St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16

One OF the strongest points OF cOmpe-
| tition which foreign wool has over home
growth, says a writer, is IN this matter
of care in tying and sorting the wool,
the foreign article suffering loss of
| only from 20 to 80 per cent, while
American grown goes from IS to rs per
cent, the average being for fine about
so per cent. Can the manufacturer be
blamed for wanting a good, straight
| article?
Pumpkins should not be planted in
the corn rows until the corn has been
| thoroughly cultivated and the grass kept
out. A pumpkin vine among the corn
| rows sometimes lnterfereS with thor
ough cultivation and harbOrS weeds.
1t does not pay to grow pumpkins II
done at the expense of injury to the
corn crop. Pumpkins may be planted
among the corn, however, and with
profit, if the ground is kept clean and
no weeds allowed to seed.
The cheapest pork is made by the
wise use of clover pasture. The COM
| position of the plants meets the wants
of the animal system to make rapid
growth. The season favoring the growth
of the plant is most favorable to animal
| growth, particularly swine, when they
have good shade and water. The AMI
NAL digestive organs do not convert
themselves into furnace as in the
winter to keep the body warm.
Has anybody found out how cheap a
pound of butter can be produced? 1t is
said j. n. Muncey, we'll known Iowa
HolStein breeder, has teen experiment.
ing with view to finding out the ap-
proXimate cost of a pound OF milk and
pound of butter. The results with
| (HnlStpInSl
food cost of SO 2-10 cents per 100 pounds
Of milk, and a trifie over $40 cents
per pound for butter.
The tendency of the times is toward
the cheapening of everything consumed
by mankind. says Dr.. HOSkinS in the
Vermont Waterman. The farmers can
not escape this tendency. They de-
mand cheapness i'll what they buy, and
those who buy of them naturally make
the same demand. 1t is inevitable. 1t
behooves every man to understand this
truth. Only by understanding it can
we prosper.
The windmill is an implement that
costs very little compared with the adj
vantages derived. Water pumped into
tank can be conducted to the barn
yard or to the pasture through pipes,
| thus saving the expense OF pumps and
the labor OF pumping. Where there is
no running water troughs can be ar
ranged for stock and may be kept full
without difficulty.
| The way to prevent soft she'll eggs is
to feed food rich in lime. The grains
are deficient in that mineral. Ii you
feed too much grain you give too
much starch. and soon the hens
will be over-fat. They cannot lay I'M
less provided with material for eggs.
Fat is useless on a laying hen. Her
| business is to convert the proper mate
rialS-meat, milk. and clOyer-into eggs.
The facts brought out by experiments
| in the Wisconsin university show that
| of the first pint of milk drawn from a
| COW it would take Seventy-five pounds
| of milk to make pound of butter,
| while that of the last and thirteenth
pint drawn 100 pounds would make
| 9,561 pounds of butter-all from the
same cow and from the same milking.
Andrew Burnett. of Wellesley, Mass,
as recorded by the New England Farm
er, is believer in hornlesS cattle. The
| head of his herd is bull, half HOlSteln
and half Jamestown tpolled and all of
| the calves are hOrnleSS. The bull has
horns which were loose and movable
up to six months ago, when they hard
| ened and became fixed.
Before narrowing sows are the better
| for an abundance of exercise, and
| should have all they will take: and as
| soon after this event as they want to
! let them return to their accustomed eX-
| ercise. But do not make SOW take eX-
ercise by compelling her to forage for
| living.
Prof. l.. B. Arnold says that COW
| going into a stable filled with the OdOr
| of solid and liquid eXcrements will
| carry it into her milk in fifteen minutes.
| For this reason he insists that stables
| should be ventilated in such way that
| pure air will come to the cattle from
| the front.
Gates may be properly classed with
| labor-Saving implements and machinery.
Some of the fields and Enclosures are
| entered many times day. A gate is
opened and shut in few seconds. The
removal of bars or other barriers re-
quires much greater time and labor.
The question as to the best time to
prune fruit trees was discussed atlength
| at the meeting Of the Iowa State HOrti-
cultural society two years ago, and
resolution was passed by unanimous
vote favorng the idea that the best time
to prune fruits is when the leaves are
about two-thirds grown in spring.
The London Live Stock Journal an
nounces on the authority of "COsmo-
| pOlitan'' that 1859 is to witness the in
| PRODUCTION of an invention patented by
| c. A. Johansson, inventor of the
! hand cream separator. that will extract
| the butter direct from the milk.
A. L. Crosby, in the Orange-Judd
Farmer, says that the majority of fail
ures occur from overlooking and slight
ing some apparently triffing thing,
which, in reality, may be no more tri-
fling than leaving the nut off the wheel
after greasing the wagon.
Denmark expends $4,000 yearly for
maintenance for dairy schools. The re-
suit is an immense improvement in the
quality of the dairy product, and an in
crease within twenty years in Den
marks butter export from 100000 to
$4,000, 900 annually.
Filthy quarters cause lice on all
classes of stock, and at this season the
yermin multiply very rapidly. An ami
NAL that is infested with Vermin cannot
be kept in COED condition, even with
the best of feeding.
When peddler or solicitor of any
kind comes along and wants to give
something for nothing, you ought to
know that he is fraud. None of these
sharpers sells you dollars worth of
goods for 10 cents.
There are so many learned female
graduates nowadays thrown upon So
ciety. there will be no need of fellow
buying encyclopedias or dictionaries.
He can marry one. all bound in silk.
IF all of the Indians in the United
States were all congregated in one viii
Iage. it would not be as large as st.
Louis. Total Indian population in
United States, 247,761.
Horses should have at least two hours
rest at noon. On very warm days horses
snffer severely. They should be watered
often. and at night shovld be swabbed