The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-17
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Green. 1t sometimes cracks open at
the ends, and is not very attractive in
appearance, but it is of excellent flavor
solid flesh, thin rind and unexcelled in
many respects.
The busy bee is an invaluable ser
want of the fruit grower. Many varie-
ties of fruit are utterly helpless to re-
produce themselves without its help
and most Towering plants are to some
extent dependent upon it. Consult the
apiary department of Farming.
In cultivating an orchard care should
be taken that no part of the horses
harness injure the trees. Brides with
out projections, narrow whiffle-trees
or, if possible. one common chain for
the horses, leather loops rather than
rings for the reins, collars and names
as low and close as possible, are the
best for such work A tree should be
protected from injury in branch, trunk
and root.
Moth larvae in old combs may be de-
Stroyed by the use of sulphur.
Dampness in hives is the most damag-
ing thing to bees during the winter that
can befall them.
Do not start on a large scale. but let
your apiary grow. Start with about
four or six swarms the first season. Y ou
may lose some skips, but you must ex-
peCt loss. Bees will die as well as horses
or cattle, but perhaps not so often. and
then there is not such a large sum in
vested. Take some reliable bee paper II
you intend going in it very strong.
The department of agriculture has just
published a bulletin on the honey bee by
Frank Benton. 1t contains 11S pages and
is illustrated. 1t is sent free to an ap-
plicants. Send to the secretary of agri-
culture. Washington, d. c., and get a
copy.
For cold in the head when first felt
take from ten to fifteen drops of cam
phor on a lump of sugar; a very SIM
pie remedy, but the most effectual
known to medical science. Never take
it in water; it precipitates a gum which
is an irrftant to the stomach and
causes vomiting.
No farmer can afford to be an aver
age producer all the time either of
crops or stock, for the profit is nearly
all in the hands of those who have
climbed aVoVe the average. There is a
lessened cost in the greater yield, for
the outlay is the same to the success
full and to the poorer farmer.
A writer aff1rns that dairying is con-
ducive to good morals. That is likely.
we think. The COW can teach many
men morals, religion and manners.
II Is I1Ol GACctQlISIy LISn pIICCO lOl
butter-for high prices always limit
consumption-that the butter maker
wants but a good, reasonable, profit
able steady price.
The separator is based upon the prin-
ciples of economy of labor and econ
omy of material. 1t lifts the drudgery
from the shoulders of the women folks
and it solves the problem Of transpor-
tation of the milk; and the skim milk
is left in the best possible shape for
feeding to the calves and other young
stock. They are not cheap, but their
advantages make them worth their
cost.
Much valuable experience goes to
waste every year because it is not re-
ported to the agricultural press, and
thus made the property of all intelli-
gent readers. Farming is by no means
am exact science. Like medicine, it is
the growth of centuries of experience,
and the experience of farmers under
similar conditions, climates, soils and
circumstances is worth far more than
the experience of farmers not similar
ly circumstanced.-Fa and Fireslde.
Moorpark apricots are the choicest
apricots raised in California. They are
raised in largest quantity IN Santa
Clara county. They are reputed to be
settled that if a vigorous growth is
kept up they will bear well. Water ap-
piled after the crop is off will do it
Pruning vigorously will reduce the
growing surface and make what is left
grow more luxuriantly and with equal
" as satisfactory results
The advantages of dehorning are now
evervwhere recognized. When properly
done the operation is not cruelty TO
animals but is a positive advantage
to them and a great protection for hu-
mainly that has to handle STOCK De
horned cattle will put on more flesh
because of the quieter disposition and
better access of food, shelter, etc, and
feeders usually pay more for dehorned
than for horned steers for the same
quality. This is also true to some ex-
tent of dairy cows. The best time to
dehorn is on the young calf, when the
button or incipient horn can be taken
out at one clip.
We repeat by request the recipe for
curing hams, which one subscriber says
is the best she has ever used: Allow
them to get cold all through. then lay
them on a board in a cool, dry cellar.
skin side down. For fifty pounds of
meat, mix two pounds of fine salt, one
ounce of powdered saltpetre and two
of brown sugar. Rub this well into the
meat, until it will take no more, and
pack some in the hook around the
bone What salt is left should be rubbed
into it again at the end of the week.
Let them lie for two weeks. then hang
up They are improved by smoking
with hickory or apple chips. Set fire
to them, then smother under sawdust
till only the SNAKE escapes. If no
smoke house is at hand they may be
smoked under a barrel.