Ox Blood

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What was ox blood used for in the early days of Utah?

a.                  Fertilizer

b.                  Furniture Stain

c.                   A cure for Cholera

d.                  An insecticide to kill crickets

Yesterday’s answer:

B   Violin

From the life of Samuel Jepperson:   I learned to play the violin when I was fourteen. I had no instrument, but I made a crude one from a cigar box. One time Father was working on the railroad in Echo Canyon, and he left a yoke of oxen at home. My neighbor said that if I would go into the canyon and get four loads of wood for him, he would give me his violin. My mother was not very enthusiastic because I had no shoes, but I went anyway, and I got my fiddle. It was a poor one, but I learned to play it.

Lesson Committee, Museum Memories-Daughters of Utah Pioneers, (Salt Lake City, Talon Printing, 2010), 2: 109.