St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
FARM NOTES.
Points and Facts Gathered to In.
terest and Help Farmers.

tereSC ana Help Farmers.
1t is the opinion of Maj. Henry E.
AlvOrd, superintendent of the Massa-
chusettS agricultural experiment sta
ton, that the day is coming when milk
will be sold on the nutrient value. He
says large milk dealer in Philadelphia,
Pa, buys milk by test and retailS it in
four grades, according to quality, which
determines the price. Under law es-
tablishing such standard prices, all
customer would have to do would be to
indicate either the quality or the price.
and if the dealer gave him milk inferior
to what he called and paid for, pro-
vision should be made to prosecute the
dealer on the testimony of the pur-
chaser, backed by analysis of the milk
purchased, without cost to the latter.
The objection to most of our laws is
that they place justice beyond the reach
of the poor, when it ought to be as free
as sunshine. Provision should be made
to punish trick or malicious complaint
on the part of the purchaser.
In regard to cutting seed potatoes, w.
j. Green, the horticulturistS of the Ohio
eXeriment station, says: sit must be
evident to all that soil and cultivation
have much to do with the results. On
rich soil, where thorough cultivation is
given, good crops can be secured, no
matter what the size of the cutting, but
on poor soil small cuttings will largely
fail, because there is not sufficient sub
stance in them to sustain growth for
any length of time. Whole tuberS and
large cuttings induce early and strong
growth. The crop is also earlier and
larger than where small cuttings are
planted, but the per cent of small pOta-
toes is greater. Taking this into ac-
count it will readily be seen that the in
crease in crop secured by using whole
potatoes is not all profit, besides the
cost of seed is greater.
The full significance of opening up
the Northern Indian reservation to
white settlement will be realized, SAYS
the Montana Live Stock Journal, when
it is known that the reservation COM
priSeS %, 04S, 900 acres of some of the
best grazing and agricultural lands of
Montana. If our memory serves us
right the Indians will retain about g, OOO,-
600, the rest being added to the public
domain and may be acquired and settled
under the liberal land laws of the coun-
try. Some idea may be formed of the
vast area thus forced from Indian OWL
ership when it is stated that if it were
cut up into farms of 100 acres each it
would afford homes for 119,O5O families.
Most of the lands, however, are essen
TALLY grazing lands and will doubtless
be occupied as such.
AT an institute held at Walker. To-,
a Mr.. Getchel stated that he had planted
a lot Of ensilage corn, drilled it in at the
rate of about ten quarts per acre.
When the corn began to glaze he cut it
up, throwing it down in punches, letting
1T wilt some: in the afternoon he bound
it in bundles with the wilted side down.
After laying tWenty-fOur hours he
shocked it. In about three weeks he
enlarged the shocks by doubling up.
After standing about three weeks longer
it was hauled in and stacked, tapping
but and top and making the stacks about
ten feet wide and as high as they could
well be made. Fodder raised cured in
this manner is said to make the best of
feed for dairy cows.
John L. Gibson, superintendent of
North Oaks Stock farm, Ramsey county,
Minnesota writes the Live Stock Jour
nal that the stock on that great breeding
establishment are doing Splendidly. He
and that the cattle have been out on the
ranges nearly every day. j. j. Hill
owns the North Oaks farm and has it
well stocked with imported Shorthorn,
Aberdeen-AnguS and Jersey cattle,
Shropshire and black-faced sheep, Cleve-
land bay horses, Cob ponies and Berk-
shire hogs. 1t is one of the finest and
best conducted stock farms in the West.
An unusually severe winter is most
commonly followed by productive sea-
son. The deeper the soil freezes the |
more water will hold and the less dan
ger there is of crops drying up in Sc
we're draughtS. 1t is this water from the |
subsoil brought up by the capillary at |
traction on cultivated land that keeps |
crops green when they would otherwise |
be dried up. But if the land were not |
deeply frozen in winter the water |
would not be there. After the first /
spring thaws water sinks into the soil !
most unaccOuntably. 1t is being stored |
up against time of need next summer.
A correspondent of the North British
states that dandeliOnS in |
and especially for dairy COWS. Some |
years ago he had two fields, one with |
few and the other with great many
1t was found that when |
the cows were put on the field with |
many of these plants their yield of |
milk was improved, both in quantity |
and quality. Since then he has planted |
in fields laid down in grass
in order to improve the pasture, and
the effect has been beneficial.
Drinking the whole milk, says prom
inent stockman in the Michigan Farmer.
makes fine fat calves, but calves raised
on skim milk and oatmeal and bran, if
not SO sleek at eight months old, have a
better start in bone and muscle and
beat the more pampered calf at two
years of age. 1t is a waste of cash
product to feed calf whole milk after
its rennet stomach changes so as to call
for solid food, and it is mistake to so
feed it after it is ten days old. Warmed
skim milk and little oatmeal is much
better.
There is no better diet for growing
pigs of any age than wheat meal feed.
This is much better than bran, which is
90 coarse, and goes through young pigs
without doing them much good In |