St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-16
Points and Facts That May Be of
Value to the TiIIer of the Soil.

bdluC 70 TIC l1IlSr OIL the SOIL.
The sale of j. B. Haggin's yearlings
at New York was an event. The sensa-
tional feature was the sale of King
Thomas. The bidding started at $1,000
and ran up rapidly to $4,000: finally to
$4,000, amid great excitement, and was
finally sold to Senator Hearst, of Cali
fOrnia, for $4,000.
To our surprise the other day, saws
Hoard's Dairyman, we found one of the
best butter makers i'll this county put
ting cream just SKINNED into the
churn. When we asked him if he did
not know that most of that cream was
wasted in the buttermilk, he replied:
Eyes, Eve read that it was so, but |
never took much stock in it," 1t is said
that it took $50 pounds of lead to kill
man in the late war. 1t takes about
10000 pounds of type to convince some
men that other mems experience is
worth anything to them. This man had
never set his buttermilk away for six
hours and churned it to see how much
butter there was in it. If he had he
would have seen where his fresh, unripe
cream had gone to.
w. ii. Havemeyer, the great sugar
refiner of New York, was one of The
first in this country to adopt ensilage on
his farm near the city, which he has
stocked with choice herd of Jerseys.
Recently, according to the american
Coles county, Illinois, can safely lay
claim to the fact of having the largest
horse in the world. John Roll, residing
at RedmOn, owns horse twenty hands
high, that weighs $500 pounds. 1t is
five years old, never has been BROKEN"
and has never been Off his farm. The
blacksmith at Redmon is afraid to
''shOe" the horse.
Oatmeal cruel and a pinch of linseed
meal is good substitute for milk in
the rearing of calves. 1t may be mixed
in hay tea. A calf will do well on this
food when ten days or two weeks old.
Feed three times day small mess.
After calf is three days old it will live
on two quarts of milk, fed three times
day with three quarts of hay tea mixed
with it and two eggs.
DR.. Atkinson, state veterinarian of
Wisconsin, is conducting experiments
with view to determining whether or
not CHAMBERS is transmisSible to the off
spring of glandered parents. The
Western Farmer says the doctor has Sc
lected the Guinea pig for the expert
ment, because their prolific nature rend-
ers observation easy.
The girl with the ugly skin should
take plenty of exercise and walks in the
open air, wearing shoes large enough
for perfect comfort and decline pickles
and pastry. At the same time she may
rub sulphur III little glycerine on the
face at night, washing it off in warm
water and few drops of ammonia in
the morning.
f. C. Short. of the Wisconsin Agricul-
tural station, has invented a new
method for determining fat in milk
which promises so well as simple,
practicable and correct process that it
will in uall probability supersede the
gravimetric method of analysis now in
vogue.
Major Alvord, late of the Massachu-
sets Agricultural college, says that in
many cases the simplest way to add
silo to the farm equipment is to devote
to this purpose space in the corner of
well-framed barn, previously used for
other storage.
The question of the hour in France is
the extreme depression which has fallen
upon agricultural interests, and the
steadily increasing embarrasSmentS
which now weigh upon proprietOrs and
cultivatorS of the soil.
If oats are intended to be fed in the
sheaf you will get the most benefit from
them by cutting as soon as the seed
reaches the dough stage. When cut at
this time, stock, horses particularly,
will eat the stalks clean.
The late rise in price of cattle is con-
fined chiefly to good grade beef animals,
the price of the common breeds remain
ing about the same. 1t is always so.
The best is the most profitable, in cattle
and everything else.
The California grain crop will be
rather below than above the average,
although some localities report that
land which was believed month ago to
be not worth harvesting will yield fair
crop.
The pig with long body, level and
broad back and a full ham is worth
more than any chunk, however short
its snout. Production and profit should
be the motto.
Before another fall millions of tons Of
fodder will be wasted that would be
worth to its owners next winter So a
ton. Prof. Shelton, in The West.
Denmark has ten dairy schools. In
1860 she had none and made wretched
butter. Now it is the finest sold in
Great Britain.
The Essex County, Massachusetts, Ag-
ricultural society is said to be the
strongest in the state, and it never has
horse trot.
| A man who feeds correctly and intelli-