St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-26
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
This weather the most serviceable
| and refreshing. drink on the farm is
| buttermilk. kept cool with ice or drank
| fresh. 1t is far ahead of all the root
beers and cOncOcted beverages.
When horse will not thrive on ordi.
nary food 1t shows it has poor digeS.
ton or it may be fed too much. Give
| such horse wheat bran, linseed meal,
| ground barley and oats, with cut hay.
1t should have carrots once day. First
| see if its teeth are all right.
The average life of the horse in the
| city is stated as six years. In view OF
the enormous number of them, this
| affords constant demand for good
| animals.
| One of the most successful apple grow
| erS in Southern Minnesota SAYS he al
ways lets his pigs run in the orchard.
The cold, wet weather kept back
| crops, corn especially, but the hot
| weather of the past week or two is
bringing them forward Splendidly
An agricultural writer says that in No
country in the world is the same amount
| of farm products grown with so little
| labor as in this one; though he admits il
does not show it in the yield per acre,
but one man cultivateS more acres. But
| as the country settles up more thickiy
and lands grow in value, the effort will
be to enhance the production per acre
| instead of giving scanty tillage to
| large acreage. 1t would be well if there
was effort now to produce the greatest
| yield rather than to till the largest
| farms.
HOlstein cattle seem to be giving
| splendid satisfaction in all parts of the
| world. says an exchange. LII a man de-
| sireS to buy cattle for milk, butter. cheese
| and beef, Holsteins fill the bill, no.mat-
| ter where he lives, so he has feed for
| them.
| An Eastern farmer says: 81 have a
| little land cleared twenty-five years and
| under strict three or four course rota-
| ton of plowing under clover sod it
| produces as we'll as twenty years ago,
and has never had other fertilization"
Remember that breeding horses, saws
| Rural World, like any other business
| you may engage in, must have attention
to make it a success. If you want to
| raise good horses commence with YOUR
| colts. AS soon as you can teach them to
| eat, do so; and never let them want for
| feed. Even when on grass, have box
handy in the fence corner and give
them some bran and oats: and some of
that nice, sweet skinned milk is the
ID.
| will make you quite as much, used in
| this way, as if fed to the pigs. The colts
may not like the milk at first, but put
| some into the water and keep adding a
| little more, and very soon you will find
they are as fond of it as the calf.
Tartar emetic mixed with syrup OF
| honey is said to be an effectual antidote
| for ants of all kinds. Place in a saucer
| on the shelves.
A man in Gardiner, Me-, had let his
wife bring water from the well for ten
years; but when he needed little
water daily in his business, he at once
| had pipe laid and pump put in, .'to
save so much extra labor.' The Gard
Iner Reporter says: ga little personal
| experience is sometimes worth more
than large number of object lessons"
| Prices of mutton are much lower now
| than few weeks ago, but not as low as
they generally are at this time of year.
| Judge Jones, of Delaware. O., eX-
presses the opinion that for the average
farmer who eultivateS from so to 200
acres the short breed of horned cattle is
| the most useful. ....;s
An idea of the heavy winter losses of
| cattle by starvation or freezing in Texas
can be obtained from the statement in
the DrOverS' journal, that 1.-The ship.
ment OF hides from three stations Gin
jackson county, amounts to 5000"
! Parties in charge are making arrange-
| mentS for the enlargement of the Amers
| lean Fat Stock show in Chicago 1t is
expected that $4,000 will be given in
premiums. Assurances of support have
been received from the board of trade,
the Union Stock Yards company, ali
the railroad companies, the banks of
Chicago and other interests.
others always in perpetual fear, and
in that manner lessons the milk from
| the others in quantity more than may
DE sufficient to balance that given by
| the cross one. A cross or dOmineering
! cow should be got rid of, says the
| American Breeder,
| Fish would not seem to be a desir-
! able food for stock, but it is stated that
| the Norwegian peasantry bring theft
! cattle in good condition through the
winter OF this food, which also tends to
raise the fertility OF their lands. An
| experiment made by a foreign agri-
cultural society, shows that fish meal,
when mixed with starchy food, is a use
| full feed for cattle.
The seventeen-year locust, the appear
ance of which at several points is
viewed with some apprehension, is
| very different thing from the true
locust, and does not devOur vegetation.
Before coming to the surface it is apt to
do some injury by sucking the Juices
| out of plants, but it is believed that
there is no serious danger from them.
| Unusual rains in Colorado and Wyom-
ing have converted the arid plains into
luxurious cattle pastures, to the great
advantage of the stock growers.
1t is assumed that if American sheep
| growers would pursue the same course
in the rearing of sheep that is pursued
by mutton producers in England,
money might be made from mutton
| sheep on land worth 800 an acre. So
says the Journal of Agriculture
A practical test will convince the
dairyman who has not tried it that his
cows are capable of consuming and di.
gesting much larger amount of food
than the usual daily allowance, says the
Dairyman. Experiments of this kind
will soon denote which of his cows paws
best, by noting whether the excess of
food is converted into increased Quan.
| tity of milk or converted into flesh.
A newly discovered Mexican flower is
| quite wonder, if reports be true. II
is said to be white in the morning, red
, at noon and blue at night; and it is
further credited with emitting perfume
only at the middle of the day. 1t grows
on a tree of the Isthmus of Tehuante-
pee.