The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-10
FARM AND GARDEN.

Many a man could save a good home
and enough land to live on comfortably #
he would unload the mortgaged end OF
the farm to his creditor
Often exposed hillsides are warmer
than protected valleys, the constant mo-
ton of the air acting as preventive OF
frost.
Bran is useful with other hen food. 1t
contains mineral matter which they need;
and is also valuable for its nitrogen and
carbon.
Orchardists claim that buds selected
from the upper side of limbs have a
greater weight-bearing~ power than buds
from the under side.
Trees should never be planted more
than one inch deeper than they were in
the nursery. Many trees are smothered
by being planted too deep.
Considering that the area of land suit
able for cherry culture is limited, cherries
will no doubt for many years be one OF
the most profitable fruits to raise.
We observe that some of our exchanges,
though not denying the merits of sun
flower culture, pooh-pooh the idea: 1t is
the old disposition TO carry the grain with
a stone in one end of the bag for balance
Because the father was compelled to
work himself almost to death when he
was young is no sort of reason why his
child should be made TO work hlmSelf
nearly to death.
The number of acres a man controls is
no index of either wealth or prosperity.
1t has been far easier to get land poor
than to get prosperous from owning land
in the last decade.
Handle the colt from the very earliest
age. Then his training will become so
natural that there will never be any need need
than in any other way.
The foundations for the later profit in
pork are generally laid at this time. The
care and attention given now to the
will hn n
suits. Many of the little porkers are lost
every year for want of attention at far
rowing time. And not infrequently sow
is lost as well.
whether it is sweet or sour, give it to the
poultry. 1t contains much of the needed
egg-making material-and can in no other
way be so sJrofitably utilized. Poultry
make good adjunct to the dairy.
Some mistakes may be corrected or
overcome, but planting an orchard of
poor trees on unsuitable land is not one
of them. 1t is far better to plant one of
the right kind in the right place and then
give it proper care than to plant 100 sick
ly trees on poor land, to be neglected
later on.
In spring the shoes should be removed
from all farm horses and those used al
most solely about the farm in blowing.
narrowing. etc. Thus the feet will have
an opportunity to come into contact with
the cool. moist earth, and this will tend
to remove Inflammation and encourage
healthy growth of the horn.
1t is said that more wool will be ship
ped from Casper, Wy. this year than
from any other point in the United States.
Shearing commenced there about the first
of April, the shearers being paid z cents
a fleece.
Hogs will always wallow in filth if they
have opportunity, and there is no filth too
filthy for them. They are subject to dis
ease, however, as other animals are, and
absolute cleanliness is as essential in the
pigsty as in the poultry-house. Pigs fat
ten quickest in clean, dry quarters.
To kill chicken lice there are many
recommended and yet lice -four
sh; among them, oil of fennel dropped