The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
FARM NOTES.

The queen must be prolific in order to
keep the hive full of bees.
A small sheep that is fat will sell
for more than a large one that is thin.
The man who keeps a steer after he
is ready for the market, is wasting his
substance.
health and comfort rather than be obliged
to look after mad dog.
Whenever it becomes known that COM
munity makes fine butter, the dealers will
come after the product.
A bath and dry clothing at the end of a
day $ perspiration and severe eXertion is
the landSmanS HIe-SaVing station.
As long as the farmer simply feeds the
cows whatever comes handiesU. he will
not esteem the dairy very highly.
Keep the pigs growing. Slack feeding is
time lost at least, and a large part of the
profit of hogs depends on getting them
into market at an carly age.
The most successful poultry breeders
separate pullets and cOckrelS as soon as
they are half grown. They develop bet
ter and in all respects do better. A few
quarrelSOme cockrelS disturb the peace OF
whole yard OF fowls.
If you contemplate building a stock barn
after harvest 10 nor fail to so cODStr11pt
1t that when filled next winter the tenn
peralure shall never fall below the freez-
ing point. Then you viii not have to feed
so much corn for fuel to keep no the ami
NAL heat as you have in the winters past.
Chemists tell us that it takes more than
twice as much sugar to sweeten pre-
serves, sauces and the like, il put in
when they begin to cook, as it does to
add it after the cooking. This is a fact
that the average kitchen maid is not apt
to know. or one that she is aft to forget
if not reminded frequently
1t is an encouraging fact that there are
or have been more students in The Short
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winter than in any former year. The
dairy courses are the most popular but
there are considerable numbers of young
men endeavoring to better fit themselves
to be general farmers.
1t is a good thing to grade up stock.
and a better one to weed out every
inferior animal. Better to sell an in
ferior animal than breed il, even if
you must sell at a sacrifice.
Stock that is kept thrifty is worth
more. and will sell for more than it
will if not in good condition.
This account of appreciate profits in
some branches of horticulture is given
by the Napa Register: We met a. Santa
Clara Valley OrchardiSt at Pacific Grove
the other day who had just sold his fruit
crop OF forty acres( peaches, prunes and
plums) delivered on the trees for 5000
-one-half cash. balance a t end of the
season. His two acres of cherries he had
previously sold for $500. These were like
wise picked, packed and moved from the
premises by the buyer. A profitable busi-
ness and a neat way of doing it.
The cost of charcoal is but a trife,
even when bought. and if you burn wood
in your stove, the fine ashes may be sif-
ted out and the black Goals saved out
pounded up in pieces about the size of a
grain OF corn and placed in small piles
where the fowls can get it easily. 1t is
especially valuable during the spring and
summer months, for then it is that the
blood is sluggish and needs something
to purify it, and it is from this reason,
principally, that most Of the poultry diS7
eases come during these months.