Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-21

TIE best way I have ever tried to pre-
vent mice from girdling trees is to put
sheet iron, tin or zinc that run through
a timers roller around the stems and
let it stay summer and winter. Old tin
roof or old stovepipe is good enough.
JOHN A. PHELPS, of Connecticut, in
culcates in his boys love of country
life and the paternal acres by renting
them plots Of ground for potatoes and
other crops, selling them manure and
taking pay in labor, teaching Them to
make their own sales, keep their own
accounts and handle their own money.
TIE Importance and value that good
orchard attaches to the farm can scarce
" be overestimated ; not only in moral
and refining influence, making the farm
er and his sons proud of their calling,
but behind this continual and increas-
ing cash income better and more relia-
BILE than ife-insurance policy beside,
the satisfaction Of plucking fruit direct
from trees, all our own, ripe, clean and
healthy, is pleasure not easily over
estimated.
SWINE, as well as the finer animals, do
far better if wisely and regularly fed
than if served in the usual careless and
wholesale way. In illustration Of this,
note the following experiment in feed
ing, made by California farmer: On
the LIST of December, 1880, he penned
fourteen shoats, having a combined
weight of 1.19O pounds. During the
three months following he fed them
/, 497 pounds of barley, boiled whole.
In addition to this he gave them the
skinned milk from four COWS and the
house Stops, and, in connection witk the
feed, about four pounds of charcoal a
week. At the end of three months there
was gain of 1,79O pounds. The fact is
not stated, but the natural inference is
that the feed was iudiciously admins
tered, as well as carefully prepared, or
80 satisfactory results could hardly have
been accomplished.
TIE other day met friend who re-
marked that he heard that I was getting
high prices for my butter, and desired
to know what kind of butter-color"
used, in order to give it the proper hue.
I told him that my only butter-color
was Jersey COWS, fed on sweet clover
and timothy hay cut in flower be-
fore ripening and not over-dried, which
I often deposited in the barn on the
same day it was moved, if the weather
was suitable. feed hay morning and
night, and about three quarts Of equal
parts Of cornmeal and ground oats.
During the day. when in the yard, corn
stalks are fed. A COW that naturally
makes white butter will not have its
quality improved by foreign coloring. L
supply number Of the leading families
Of Chicago with my butter, which is in
no way .adulterated.-N ~ Palmer,
Greene county, Wis.
IT is well known that In many East
ern countries, and especially in Arabia,
where we get our very best coffee, Mo
cha (unless We except the African, of
which there is but little yet in the
market), the entire bean is used, and In
some instances the pericarp, or outer
covering Of the bean, also. The reason
Of this is that when the infusion is made
and drawn off only portion OF the
nutritive properties are extracted. What
we get are chiefly the celebrating and
refreshing elements Of the bean which
are calculated to diminish the wear and
tear Of the animal frame, while we too
often throw away the major part of the
positively nutritious substances which
remain in the grounds. The chief OF
these is legumine vegetable caseine),
but there are others in smaller quantity,
such as sugar, gum, fatty matter, ETC.,
all of which, if saved and given to our
poultry, would be eaten by them to adj
vantage.
A HARNESS for bail may be made by
opening large horse collar at the top
and r,7ttino IL On the bull's neck re-.
versed, i. e., opposite the position it
would have on the horse, as bulls neck
is largest on top, while the breast OF a
horse is widest at the bottom. The
names should also be reversed to fit the
collar; the traces being attached the
same as an ordinary harness. For work.
ing in cart there should be q broad
back-pad and breeching similar to any
cart harness. The bull may be driven
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