The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-08

future, and the debt must be met sooner
of later.
The cheapest food for hogs that we can
raise is clover or grass, and in corn per-
hapS we have the best food for tatten1nS
that can be found.
The first business of every young farm
er should be to secure a spot upon which
he stands and proclaim to the world that
these acres, more or less broad, are his
If the children have no appetsee n the
morning, don't allow them to 80 for
school without first drinking j. ass OF
hot milk.
The potato lot should be narrowed after
every rain The crust which will form
where this Is not done excludes the air
and prevents vigorour termination OF the
seed.
We were with a man not long ago. and
every animal on the farm came to him as
We passed through the fields. We did not
ask his neighborS what kind of a man he
was.
Growth is the most rapid in the young
est animals. and it is for this reason that
pound Of grain will bring more when
fed to calf or pig than when fed to a
grown animal
1t must be more and more the policy Of
the western farmer to feed everything the
farm produces to live stock, and so far as
we know no animal pays a bigger profit
on her keep than a good milk COW.
1t should be universally known that
sand or flour scattered over burning oil
Will t&lluSulSn II. Every uOuSGN OlQ IN
which lamps are used should have ~ box
filed with sand in a convenient p4Nfe,
ready for all emergencies.
There may not be much money in
flower garden, and bloom and perfume
may not satisfy hunger, but we do not re
member that we ever knew a family that
was fond of flowers that suffered from
hunger or nakednesS.
To make bone manure take twelve bush
els of bone on a brick, stone or asphalt
floor and surround with A of ashes.
Pour on as much water as the bones viii
take up and then add 200 pounds of sui
phuric acid. This will boil furiOusly for a
few minutes and then get somewhat solid,
when the ashes may be shOveIed into it
and the whole well turned over. It viii be
ready for use in a day or two. Or, cover
the bottom Of a water tight box or barrel
with about eight inches of dry soil. On
this place a layer of like depth of bones
and cover with wood ashes. Fill to the
top with alternate layers of bone and
ashes, with ashes on top. Leave exposed
to the weather, and in six months time
when turned out the bones Will crumble
easily and be ready for use.
Alfalfa is not only more suitable as sum-
mer food for poultry, owing to ttsA bulky
nature, compared with corn, but - also
more nutritious, as it contains greater
quantity of substances required for the
production of eggs. The lime for the
shells is produced when in a Soluable
form in the food. as it must pass through
all the stages and processes of digestion,
and the more sOluable the mineral ele-
mentS the easier and more completely
they serve the purposes OF the hen. Al
falfa hay contains over thirty times more
lime than does corn or wheat, and the
green alfalfa though containing more wa
ter, is comparatively as rich in lime as
the hay. Alfalfa is also heterogeneous
food, and supplies the elements necessary
for the albumen of the egg. When the
hens have access to alfalfa they will eat
a large quantity during the day, and il
insects are numerous their wants Will be
fully supplied