St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-17

UultcI DTOuuCllOU. HOW SQOulU Unpy
know whether it is safe to dehorn a
ahead, just as if they knew all about the
future of it's effects"
Prof. Shelton, of the Kansas State
Agricultural college, gives his opinion
as result of fourteen years expert
ments, that no combination of grasses
will prove as satisfactory to the Kansas
farmer of orchard grass and red clover,
using bushel and half of orchard
grass and about three quarts red clover
per acre and sowing rather late in
spring to avoid the high winds
which are liable to blow the light
orchard grass seed over adjoining farms.
He says such seeding made last spring
got good start, but got caught by the
drouth and remained through it dor
mant and apparently dead. The two
mature together and are ready to cut
for hay at the same time, unlike the
mixture of timothy and clover, when
the clover is past its prime before the
timothy has reached its best stage.
Col. Switzler, of the national bureau
of statistics, concludes that it is idle to
talk about raising sheep in Europe or
this country to compete with South
America, South Africa and Australia.
Our sheep farming, he thinks, must
eventually be confined to small fiocks
OF improved breeds raised ON farms
where they require little or no
extra labor. 1t has already come
to this in Europe, and in the
Eastern and Middle states, where lands
are valuable, and will finally prevail in
the West as the large ranges are divided
up and settled. The conditions are en-
tirely different in South Africa, Austria
liza and South America, where laborers
are, at best, Semi-barbarianS and poems
and the immense plains of cheap lands
and torrid climate seem better adapted
to sheep raising than other industries.
George B. LOring says that ensilage
should be fed morning and evening with
small supply of grain, the intermedi-
ate feed at noon being hay. 1t is a good
substitute for roots; it preserves the
health and increases in mich COWS the
flow of milk. | suppose ten acres of
well grown corn ensilage will feed
forty cows in the way l have
suggested through the winter months.
A silO well managed makes all the diff
ference to the farmer between consum-
ing his entire hay crop and having hay
to sell. A silO built of wood is better
and if it is placed in the bays of the
barn and built from the cellar bottom to
the plates it can be constructed with
great economy.
1t is interesting to note the enormous
for horses: Smuggler, $4,000; Wood
ford Mambrino, $4,000, refused; Poca-
hontas, $4,000; Bell Boy, $50, 900; Jay
Gould, $4,000; Lady Thorne, $4,000;
Blackwood, $50, 900; Pancoast, s27,-
500; Gov. Sprague. 1880: Happy
Medium, $4,000; Wedgewood, S25, 900;
Gsorge NJ. Patchen, $4,000; Nutwood,
$500; Sam Purdy, 500. 900; Rosalind,
$40, 600; Lulu, $40, 600: Edward Everett,
$4,000; Socrates, $50, 200; Startle, SIC, 1000;
Lady Maud, $4,000; making $500, 500 for
twenty-one horses, an average of $40, $50.
A Farm and Garden correspondent
writes: Il wish all horsemen knew the
value of Sunf1Ower seed. 1t is not only
one of the best remed dies for the heaveS,
but horse that has recently foundered
can be entirely cured by giving half
l took an otherwise valuable young
horse last fall which was so stiff that
you could hardly get it out of its stall,
and in two weeks you would not know
that anything was the matter with it,
and it has been all right ever since"
W. d. Hoard says the testimony of
practical men concerning the great
saving of enSilage as food for dairy
COWS is overwhelming, yet there are
thousands of farmers who will require
few more years of valuable time to be
convinced. A Canadian farmer told us
the other day that he did not believe
word all this talk about the economy
of ensilage. We could only reply that
as his skepticism was not costing us
anything we could easily afford to let
him remain where he is.
The Montana Stock Growers Journal
says the idea of making st. Paul beef
packing center is good one for that
that Montana shippers have heretofore
from the st. Paul Stock Yards company
will tend to make them little shy of
attempting to ship into this point. Still
the yards company can very easily re-
gain the confidence of shippers, and if
it offers them equal inducements with
Chicago can readily divert large por-
ton of the cattle that go to Chicago.
A Colorado farmer is said to have
SOuthdOwn lambs six months old that
weigh 40 pounds each, and it has been
estimated that they will clip at least
twelve pounds of wool each when they
shall be fourteen months old. AS extra
mutton now sells at s cents per pound
for sheep in lots, each of the above is
worth S11.20. This shows what can be
done with well-bred sheep without pay
ing any attention to the value of the
wool.
An Eastern paper says: SIT is our
duty to warn farmers against planting
Irish and Scotch potatoes. Certainly
all the evidence is against the use of
such seed stock. Some farmers who
are pretty leve[headed are buying these
cheap foreign potatoes for home con-
sumption and are saving their nice
domestic stock for seed purposes. The
foreign seed produces heavy growth
of tops in America, but light yield of
tuberS."
The testimony among stockmen, who
have ridden the range every spring
for years, is that cattle never looked so
we'll at this season of the year as they
do at present. This seems to be the
case in every state and territory where
the range industry is pursued. Our
exchanges from Montana, Western Da-
kota, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona and Texas bringing the same
good news.
Between winter, which refuses to
loosen its hold, and summer standing
ready to catch on, spring is getting
pretty tight squeeze in this part of the
country. Still. if it results in immunity
from the chinch bugs, our farmers will
not regret this slight change in the
usual order of things.
Large records simply show the utmost
capacity of the animal to assimilate her
food and turn it into milk, says II. G.
Jewott. We doubt if there is any profit
in what is produced over and above
good ordinary keeping, except to make
great reputation for individuals and
families.
1t is generally admitted by the trade
that the restrictions on oleomargarine
have increased the consumption of gen