St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-05
FARM NOTES.
Points and Facts Gathered to In
tapeSt and Helm Farmers.

Points and Facts Gathered to In.
terest and Help Farmers.
GLOW much have your sheep paid
you?" the Iowa Homestead asked a
farmer recently. 81 paid $500 six years
ago for 100 head of inferior sheep. They
have yielded me $500 each year on an
average, and by grading up are now
worth twice as much per head as the
original flock" This, we think, about
tells the story when mutton sheep are
kept in fiocks of about 100 head and
properly cared for by good farmer.
An English farmer who recently Wis
tied Australia and New Zealand re-
marked that the Wheat-grOwers seemed
to bother their heads very little about
preparatory crops. Now, it is not nee
essary to point out to a farmer who
knows his business that different crops
require food elements in different pro-
portions. Thus clover and roots need
more potash and nitrogen than the
grains. A rotation enables one kind of
plant to work for another. Thus clover,
a deep feeder, brings large amount OF
plant food up from the sub Oil, which
wheat OF oats can use to advantage dur
ing their short period of growth. A
variety of crops permits the farmer to
cultivate the soil and keep it clean of
weeds, and deep and mellow. A good
five-years' rotation is wheat, clover 1.-TWO
years., maize, followed by oats.
A quantity of Japanese sacred nuts,
the first ever brought to this country,
has just been received at New York
fruit store. They ale called sacred from
the fact that they are used in certain
forms of Japanese worship. The nuts
are placed ON the altar and ignited.
They burn with blush flame and give
off a peculiar odOr. They are rich in
oil, and the fumes are supposed to rise
as incense to the gods: They grow I'M
der water, have leaf like pond lily,
and are shaped like steers head, with
two projecting horns. This resemblance
is so great that it is difficult to believe
that they are not carved. In the raw
state they are hard and taSteleSS, but
when cooked they have the flavor OF
boiled chestnuts. They retain their
qualities ten Oh fifteen years, and are tit
food when even twenty years old.
Speaking of dehOrning cattle-a prac-
tice which is attracting much attention
for its many good points, the Flandreau
Herald has been reminded that March
is the best month for the operation. No
danger from cold or heat, and plenty of
time to do a good, thorough job. There
are many good points made i'll favor OF
dehorning. 1t will take less room to
keep the same number of cattle; it
saves feed, by lessening the waste; it
makes cattle quieter and easier handled:
it reduces the danger in taking care OF
them. In fact, comfort, humanity and
economy are all for no horns. SIS
There is breed of sheep that has
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Sheep Journal. They are the Chinese
characteristic is in that they frequently
give birth to three or four lambs at a
time, and also breed twice year. They
probably will not prove OF much value
as mutton sheep compared with the
English Dorset and Somersetshire
sheep, which are superior. The Chinese
sheep are considered almost worthless
as wool producers.
''If you will say in your good paper"
writes a correspondent of the Jersey
Bulletin, ito the man with warts on
his cows if he will use an ointment
made of hogs lard one ounce and flow.
ers of sulphur one-fourth of an ounce,
we'll mixed, and rub on warts once a
day, greasing them thoroughly, they
will soon disappear-withOut the use of
cows will be much happier. This is my
experience of many years."
The interest in improved stock is rap
idly growing in Dakota. We can hardly
pick up an exchange without finding an
item about some importation of blooded
cattle or horses, OF an article by some
one discussing some phase of the blOOded
stock business. 1t is we'll for Dakota
that it is so, and it is to be hoped that
great improvement in the quality of
Dakota's horses and cattle will soon fol-
low as the natural result.
The Dell Rapids Times suggests that
the farmers ought to- commence cleaning
their feed grain at once, as there are in
dicationS of all early spring. The editor
of that paper has had some experience
on Dakota farm, land he says that early
seeded land almost invariably produces
the biggest crops in this country.
The commissioner of agriculture has
just received from Europe consign-
ment of choice silkworm eggs, which he
will distribute gratuitOuSly to all per-
sons who desire to raise silkWorms and
who are so situated that they can do so
satisfactorily.
Andrew Carnegie last week shipped
100 barrels of coke from each of the
gland toe b tested. 1t is thought that, Ow-
ing to the superiority of the coke, it will
justify shipment to that country regu-
larly.
The pickle industry is large one in
some localities. At Fredericksburg, Va,
the supply reached so, OOO, 600 cucumbers.
| They are picked an inch and half
long, and bring so cents per 1000. A boy
can pick 5000 per day.
Prof. Osborn, entomOlogist of the
Iowa Agricultural college, after large
amount of correspondence, estimates
the 1887 damage by chinch bugs in that
state to approximate s25,OO0,OOO. .
The sod houses of farmers in the new
regions West were found to be much
warmer during the recent cold spell
than houses made of wood OF brick.
Creameries have been established this
winter at Larimore, jamestown, Valley
City, Mayville, Grand Forks and Penn
bina, all in Northern Dakota.
The United States uses 100000 bar
rels of salt per year. Of
Queen Victoria's Pearls.
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