St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-06
B"rdette on the Farm and Garden.
Burlington HawkeYe.l

This month is good time to pay the inter
est on your mortgage and renew the notes
you gave a year ago. 1t is also a pretty good
time to take up the notes you unwittingly
gave to the cloth peddler last Christmas I'M
der the impression that you were only sign
ing contract.
Oats thrive best in an elevator. A farmer
who has 10000 bushels of oats in an elevator
need not worry about the weather. Always
raise oats in good elevator and keep out of
a deal with the Chicago man.
Look after the bean poles you had left over
from last year. You will look long time
before you find any. They have gone, par
TALLY into the insatiate NAV of the all de-
vouring fireplace, and the neighbors have
stolen the rest.
Raise chickens. If you have nice little
garden by all means raise chickens. Your
neighbours hens are the best ones to raise.
You will find them 80 a. m, until 8 80
p. m. on your lettuce, onion, radish' and
flower beds, You can raise them higher
with a shotgun than anything else. n. B.
always eat the hen you raise. p. 5. Cook the
hen before eating. P. SS-Before eating.
P. SS.-Before eating the hen, that is.
Crush egg shells and feed them to your
own chickens, if you are foolish enough to keep
any. If the whites and yelks are removed from
the shells first, they will crush more easily.
fla good horse shows symptoms of going
blind and is developing a few tlrst-class spav
ms, it is time to sell him. Sell him out of
the country, if possible. Beware of the dea-
con who~ has a little blaze-faced ''pacin'
mare" that he wants to trade for ''just such
a boss"
Eternal vigilance is the price of the potato
crop. About ten hours day devoted TO
crushing potato bugs with hard sticks will
probably save the upper part of the patch for
you. BY the time you dig the potato
you will be so disguised with everything per-
tanning to potato culture that you couldn't
look potato in the eye without feeling
Of nausea, and, as tor eating one-.But this
enables you to sell the whole bushel without
a pang.
Young hens lay more eggs than old ones
This is because the giddy young things have
not learned their value. In a few years they
will know just how to stand around on a
strike when eggs are S1.75 dozen, and
then rush out and work double time when
eggs are so common tramps won't eat them.
The PhOspIorescence Of Diamonds PrOred.
Pail Mall Gazette
A curious point in diamond lore has just
been established to the delight of savants in
Paris, where the exhibition of the crown
jewels at the Louvre has made the subject
very popular for the moment. 1t has long
been laid down that the diamond has the
power Of retaining light and of afterwaad
emitting it in the dark. The theory has been
well buttressed by reasons; but the pooof has
not been easy of test. All, or pearly all, the
great diamonds-such as the Kohinoor. the
Regent, the Grand Mogul-cannot for pub
lie reasons, be made the subject of expert
ment, and stones of lesser size do not always
give satisfactory results.
Happily, a private individual, the owner of
a gem of 81 carats, and estimated at value
of 800, 900 francs, has lent his diamond for
scientific investigations. These have been
most satisfactory, and the ''phosphorescenee"
of the stone may be regarded as proved. The
diamond was exposed for an hour to the di-
rect action of the SUMS rays and afterward
removed into dark room. For more than
twenty minutes afterward it emitted light,
feeble, indeed, but still sufficiently strong to
make sheet of white paper held near it
cutie visible in the dark. A similar result
was arrived at by very different expert
ment, and light was generated by rubbing
the stone with piece of hard flannel.