The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-30
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Have you provided a dust bath for
the hens this winter2 1t will help you
greatly in keeping your flock free from
vermin.
Don't neglect 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 she'll
One doesn't have to become a fancier
in order to have good fowls. A flock
Of thoroughbreds cost no more to hatch
and keep than do a lot of scrub hens.
and the income from them is double
or more.
There is no more important work on
the fruit farm or garden than winter
protection, and there is no work more
generally neglected. Let it be done
thoroughly, after the frosts have come,
and before winter sets in.
An old broncho buster gives the fol-
lowing as sure way TO cure a horse
of kicking: 1.-The way we fix a kick
ing horse is to tie one of his forelegs
with a rope to the hind leg on the
other side. Then, as soon as he starts
to kick, he jerks his front leg off the
~ound and goes down in a heap. Two
or three doses of that kind viii cure
the worst case You can find"
Four hundred pounds of pork can be
rNade from two pigs in less than half
the time and at less than half the cost
of raising one hog to weigh that
amount, and besides there is much less
risk of losing the young hogs by dis
ease, in consequence Of which good
many stocEmen are devoting their en-
orgies to raising light hogs and matur-
ing them early.
There are hundreds of farmers who
are in the milk business and who
know that the business pays, yet they
cannot separate the paying cows from
those that do not pay because they do
not keep accounts with each animal.
1T is not business-like to omit books,
and as long as the farmer does not
know the exact work performed by
each COW he is cropping in the dark.
What upon the farm brings a more
sure profit. even though a small one,
while at the same time utilizing ma
terial which could not be turned into
money by any other means than
COW, While many COWS return to their
owners a profit, not every COW does
so. and in order not to make the mis-
take of feeding and caring for a herd
for nothing, and perhaps have them
&. run you in debt besides, 1t is well to
be sure Of the producing ability OF your
COWS. The Babcock test and the scales
viii quickly bring facts to light, put
ting the account of the cows upon
correct basis.-William L. lockwood.
Here is man with pile of manure
He expects TO raise a big crop of corn.
The corn is to be fed to hogs. The
pork is to be the money crop. Now
II would not be sensible for that man
TO use only half of the manure on the
corn and save the other half to feed
to the hogs, That would be nonsense.
The wise plan will be to use it all
on the corn, and thus get as much hog
food as possible. Here is a man using
potash on crops in a rotation which
includes clover. His best plan is to
put the potash all on the clover crop.
Clover responds to potash better than
any other farm crop. and the more
clover you can grow, the more of other
crops viii the farm produce. Manure
on the corn, Potash all on the clover.
The outcry in Europe against dis
eased beef is not sustained in statistics.
1t has been found that enc out of every
seven cattle shipped from Australia
to England died while in transit: that
of those shipped from South America
one out of every % died, while OF those
that were shipped from the United
States and Canada. but one in every
200 died in transit. This would indicate
that our cattle surpass the rest of the
world in excellence of condition, and
that any discrimination against US is
practically without reasonable founda-
ton.