The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-24

sull up. there is no shrinking; white
} loes not turn yellow; and what is bet
Ter, we get no shoddy stuff. 1t has
seemed strange to me that the con-
sumner has not learned its value.
In trading with a friend l bought
shirts and every time they were
washed they grew less, until / had to
discard them. / have had blankets
shrink, turn yellow and draw apart.
When we buy imported wooden goods
we do not know that they are clean
and wholesome, as all kinds of old cast
offs are ground up, put into the fuller's
vat and made into cloth with a very
nice gloss finish, when worn it falls off
or takes Judgment in the hens of gar
ments and breaks away where there is
much of strain.
have heard many say, 81 will trade
where | can get it the cheapest" and
When they had purchased in the end 1t
became the dearest Why? Because
we are importers and not self-sustain-
ing, 1t will bring about that state of
Things that will come to a stand still.
The great cry is hard times and no
thing to do; the better way to do
would be to create something to do.
Think of the many ways we might
make labor by cultivating the soil that
now lies idle and how many things
there are imported that we could raise
here Mustard, beans, peas, garden
and flower seeds. Destroy the worms
by spraying bushes and trees. Instead
OF cutting them down, make them
healthy by little labor in the season.
Some might pay reasonable price for
this kind of labor to get rid of these
pests. Some one might get the spray
ers and mix the ingredients and make
paying business of it. A great many
farms are uncultivated that could be
taken on shares. We need more hogs
raised for lard, hams, and bacon; home
made is the best. We need more of a
better article of butter; we have to pay
more than a pound of butter is worth
because 1t is poor. Why not make
more good butter and not charge so
much and make less of that not fit to
put into the stomach? Skim off the
cream before it turns mouldy, green, or
bitter. 1T ought to be first quality at
25c. pound. Plant more timothy, red
top and clover; it will improve the
flavor of this luxury, butter.
There is another industry, planting
out trees for lumber, the walnut,
maple, oak, butternut, hazel nut, sugar
maple, chestnut and many other Vari-
cites could be grown here as well as
in the east. The mountain soil is
adapted to tree culture. There are
trees useful for the bark for medicine,
dloO III pCCl' Slcll DIS ScSSdlIdSt DlICU.
hemlock, wild black cherry and many
plants. The packages we buy to make
our home made beer of are made from
these medicinal trees. They are ground
and pressed and imported to us. Why
mot make our own packages for beer
at home? Young trees soon yield a
large amount of bark for such pur-
poses. We have many things here now
that could be pressed and put up for
beer such as hops, peppermint, malice
dock, garden sage, mountain grape and
black cherry bark. Why can't we raise
sugar cane and make our own syrup
as in days gone by? 1t is better and
purer than imported. Let our idle
children work at it, or our house of
correction won't hold Them if they
could lick the molasses perhaps it
would cure the tobacco habit.
When we first settled this city the
youngsters kept busy stripping the
cane, going for wood to the canyon,
and chopping it, they did not get much
time to learn the use of tobacco or
stand upon the corners. | often think
the means spent in this all-absorping
habit by men and boys would buy
something to make themselves and
those depending on them comfortable
and self-sustaining. Its influence takes
away self-respect benumbs a boys
faculties, Weakens the vital organs,
makes him crave for stimulants, which
he obtains at the sacrifice of every
other consideration. What then? a
slave. HOME MADE.