St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-03


breeds, but particularly Jerseys and
Hosteins, is greater now than ever be-
fore. The people want good cattle, and
they are willing to pay good prices.
He SAYS he knows of several Galveston
and San Antonio parties who have this
spring paid as much as $500 for good
Jersey cow, and says the tendency all
over the state is to better stock of all
kinds and to improved methods of agri-
culture.
Calves that drink rapidly and bloat
are troubled with indigestion and the
sours. Try ''Smalfs Calf Feeder"
They cannot take their food as rapidly
from this as they can drink it. One
feeder can be passed around to several
calves, if one has time, otherwise put
it in larger supply. When profitable
dairying can be carried on it is to eX-
pensive to let calves suck the cow
twelve weeks, although that method in
sures good calf with the least trouble.
Milk is peddled in Chicago and other
cities in alright bottles. 1t is bottled
on the farm where the milk is pro-
duced: and if the surroundings Of the
dairy are good, it is clearly benefit to
thus bottle it. 1t is then saved from
gathering any outside f1avOrS between
the producer and consumer. But some
times the dairy is so uncleanly that it
would do little harm to expose its milk
after leaving it.
The business methods of farmers in
the West are Oh trial now. With the
seasons rather against their operations
and with weak markets tor their prod
ucts, farmers who are not strictly atten-
tive to business and methodical in all
details will surely fall behind. 1t does
not help anything to bewail these hard
conditions. Courage and calculation
are better than complaints.
Lovers of flowers who have spare
time may cultivate ANNALS. Those who
cannot devote so much time to growing
flowers, but who love them and must
have them, can use herbaceous peren-
malls and Towering shrubs. The cata-
lOgues number them by the hundreds
now. They flower in succession through
the summer and into autumn.
If colony of bees is found lying idle
during the honey season, it is evident
that the hive is full of honey, and the
bees have no room to store away more.
This has tendency to induce swarm
ing: and when honey only is the object
this should not be allowed: on the con-
trary keep giving them abundance of
storage room.
The queen, if taken away at this sea-
son of the year. will not seem to be
missed by many colonies until they are
hopelessly queenleSs. In such colonies,
have a care if you are to introduce
strange queen. Don't attempt to place
a queen with frame of brood into such,
for she will be balled every time.
A horse for drawing loads, to be we'll
formed, ought to be high in front, hav-
ing high and projecting withers, large
chest, front legs strong and we'll spread
apart, back and loins straight, hind
quarters a little depressed. muscular,
short in the flank, large sinews.
Here is record that is not often
beaten: Mrs. j. F. Metcalf, Dallas,
Tex, about April l, set six hens on fiji
teen eggs each, making ninety in all.
When they Matched she took Of eighty
nine chicks. Would say that they are
of the Plymouth Rock breed.
In level country, with good roads
nearly the entire year, horses weighing
1000 pounds are heavy enough for all
draft purposes. 1t is muscle, not weight
altogether. which gives horse
strength, and muscle alone which gives
action and speed.
Kill sheep occasionally to vary the
fat pork diet. What you do not need of
the carcass you can readily sell to
neighbors. But l have no Sheep"
perhaps you say. Well, the advice is
good all the same, and to advise you is
all that we can do.
One of the farmers of this county
who has MIXED from ten to 16 cows the
past winter. told us few days ago that
al l.. l., FN1
per ton, and the corn and oats fed them
brought 81 cents per bushel.-Nashua
Qo.) Post.
Nearly all the experiments made at
the experiment stations demonstrate
that hogs make greater gain on whole
corn than on corn meal. This is also
the experience of nearly all farmers
who have given attention to the COM
pariSOn.
"For many years | have studied the
history of agriculture in the older cOun-
tries of Europe and found one unvary-
ing conclusion. Wherever agriculture
has decayed from any cause, there gov
eminent has persisted"
Sweet hay in winter, with pure mill
StutfS and water, are things of first
necessity in making pure milk. A cow
cannot give pure milk if fed musty hay
and stale meal, OF Stops from breWerieS
or stills.
The surroundings should be kept so
neat and attractive to the young men,
bers of the family as to cultivate in
them a desire to remain on the farm, is
the Springfield Republicans prescrip-
ton for heading off common tend
ency.
The price of oat meal should go down,
| as the trust is busted. Allowing that
| there are only twelve pounds of meal to
| bushel of oats, at five cents per pound,
| that is 60 cents per bushel and the offal
| will more than pay for manufacturing.
The Farm Journal says: "Try poison
ing the old bugs by scattering potatoes
in the row." We have noticed that the
"old bugs" would work on potatoes
after the vines are killed by frost or
blight in the fall.
Loss of rest at right is as trying to
animals as to humans, and especially to
horses that have worked during the
day. The windows should have mos
| quito netting to protect against insects
in the stable.
We read of man who made 5000 on
six hens. He sold them early, before
his neighbors planted their gardens
thus he saved $3.50 in lawsuits and didn''
have to plant his own garden but once
Fathers are apt to give the boys the
poorest team and the poorest tools or
the place to work with; but it is bad
policy if the boys are to be encouraged
to become good farmers.
An Albany, Ga, man saw two COWS
fighting with locked horns. He sawed
these apart. when the ungrateful ami
n,ais pitched into their benefactor anG
| nearly killed him.
Give the boys day off now and then
It will pay. 1t will pay the farmer tc
stay at home himself, if somebody must
stay, while the boys go off on time oc
casionally.
Farmers thirty miles from Boston,
after paying all charges for transporta
ton and commission on sales, get only
two and a half cents per quart for milk
A soil reduced to a fine condition, with
proper depth. holds like sponge the
surplus water of rains, and it gives it tC
growing plants as they require it.
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