The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-07
NOTES In SEASON.
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a bad one in the COW, and when they
both get bad the profit is bad.
Always do little odd jobs that want
doing at once. representation is the
thief of time" and often a nail here
or a tack there will save an hours
work.
A ripe tomato viii remove stains from
the fingers after having prepared fruit
or summer vegetables. A lemon SINH
larly will remove ink STAINS.
Fresh stable manure contains some
20 per cent. Of water, rs per cent. of
vegetable and animal matter, and
per cent. of salts and mineral matter.
Cream should be we'll stirred and
allowed to ripen evenly before it is
put into the churn.
Milking through a fine cloth prevents
impurities from going into the pail
with the milk.
A heifer calf intended for a cow
should be trained from birth to be
gentle by careful handling.
1t is no use to say that dairying does
not pay, for it does pay those who
know how to conduct the business.
If you use the separator in the dairy
it will pay you in two ways, giving
more and better butter than by the
old method, and leaving the milk as
good for the calves as though it were
new.
Always carefully look over your flock
once day, and if you see any birds
mopy or dropping their wings, remove
them then and there, as one i'll bird
may affect all the rest.
Always keep a strict account of all
you buy or sell. By treating your hob
by in thoroughly business way you
will derive greater pleasure by see
ing exactly how much profit you have
earned.
The roots of a tree are it's feeding
mouths The leaves are it's lungs and
stomach. Mutilate either unduly and
it is fatal to the prospect for health,
and just in proportion to the top, in
just such proportion will be forma-
ton Of root surface.
The secretary of the Southdown as
ISOLATION says the type Of mutton now
in demand and that always finds ready
sale at the highest price, is a lamb
ten or twelve months old that has
been Kept in rapid growth from birth,
and weighing from 80 to 100 pounds,
and has the lean well marbled with
the fat.
A farmer of Sabine county, Neb., has
been experimenting with popcorn for a
of years with such success that
he has this year planted 100 acres. He
plants June L to Is and ships on the
cob to Chicago. He says it is one of the
surest and most profitable crops he
has ever grown.
In Michigan the Parker Earle is con-
sidered to be by far the most prolific
strawberry.
One of the first ways of increasing
the profit in dairying is TO reduce the
cost of producing milk.
Don't plant cottonwood trees near
any other growing plant or tree. The
cottonwood is a great robber.
The application of practical science
to the business Of farming results in
larger crops and less debt.
Don't cut burdock Grub them.
Where you cut them, mark how new
seed stocks shoot out from the stubs
and keep up the nuisance.
If grain fields have been seeded with
clover, keep hogs out of stubbles. They
will gather but little grain so long as
the tender clover lasts.
All animals thrive better when fed at
regular intervals with q regular ra-
ton. Animals eating from stack of
hay will always waste nearly as much
as they eat.
If you are puzzled to see how the
west will market it's enormous crops,
help solve the problem by marketing
your own by feeding it to thrifty live
stock
The driver who does not Keep watch
Of his horse-though it may be the gen
lest in the worlds foolish. When
horse becomes frightened, it is a. very
force.
We are living in an age of improve
merits. The farmer who cannot adjust
himself to new methods, and the new
to his work, cannot hope to
keep UP with the procession for long.
1t is predicted that in the near future
there will be nearly as much mutton
as beef consumed in this country.
Then the sheep business will be On a
more substantial basis.
The Missouri experiment station
found that in point of early maturity,
in power of attaining heavy weight
and in certainty of commanding a mar
ket at profitable prices. the breeds
grades, Herefords, scrubs.
Hogs fed with whole wheat ait the
Montana station gained LIP pounds,
those fed peas gained 1.21 pounds, those
fed ground wheat 1872 pounds, and
those fed ground corn 1.41 pounds
Those fed a mixed ration, however,
yaiaed 1.61 pounds per day.
Napoleon priced a fine horse more
than he did any man In Egypt ne
all the horses ridden by the
he could and sent them to
France for breeding purposes. The
smoothly turned, active walking Nor
mars and Percherons are their de-
A lady writer who has been extreme
ly successful in getting eggs from her
hens at times when her neighbors are
getting very few, attributes the great
er part of her success to green bone.
AS she could not we'll afford to buy
a bone mill, she uses a large fiat stone
and an old axe for crushing the bones.
Rotation of crops, barnyard manure
and commercial fertilizers are the
source and methods of maintaining soil
fertility, with the main dependence
upon barnyard manures. Though all
three are often blended the first is Of
primary Importance as it costs moth
ing but labor of mind in determin-
ng the relative value of crops. produc-
I'd and the condition in which the soil