
soil, suN them. Ii you get them started
and the weather should be too frosty
put the peas In the cellar or some cool
room TO check the growth. We have
kept them two weeks in this way and
inch long. The pan is a good one
Dr.. Sturteyant at the New York Exper-
mental station tried it and got crop a
week earlier than from the same variety
sown in the ordinary way.
AS is well known, the peach is heavy
feeder OF potash, hence potash should
be supplied N some form. IpTefer I'M
leache6 or live wood ashes for this pur.
pose to anything else, provided they
can be had at a satisfactory figure.
namely, thirty. to thirty-five cents per
bushel, delivered. l have also employ
ed muriate OF potash with good results.
prefer to apply broadcast always in
demands liberal supply of phosphoric
acid. This is to be obtained in its best
aud cheapest form in pure ground bone,
or IT least l have always had good
success from using this fertilizer. I do
net recommend using stable manure for
the peach, the tendency being to pro-
duCe an undue leafy growth, rendering
the trees unproductive and more suS-
ceptible TO injury in winter.-Er.
as 7 have never seen my plan of man
aging Irish potatoes in print, I will
give plan that l have followed for six
teen to eighteen years. and never made
a failure, when | adhered to it. / WISH
10 have them in the ground by the 18th
0i February, if it is dry enough. aud
cover with manure and straw eight 10
ten inches deep. If it is q favorable
month they will be up by the last oil
February, and the evening before a
frost or freeze take horse and run a
pillow and coverup the tops of the vines
so that freeze or frost win not iniure
them, and SO continue to keep the pc.
tatOeS covered up until ali danger OF
frost IS passed. l frequently have
young potatoes by the 10th OF MAY as
large as a hens egg.
l think that covering up the tops of
the potatoes increases the size OF the
Su0ers and makes them earlier, and they
viii come out fresh and green after
every frost and freeze. En-. T
The inquiry is of en- made regarding
the best varieties of pears to grow foi
family use where there is room but 10,
q few trees. When asked as TO wba
pear We regarded as the best of all var
Ieties, we have answered, the Sheldon
For period Of twenty five years Oui
pear orchards have been made I'D o
nearly fifty varieties, embracing all the
choice kinds; and il is from this expert
ence that we select the Sheldon as the
king of pears-rich, juicy, melting
high favored, keeping well for an
autumn pear, beautiful in form and
color. This pear is also desirable from
the fact that lovers of fruit. with weak
St machs, can eat it without fear of the
slightest disturbance of the digestive
Processes consideration OF no small
importance 1t does we'll on oninc,
stock, as We have proved BY trial o.
fifteen years. and is a coed bearer. l.
IS russell pear. medium TO large size
"opens in October, and with care VIII
sr4n l..