St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-06
FARM NOTES.

e Farmers are entitled to receive free of
charge all bulletins of the newly organ
lied experiment stations in their re-
Spectiye states. By all means send
your address and get these bulletins
and read them.
The general average condition of
drilled wheat in Ohio is reported to be
per cent above that OF wheat SOwn
broadcast. There are quite number
of exceptions to the rule, however, and
some notable.
Old Peter Tumbledown's neighbors
have strawberries for supper six days
in the week, but none has Peter, nor any
other sort of berry. IT'S his own fault.
Spring was as backward in England
as with US, and our English brethren
are grumbling about being behindhand
with sowing ali their crops.
Since the Bohemian oats companies
have been driven out of Ohio they have
been working Iowa industriously. But
the law has ,Overtaken them there, and
they are fore ed to move west. They
are said to be shipping the oats to Ne
braska and the regions adjacent. Farm
erS should be prepared for them.
A cleanly kept cow will yield sweet
milk with an agreeable, sweet odor, and
quite free from any faint or injurious
quality whatever, says HOard'S Dairy
man. That such milk is very rare is
simply because such cows are rare, and
this is the reason why the very best
purely favored butter is rare, too. The
cow that provides 100 pounds of butter
per annum is not to blame for the dis
graceful fact-it is the stupid farmer,
who either don't feed her, or make a
merciful use of the butcher knife.
Fri Coleman has completed the shear
ing of his registered American Merino
bucks and Moody county, Dak., says the
Enterprise, now has the honor of having
produced the heaviest fleece on record
from tw0-year-Old buck-thirty-sev
pounds. The heaviest fleece on record
from sheep of any age weighed thirty
eight pounds and was produced by a
SiX-year-0ld buck belonging to Mr.. Cole
mans cousins, who live in Wisconsin
Mr.. Coleman Seven-year-old buck is
half brother of the one that made the
thirty-eight-pound record.
Farmers cows in Mississippi, SAYS an
exchange, give about gallon of milk
per day, and maybe half pound of but
ter per week. They are fed neither
summer nor winter, but live on the
poorest character of food, dry corn
stalks, Sedge grass, frosted cotton balls
dIlO tlt ike. IHey are Shall ana
always poor. 1t is a rare thing that a
farmer in Mississippi feeds his cows, and
the result is great quantities of Western
butter and oleOmargarine are sold in
that section.
A strong nest of humble bees in the
big clover field is worth $50 to the
owner, for these insects are the chief
agents in fertilizing the blossoms,
thereby insuring heavy crop of seed.
In Australia there are no humble bees
of our kind, and they could not raise
clover seed there until they imported
some humble bees. In this connection
Prof. Shelton, of Kansas, remarks that
in Kansas humble bees are almost I'M
known, yet nowhere are such crops of
clover seed grown as in Kans
J. w. Cook, of Brown county, Dakota.
who has raised many hogs in the terri
tory, 100 last year, says they pay much
better than wheat. He had a gain OF
ninety-seven pounds in forty-three days
feeding soaked barley. and believes it
will pay to buy middlings to produce
pork; has made fifteen pounds of pork
with bushel of corn. MiddlIngS and
soaked barley make lean pork, and corn
fat pork; the lean pork is comparatively
healthy; fat pork makes doctors bills.
What is the record of your best cow
for the past year? asks writer. How