St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-19
FARM NOTES.
Points and Facts Gathered to In
terest and Help Farmers.

The Woman's Journal, of Boston,
Mass, reports Mrs. A. Hill, of Show
hogan, Falls, Wis, as successful bee
keeper, her stock in three years having
increased from two colonies to forty
one, and the surplus honey, after
enough had been sold to pay all costs,
averaged eighty-twO pounds per colony.
Mrs. Hill feels justified in thinking that
Bookkeeping is good business for
women.
Enough experiments have been tried
with alfalfa, or lucerne, to warrant fur
tier trial, on small scale, by every
farmer who is looking for good pasture
of grass. AlSike is so well tried that
there can be little doubt of its success,
under reasonably favorable conditions.
1t will grow and thrive, producing
abundant pasture, where the medium
clover does not at once get foothold.
Mrs. Ada Martin, of Charlton, To-,
says: $40 prevent cholera in poultry,
dissolve cOpperas in water and sprinkle
the premises with it, feeding little
salt and bread soda in the soft food.
scalding the ground grain when mixing
it," She never feeds on the ground.
Her preference is acknowledged fowls.
A pound of cOpperas in two gallons of
water is an excellent disinfectant.
Kindness controls and guides any and
all animals, says the Live Stock Indica-
tor. This is true when their life COM
mences with such treatment. A bull or
q heifer that has run with its dam and
has had no attention from man until six
or twelve months old will fear every OBJ
ject that is new to it, be it man, boy or
anything else. Overcome the fear and
it is ready to be taught.
Cn..- An,ar;oat
lished at Alexandria, Oak: "A sub
scriber tells us that South Dakota is
going pig crazy; that the demand for
good stock is enormous" That is the
kind of madness in which there is
method, and the more insanity in this
direction the better evidence OF level
headed farmers.
Any community of farmers can, by
cooperation in the purchase of thor
oughbred male, greatly improve their
stock in a single season, and but at
small expense to each, while the en-
HANGED value of the stock would more
than compensate for the effort. 1t really
costs nothing TO improve, as improve
ment is simply adding additional value
to the stock.
A cow that has been made to raise
calf is seldom as good as it was previous
to being allowed to keep the calf, as it
becomes addicted to vices, among them
being that of ''h0lding up" the milk.
The calf should be removed from the
dam as early as possible and taught to
drink from pail or some artificial con
trivance.
The old method of sailing the aspara'
gus bed is not now approved of by the
best gardeners. The salt kills the weeds
I,,t Inac pnf raaIlu hnnaGt thn oCnar1
gus. One of the best special fertilizers
is sOap-suds, which. being i'll liquid
form, find their way to the roots of the
plants. Soap-suds are also excellent for
celery.
In mating fowls to procure eggs for
Matching purposes ten hens and male
NAV be yarded together of the large
breeds, such as Dramas, cOchinS and
plymouth rocks, and fourteen hens and
male of the small breeds, such as leg
horns and hamburgs.
But one mare has ever raised five $50
trotters and but three have produced
four with records as low as 2:30 OF
better, while considerably over one hum
dred have produced two or more within
the charmed circle
Now that the hens are laying well,
and the cold weather is passing by, feed
less corn and more meat. A pound OF
rough meat chopped and fed to a dozen
hens once day will be amply repaid i'll
eggs.
The dressed beef magnates of Chi
cago have brought suit against the rail
roads for $780, 600 damages alleged TO
have been sustained since the interstate
commerce law went into effect.
An exchange figures that the average
shrinkage of Texas steer EN- route to
Chicago is 100 pounds, and that this
amounts in year to between $1,000 and
80 600 head of cattle.
Gov. Routt, who has been Investigate
ing the cattle trade, gives it as his opln-
ion that within three years beef Will be
higher than it has ever before been Oh
the continent"
Fall calves, kept in warm stables, are
found to do as well as those dropped i'll
spring, and every dairyman should have
warm stables, in which water Will moi
freeze.