Show INDOORS AND OUT The Farm Dairy Garden Orchard and Household The purpose of the editor h to make the Indoors and Out columns of tuch interest that they will become every bodys columns by containing snort and pithy items of interest to everyone of THE HERALDS readers Therefore the editor invites correspondents to send items of practical receipts hints or EUg gastion that may have occurred in the experience of our numerous and varied oases 01 readers and he will endeavor to put them in such shape as to give the pablic the benefit of the information i A moat effective remedy aeainst pulmonary consumption is alleged to have been found in aluminum and its compounds The discoverer bases his opinion on experiments made upon rabbits BB well as on observations observa-tions in his medical practice The rapid growth and dense shade which buckwheat makes give h i great value as a weed destroyer Even thistles can be kept down by it if the land is sown as soon after plowing as possible and the first thistles tbat appear are pulled or cut out with a hoeIt It is advisable to look to your fruit t treea during the next tour or five I weeks and trim out some of tbe i upward shoots It left to themselves the trees will make too much wood and a careful trimming will throw the sap into the fruit clusters of next season A correspondent of the California Rural Press says he cleared his poultry poul-try sbou2e of mites with which it was overrun by sprinkling the inside with the water in which the potatoes for the household dinner had been boiled Two applications cleared them all out Corn is the very best food to feed whole to setting hens because it digests very slowly the bens do not get hungry so often and its oily properties pro-perties tend to prevent a disposition to commence laying Obviously therefore whole corn is the very worst food ID feed to laying hens There is no need of bothering about a cowa pulse to fipri out if she ia well or not simply lock at her nose It well it will be moist and cold if feverish dry aod hot Site is lIke a I dot in tots respect A staring coat or a hollow eye are alao points indicating indi-cating trouble and as symptoms f dissa they are more to be dreaded than the dry nose An eminent veterinary surgeon lontribute1 the fo lowing to an ex cbHgiu reference to horaoa cracked crack-ed oo f Bieter the coronary band wIth omuent of Cxntbandoe to 4 of ud l This will tmulare a new growth ot hoof Do not allow tbp black mitD to rasp = the periople off the walls Keep a wet swab wrapped around the foot during the night and J you are likely to grow around hoof I Save the spent tea leavea for a few j days then steep them in a tin pail or pan for half an hour strain through a sieveand use the tea for all varnished varnish-ed paints It requires very little eloow polish as the tea acts as a strong detergent cleansing the paint from all impurities and making it i equal to new It cleans windows and sashes and oilcoths indeed any varnished var-nished curface is improved by is application ap-plication It washes windowpauis and mirrors much belter than water and is excellent for cleaning black I walnut and lookingglass frames It will not do to wash unvarnished paints with it The following statistics are practically practi-cally and permanently useful and show the percentage of nutriment which each article mentioned affords peas boiled 93 barley boiled 92 corn bread baked 91 wheat breed baked 90 rice boiled 88 beans boiled 87 rye bread baked 79 oatmeal oat-meal porridge 74 mutton broiled 30 plums raw 29 grapes raw 27 beef raw 26 poultry roast 26 pork roast 24 veal fried 24 venison broiled 22 codfish boiled 21 eggs whipped 13 apples law 10 milk raw 7 turnips boiled 4 melon raw 3 cucumber raw 2 per c6ntJournal of Health An exchange says The grconiug oi a horae is a f very important part of the owners duty to his animal It is a means for securing the necessary action of the skin which is one of the most effective excretory outlets of the animal system The akin excretes a much larger quantity of matter than the kidneys and the bowels but as it consists of vapor the copiousness of tbe excretion is not noticed or evan suspected But this excretory function func-tion of the skin makes it indiopcnea ble for the healthful condition of too horse that thorough grooming twice a day should not be neglected The brush is the best implement for this purpose but few men whose business it is to care for horses do their whole duty in regard to the use of the brush It is not the surface of the hairy coat which needs brushing merely to procure pro-cure an artificial and temporary gloss The skin itself should be cleansed from all the adherent scales of exfoliated exfoli-ated matter derived from the dried excretory moisture or perspiration This puts the skin in an excellent condition and the healthful action of the skin affects favorably the hair and gives it a desirable and handsome gloss and softness which arethe certain cer-tain indications of health Salt Is a valuable condiment for the food of poultry if mixed wi h their spit food in about the same proportions propor-tions as used in making bread It is now known to medical science that diseases of the eyes and ears are frequently induced by decaying teeth A serious case of this kind in which a partial lose of sight horn cataract was traced to a diseased condition of the teeth has just been reported to the Hurvein society of London A correspondent of The Prairie Farmer says that after closely watching watch-ing and experimenting on newly setout set-out youn2 fruit trees he is satisfied that a large percentage of such trees are killed by being sunburnt The first season the young trees generally thrive well but the second season during the hot drouth of July and August they succumb to what might be termed sun stroke The remedy is to shade them with board where another full grown tree or objectdoes not shiald them from the hot early afternoon sun There is no qiestion but that vegetable vege-table charcoal is gooi for live stock if mixed with their rood or in argent cases it may be mixed with water into a thin gruel and given as a drench It promotes complete digestion and keeps tbe animals fat and healthy It should be fed two or three times per week and daily if desired to rapidly j I fatten animals The Popular Science i News says the bust proportions or dose is one pint to every twentyfive head I of sheep or Jambs a quarter of a pint per head for full grown cattle I horses or pigs half the last quantity I j for young cattle and a tablespoonful each for calves j The Prairie Farmer saje The Holstein cow Mink lays claim to being one of the best miik and butter i cows yet heard from Imported as a i yearling and calving as a twoyear old she gave when three in ten days J Aug 532J pounds of milk from which was made 251bs and 3 oz of butter As a four yearrold her beat daily yield was 91 lbs best ten days 849 lbs best month 2499 lbs yearly year-ly yield 16628 lbs She gave in ten days 29lbs and 6 oz of butter Last year she made Bibs 9 oz of butter in one day She is now giving 80 to 90 I lbs of milk per day All this time I I ahe has taken her chances with a large herd and had ordinary care I No crowding nolfcrcing The Baltimore Market Journal says The idea of planting edible nut bearing trees where shade is desired instead of those which are solely ornamental is not new bat the sa ge3tion is one that will bear thinking about by these who contemplate planting shade or ornamental trees Chestnut walnut hickory nut and butternut trees a e all nearly as fine in appearance as horse chestnut and maple and aside from the source of revenue which will in time accrue to their owners from fruit the timber from erica trees is always in demand and the tree itself may become profitable profit-able should it become desirable at anytime any-time to remove it Clover has no superior as a f grazing plant When in full vgr and bloom it will carry more cattle and sheep per acre than bluegrass herds grass or orchard grass iJtar it has been grazed to the earth a few thowe y days with warm suns will cause it to spring up into renewei vitality ready I again tp furnish succulent herbage to domestic animals Though very nutritious and highly relished by cattle it often produce a dangerous swelling called hoven from which t many cows die When first turned upon clove 4 cattle should only be allowed to graze an hour or two and than ba driven ofi for the remainder of the day gradually increasing the time of grazing until they become I less voracious in their appetites never permitting them to run upon clover j when wet Glover made wet by a rain at mid day is more likely to produce hoven than wet by dew A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker describes the following method by which an extraordinary crop of water melon was raised Holes were dug ten feet apart each way eighteen inches square and fifteen inches deep These holes were filled with well rotted manure which was thoroughly incorporated with the soil A low flat hill was then made and seeds planted When the vinea were large enough to run the whole i surface waa covered to the depth of afoot a-foot or fifteen inches with wheat straw The traw was placed close j up around the vines No cultivation whatever was given afterwards no weeds or grass grew The vine spread over the straw and the melons I matured clean and nice The yield wa = abundant and the experiment an I entire success I A correspondent of the Desertt News writing from North Carolina I says The vigor or drauthproof grae Sorghum Halapensawill grow on the dryest and poorest land and without subsequent irrigation Its white roots as large as your finger will penetrate ten or twelve feet and find moisture to sustain itself It I I grows thirty inches high makes amass a-mass of leaves that should be cut three timesa year and produces from one to eight tons of hay per acre The roots grow in joints about two inches longeach of which if separated will grow Theae roots yield over one thousand bushels to the acreexcellent I food for pigs It is good grazing for cows and when once started it will stay aa it runs out all weeds and cannot be killed by freezing flooding or continued drouth Of course it does best on rich bottom land |