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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
WEEKLY REVIEW.

The past week, ending on the 31st, closes
a year that, Notwithstanding all the hopes
and fears in regard to prosperity and ad
yerSlty, proves, SO far as our jobberS are
concerned, the most prosperous year they
have ever had. The spring was late and
rainy, the fall mild and the winter, so far re-
markably pleasant and warm. The result
has been that our heavy jobbers have had a
comparatively small sale of the seasonable
spring and winter goods, especially in dry
goods, of which they had large stocks. Yet
in spite of this the year that has just closed
has been remarkably prosperous one. In
worth Of goods. In 1883 they
of one-third over the preceding year
of 1887. Most of them are now taking ac-
count OF stock and balancing up accounts.
The result will undoubtedly, be exceedingly
gratifying to them, and will, at the same time,
demonstrate the growth of the great coun-
try west of us and the promise of the fut-
ure.. During the past week trade has been
undisturbed and in spite of the remarkably
mild weather has improved a little. Trade
accounts from the interior are generally sat
1sfactory, and should we now have cold
weather. as we ought to, it would be greatly
improved. Much confidence is everywhere
felt as to the business of the coming year. The
local markets are. generally,,speakiug, steady,
are noted below Groceries are steady, with
regular trade that is lot disturbed by any
thing. Dry goods are as active as could be
expected during this remarkably mild weather
We are having in the very heart of what
ought to be winter. Drugs are active, but
collections are not quite satisfactory. Hard
ware is without change and business steady.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
THE DAIRY COW.
Facts and Suggestions by a
Scientist and Expert on the
Snhianf

Facts and Suggestions Dy
Scientist and Expert on the
Subject.
Prof. Roberts, of Cornell university,
in the course of his address at the
Herkimer, N. Y, Farmers institute, on
"The Dairy Cow; How to Breed and
How to Feed Her," made the following
excellent points:
':There are 1.534,0oo mich cows in
New York. The dairymen tell me that
seven-eighths of them are dry. We will
feed them $50 days without any return;
the food will not cost less than 10 cents
day, and 10000 men must be employed
i'll the care of cows. This makes the
cost of wintering our dry mich COWS
S20,0o0,00O. Dairymen, can you af-
ford to pay $500 apiece for the
privilege of acting as dry nurses to
your dry cows? There is a gentleman
i'll this audience who tells me that his
COWS are MIXED the year round. A
New England paper states that the COWS
OF that section pay the farmer only
$3.50 per year; this mans cows aver
age him $50. 1t requires thought and
much perseverance to bring your dairy
to an $50 standard, but who would not
attempt it?
The first thing to do next summer is
your cows are giving; next fall you will
fatten one-third of those cows. Then
buy bull from family of COWS that
are bred up to an $50 standard; breed
him to your S25 cows, and the average
calf will make a $50 cow; continue This
wedding and breeding, and you Will
soon have an $50 herd. There is no
sense in putting IA good COW into
poor stable, so .the next thing to do,
dalTymen, is to remodel the old barn.
Bring the horse-barn, the sheep-barn.
and the cattle-barn together on the
three sides of square: knock out the
floors; take off the roofs and remove
the Sldlngs from the inner sides OF the
barns. Put one roof over all and lay
the stable floor upon the ground. Line
the inside of the stable with old siding
and fill the space in the wall with
straw.
How shall we feed the cows?
Well, how would you feed man?
Would you put indigestiE.e and dis
gushing food before him? Feed COWS
with tue same brains you use in the
preparation of your own food. Give
them something that is appetizing,
WHICH, nine tlmeS OUT OIL tel,
means digestible food. In fig
uring the cost of food you
should never forget its value as fer
tiliZer. A ton of cotton seed meal is
worth $2S as fertilizer to spread broad
cast on your fields. l have just pur.
chased carload at $3.50 per ton; if
this be fed to milk COWS they will take
out only 20 per cent OF the fertilizing
elements, and their excrement will be
worth all the food cost.
There is another point left that want
to emphasize. The milk cow must have
an abundance of water, and hope you
will not oblige her to drink it from the
icecold brook. 1t is cheaper to warm
the water with coal in a heater tnan
with hay in COW. Heat the water to
60 deg. or so deg. and give it to your
cows in the barns y
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
Drugs. Paints and Oils.

Drugs-Acid, citric, per lb, Zoe; acid, TART
50c; alcohol market prices; aloes. cape, l2c;
ammonia, aqua, &c; ammonia carb, 13c; bal
sam copaiba, Csc; balsam tOlu, soc: barks,
Peru, red and yellow, 25c@S1. 10; bi-carb
soda, 4l2@6c; borax lie; birthstone roll,
3l2c: calomel, Am, Gle; cayenne, pure. 25c !;
camphor, 3oc: chloroform, 47c; cochineal,
45c: Epson salts. Sc: ex logwood, 12c; gum
Arabic, 6O@9Uc: powdered. soc; gum opium
So. Is; jalap, powdered, 35c; icorice, ex
tract 27c: morphine, by the ounce, $3.50;
oil anse, 81; oil cloves, Sl;s5; oil lemon,
mint, $40; oil sassafras. s5c; potash,
chlorate, 22c; potash, prussiate, Csc; quick
silver, zoe; quinine, 55c; red precipitate,
81; sal. nitre, pure. &c; SIENNA, 22c, sulphur,
&c: sugar lead. 1ec; spirits turpentine by
Dbl. 52c; spirits nitre, Bic; vitriol blue, Sc.
oil-Linseed. raw, SIC; boiled, {. c.;
bleached sperm, $1.l5; lard oil, extra, Use;
Mol, ACC; whale, extra, 65@7Ce; carbon,
inspected, 12@l6c; benzine, 74-deg., 12I2c; ;
benzine, go deg. lie.
Window Glass-75@10 per cent discount
for single strength; 75@10G5 per cent for
double strength.
White Lead-Strictly pure lots of 800 lbs,
6l2c; in smaller lots, &c.
Paints-In cans or pals, quarts or half
gallons, one-gallon or two-gallon, packed six
gallons in case; outside ana inside white,
ST. 10 per gallon; jet black, 81. 10 per gallon ;
drabs and common house cOlOrs, 81. 10; iron
paints, Toe; No. z (green) and No. (blue)
S15O; No. 8 (vermillion), $3.50: half-gal
Ions, sc gallon extra; quarts, 1Oc gallon
extra,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
How te Milk Cow.

A Canadian paper says that the most
economical way to milk cow, all things
considered, is to milk the two fore teats
clean, leaving off with a pretty full
stream, and then milk the hind ones
down to short stream. and returning
to the fore ones, milk them to the same
condition. not touching the hind ones
again. This will leave the teats empty,
and the bags too. 1t is a false notion
that Juggling away at the teats stimu-
lates COW to give more milk; but, on
the contrary, emptying the bag as soon
as possible yields more; then the cow
can have the extra time to eat, which is
better stimulus than either. A slow
mixer is never tolerated in the dairy
districts, and ''stripper" is an injury
anywhere. The sooner the cow is
MIXED. and all the organs connected
with feeding. digestion and secretion
are left in their natural condition, the
better it is for the COW.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
HardWare

Augers and anger bits, discount go and 10
per cent: axes, Hunts. $3.50: Lippincott,
$3.50; Peerless, 81; St.Paul, Sc; butts, narrow
wrought, discount 10 per cent: loose pin, cast,
70; loose pin, wrought,6. @IO per cent brass,
90 per cent; chisels socket. frmer ana franz
ing, discount o. @1O per cent; butchers
"tangd,'' discount 40 per cent; files, Nichol
son, discount 60 per cent; hinges, strap and
T, discount 20 per cent: blind, Parker
or Clarke's, discount 20 per cent;
wrenches, Goes, o0@1o per cent; agricult-
ural, 6O@1O per cent; mattocks. long
cut Pittsburgs. 81: Hunts, Sl1.50; fence
wire, Opt, painted, 1925 per 100 lbs:
galvanized, 81: plain, No. 8, $3.50: steel
halls, So %: wire nails, 50. so; TIN plate, &c
charcoal. bright 81: each cross, 81; 2Ox2S,
&c roofing, SO; hammers, Madole No. 1la,
$3.50; No. l, 500 per doz; carriage bolts,
discount 60 and 10 per cent; screws. dis
count 20 per cent; door knobs and locks,
discount so and 10; new list of Feb. 7,Iss7:
Hazard rifle powder. S5 per keg; shot, S1.23
per sack; stamped tinware. new list, Jan. 20,
1887, discount 20 per cent; granite iron
ware, 25 per cent; Disston's saws, discount
% per cent, new list Jan. 1, 1885,; steel
goods, discount go and 10 per cent; common
sheet iron. No. 81. $500; copper bottoms,
3Oc per Id; sheathing copper, 2Sc per ID.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
BULLS TO BE SCARCE.
Some Reasons Suggested by the
Iowa Homestead.


From all present appearances there
will be marked scarcity of good bulls
the coming year. This is especially
true of Shorthorns. Until within the
last two years everything that would
go on record has been sold at some
price for breeding purposes. The low
prices ruling have determined the best
in breeding, in quality or in color.
Quite a number of breeders have closed
out their herds and quit the business.
Others of the smaller breeders have
trimmed all their bulls, determined for
once to have lot of fancy cattle to put
on the Chicago market Besides all
this, bulls are again being shipped to
Montana by the car load, and this trade
takes the quality usually bought by the
farmers to grade up. At the present
prices there is not the slightest tempta-
ton to save grade bulls, and hence we
think choice bulls will be good property
and in brisk demand during the next
year. However this may suit farmers,
who think there is bonanza in selling
bull a year old at from $50 to S75, it
will be good thing for the breed.
1t will be good thing for
the buyers themselves. Nothing
runs down the cattle in the coun7
try as fast as the ability to buy pedl-
greed bulls for from $50 to SIS. The
farmer who buys bull at this price
usually thinks little of him aud takes
poor care both of him and his get!
When he finds that the breeders make
more money by making beef out OF the
calf. the buyer begins to realize the
capacity of the breed for beef and wakes
up. When farmers are willing to pay
from S75 to 500 for good young bulls.i
they will be kept for breeding purposes
again. ShOrthornS are now at rock-bot-l
tom prices, even measured by the mar
ket price of choice beef.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
COOKING POTATOES
No Haphazard Job, Says the FIX
perienced Editor Of the Farm

No Haphazard job, Says the Tx
perienced Editor of the Farm
ers' Voice.
This most generous and reliable arti-
Gle of food is really the most abused.
Give it a chance and it is the most
healthful and nutritious and cheapest
lat any price, vegetable our climate af-
fords, and it is also the most carelesslY
cooked. Compare, for instance, the re-
suit of this vegetable simply washed
and thrown into a kettle of cold water
with skin unbrollen, left to boil slow or
fast, as the case may demand; when
done hastily set out Of the way, still in
the water, to wait until called fOr-and
piled-up vegetable dish of snowy
balls that have been well treated by be-
ing carefully pared. every eye and black
Speck removed land this can be so
quickly and easily done with one of the
knives made for this purpose, thin and
sharp like shoe knife, with hooked
point that will
SCOOP OUT AN EYE
in twinkljhg, and waste very little.
These can be bought at any hardware
store for 10 cents (and if not found in
your village it will pay you to send, say
is cents. 5 cents for postage, to Mont
gomery Ward IL Co., who advertise in
this paper, and who will pay as much
attention to a 10-cent order as to a
$40 one). About half an hour before
dinner shall be served, take from the
cold water you had put them in when
pared. put into your kettle with boiling
water, cover with tight-ftting cover,
and keep them boiling sharply, which
will Just about consume the half an
hour, but which you prove by piercing
them with fork (and not your eye.
Drain off the water, return the kettle to
the back of the stove, sprinkle a little
salt over them; put the cover half on,
and let the steam pass off for five
minutes ;don'ttry to take them up with a
fork. because you will not only lose your
patience, but your potatoes. Lift care
fully with wire spoon OF long-handled
iron one; pile them nicely in your dish,
not TOO many at once; keep them hot for
those that are little late. Try it once,
you cooks who think potato is a
potato anyhow. See if pater doesn't
say something complimentary about
them. and ifbe doesn't take your own sat
isfaction when you press your knife
down into the mealy depths of one, and
lay the little lump of golden butter in
the chasm to melt, and you will feel re-
paid for your extra effort with the del
icacy of its flavor and the ease with
which it digeStS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02

cent. This is one reason why l have
not wanted to cut the hay fine, as it
would seem to be waste of meal to mix
it with it. / can buy such hay at 81 per
ton; Oat straw for hauling. probably 50
per ton; bran, SLIGO per ton; shorts,
$12.60; oil meal, $50; ground oats, $3.50;
corn meal, about $40 or S22; ground re-
jected wheat, SIT. l cannot get corn fod-
der or millet this winter, but
expect to raise it another season.
Millet would cost IS OF 81 per
ton, G. B. K, Glynd0n. MINI. &c. b.
X. has a low market for milk and butt
ter. perhaps lower for the milk than the
butter. Yet he has this to encourage
him-his foods, according to real value,
are, perhaps, as low in price as.his milk.
If his prairie hay had been cut in blOs-
som. he would find it as valuable per
ton if we'll cured as common meadow
hay at the East. If he can select such
as was cut early. he will not find the
weeds very troublesome, and if it were
run through the cutter, and his ground
foods mixed in, in the manner that he did
at the East, he would find that his COWS
would eat it up clean. 1t is presumed
that in such cold climate he has a
warm stable to feed in, else his milk
production would be small with the best
ration. His bran and shorts a., cheaper
grain foods for milk than any others he
mentions. 1t would not be best to feed
corn meal at the price he gives; the
ground rejected wheat is cheaper: the
ground oats are also cheaper;. He may
make up the following ration: Sixteen
pounds cut prairie hay, eight pounds
bran and shorts. mixed in equal parts
by weight; four pounds ground oats,
three pounds ground rejected
wheat, one pound Oil meal. The
ground feed should be we'll mixed
together dry. and then mixed with
the moistened cut hay. Let this ration
be given in three feeds, smallest at
noon. This ration would cost, at his
figures for food. 15Ilc per day. and two
and oGe-half gallons per day would
bring. at his lowest price, 25c, leaving
a balance OF Zoe to cover labor and use
of capital. This is small margin. but
it is quite as large as dairymen of the
East receive. The ration here given is
full one for the class of cows which he
describes, and if they are good mixers
should produce at least fifteen quarts
per day, and this would make the mar
gin quite interesting. E. W.S.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
To Kill Wolves.

c. FL. Clark, at Brule, OAK, gives the
Farm, Stock and Home his receipt in
this:
Whenever I find a sheep killed by
wolves 1 prepare a bait of lard and
strychnine, as follows: Take piece
of lard an inch and quarter square,
make deep hole in one side and fill up
with strychnine crystals, which should
be covered with lard. just at night
place the bait where the sheep was
killed, or near the carcass if it is al
lowed to remain where found, and you
may be sure the wolf will be cared for.
| usually put out poison every night as
long as the bats are taken, and have
killed as many as five wolves near one
dead sheep. Don't be afraid of getting
in too much strychnine; put in heavy
doses and you will usually find wolf
near by.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02

those that are counted among the poor
Just because we are not worth even
Sl00,0e0. Just think of that being called
the sum of mans being comfortably we'll
off in this world, and below that-poor.
However, | went shopping to see what
l could see about and among the out-of-
town people during the holidays. True.
could not understand their language
when spoken, but ] could learn some
thing without knowing what they were
saying, and everybody can tell what
the pleasant smile and nod of the head
means when looking into strange face
when one happens to be in crowd. SO
it sometimes happens that meet some
aged woman in these excursions, and
while she scans my face and sees the
wrinkles there, and the smile creeps
around her mouth, have seen her own
wrinkied face surrounded like my own
by the gray hair of old age. and
WE NOD AND SMILE
and are friends at once. She cannot un-
derstand the English language. nor can
even guess her nationality, but that
does not prevent the smile OF extending
of hands to shake for the first time. and
once it was the first and last time on
earth. The week before Christmas l
was obliged to be around and about
every day, which gave me an opportu-
nifty TO see many people from the coun,
try, and among the rest was an aged
woman seated on stool in front OF the
counter, looking around on the crowd
congregated in groups in convenient
places chatting quite merrily. While l
stood at lower counter OH the opposite
side could take observations exceed
ingly well. The door was opened by a
very young man, who was well dressed,
and his appearance might say he was
some village boy, but he was farm
er's son, with a proud face and
air. As he walked in he turned
to look at the aged woman, and then his
glove came Off in an instant, whilst he
very warmly greeted her. 1t was a
pleasant surprise to me, for l thought
he could not see common people, but he
did, and | said i'll my heart: "A gentle
man all the way through; his good man
nels are not put on and Off as he pleaSeS
or as he changes his clothes, but are al
ways there and always used, without
regard to time or place"
1t is these little things that make the
gentleman OF the lady, wherever they
are. And it is pleasant to reflect Oh tie
coming generation of our foreign p0pu-
latl0n that they are growing 10 maturity
as men ard women with all the ways OF
the
TRUE GENTLEMAN
and gentlewoman of the country in
which they were born-"the land of
the free and the home of the brave"
But the elder people all seem to be a
happy, well-to-do class of farmers, with
purses pretty we'll filled and deter,
mination to enjoy the holidays, and
purchase the holiday goods and more,
too, without any grumbling OF making
any wry faces over the cost OF an
article: so long as it was wanted, why
let him or her have it and say nothing.
A son of Erin said not long ago on
festive occasion, Its just as well to let
such youngsters have their fling once
in a whiIe;" and during the holiday
season now with us. l am inclined to
think the Scandinavians think the
same, and am with them in that sentl-
ment so long as it is not a bad fling"
Mrs, MARTHA CRANDALL.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
The New Dispensation in
Sheep Growing Set Forth
by One Who Knows.
The Importance of Cooking
Potatoes Ri ght, and the
Method Stated.
A Kick at the Bogus Cider
That Drives Out the APP
pie Product.
A Lady Sets Forth Points and
Suggestions About Holt
days and Shopping.

After describing the old, careless. I'M
profitable method of sheep raising
which was letting them raise them
selves, correspondent to the Rural
World says:
1--WE have built new shed for the
sheep. or put a new cover over the olo
one. We have had a place made for
the sheep where they can be safe from
the colts, cattle, hogs and dogs. we
have arranged for our lambs to come
when we can depend on saving them,
have marked the time down, so we snail
be locking for them and can take care
of them. We intend trying the effect OF
wheat and bran, some oats and corn
added. as a grain ration. We have some
choice hav saving 10 give favorable con-
ditions for good milk before lamDlng,
and we have some tlrnlpS and rev
beets to give ration once or twice
week. The old way OF sailing the Sleep
once week, OF when we thought OF IL,
will be given up, ana salt IS IN poN
where they can use it at all times. 10
prevent parasites we are going W tiy
mixing fine powdered
TOBACCO WITH THE SALT.
sIn another box will be salt and lime.
In another one salt and sulphur. Boxes
are cheap, salt is a necessity, and II to-
bacco, lime and salt will do any good.
we want to know it. We are going to
have tub for watering the sheep put
in the Warmest place in the shed, and
have water lead from the well to this
tub, so they can drink just when then
want to, and not have to go out in the
rain and snow or go without water. We
have some ponds and pools of water in
the pastures where sheep drink. These
are full Of insects: do not know what
thew are. but conclude they are not fit
to take il to the stomach. We find salt
will destroy them, so we put salt into
them and around the edges where sheep
drink. The change is wonderful: all
the wrigglers and mites are gone. We
do not believe they were for any good
inside the sheep.
"We who have been keeping sheep
The old way have had hard time.
There has been no money in it for
years. The men who use sheep well,
and get some fine earlylambS which sell
when eight or ten weeks old for twice
as much as their mothers are worth. are
getting their money out of the sheep
before they cost more than they are
worth. Then the older lambs and fat
barren ewes and WetherS and the WOOL
come into cash early in the spring,
when prices are good. The experiment
is OH liberal ale. There shall be
nothing left undone. We mean bust
ness this time. We want all there is in
it, or as much as we can get out OF It,"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
TWO THINGS NEEDFUL
To Make a Success of Poultry,
Says Mrs. "A. l.. Arndt, of Ash
land n

To Make a Success of Poultry,
Says Mrs. "A. l.. Arndt, Of Ash
land, o.
The first thing needful in successful
poultry raising is deep interest in the
birds; second, constant watchfulness.
My experience for the last two years
has been most ly with Brown Leghorns
and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Out of all
the chickens Matched this year, of which
had about 100 Leghorns.I lost perhaps
six when very small. If troubled with
diarrhea, they were treated to dose of
black pepper in sweet milk and cured.
I have lost only one by disease. |
do not inbreed. L bake an oven
full of Johnny cake every day, or every
other day, made of sour milk, soda, salt
and sometimes eggs. Sometimes meal
and shorts well scalded with little salt
are fed. When the chicks get larger |
feed cracked corn and wheat. do not
think whole oats with the hulls Oh fit to
feed to chickens, old or young. Mine
sometimes get milk curd, but make it
practice not to feed any sloppy messes.
or give the chicks any drink while
Young. After they were three or four
weeks old they were allowed sour milk
and water with little Douglas mixture
added. Chickens should have salt.
soda, pepper and sulphur occasionally
in their food to do well. This nearly
covers their bill of fare.