| Show INDOORS AND OUT i I I I The Farm Dairy Garden Orchard Or-chard and Household The moat frequent cause of the fill are of Beads to germinate is that they are plntsd too deep Blight covering and pressed down ia the best The spreading of coal ashes around the currant bushes to a radius of four feet and of considerable thickness will keep oft tne currant worm Some growers recommend the pinching off of all he runners on the strawberry plants and an occasional supply of liquid manure as necessary to the production of big berries It is asserted that persona under the profoundest influence of alcohol maybe may-be almost instantly sobered by a dose of ten drops of ammonia administered administer-ed in a glass of sugar and water One of the annoyances in using tar to paint posts fiancee roofs etc J i < its stickiness and obduracy in being removed re-moved by ordinary means An p plication of greasebutter will do rubbed on the tar will soften it co that it can be readily washed off with soap and water One of our exchanges says It sheuld be remembered that no matter how good and rich a milker a cow may be it is unreasonable to expect the quantity and richness of the product pro-duct to be kept up unless both the quantity and the adaptability of the food are matters of attention And this is the whole secret of the iJkera success Hin a nutshell Those who have never raised sugar beete or mantas to feed to cattle would do well to try them if only SB an experiment Soil enriched by quantities of well rotted manure and ordinary care of cultivation will produce pro-duce a crop of the roots that will prove beneficial to all kinds of stock and particularly to milch cows The peach borer is one of the a Stations Utah fruit is now troubled with They can be entirely sequelch ed by using s pint of soft soap to each peach tree The soap should be moiete ted same asfor ordinary use and placed in a hole in the soil in contact with the main roota of the tree by which it is absorbed without harming it But it ia sure death to the borer and will save the peaches Aa our crop this year will be email it will be well for these having fruiting trees to use this remedy Indigestion is a prolific source of disease How many ara sufferers from the horrors of dyspepsia Such are often recommended to eat brown bread made of graham flour but frequently fre-quently their stomachic weakness is a barrier to its use This may be obviated ob-viated by scalding bran with boiling 1 water and allowing it to soak for a I couple of hours and then pouring cfl the liquid infusion which cn be used with ordinary while flour in making up into bread and have the same beneficial results as the graham flour Infection of disease is most generally gener-ally promoted by those who while visit ing sick persons swallow their saliva or spittle The breathing draws the infection in-fection into the mouth infects the saliva sal-iva which when swallowed infects the stomach and ro the rest of the bcdy Tho remedy therefore is not to swallow the saliva on such occ eiona but to take first opportunity to spit it out this observed with the old rule of avoiding visits to the sickroom sick-room with an empty or fasting stomach will act as a general preservative preser-vative against disease Pyrcthum or Persian insect powder has been used for several years as a safe and reliable slayer of certain domestic insect pests It is now being used to kill the lice on colts and calved and is recommended for ridding sheep and lambs of sheep ticks Being much easier to handle than the ordinary ordin-ary dip it is also much safer than arsenical preparations The best time to use it on sheep is after they are shorn and before the lambs are permitted to run with the mothers Drug stores keep the Pyretham There are a variety of opinions as to the best methods of raising cflv some saying that they should be permitted to ran with their mothers lor various periods and others that they should not Experience however baa demonstrated demon-strated that if the calf is destined for the butcher it will make the finest veal if allowed to suckle from the mother unrestrained provided ycu can spare all the milk If not let i u t take a portion morn and night and help its growth by addition oJ flour or meal l to thicken the skim miik led to it But if it is a beifer calf that you purpose rearing for mikinn and breeding purposes it will be to your I advantage to take it away from the mother altogether peter the firf day rom its birth It will thrive Roland 1 Rol-and make a better cow H f not p > r mitted to suckle but is taught co drink the generous supply of milk you furnish to it supplemented by such other good rood as bay or grass etc eo soon as it learns to eat it The comparative properties of ordinary everyday food is an nisi eating subject J generally lost sight of in our efforts to supply the natural wastes of the body Consequently we load down our stomachs with an amount of unnecessary work easily avoided would we bat remember teat to t-eat that food which ia beat suited tour o our bodily requirements Good wheaten flour bread contains eighty per cent of nutriment average butchers meat contains only 35 percent 1 per-cent potatoes 25 per cent carrots 14 I per cent while cabbage greens and t urnips contain only 8 per cent being the most watery of all culinary vegetable Peas and beans contain omen average 90 per cent of nutritious nutriti-ous matter Oatmeal and barley meal when properly prepared afford wholesome and cooling nourishment the same may be said of rice which is one of the moat economical articles of food that can be used and the addition ad-dition of literal quantities of good milk gives a variety suitable for an epicure |
