St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
FARM NOTES.
Hints and Facts That May Be of
Value to the TilIer of the Soil.


Value to the TilIer of the Soil.
The agricultural editors, who visited
the No. hard wheat region last month,
found farmer in Trail county, OAK,
who had grown wheat seven years and
kept an accurate account of the cost.
His seven years had averaged him nine
teen bushels per acre per year, and the
total cost per buShel to grow as above
had been 421a cents. He hired all his
help and superintendent, and included
in his expense account table expenses,
live stock food at good prices. etc. An
other farmer, who seeded 932 acres and
had an average yield of 179s bushels,
figured the cost of mis- wheat at 26 cents
a bushel.
The raising of carp on the farm can be
as readily carried on as the poultry bust
ness, and at less expense and much
greater profit, according to A. l. Root, in
Gleanings in Bee Culture. He advo-.
Gates the use of numerous small.
shallow artificial ponds on land
that cannot be overlooked. The idea
is to have the water kept warm and
the fish protected from vOraciOuS
kinds and from being lost in times of
freshets. The water is to be conveyed
to these ponds through channels which
run from springs, streams, or better
still, from the warm surface of a pond.
Where the supply enters the carp pond
1t does so through tile, which must be
of Smaller caliber than the outlet. In
this way, however great the lain, the
home of the carp does not give him up.
From the Warren Sheaf, Marshall
county, Mimi, we CLEAN an objectlesson
i'll the comparative value of cows, which
is of value. During the farmers insti-
tute at Warren Mr.. Ives, state dairy
commissioner, tested the butter value of
Twenty-Five samples of milk, and the
results satisfied every farmer present
that all cows are not what they seem,
even though to the eye they may appear
so. The per cent of fat in the samples
submitted varied from to 4.50, which
indicated that 100 pounds of one cows
milk would make five pounds of butter,
while the same quantity of anOther'S
would make but 3.41 pounds.
The United States agricultural report
for 1887 has been received from Com
volume, containing over 700 pages. of
which 40 are devoted to entomology,
120 to the report of the chemist, over
ninety to that of the botanist, as many
more to that of the statistician, and
thirty pages to microscopy and fifty to
the pOmOlogiSt'S report on new fruits.
The volume abounds in full-page en-
cravings and colored plates; 100000
copies have been ordered printed. Ask
your congressman to send you one.
There are three crops that can be
grown as second crops in some regions.
We might make fourth by sowing
millet, but usually this would be an I'M
certain crop, as it does not make good
ff, i,f hot
and dry, and this is an important item
with this crop. But some corn for fod-
der, buckwheat, and turnips can very
often be SOWn after a crop of wheat or
oats have been harvested, and in this
way very fair amount of feed be Sc
cured.
President Sanborn, of the Missouri
Agricultural college, from careful and
accurate observation, has ascertained
that there is more profit from the food
fed to an early matured pig than the
same food fed to an Old hog. He has
learned that it takes about ~ per cent
in corn of the live weight of pig of 100
pounds, and 24 per cent of the whole
weight of hog of 253 pounds, to main
tain 1t In Its present condition.
west, the hog will become more i'm
portant individual than he is at present.
The hog and skim milk agree, es-
pecially when there is plenty of corn to
90 with the milk. The money which
the hog brings every fail is about the
easiest to earn that ever gets into the
farmers pocket. A few good hogs are
an indispensable part of a good farm
er's outfit.
One of the best omens for the future
of improved cattle is the disposition of
breeders to raise thoroughbred steers.
This custom was rare even two years
ago; now it is becoming quite general
among the wiser breeders. Z
Farmers are fast finding out the SUI
periOrity of the moderate sized, strong,
active horse over the bulkier and slower
horse. In every day work Oh the farm
the saving of both time and feed is very
great in year.
The locust plague in Algeria is be-
coming worse. Sixty thousand laborers
and 1900 soldiers are powerless. The
whole country is devastated. and it is
feared that pestilence and famine will
result.
Melon growers in sections of Georgia
are in an uneasy frame of mind on ac-
count of the inability of several rail-
roads to transport the crop. Acres and
acres of melons are in consequence going
to rot.
An English paper reports on the quail
ity of some ensilage-fed beef, and says
it was excellent.