The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-17
GENERAL NOTES.


An orchard uncared for will surely be
Improbable.
Lousy poultry will not pay. The
hen that is engaged in fighting lice has
no time to lay.
Plant those kinds and varieties of
fruit that are adapted to your local
itV.
How well-kept garden simplifes
the perplexing problem Of an attractive
dining tablet
With proper protection peaches can
be grown much farther north than the
present peach belt
Don't put a heated horse into a cold
or draughty stable. If you cannot help
it blanket him until dry.
Potash is the food material that
orchards are most likely in want of.
Keep all ashes for the trees.
There is pin money in the poultry
yard, and some money to help pay the
mortgage. too, if rightly managed.
After chick is three months old
they usually grow bone and muscle so
fast that they are not fit for the table
until they are six months old.
1t is not well to plant d large block
of trees of one variety of fruit. An in
ter-miXture of different varieties en-
sUres fertilization of the blossoms.
Sand is not a good substitute for
gravel in the poultry yard, it is not
sharp enough; given an opportunity
the hens will pick up the sharpest, ir-
regular pieces.
If a team pulls unevenly, the trouble
may be remedied by unhitiching the
inside traces and crossing them so as to
have each horse attached to the same
end of each swingle-tree.
There cannot be too much said, in our
opinion in favor of the sunfcwer as a
crop, even if it is used for nothing else
than feeding poultry and mixing with
grain for fattening stock.
While milk of all kinds is good for
fowls of all kinds it should not be made
to take the place of water. A good
plan is to keep a supply of both where
they can help themselves.
Lice drive more sitting hens from
the nests and cause more deaths among
them than any other cause, and this
loss could readily be avoided with
proper care,-Plowman
Carelessness is responsible for more
sickness among poultry than anything
else. Carelessness allows lice to become
numerous, and lice are the worst enc
mics that the poultryInan has to con-
tend with.-Germantown Telegraph.
1t does not pay to give stock stimu-
lating food. Good wholesome grain
and hay or grass for CATTLE horses and
sheep, and grass and good grain for
hogs are all that is necessary to make
them grow to perfection.
1t is not sufficient that we dig a hole
in which to set a young tree. The soil
ih4 1,Ia rra1 n ifc-1
ture will admit. and if there is a re
tentive subsoiI. a subsoil pillow may be
used to advantage. When the whole
surface is mellowed it is put in the
best shape for the collection and re-
tention of plant food.
The fact that one railroad operator
in twelve received injuries while at
work last year. should keep thought
full boys from hankering after employ
ment on railroads.
Clean milking, with view of getting
all the milk at one sitting, is of the
highest importance, and to accomplish
this ought to be the earnest aim of all
mixers; no COW should be left until
the last drop is drawn.
Some Of the fancy breeds of poultry
may so interest the boy who is firing
of farm life that he will abandon all
idea of leaving the farm. 1t is a cheap
way of keeping him satisfied, if it will
do it.
1t is said that the apple should be
peeled before being eaten to guard
against disease germs. That may be
true, but when the skin is removed q
good deal of the flavor goes with it.
An old-time apple eater never peels his
apple.
One of the strange things of life is
that some folks will talk about the
bad smell water from the we'll has
for weeks and yet never think seriously
of opening the well to clean it out and
thus get rid of a disease breeding
nuisance.
The better classes of soils receive
Slight benefit in actual increase of
nitrogen from having a clover crop
plowed into them; the poorer classes
receive a much greater; and Ell kinds
of soils are improved in mechanical
availability for succeeding crops
The know-how supplemented with
the do-ft is the sum and substance of
agricultural or any other success. A
neighboring poultryman Matched 1856
chicks with a homemade incubator
last winter. raised every one of them
to broiler age. and sold them for forty
to sixty cents apiece.
With many farmers the most serious
problem of life is to get out of debt.
The only way to solve it is either to
keep down the expenses or to increase
the income, or if possible, both. The
danger is that in endeaVoring to i'm
crease the incline, expenses are in
creased to a point that leaves no profit
and the debt is as far from being paid
as ever In keeping down the expenses
do not do it by denying the wife need
ed help in the house. This is the poor
est economy.
Every one who keeps hens knows of
one or two or more which are persist
ent layers. These should be bred from,
as they will thanmit their good quail
ties to their progeny.
Don't fail to plant some sunfiowers
this spring, for sunfower seeds are the
best single grain for laying hens that
can be given them. and it is surprising
what a quantity can be grown in odd
corners.
The best cantaloupe. considering its
merits and defects, is the Emerald