St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-05
Farm Notes.

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many permanent improvements ought to be
made which will make the winters chores
20 on much easier than if neglected. New
hinges, latches, buttons and various things
about the barn. Tighten the howell and
stable, if not frost proof. and introduce
spouts for ventilation, running from the
scaffold floor to the caves. with slide
which may be opened or closed from the
floor where the horses and cattle are kept.
Let the light strike the horses from win
dows behind, rather than at the side.
The Chicago papers are growing a great
deal because the corn and oats from Iowa,
Kansas and Nebraska are disposed to go
through Chicago to New York without stop
ping. and that the railroads give rate that
allows them to do so. We don't see anything
strange in it at all. Chicago has been so
greedy and extortionate in years past that it
became necessity to find some way of get
ting to the East without paying toll.
CotsWolds: A correspondent says that
there are many yet who do not know the
points of this breed of sheep and asks US
to give them in the thoroughbred. An
English writer, good authority, in brief
says: A large breed, long fleece, wool
strong and good color, six to eight inches
in length, and 1eeces weigh from seven to
eight pounds each, some much heavier;
mutton considered good. Wethers are fat
tened at fourteen months, and weigh fifteen
to twenty-four pounds per quarter, and at
two years twenty to thirty pounds per
quarter.
Keep the fowls well now. If you expect
to get eggs from your hens in December
they must be amply fed with egg producing
provender. Give them bones in lgranulated
form; have plenty of lime and gravel within
the houses, to which they may have free
access; twice week give them cooked. coarse
meat, chopped up; and don't forget the oc-
casional allowance Of green food-cabbages,
turnips, etc.,-while they are housed in con-
fnement.
There are thousands Of horses whose feet
never receive thought from their owners
except to have them shod-from the time
the colt is foaled until the horse is worn out
and dies. The feet are never cleaned and
never examined. The horse is allowed TO
stand in filth whenever it is in the stable.
and is cooked by the hot manure beneath
the animal.
The fattening of swine should be pushed
now, before the weather gets much colder.
Hogs rarely pay their keeping in cold
weather. unless they have dry, warm pens
under cover. 1t requires too much food to
maintain the animal heat. so there is little
left to add to the weight of carcass. 80
DR.. Sanborn stated last winter at a
meeting of the Illinois Horticultural society
that he protected completely from rabbits
and mice his 500 pear trees with wash of
lime aud water, with enough copperas
added to change the color to deep green.
Some cheap glue was added to make it adj
here to the trees. Neither rabbits nor mice
would touch the trees thus treated.
Farmers will need to be careful this year
in cribbing corn. With all our boosted
crop, there is a good deal that is mouldy
and some soft. Good. sound corn will be
worth money before we harvest another
crop, and none but such should be cribbed.
Pile the rest up for present use. 1t is
worth more now than it ever will be again.
We lately saw large roller left in the
field, having cover of boards attached to
the frame. which served as roof wherever
it CHANGED to be left. How many moving
machines are there to-day both unhoused
and destitute even of the portable roof
which this roller possessed?
Don't let the pillow freeze into the fur
row. or the garden sauce" freeze into the
ground. Mosquito screens may now be
dispensed with, and the hens taken out of
the apple trees and properly put to roost
under cover.
A New Hampshire man keeps 500 fowls,
all healthy and good layers. He scatters
them over his farm, which is 400 acres in
extent in flocks of 25 to 80, providing for
each a cheap house 9x13 feet Their broad
- ', ora &c tho conrnt of hiS SuppaSS
The amount of wool produced in the
world is grown on about AS. 900. 600 sheep,
and any quantity of the vast product from
various places can be shipped to any point
in the world for consideration of 2 or 8
cents per pound.
The cattle growers of Mexico will be
represented at the Chicago meeting in No
yember by delegation of about fifty. They
have transportation facilities from the ma
tlonal organization.
In review of the year on prize winning
mixers the London Agricultural Gazette
says: Putting them altogether. there
fore, it appears that the best mixer is a
Shorthorn, with $3.50 marks out of 100;
the second Shorthorn, with SO. 10 marks. "
There are 2,4OO stables of cows in New
York, the milk of which is sold in the city;
and these cows from the time they enter
the stables until no longer able to give milk
never see grass.
Gov. Gray issues this week a proclama-
ton against importing cattle from Kentucky
into Indiana, until after the most careful
inspection.
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