The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-11
INDOORS AND OUT.
The Farm, Orchard. Garden,
and Household.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL
Gallery PIants-CuttinEs-C fonds
-warbles-BindInG Stacks
Scalded Threats.
INDOORS AND OUT.
HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL.

Milk that stands too long makes bitter
butter.
little soda will relieve SICK eeao-
ache caused by indigestion
Powdered rice is said to have great
effect in stopping bleeding from llesn
wounds.
S,o,s If grease may generally De re-
,,,o1ye,J from colored silks by the aPph-
noa1;oE nj raw starch, made into paste |
with water.
To make wet ground dry, drain 1t; 20
make dry ground moist, dram II. IH
drainage rule is a good one because II
will work both ways.
Pop overs are a most delicious yea
,nff An exchange gives the following
rsc;DA for them: Take three eggs, three
ems of -four, three cups OF milk oeal
veil. b Ike in cups half full. Inc cups
must be well buttered.
| A little salt in starch, boiled or raw;
will prevent the irons from stlcAinE. IL
the irons are rough, put little sait on
a thick brown paper, lay piece Oh tnll
muslin over it, and rub the iron over IL
till perfectly smooth.
counaratiyeIy few. to-day, know the
orest yaIue of honey both as food and
medicine. Were its value as medicine
thorouehly known it would displace IN
thousands of families the domesuc
remedies, or quack compounds now De
pended upon by them as cure-slls.-h%-
An old farmer being asked the secret
Il of his large crops repled: tel my
/ q TnRV
think IL is narrowed twice as much as
/ thew think il ought to be and then tell
them il is not narrowed half enough.
Few farmers properly appreciate the
value of thoroughly mellow soil.
Keep the celery plants growing and
free from weeds. The great enemy oil
this vegetable is dry weather. Never
let the soil get parched. A mere sprink-
ling of the plants, however frequent,
will not do. Soak the ground thor
oughIy when needed, and this will not
be oftener than once a week, even dur
ing q "a Mess spell.
To polish plate-glass and remove
slight scratches, rub the surface gently,
first with a clean pad Of white cotton
wool and afterward with a similar pad
covered over with cotton velvet which
has been charged with fine rouge. The
surface will under this treatment &C
{ ouire a polish Of great brilliancy, quite
free from any scratches.
, Much unnecessary suffering is caused
nv allowing The skin of sick person to
become so tender by constant lying in
bed that at length it breaks or is liter
! ely worn through. III there is the least
redness, or even before that, if there is
fear that the skin may be tender. touch
the places with the white of an egg
r beaten to a stiff froth, in which is mix
J ed two teaspoonfuls of spirits of wine.
Cattle are often troubled with MARBLES
-grubs in the back. Get small glass
syringe, the smallest size. and some
sweet oil. Insert this syringe in the
! hole at the apex of the little mounds on
2 the cows back, and squirt the oil in on
r the grubs. This will bring them away
without injury to the COW, but we will
not answer for the advice of many OF
T our contemporaries who suggest the
use of kerosene oil. That is most too
irritating on a raw and sore spot
Sweet oil will answer the same purpose
f; for il is equally death 20 the grub and i:
|, is not apt to make such g troublesome
= sore.-EI.
n The chief remedy for the impoverish
- ment Of our fields wi De found in level
ing our rows. Our soil, especially il
.'stock-law" counties, can be pre-; erved
indefinitely If due attention is paid L
the above. Anyone can satisfy himsel
of this fact by observing the difference
between rows run on 2 level, accidently
a II NAV have been, and those with tOC
If great fall. In the former, all deposit
4 from the growing and gathered crop,
are retained, forming humus and repay
ing the land. On the latter, harvested
g crops have been removed and fallinl
leaf and blade and boil find their way
10 the nearest stream, and the tale o
speedy exhaustion is told.-Ez.
It's painful to see so many horse,
/ tortured with tight check reins Their,
= are four WAYS in which these faithful
L though dumb servants show neckach,
,. alone, to say nothing of other torture!
= suffered from too tight a check rein
j. First, by tossing up of the head; second
lie By running out. the tongue; third, by
frothing at the mouth 1.-THE horse car
head from side to side. Unlock tn,
n check of almost any horse that ha
\. been harnessed an hour or two. motto,
how slowly and plessurably the poo
n animal lowers his head-a conv1ncin!
er proof that keen suffering has been en-
Of dured Again, with the free use of thu
head in warm weather the horse keep
is of many torturing flies, which he car
he not do If refined with 8 tight check
Give him hight check, or better, non
at all. Let the owner or driver try IN
=, effect Of a single fly upon his barred arm
Ill and he will learn 10 be merciful to III
e. noblest and Yet most abused of domes
IS tic animals.
h The great point 10 be secured in stack
10 ing hay is 90 keep the centre the high
est. If this is done, water cannot pen
citrate into the stsck. but will find il
oil way to the outside under the most unfa
Or Torable circumstance. II, on the othe
hand, the centre is hollow, the waite
must drain into the centre, and so ruiz
10 the stack. An excellent way to bald
stack is to set q tall sapling firmly il
N the ground, with q foundation of rail
III around it; then begin a. the centre AM
9. place the hay about the pole, gradual,
. Spreading, until the edge of the bas-
~ reached. Continue building up tn