St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-05
FARM NOTES.
Hints and Facts That May Be OF
Value 90 TiIlers of the Soil.

The question of whether or not win
ter wheat can be successfully raised in
this section is in a fair way of being
settled, says the Lac qui Parle Press.
Mr.. McCOrquodale, of Mehurin, has
just harvested small field of grain
which is his second experiment, and re-
ports an entire success. The grain will.
a portion Of it, be exhibited at the
coming county fair, and our farmers
will have all opportunity of seeing it at
that time. He says he will sow ten
acres Of it the coming fall.
Old pastures that are OVerrun with
weeds can be best utilized for sheep. as
they viii eat off the young weeds and
keep them down. Many weeds are val
liable, so far as their use for food is
concerned, but are undesirable in place
of regular salable crops. They can be
utilized when young by pasturing sheep
upon them, and if weeds are not
allowed to seed the grass will again
take possession of the field.
The greater the producing power OF
your COWS, and the more thoroughly
you have them surrounded by circum-
stances fayoring the highest production,
the more marked will be the result of
I any evil influences to which they may
suddenly be subjected.
Late cabbage requires good cultiva-
ton. A plot of cabbage that has been
worked will grow faster, and produce
better heads, than viii those that have
received larger supply of manure and
the cultivation neglected. The ground
around cabbages should never be hard
and baked.
Corn put in the silo makes great
deal better feed than hay, and makes as
good butter as ever was made in June,
and the change from summer to winter
dairying costs almost nothing. 1t may
be done gradually; the cost is nothing,
and there is all the time an increase of
production.
The Scotch creepers are short
| legged breed of fowls, compact, excel
in breast meat, cannot fly high, lay well
| and mature early. There are two vari-
cites, the white and the barred. They
are arly as large as the Plymouth
Ro ok
In making cider for vinegar it is a
mistake to use the partially rotten OF
inferior apples for that purpose. Good
vinegar can only be made from ripe and
sound apples, and where it is difficult to
ship apples to market it will pay to con-
vert them into vinegar.
Those who practice artificial incuba-
ton claim that October is the time to
begin work for a winter supply of broil-
ers. Last season the early broilers
brought the best prices, and this has
| encouraged MEDIATOR operators to begin
work month sooner, as broiler-raiSing
is winter pursuit.
Weeds make valuable food for hogs
1t is much better to feed the young and
| tender weeds to stocks than to allow
them to waste. On some fields the
weeds are often thick enough to NOW
| The pigweed and ragWeed make excel
lent hog food. Purslaine and crab
grass are highly relished by cattle AND
swine.
If scrub stock does not pay, try some
thing better. The success of stock
raising depends on the breed. A steer
of beef-producing breed will weigh
1000 pounds, while scrub steer of the
same age will not reach one-half thai
weight. The large difference shows
where the loss occurs from the use o1
the scrub.
Take a few beets. parSnipS and car
rots, cut away the others, leaving {
space around each, and allow them tx
remain for seed.
Put the young cucumbers in brine as
fast as gathered until sufficient nun
Der have been secured for picking with
vinegar.
Never try to save seed if you have
several varieties of one kind of vege
tables. as they may mix and their purity
be destroyed.
The greatest problem confronting
every breeder of improved stock is thai
of being able to duplicate at will the
animal he has chosen for his model, anC
not until we produce a COW combining
all those qualities can we congratulate
ourselves on having model butter
COW.
Agriculture is the life-bIood of the
nation; lmpoverish this and the whole
body becomes weak and nerveless; en-
rich the current and the whole body is
strengthened.
A dust bath for the fowls is one OF
the essentials of success with poultry
Ordinary road dust does well, but
ashes should be avoided as being toe
cauStic.
The poultry business is not little
business when properly managed, and
all there is in management is having
good quarters, and watering and feed
ing with the regularity with which
your team is cared for.
For bee stings, first remove them,
then apply liquid ammonia, saleratus,
tincture of iodine, kerosene oil, salt and
soda mixed and moistened with water,
cold bathing, with camphor internally,
and then decide which is the best.
A beet sugar bank is to be established
at Brussels, with capital of $4,000, 000
1t will do no speculative business, but
| will sell sugar on commission and make
loans to manufacturers.
Colman's Rural World says our coun
try will never be so prosperous anG
happy as when it shall be divided into
small farms, and millions of toilers shall
have literally sit under their own vine