St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-14
FARM NOTES.
Points and Facts Gathered to In.
terest and Help Farmers.

In speaking of the new land law leg
iSlation a writer suggests would it not
be we'll to start agitation for our home
stead laws, so as to require a certain
amount, say one-tenth. of each claim to
be planted in timber: no patents to be
issued until good growth of timber is
shown, with provisions requiring claim
to be vacated if law is not complied
with; also to supplement this by state
laws encouraging timber growth. The
ultimate benefits of such legislation can
hprdly be OyereStimated.
In the production of grain and pork
and beef we have driven the European
farmers to the wall says James Wilson.
They secure government protection
for themselves against our exports of
pork and beef by indirect methods, for
bidding the removal of live beef from
the place of landing and alleging that
our pork is diseased. but they have
been secure in dairying. We have not
succeeded in producing a surplus of
first-claSS dairy product of any kind. As
more good butter and cheese is made,
home demand seems to absorb it. If all
our dairy product was good, we could.
perhaps. annoy foreign dairymen, but
the testimony of foreign farm Journals
is that the dairy abroad "alwayS pays"
There is evidently much slack to be
taken up in our methods.
The supreme court of the United
States has in recent decision affirmed
the constitutionality of state law of
Pennsylvania forbidding the manu-
facture and sale of oleomargarine within
the state. The case was carried up
to the supreme court on an appeal
from a decision of the state court.
The court in the decision affirmed
the right of the state in the exercise of
its police powers to protect the public
health, and that the question whether
the manufacture and sale of oleOmar-
garine is detrimental to the public
health is one for the Legislature to de-
eide and not the courts which can only
decide invalid such state enactments as
clearly contravene the provisions of the
constitution of the United States or are
forbidden by it.
A forty or fifty pound lamb ready for
sale in May does not come up of its own
accord, says the Journal of Agriculture
Linseed meal is good for the lamb and
the mother also. Cotton seed meal is
also good, but if the feeding is generous
a mixture with the linseed is preferable.
Lambs intended for early market may
be allowed all they will eat of this mix
suits. Fine clover hay cured bright and
sweet, and second crop clover well
cured are good for both lamb and dam.
They are relished by sheep, and the nu-
tritive material contained is such as will
promote milk flow in the dam and pro-
duce growth in the lamb.
The Rural World says: Take care of
the calves; they appear to be worth but
little as the beef market is now and has
been for while past, but it is a long
road that has no turning, the end of low
prices is at hand and beef will be a
much more valuable product presently
than we dream of to-day Keep the
calves growing. Care and protection
go a great way, but good substantial
grub does more and goes farther. They
can easily and early be taught to drink
skim milk, and if little meal be added
to it, so much the better. Crushed oats,
with bran, middlings, linseed oil meal
and chopped clover hay make a fine
mixture.
The question of the time when crop
of fodder corn for the siIo, or for green
or dry feeding possesses the greatest
amount of available nutriment, is an i'm
portant one. Experiments at the Mas
sachusetts Agricultural Experiment sta
tons, made last year, seem to show that