The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-28

greater returns. But she should bear in
mind that real estate is the collateral to
be preferred to all others.
NOTES IN SEASON.
Corn and cob ground together and
mixed with oats make a good ration
for the horse, the cob furnishing valu-
able bulk.
No farm in the United States should
be without a. first-class team. Horses
are too cheap to warrant us in keeping
horses that had better be killed and
their carcass fed to the hogs.
The horse, it is said, cannot think of
but one thing at q. time. He must
think when he stands hour after hour
before saloon that the place is a first
class nuisance.
Whenever disease breaks out among
the animals on a farm, it is neighborly
TO give publicity to the fact, and thus
put others on their guard.
Here is a new way TO keep grapes
fresh. Meehan's Monthly says grapes
are kept in European countries in the
following manner: Place long racks
in the fruit houses made to contrain
bottles of water; the grapes are cut
with portions of branches attached
and these branches placed in the bot
ties. The water prevents, of course,
the evaporation Of the juices of the
fruit, and il care is taken to guard
against mould, they can be had many
months after the branches have been
taken from the vine. The great beauty
of a bunch Of grapes when it appears
on an English dinner table is in the
waxy bloom which covers the grape,
and by this method of preserving
punches this bloom can be preserved
intact.
Alfalfa as a, green manure has extra
ordinary value. The amounts of plant
food gathered by an acre of alfalfa in
two years at the New Jersey expert
ment station were equivalent in nitro
gen to that contained in $500 pounds
of nitrate Of soda, in phosphoric. acid
to that contained in 600 pounds of
boneblack superphosphate, and in pot
ash to the amount contained in 1900
pounds of muqiate of potash. These
amounts of plant food would cost at
usual prices $124. Most of the nitrogen
is evidently taken from some other
source than the soil, while the potash
appears to have been obtained by the
long roots of the plant from the
deeper layers of subsoil, and the same
Is true to some extent of the pflos-
phoric acid. Glover has much the
same effect, thus making available for
ordinary crops mineral elements Of fer
be able to make use of, and also add
ing to the soil considerable nitrogen
from the air.
To kill sparrows. put cayenne pepper
in the crevices of buildings they infest;
this treatment killed hundreds about
the Maryland state house. Or support
a long and wide plank by a stake, scat
ter grain under it, and when the spar
rows are busily eating pull the stake
away by means of a. string, and the
heavy plank deadfan will kill the spar
rows. Others will quickly return to
take their place. Many believe the
English sparrow does more good than
harm.
A favcrite as well as nourisning
drink for invaiids is barley water. TO
prepare it, place one quart of water
in a saucepan over the fire. Wash well
two ounces of pearl barley and throw
into the water Bring it to boiling
point, then add lemon and sugar to
suit the taste. Draw the pan to the
back OF the fire and simmer gently two
hours. Strain and cover until cold.
For e, good vinegar, to three gallons
of pure apple cider add one gallon of
soft water well sweetened with mo-
lasses and expose to the sun or warm
air till the acetic fermentation is near
~ complete. then remove to a cool,
dry apartment The cask should al
ways be left uncorlzed. Vinegar can be
made from the juices Of almost any
fruit containing either starch or sugar
Poultry will not pay if wholly con-
fined, even in frost proof houses. Clean
out the house and apply fresh litter
either chaff or cut straw-to the
shallow box, full of ashes, in a sunny
position, for the fowls to dust in. Sup
ply fine gravel and lime, also green
food in the form of cabbage, or raw
turnips, and use every means to keep
them laying from September to April,
when eggs are worth twice as much
as in summer.
Yes. here in this poor. miserable,
hampered, despicable actual, wherein
thou even now standest, here or no
where is thy ideal. Work il out there
from, and, working, believe, live, be
free Fool, The ideal is in thyself,
the impeachment, too, is in thyself; thy
condition is but the stuff thou art TO
shape that same ideal out Of What
matters whether such stuff be of this
sort or that, so the form thou give it
be heroic-be poetic? o, thou that
pinesr IN the imprisonment of the
actual. and cries bitterly to the gods
for a kingdom wherein to rule and Gre
ate, know this of a truth; the thing
thou seekesr is already with thee, here
or nowhere. couldst thou only see!-
Thomas Carlyle, in "Sartor Resartus.'
There are too many horses in the
country that are afraid of cars. 1t is
always dangerous to have a horse that
is frightened at engines. and especial
care should be taken to remedy the
weakness by familfarizing the horse
with what to it is a cause Of terror.
You can make a COW let down her
milk, but it has got to be done by
coaxing; you have all seen nervous,
excitable cows that would only give
: quart perhaps, when they ought 10
give bucketful. They will hold the
milk up for awhile. and then when
they fecoal- quoted down they will let
it down.
''Yessiree,' said Farmer Corntossel,
as he tilted back in the rocking chair
and let the paper fold itself over his
knee. I'm a red-hot, out-and-out,
teetotal reformer every time WELL"
replied Mrs. Corntossel, I'm right glad
to hear We say So" What fur-?''
Well, eff yer gofn' in fer reform, I
reckon mebbe ven be out o bed fore
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