Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
FARM NOTES.

Give the potato ashes, lime, super phos-
plate, bone flour, or plaster.
Chopped onions, with little ginger
mixed in, Is said TO be sure cure for
chicken cholera.
A man is killed occasionally by the
bursting of the centrifugal machine used
in sorghum manufacture.
Amer can honey in the comb has be-
come popular article of diet in Eng
land and very large shipments are
made.
The prize list Of the Smithfeld Club,
whose live stock show opened in Lon
don, Dec. s, represents sum of nearly
$4,000.
A country dealer i'll Oakfeld, Fond du
Lac Co, Wis, shipped G,OGo pounds Of
poultry to market in three days before
Thanksgiving.
Great Britain has revoked the order of
Nov. 4, requiring immediate slaughter or
quarantine or sheep landed from the
United States.
One Carroll has been assessed Sic dam
ages. i'll Fond du Lac, WIS, justice
court, tor killing eleven geese belonging
to neighbor.
According to tho estimates of the Pres
ident of the State Vinnecultural society,
there are now 10000 acres IN California
covered with vines.
An attendant every Saturday at the
corn exchange in Canterbury is in his
ninety-tifth year, and is supposed to be
the Oldest tenant farmer of England.
The chicken cholera has broken out
with great virulence in Back Earth,
Dane county, Wis, and number Of
farmers are losing their entire stock.
Messrs. VIM. A. and Herbert Wads-
worth. Gcnessee, n Y, offer 1926 prcni-
ums for tree-planting along highways
and home Improvements in Livingston
county.
Cider may be preserved and kept sweet
by putting it in wine bottles, adding a
teaspoonful Of white sugar to each bottle
and corking tightly. the corks should
be tied down.
In Fond du Lac county, Wis, an. enum-
Grafton of the live stock gives the follow
ing result: Horses, 1862; cattle, S.
176; COWS, -, SOB; sheep and lambs, 81,
573; swine $500.
Pear blight has, in several instances.
been arrested in affected trees by sprink-
ling them with weakisolution of potash,
and it has proved preventive when ap-
piled to the healthy trees.
In the matter OF pork packing Chica-
60 leads the world. Last season 800, 900
hogs were slaughtered there, and the ex-
pectation is that the present year will
see this number increased TO 100000.
Mr.. Henry E Alvord, Of Massachusetts,,
gets silver medal from the British Dairy
Farmers association, for his good service
in the matter of the collection of Ameri-
can utensils exhibited at their recent
show.
1t is said that never in the history Of
this country, was there so much winter
wheat sown as this fall, nor never was it
looking better, If MS we'll. Many farmers
are feeding it down with sheep, CALVES
and COWS.
Horses increased IN Great Britain from
301 900 in 1870 to $4,000 at the present
time, and yet they are much higher in
price now than then, and were it not for
disastrous season there, the advance would
be still greater.
The Franklin (hIass.) Farmers Club
have had potato competition this year,
all the contestants planted seeds of early
rose, and each chose his own mode of
cultivation. A. Checver got the largest
yield, 4sS bushels per acre.
OF large British estates, that of the
Duke of Buccleuch is 459, 800 acres; Lady
Willoughby d 'Eresby, 49,, 800: Earl FitZ-
william, 113,9GS. Those of forty -feur
other gentlemen and noblemen vary from
10000 up to S7,4s5 acres.
The Portsmouth Weekly reports little
satisfaction among growers of sugar beets
in that part eff New Hampshire this year
Il the not unnatural result OF first ven
ture, which it thinks experience and i'm
proved methods Of culture may change.
Oats should be bruised for all old horse,
but not for young one, because the for
mel, through age and defective teeth, can
not chew them properly; the young horse
Cdu No oo, hui lHCy dlC lluS pIUpCIly
mixed with saliva and turned into whole
some nutriment.
the Mobile, Ala, Register rcckons that
$40, 100000 will be made this year by
Southern planters by the rise in crops
over what they expected to get for them,
and it urges that part of this be put into
the establishment of manufactures in the
South, especially for those spinning yarn
from seed cotton
Kind treatment and every care are due
to an animal from whose services man
derives such important benefits; but too
often does man forget that he has duty
to perform, not only to his fellow meH,
but towards those domestic animals that
Providence has intrusted to him for his
own welfare.
Twelve quarts of milk day is quite
common for Kerry cows-the smallest of
British breeds-but several cases are on
record where they have given when flush,
during period of several weeks, as much
as twenty-five quarts, OF a quality, The
London Lice Stock Journal says, "inferior
only to that of the jersey"
The celebrated chestnut at Totworth,
which was said, half a century ago, to be