The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-31


while the taxes can be realized on the
balance of the farm by devoting it to
sheep pasture, by which it will suffer
no deterioration."
How to keep boys on the farm is
question that has been discussed at
considerable length at some of the farm
institutes. The concensus OF opinion
seems to be that the boys should be
fairly and kindly treated, that life on
the farm should have a due share of
pleasures and attractions, and that
zeal should be quickened by some ap-
peals to self-interest. And the value of
good farm literature, to quicken thought
and to awaken enthusiasm in the noble
calling, was duly recognized. Some of
the brightest and best boys should be
induced to stay on the farm from
choice rather than necessity; but we
hope that enough of that class may be
+ transplanted to the cities to reinforce
the ranks of successful business men
in all classes and profession. But for
the best blood of the country the cities
would go into decay.
What about the calves-are they happy?
AG1ichigan cheese factory has sent out
me Following pointers to its patrons: that
NTH cannot be strained from milk That
milk will catch and hold bad doors from
stable, WoodhouSe and filthy yards. That
the best milk, if shut into a can tightly
while warm will spoil inside of three
hours That the meanest man on earth
puts milk into the factory can that he
would not use upon his own table. We
can make full cream cheese from skim
milk Good milk should test per cent.
butAfr fat. Milk testing below average
will be paid for accordingly.
The Utah experiment station decides,
after testing the matter. that at the
present prices of dairy products as COM
pared with the price of grain and folders,
eve.2 the common breeds of cows will re-
81 worth milk Init Tor or oh
Tor every dollars worth of food
/ was once an enemy to the mole but
/ since [ have become better acquainted
! with its habits L am more friendly to it
and do not destroy it except in forbidden
/ places. | do not think moleS ever eat
/ corn. have tried them with it and they
/ always let it alone. They wind around
/ in the ground in search of food such as
! worms, grubs and the larvae of insects,
which are the real enemies of the farmer.
| Occasionally a mole will kill d strawberry
plant in dry weather, and they should
not be permitted to work on the lawn.
Wood ashes, containing as they do
large percentage of potash, together with
1 other valuable ingredients though in
much less quantity, are excellent for
| fruit trees of any kind But the strong
unleached ashes should be applied care
fully not heaped around the trunk, but
/ scattered over the surface as far as the
branches extend This is best done in
/ spring or early summer, as the rains will
carry the soluble materials down 10 the
roots. to be used at once. Several mod
/ crate applications are to be preferred to
| one heavy coating.
/ Overproduction is misnomer The
! trouble lies with the weakened trans
/ portation facilities of the country, which
give us the anomaly of prices below cost
of production on many grains and other
/ products of the farm in some portions of
the country, while in other parts people
are starving and go clad in rags.
The Tennessee experiment station re-
ports that the Turner raspberry yielded
nearly twice as much as any other of the
! twenty-three varieties experimental with.
/ Each stool of plants averaged more than
two quarts. The plants are strong and
! vigorous, the fruit medium in size and
finely favored.
Unquestiopa.bly the colt is benefited by
kindness to the mare before foaling. 1t
is cheap way Of producing a better colt.
! The two most important characteristics
! of a dairy COW: First, good udder de-
velopment and, second, the power to
| consume and assimilate large quantities
of food.
To prevent hog cholera, burn a pile of
corncobs to charcoal, add a feed of she'll
ed corn and let it get we'll parched, sprin-
/ lIle with salt, cool with water, scatter,
and let the hogs eat it.
In the treatment of burns there is moth
! ing better than the old-time application
of pure lard and flour. 1t is well worth
while for every housekeeper to buy some
| pure ZEAL ldIQ. T6UQ6T II with the UTMOST
care and put it while piping hot into pots
or bottles, which may be Theoretically
I sealed. A cupful of lard mixed with flour
to form a soft paste may be applied TO d
! burn without loss of time.
The common notion that ducks must
have a body of water to revel in is not
| altogether correct. A good authority says
the ducklings cannot stand being wet
upon the back, not so much as young
chickens in fact. The Rankin farm in
I England raises 10000 ducklings every year,
with no water to swim or battle in, and
it is claimed that they get fatter and are
nicer for eating purposes when they have
only water to drink.
! In connection with the subject of good
roads it may be suggested that wide
tire wagons would aid in keeping roads
! in better condition and save horse flesh.
The farm that is covered with weeds
! is aWfully exhaustive of profits. One
week killing weeds before they mature
| their seeds is equal in profits to one good
! crop of grain.
In securing sheep, if possible handle
them SO that you may may know how
much of their form is due to themselves
and how much to the shears.
If the farmers whose orchards are in
fected with cut worms will tie small
| band of cotton batten around their trees
( the worms, to a considerable extent, will
| be prevented from getting into the tree,
I says the Escondido Advocate. Bran
mixed with Paris green and spread close
to the trunk of the tree VIII also destroy
/ thousands of them. Where the moths are
| still depositing eggs torch lighted and
/ set in the orchards at night will attract
| many of them and will SINCE them
! shallow pan made of tin with the edges
/ slightly turned up with enough oil 10
! cover the bottom set under the torch will
| catch them when they fall, and a match
! applied in the morning Will enectuaIly
! destroy every moth caught: Constant
| cultivation close to the tree will also have
! q beneficial effect in checking the depre-