St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-02
FARM NOTES.
Hints and Facts That May Be OF
Value to TiIIerS of the Soil.

Value to TilIers of the Soil.
A. b. Hawkins brought TO Shakopee
last week an eaole he mad killed meas
uring seven feet and nine inches from
tip to tip. 1t is SAID to be the largest
eagle killed in that vicinity, and the
only one known to have been killed in
that part of the state for some twenty
five years.
III reply to an inquiry about chinch
bugs, the Journal at Pine Island, Mimi,
has this unfavorable view: well, we
can tell You how dead they are.
Wednesday the editor discovered thou
sands of the pests in his garden below
the surface. and when dug up were as
lively as one ever saw them. The
state entomolOgist or any one else can
give all the reasons they wish for their
disappearance, but this fact remains,
they are as thick as overland will be so
long as wheat is raised for them to
breed in. 1t is nothing but folly for
any one to think of putting wheat in
next year with the idea of raising any
thing"
Modern dairying and dairy arithme
metic has fixed 5000 pounds of milk
as fair years work for Il g0Oddairy
COW, SAYS writer. A COW is senSi-
tive creature, and the power of large
and .Ong-continued milk production is
largely artificial and easily wholly lost
or partially impaired A poor feeder or
an ignorant mixer could take heifer
with the qualities of Tritoniia or Mer-
cedeS, and develop only very ordinary
COW. 1t takes combination of brains
in the owner and good blood in the
COW to produce good dairy stock.
The auditor of Ohio has made public
the statistics of last year in regard TO
sheep killed and the income raised by
the tax on dogs. During the year So
234 sheep were killed, valued at $685.
1852; 1926 sheep were injured, to the
amount of SAC, 254. is. Total injured and
killed, $3.50 sheep, at a total valuation
of S146, 202.70. The total tax collected
OH dogs, including former balances. was
1857, GAIT. Out of this sum, S97, 777.35
was paid for sheep killed, and $40, ass. OF
for sheep injured; total, Sl45,029.97.
The mutton industry of Montana is
assuming splendid proportions this
season. says the Rocky Mountain HuS-
bandman. The gross export of the ter
titory. according to our best @infOrma-
ton, will amount to 100000. This is quite a
handsome increase in few years.
The industry of shipping mutton was
only inaugurated few years since, and
has reached such handsome proper
tons in a short time. Unless the bot
tom falls entirely out of the wool mar
ket, it is bound tOincreaSe rapidly every
year.
Though no correct estimate of the
value of manure can be made, yet Prof.
LaweS gives the following as an esti-
mate that is as correct, on the average,
as can be arrived .at: He gives the
value of manure from cottonseed meal
at about S2S per ton; linSeed meal, $40 :;
beans, SIG: clover hay, $40; corn meal,
81; straw, So, and .turnipS, 81, The
value of manure depends not only upon
the food, but also upon the condition of
the animal that makes it.
The Kansas City Indicator, in eSti-
mating the probable supply of hogs for
future supplies, says: Iowa and Hi
nois together show decrease of 25l5
per cent on old hogs and 1917 per cent
on shoats. The percentages are made
from most reliable reports received from
SAG counties, embracing the hog-prO-
ducing territory in the states of Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin. Kansas,
Missouri Indiana, Minnesota, Mich
igan and Dakota
This is the commencement of the win
ter pork-packing season. and packers
are exerting their combined influence
to reduce the price, with the well
known and acknowledged short crop OF
hogs.
Its estimated that there are 10000