The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-16

| Where nay is We'll SeCIieU, a quantity
seven feet long, seven feet wide and
tiply the length Of the stack or NOV
by the width and that product by the
height or if in the stack, by half the
height in the centre and divide by $50,
the number of cubic feet in one tom
James Pearson.
While clover is one of the greatest
fertilizers for a WORKOUT soil, it will
do far better work if it be given the
right kind of help Selling every ton
of hay and straw save what you might
need to keep your team and two or
three cows, is not the kind of help that
clover demands. Feed every ton of
I hay and straw, and every bushel of
grain you can of what you raise
In localities where jack rabbits are
plentiful, farmers can very profitably
| utilize them by trapping them and
boiling them for the chickens. Plenty
of boiled ra bbit, with added greens;
! little wheat and few potatoes, will
| make hens lay when most other plans
have failed. If a little red pepper is
added to the stew it will be all the
better Too much pepper is as harm.
full to the chickens constitution as it
is to a mans.
To prevent incests worrying cattle
in the summer at the Ontario agricul-
tural college at Guelph, each animal is
each week rubbed over with seal oil
and carbolic acid, one tablespoon of
| the latter to one quart of the former.
This prevents the horn fly and other
| insects from annoying them. The oil
! is applied with the sponge, and care is
| taken not to miss any part of the ami,
NAL.
| Of the thirteen countries where po-
| tatoes are grown extensively, there is
none with so low an average an acre
as the United States. Great Britain,
| Belgium, Holland and Norway stand
at the head in productiveness. The
2. 800, 900 acres under cultivation in the
United States yield only la, 900
bushels; Great Britain, with one and
one-third million acres produces more.
! The Americans are not such great low
| ers of Irish lemons as one might sup
pose.
Mr.. D. Roberts. of South Dakota,
| speaking of the sheep industry in that
state, expresses the opinion that amy
| man who starts now with fifty or one
hundred good breeding ewes, and makes
! it point to care for them and breed
| them properly, can in a few years have
flock around him that will support
his family and himself very nicely,
with but little labor aside from caring
| for his flock"
A correspondent asks for directions
| for making cement for broken china
| that will endure hot coffee and tea.
Make a thick solution of gum arabic
and water, and stir in enough plaster
of paris to make a thick paste; apply
! with a brush to the broken edges of
| the china, carefully set together, tie a
string around them, and set away for
three days. China may be mended so
strongly in this way that it will never
! break again in the same place.
Kerosene emulsion can most easily
be applied to stock to destroy lice and
prevent the attack of the horn fly, by
the sprayer, which is designed origi-
rally for applying spraying mixtures
| to fruit trees. A hand sprayer is the
| most convenient, and with fine noz-
! zle a very small quantity will be SUI
ficent, whereas by hand and sponge
application the work will require much
more liquid and take much more time.
Nearly all kinds of business has its
seasons of prosperity and depression.
| One of the shortest roads to wealth is
to buy when nearly every one else
wants to sell. If horses are cheap
renewed demand is certain to spring
up in the future. Horses are snort
lived and rapidly used up. When there
is a dull season nearly everybody goes
out of hte business, and then when the
prices rise few have horses to sell.
In orchard cultivation we are annu-
ally receiving the benefit of improved
machinery and genius is doing much
! for the scientific worker among the
| trees. At the present day there are
disk or spading harrows that supercere
| the old-fashioned sultivatorS, and do
better work and more of it with the
I same expenditure of force. Some of
these improved implements will do the
work needed in an orchard and leave
the land9 level after stirring it. One
| difficulty with the pillow is that it is
one-sided, but the modern spading-har-
row leaves the soil loose and stirs it to
! the depth desired. The fruit-groWer
also can have harrows that will allow
him to go close to the trees, with no
! single or doubietrees to make trouble.
The California cultivators now coming
into use on the western slope are fine
machines and admit of so many chang
es that they are valuable in all manner
of ground preparation. There is no ex-
cuse for a ragged orchard in these
days of labor-saving devices.
Pigs at an early age begin to eat
from the trough, and when a month
old they do better to have an apart
| ment for this purpose to themselves.
At eight or ten weeks old they should
be able to subsist independently of
their mothers on milk slop and ground
grain. After this change the SOW at
! first needs plenty of slop and little corn
till her milk is dry. 1t may be neces-
Sary to let the pigs return to her a few
times for a feed. When she has fin
ished her service for this litter, do not
leave her to recuperate her wasted
powers entirely on grass or alfalfa,
| however luxurient or plentiful it may
be. Nothing but a continuous ration
will keep her in heart for future ser
vice. Ground corn and oats with some
bran or shorts will make good Stops for
| the pigs, mixed with milk and water
twelve hours before feeding. After this
swill has been fed a liberal supply of
soaked corn will add enough flesh to
keep the pigs plump all summer. They
should have an alfalfa pasture to run
in during the summer, and sweet corn,
pumpkins, squashes, artichokes and
beets, or other vegetables which are
! raised on the farm, to help make a
good growth.
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