The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-30
NOTES.

Hard coal ashes make a good mulch for
currant bushes.
Lime scattered about the poultry house
is a. good purifier.
1t costs no more to produce good NUT
ton than poor, and it will sell a good deal
better.
The little details of the dairy need close
attention, and unless it is given total or
partial failure Will result.
1t is better to give the sheep a little
grain at this season of the year rather
than let them get thin.
The Percheron is likely to continue in
the front rank as a draught horse. He is
available to do your work or to sell.
Get your boys interested in the fruit
garden, and if you are blessed with girls
1t Will do no harm to encourage them also.
Good husbandry dictates that not a
pounc O. ashes should be wasted but all
should be saved and applied to the land
Rye fed to pigs must be ground, and it
is better not to feed it dry, as it is sticky
and chokes them. Make a tslop and feed
good ration.
To throw good, clean food into the
midst of uncleanliness for the fWls is
very reprehensible. Filth in food affects
both the eggs and meat, to say nothing
about the health
An orchard that at the same time is
a larger quantity of fruit but that of
better quality than one only receiving
ordinary treatment.
One of the great virtues of rye as a food
for hogs is that it is grain possessing
more of the elements of growth, rather
than fattening properties, and the people
now demand bacon hog.
There are many good things embodied
in the construction of roads, but drain
age is the most important one. The very
essential n &c
drainage.
1t is not every hand than can ploy; it
requires skill and intelligence. The fur
row should be of even width and depth
and turned smoothly and handsomely; the
plow should be right, the team right, and
the one should be rightly hitched to the
other. Flowing is easy-to some. The pillow
may do good work or very poor work
Corn follows clover or sod crops admir-
ably. The decaying roots of the soil leave
a mellow, friabe condition especially suit
ed to summer tillage. Oats, however, de-
light in soil that has been subjected to
cultivation the year before, hence TIE
common practice of oats after corn. Tim
othy also follows clean culture advantag-
eousy.
1t is said that when a Spaniard eats
a peach or pear he digs a hole by the
roadside with his foot and carefully
covers up the seed. The result is fruit
plenty and free everywhere What a
this fertile land of ours, where our
roadsides are neglected in so many
ways.
1t is preferable to cultivate the
smaller fruits in the home garden, for
the reason that they take up less room
and for a succession of dainties the
whole summer through. They require
so little attention, and the knowledge
OF their nature is so easily acquired,
that he is culpable who denies his
family the luxury
All Canadians know that pork made
from peas or beans is much firmer in
texture than even corn-fed pork. There
is a special flavor of sweetness which
no other pork has. The fat does not
fry. out so much in cooking, and it
makes an ideal bacon for family use
Where we can raise the COW pea for
hogs they will prove economical and
healthful to the herd