The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-21
seasonable Farm Notes.

Seasonable Farm Notes.
IT does not pay to raise scrub stock.
Sell the scrubs and get well bred ami
mails. This is a good year to make the
change. while prices are low
superb hog feed for any age and
almost any condition. says an ex-
change, is corn, wheat and oats OF
equal parts, coarsely chopped and fed
any way the hogs like it-cooked or
raw. soaked or dry
Save parings, cabbage leaves and
potato scraps for the hens. They
ought to have green food all winter.
Have you provided dust bath for
the hens this winter 1t viii help you
greatly in keeping your flock free of
verlnin-
Don't neglest to provide plenty of
grit-the sharper the better-for the
hens. Broken china and earthenware
answer the purpose very well, as does
broken oyster shells.
Renew the nests occasionally. Cut
straw makes a good nest. Take out the
old and burn it before it becomes
6lth-covered or vermin-infected-
one doesn't have to become fancier
IN order to have good fowls. A flock of
tnoroughbreds cost no more 10 hatch.
and keep than do lot of scrub hens,
and The income from them is double
or more.
One of the handsomest fruit cata-
logues we have seen this season has
been issued by George S. Josselyn of
Fredonia N Y, the introducer of
campbell's early grape, Red Jacket
gooseberry and other valuable fruits
Send for it.
Poultry men are not fully agreed on
the point but l have found warm
mash in the morning an excellent egg
maker. The New York experiment sta
ton has demonstrated that the keep
of a flock of hens viii be less with
nnoistened food than with dry. and that
eggs viii he more plenty. AT any rate
il pays TO give variety to the diet
Inquiries as to the best personalities
for hog cholera suggest the publica-
ton at this time of the prescription
recommended by DR.. Salmon of the
bureau of animal industry. 1t is:
l part wood charcoal.
l part sulphur
parts sodium chloride (salD.
parts sodium bicarbonate (soda).
parts sodium hyposulphite.
I part sodium sulphate.
/ part anthony sulphide.
PuIverize and mix thoroughly.
Dose, one tablespoonful for each 200
pounds weight of hog once day
It is poor economy to live on farm
without a lantern. and it ought to be a
good one 1t is not safe to go into a
barn without knowing what is there,
and where you are going. Sometimes
en- accident occurs on the farm when
Il is absolutely necessary to have a
light of some kind, and lantern is the
most convenient. When corn picking
time comes the use of the lantern
comes with it.
It is a much more expensive process
20 restore WORKOUT lands than TO re-
tain their original fertility by judicious
handling. Men who are farming virgin
lands would best learn this lesson in
due season. or thev viii learn it later
to their cost and their regret.
When in good health the late Mr..
Spurgeon would. as a matter of duty,
go to bed for day or two, simply
that he might accumulate strength,
and this method worked admirably
with him and ought TO be followed far
more than it is by those who are given
10 overtaxing the nervous system.
Absence of dust makes the hen de-
fenseiess. Likewise the wild birds.
They must have something of the sort
10 shift through their feathers 10
cleanse the skin and choke uD and kill
the lice, which latter, we are told,
breathe through the skin, and when
enveloped in dust strangulation or
suffocation ensues.
Rye makes much fall and winter feed
for the stock farmer, especially Yalua
bic as affording a variety during the
dry fodder season. It makes an early
and vigorous start in spring, preceding
the grass as pasture, and afterwarG
natures as good a crop as if it had
never been graZed, and is ripe and
harvested before the season of drouth
begins.
A Brooklyn physician states in the
Medical World that the main dietetic
cause of infantile costiveness is de-
ficie1cy Of fat in The food. A large
percentage can be successfully met by
increasing the fat ingested. 1t has
been his practice for the past two years
10 give the child from half to a table
spoonful of cream before feeding. The
child may refuse to take it readily, but
by sweetening the cream with loaf sug
ar the child soon becomes fond of it
and viii accept all that is offered.
Upon following this plan your cases of
congenital constipation will suddenly
diminish. and the child in the verv
depth of its soul viii feel comfort.
Experiments in feeding and in COM
putting the value of eggs show that no
estimate is made for labor: one dozen
eggs can he produced at a cost of about
t cents for food. or about half a cent
per egg. Ii all the food allowed To hens
was converted into eggs the profit on a
dozen eggs would be large, even when
prices are very low: but much depends
on whether the hens convert the food
Into eggs, flesh, or support for the
bodies. 1t is d fact demonstrated. how
ever that when a dozen eggs are mar
keted they carry from the farm but
little of the nutritious elements of the
soil in proportion TO their value in mar
ket, and on that account alone they are
as profitable as anything that can be
produced on the farm.
a nail box on the farm is
very handy, writes a practical farmer
II should have a conn., artment for each
size of nails used. l have one with
handle TO carry it about, but when / am
making fence or doing any work that |
requires the use OF nails. ! put on an
apron with two pockets in it, similar |
to that of a carpenter. and 1 never |
have TO run anywhere for nails. The |
hammer is kept in my belt and pencil |
between my head and hat
A Jersey Cow.
4 Tennessee lady who has had some /
experience with d number of COWS writes 4