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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27
House CLEANING.

To clean house comfortably take
plenty of time to it, and do not reduce
your distracted family to the state of
being obliged to walk the streets until
bedtime because there is no room to
sit in
Begin "a the top of the house and
clean one room al time. Two rooms.
or perhaps three, if they are small, are
as much as should be attempted in one
day. and or nc account must you al
low the warfare to rage in more than
one story at a time.
Take down The woollen curtains. beat
them, pur them away in paper covers,
each marked with the name Of the
contents,
The lace curtains are shaken. and if
very much soiled are washed and
oleansed. A curtain stretcher which
costs SL50. is a help in this matter.
Carpets are next taken up, sent to
the cleaners and when returned are
rolled in linen and stored in closets,
with plenty Of moth bane. The floor
is carefully swept.
Open the closets. dust and clean the
contents. laying each article in the
next room. while the floors. the
shelves, even the books, are washed
in water. to which a little carbolic
acid has beer added. Put a saucer OF
tur'pentine on the floor and let it
remain several hours with the door
tightly shut This for insect life.
Put all the bric-a-brac into retreat
for the summer. Take down the pic
lures. dust the frames and polish the
glasses and put these also into another
room after they have been closely
covered with cheesecloth.
Take the mattress of the bed into
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27
FOR FApM CHILDREN.

The little forks on the farm like to
play out of doors, make mud pies after
the most approved recipes, which even
Mrs. Rorer herself couldn't improve.
Let EN- do it, but why not dress them
according to the work.
How many farmers wives spend
hours and, hours every week washing
and doing up" light colored dresses
and white underclothes for these little
busy bodies Why not make them col
ored underclothes? Black sateen looks
easily and need no starching.
Make waists after any approved pat
tern, and drawers the same, except
that the band is not put on seam the
two garments together and you have
a neat pair of combination under
garments. Feather-stitch the bottoms
of drawers with Asiatic twisted en-
broidery silk. il gold color; use the
same around the arms. eyes and necks,
and even if these garments become
visible they are neat enough to be
pretty. l also like little black skirts
for everyday wear and make these
with a, waist of the same, feather
stitching the bottoms of the skirt and
around neck and arms, eyes with yell
low silk, sometimes using Asiatic twist
ed embroidery silk and sometimes
knitting silk, Victoria or Hamburg.
These all wash good but I think the
first mentioned wears better.
Black is even fashionable for little
misses gowns. and black sateen comes
in good for everyday dresses for the
little folks It will save at least half
the dress washing and know it.
If women would only use a little of
the common sense of which they pos
sess such ar abundance they would
find they had more time for reading
and other work that they want to do
Rose Seelye-Miller, in Nebraska Far
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27
MAKING SORGHUM SYRUP.

For ten years, says writer in Farm.
Stock and Home, 1 have not boiled
gallon of strip without first treating
the cane juice with slaked lime as
cleansing agent. Southern planters
use it, and so do chemists of the Agri-
cultural Departments at Sterling and
Medicine Lodge, Kansas. DIR. Peter Col
her, formerly chief chemist of the
Agricultural Department, a man who
is the best posted on the value Of
northern sugar canes and their pro-
ducts. and tests my syrups from year
to year, says: Your samples from
Minnesota never can be beaten for
purity and number of degrees of sacch-
arine strength 1t is well known here
at home, that there is a lively cali for
the crude syrup made in the old way.
Last season slaked out two barrels
at time, being careful not to let it
get dry and hot in the process When
the lime is about the thickness of
that prepared for whitewashing, I stir
in with the raw juice as it comes
from the mill, about one quart to 100
gallons of juice, using care to thor
oughly mix it in by stirring. l then
heat as rapidly as possible. When it
is nearly to a boiling point. il a d.
rect fire heat, draw out or wet down
the fire, for there will be such thick
blanket of impurities arise to the top
that it will boil over very quickly
if the heat is not under control. After
this blanket of scum is removed the
juice can be further boiled in the
heater, which, by the way, should be
a plain pan that will hold at least 100
gallons of juice. The arch on which
this pan rests ought to be eighteen
or twnty inches higher than the evap-
orator, so one can draw from the pan
instead of dipping out
The juice being naturally acid and
the lime alkaline, if just the right
amount of lime is used it will be alb
sorbed by the acids of the cane leav-
ing the product as pure as water. and
of a high standard of sweetness Many
cane growers will confirm what / now
say, for hundreds of them have made
syrup that has turned to soft sugar,
but it could not be drained, because
the product in its natural state has so
much vegetable matter and is so
tough that drainafge is Impossible.
while juice trated with just lime
enough removes this matter. so that
/ have seen the sugar well drained out
by digging a hole in the middle of the
syrup to drain into
If the juice is clarified by steam it
is much easier to control the heat while
clarifying. If any evidence was needed
to convince cane growers that this is
an advanced way to manufacture sy-
rup. l can furnish it by saying that I
sell many barrels of sugar each year;
and of the 1850 gallons of syrup made
in 1895, my sales so far have averaged
1850 gallons month. Part of my
customers are new ones, and part of
many years standing. OF course. it
costs more to make syrup in this way.
but the advantages are a larger de-
mand, a quicker sale, and once you get
a customer you can keep him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27
SANDWICHES.
How to Make picnic DeIicacies.

How suggestive of pcnics are the hot
days of early spring-every bursting bud
seems to wave an invitation to the woods
and to whisper of hours spent in shady
wales, but wise mothers do not yield to
the 1mportunate demands, knowing well
that leaves must be larger, grass greener,
before one can hope for shade and COM
fort in the country. Now, however, is the
time to prepare for picnic pleasures and
for long days spent in the park. For
such events the sandwish becomes the
staff of life, and to vary it sufficiently
and make it wholesome for children is
no easy task
Originally a sandwish was composed of
two slabs of bread an inch thick, with
a great slice of meat between, and is
said to have derived its name from an
Earl of Sandwich. Be that as it may,
we can no longer endure this primitive
form-or perhaps our mouths have grown
too small to compass it readily-and in
genuity is exhausted in the effort to make
dainty, novel, yet wholesome sandwiches.
special bread comes for the purpose
in a square box loaf. with very thin and
tender crust. But any woman who can
make good bread need buy nothing special
if she will keep one of her own loaves
for "a hours.
Before each slice is cut it should be
spread with butter or mayonnaise sauce
using a broad-bladed knife-and then
cut off with sharp, thin knife. Lay
the slice on a board and spread with the
sandwich mixture, over this lay a second
slice and press them together with the
broad blade. Then they may be cut into
any desired shape-triangle, by dividing
them from corner to corner, circles by
using large round cake cutter and
squares or diamond-shaped, If you like
or, if the sandwich is very thin, it may
be rolled.
OF course these dainty forms are not for
picnic where hungry children crave
quantity more than other elements of the
feast; but for all sandwiches alike the
rule holds good. thin. thin bread and
thick thick lin between
This 'in between however, should all
ways be chopped fine, for with a meat
chopper of some good patent the mincing
unwholesome, troublesome sandwich is
that in which the contents must be drag
ged apart with the teeth
For Chicken Sandwiches.-Chop the
white meat of cold boiled chicken very
fine and mix 1t with enough highly seas
oned mayonnaiSe to make a paste. Add
to this few chopped olives, and spread
between buttered slices of bread An
other chicken filling, is made by chopping
the chicken fine with half as many cups
of blanched almonds as you have cups
OF meat. Season with salt and a. dash
of cayenne pepper. Moisten with little
sweet cream until it is thin enough to
spread nicely. This is excellent on brown
bread.
Celery Sandwiches-These are delic-
1ous, but are not in season during the pic
mic weather Boil two eggs very hard,
and when cold enough take off the shells,
rubbing the eggs through a sieve or a
fruit press. Add to them a cup of celery
cnopped fine and enough mayonnaise
dressing to make thick paste. Meat
used instead OF the celery is good SUBJ
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27
THE WHEEL.
An Immense Crowd Present at
Peoria.


PEORIA. H.. June 26.-An immense
crowd was present at LakevieN park this
afternoon to witness the second days
events. 1t was Peoria day and nearly all
the stores were closed.
The events were all exciting, the most
interest centcrlng in the one-mile profess
sional, which Sanger easily won over
Cooper Gardiner. Alien and other fast
men. They lowered the track record to
200. but H. c. Woods of Chicago failed
in his effort to lower the worlds half-mile
record by fifth OF second. covering the
half in 5S l-5. Following are the results:
Amateur one-mile handicap-W. l..
Becker. Streator. won; w. w. Ingram,
Dixon, second; Abrams, Chicago, third.
Iime-2:07 20.
Professional one-third mile-Tom Coop
er. Detroit won. Arthur Gardiner, Chi
cago, second: Bert Repine, Galesburg,
third. Times.
Amateur five miles. state championship
e ". Peabody, Chicago. won A. A. Nc
Lain, Aurora, second; J. d. Parsons,
Dixon. third Time-l3:42 10.
Professional one-mile handicap-W. E.
Becker, Minneapolis. won, w. F. Sanger,
Milwaukee, second; A. {. Van Nest, Chi
cago third. Time-2:C4.
Amateur two miles, five-minute class
". L. Becker, Streator, won; Jesse c.
Curry, Aurora. second; John Fisher chi
Amateur, quarter-mile, open-C: c. In
gram Dixon. won; W. G. Turnbull, Poor
ia, second; John Fisher, Chicago, third
Times 1-5.
Professional half-mile, open-W. W.
Sanger. Milwaukee, won; F. II. Allen,
Syracuse. second: Otto Zeigler, San Fran
cisco. third. Time-1:oS Us.
Amateur two-mile handicap, Peoria BIZ
cycle club-W r. Selby won, John Warren
second William Turnbull third. Time
4.45 10.
Professional mile. open-W. c. Sanger,
Milwaukee, won: Tom Cooper, Detroit,
SECOND; +. H. Allen. Syracuse. third Time
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27
FARM AND
GARDEN
rERr1L1z1NG THE ORCHARD.

A serious drawback, in the past, to
the production of apples of the finest
quality was the starved condition of
the trees. Many start right, says a
correspondent in the Ohio Farmer, set
their apple trees on good soil, and
care for them properly, till they begin
to bear we'll. then relinquish their eff
forts in supplying the drain made upon
the soil just when the trees need it
most.
The draft of the trees upon the ele-
ments of the soil while making growth
is light in comparison to the exhaus-
tive stage of bearing fruit. crop Of
apples depletes the soil of the essential
elements of fertility the same as grow
ing any other farm crop, relatively.
There are very few farmers in the
Order sections Of the country who ever
think of growing a crop of corn, po-
tatoes and wheat upon ,the land year
after year without the application of
some fertilizing material; did they
adopt the practice they would be sped
lily reminded of their folly by dfmin-
ished returns. Yet this has been the
course pursued with the apple orchards
of the majority of farmers.
Two acres of orcharding. set with 100
trees in good bearing condition, will pro-
duce $50 barrels of apples. That
amount of fruit will weigh some six
teen tons. 1t is true, a large part Of
this weight is water, but the solid
matter in this crop of $50 barrels Of
apples has drawn from the soil, mainly.
fortyfive pounds of nitrogen. nearly
four pounds of phosphoric acid, and
sevnty-ive pounds of potash, exclu-
sive of the considerable drain upon
the soil for the growth of new wood in
the trees. These figures show t7o
things: The urgent necessity Of feed
ing the orchard, and the form of fer
tilizers best suited to restore the vast
ed elements.
Potash is the leading element re-
CURED in fruit growing; nitrogen forms
the next important element: phosphor-
us plays an unimportant part in the
production of the apple but most of
cur granite soils suitable for orchard
ing need no special APPLICATION of that
element oftener than once in four or
five years, of small quantity.
The above figures show us that if we
use barn dressing as the main de-
pendence for fertiliZing material. the
practice is costly and wasteful. A ton
! of stable manure on a fair average
contains ten pounds of nitrogen, five
pounds of phosphoric acid and ten
pounds of potash. Now, to 1ress the
two acres of orchard with stable ma
nure requisite to supply the seventy
| five pounds of potash drawn from the
| soil in the crop of go barrels of apples,
would take seven and one-half tons,
and that would give an excess of over
| thirty pounds of phosphoric acid and
| nearly twenty-five pounds of nitrogen
the latter worse thar a dead loss, for
an excess of nitrogen induces profuse
growth of wood at the expense of the
fruit
A combination of stable manure and
commercial fertilizers for hte bearing
orchard does we'll One-fourth the
! amount of stable manure supplement-
! ed by 400 or 500 pounds of kainit. or
100 TO $50 pounds of either muriate or
suphate of potash, with nifty pounds OF
nitrate of soda, give good results.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27
FERTILIZERS.

From numerous inquiries 1t seems
necessary to state that the virtue of
nitrate of soda is in its nitrogen. Soda
is not a fertilizer, but it helps to dis
solve fertilizers in the soil so that
ter for this purpose and is cheaper.
Experiments in Connecticut prove
that the nitrogen in bone, gristle, hide
and intestines is rendered less avail
able by steaming or cooking, while that
in wool, hair, horns and hoofs is rem
dered more available by cooking. This
is confirmed by Wagner's experiments
in Germany.
The Swedish agricultural college
finds the best time to apply nitrate of
soda to spring wheat to be half at
time it sprouts and half when it is
heading.
Sir John B. Lawes. the famous Eng
fish experimental, publishes the result
of a rotation experiment covering
thirty-six years. There were four years
in the course, first, rutabagas: second,
barley; third, clover or peas; fourth,
wheat. After repeating this course
nine times he finds that each of these
crops yielded about twice as much on
the rotation plats as on the plats
where each crop had been grown alone
during the thirty-siX years. What is
more remarkable, the rotation plats
yielded considerably more the last
year than equal plats which received
a heavy dressing of a complete fertil-
izer.
Sir j. B. Lawes finds that potash is
the most important fertilizer for all
plants which are expected to store up
sugar in their growth, such as fruits,
beets, cane, etc
In New Jersey. farmers clubs and
oranges purchased 700 tons of fertil-
izer ingredients and mixed them at
home. The station analysis and COM
parison of samples of this home mix
ture with factory fertilizers proved
that the same amount of nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash which in
these TOO tons cost $4,000, would have
cost $4,000 in the factory goods; hence
these clubs saved $4,000. AS this zoe
tons was only one-thirtieth of the
total amount of fertilizers sold in the
state during the year. if all the farmers
had initiated these clubs the total
amount saved would have been $780,
000
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27
DANDELIOy WINE.

An inquiry as to the making of dam
delion wine has brought from the edi-
tor of Table Talk the following re-
cipe:
Put four quarts of dandelion petals
in a tub, pour over them one gallon Of
water that has been previously boiled
and allowed to cool, cover the tub with
cloth and let it stand for three days,
during which time it should be fire.
quently stirred: strain off the liquor
and boil it for half an hour, with the
addition. of three and one-half pounds
of loaf sugar, a little ginger, the ring of
one orange and sliced lemon; let the
liquor cool, then ferment it with one
quarter of a yeast cake, spread on
toast: let it stand for two days and
pour it into a cask; let it stand for
two months before bottling
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27

the light ana air. See that all the
tufted hollows are free from dust.
Clean the woodwork of the bed with a
damp cloth and, if the presence of in
sects is suspected. apply with a camels
hair brush a mixture made with equal
parts of turpentine and corrosive sub
limate-a deadly poison.
Dust the wire mattress. cover it with
single thickness of unbleached mus
lin-sewed in place-in order to protect
it from rust and the mattress from
stain in the rainy days Of spring and
summer, when there is no fire in the
house to dry out dampness.
Wipe down the walls with a soft
brush. Wash the paint with bran wa
ter, beginning always at the bottom
and working up.
Scrub the floors, polish the windows,
hang the pictures and summer dra-
perry, return the contents of closets to
their places, and go to the next room,
where the process is to be repeated.
For the parlors, where there is more
upholstered furniture, many hours
must be given to the beating of 1t, and
then you must cover it with linen.
Even here bare floors with Japanese
cotton rugs are better than carpets.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27

CANON CITY, Col, June 26.-Wil-
liam Holt, Albert Noble and Dronico
Romeno tonight suffered The death
penalty in the Colorado penitentiary
fo- the murder of Policeman John Solo
mon at Trinidad in November last.
Only the penitentiary officials and the
sheriff of Las Animas county, where
the crime occurred. were present.
The hanging machine by which the
criminal becomes his own eXecutioner,
worked to perfection. and each mans
neck was broken. Holt died at S:15;
Noble at S:42 and Romero at 9:l2. Holt
broke down entirely and had to be car
I4ed 10 me execution room. but the
others maintained an air of indiffer-
ence to the last
Their crime was committed in an at
tempt to rob a gambling house at
Trinidad. At the closing hour, Solo
mon was carrying the money bag to
a place of safety. When The three men
ordered him to give up the money a
struggle ensued. in which Solomon was
shot sevral times, dying al once. Hollis
family lives at Southport, Mass; Noble
is an Englishman and Romero was
born in Colorado.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27
IRRIGAT WITH TOO MUCH
WATER.

There are some failures in our irri-
gated districts. not from any lack of
the natural supplies, but from inju-
dicious Management of them and a
careless and needless manner and time
Of putting water on the crops. Too
much water is used on all crops and
on all trees. People are too lavish in
its expenditure when they have access
to large quantities, and do not cultivate
enough. Two inches at an irrigation,
evenly spread out over any crop is
amply sufficient. as it is all crop can
utilize and the soil can appropriate,
says A. z. Blount in Denver Field and
Farm. All inch Of rainfall on an acre
is an enormous quantity. amounting
to about $1,000 gallons. or 10 gallons
to a square rod and two inches would
be $40 gallons, or something over ten
barrels to square rod, enough to not
only irrigate all crops we'll, but to
drown most plants unless some of the
water escaped.
Tt is surprising that farmers and
others cannot see that excessive flood
ing and soaking are absolutely damag-
ing to all crops and all soils, to say
nothing of the water wasted. How
many farmers and gardeners really
know the damaging effects of over-ir-
rigation? Do they really understand
that the more water a plant gets the
more it requires while growing, and
the more 1T tf1irsts for 1T? Where CROPS
are cultivated by water, as is done
in many sections, the more plants de-
man6. hence the cause of such poor
crops and of such poor quality. It is
fact that too much cultivation with
water is practiced and not enough with
the pillow and hoe.
In the arid regions of the west we
have a great deal of sandy land and
if the surface soil only is sand. irri-
cation improves it insomuch that Il
becomes more fertile from year to
year, but if the subsoil is sand in the
shape of sandbars made by a river, IL
is so destitute of fertility that nothing
seems to thrive in it, especially fruit
trees. In the river valleys much of
the land lies over sandbars and it In
we'll enough to understand that it In
rot safe to plant trees in such local.
ties. Alfalfa does fairly we'll in such
soils when there are a few inches OF
good soil on the surface. but all trees
are a failure. The sediment in our
river waters is a very fertile and an
inexpensive fertilizer it is, saving many
a crop and better. ones than all the
rains of the east and south can do. 1t
not only makes the grass. fodder hay
and all kinds of forage better in quality
than are the same in rainy sections,
but 1t makes them sure from year to
year. For instance, when compared.
timothy raised under irrigation is some
over 5 per cent. better in quality or
in its nutritive properties than that
raised in Missouri, whore the rainfall
is more than forty-eight lnches an
nually.