St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-17
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS.

Stock Grower that w. B. Rhoman has
succeeded in producing new order OF
class of pigs, being cross by a SOW and
common Mexican ram. The product is
more after the SOW than the ram. and is
wholly pork, and no taste or smell of
mutton about it. They are cholera
proof. Mr.. Rhoman is going to send a
pair of the pigs East for inspection. 1t
looks bigger than a fish story.
Ants are plenty following mild WIN
ter, and it is hard to eXterminate them.
The Massachusetts Ploughman recon-
mendS as an custer the sulphide of car
bon, a liquid, poured in small quantities
into their holes in the ground, made
with an iron or stick, where the ants nest.
If we have the right idea OF how this
Suphide smells, ants or anything else,
ought to leave in disgust.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman recommends acOnite in duSes OF
three-fourths OF an ounce of the tincture
as a specific TOR milk fever. The first
dose is the quantity named above; the
second, given six hours later, was half
as much as the first, and the third half
as much as the second. She was then
we'll enough to eat little hay, and In
three or four days was turned out with
the other cattle, cured.
The Illinois Experiment station has
determined by actual count the number
of seeds per pound for fifteen varieties OF
grasses. In one pound redtOp there are
4,136,000 seeds; blue grass. 2, 1S5, 200;
timothy, 1,421 600; orchard grass, 49,
900; tall meadow grass, 10000; white
clover, S63, coo; crimson trefoil, 152 900;
mammoth red clover, 364, 1000; alSike,
677.000, and alfalfa, 243, 600.
There is nothing that we, as farmers,
can do that seems to give promise of
better returns than from breeding to
the best large horses that can be found,
possessing size, symmetry and action.
@as well as pure breeding. and with the
energy of our people turned in the right
direction, as it is, we will, in few
years, possess the finest class Of general
purpose horses in the world.
1t is said that j. n. Muncey, a we'll
known Iowa HolStein breeder, has been
experimenting with a view to finding
out the approximate cost OF pound OF
suits with two cows (HOlSteins) were an
average food cost of IS 2-lO cents per 100
pounds of milk, and a tritle over $40
cents per pound of butter.
The American Association of Nur-
meeting at Chicago. June and 6.
Charles A. Green, secretary, Rochester,
N. Y, says that railroad tickets for
the round trip, from any part of the
United States and Canada, may be Sc
cured by any person, whether nursery
men or not, at rate of One-third fare
for the return trip.
An old man in Southern Indiana was
charged with stealing calf. He was
brought up for trial, when he made the
following statement to the jury: II was
always teached to be honest, an most
always have been, but when l seen that
calf l caved. / never wanted calf so
bad in my life, and you all know that
when a man wants calf he wants
him."
Should cheese puff up during curing
it shows that the gas is generating too
fast and the room has been too warm.
The cheese thus puffed up should be
removed to cooler place, and, as last
resort, should be pricked to allow the
gas to escape. A good cheese may be
spoiled by not receiving good attention
while curing.
At the Wisconsin dairymen's annual
meeting, as reported in Hoard's Dairy
man, Prof. Robertson said he had
proved there was loss in churning
cream sweet rather than slightly acidi-
fed. In 100 parts of butter in cream,
81 we're obtained in acid cream, while
but " parts were secured in sweet
cream.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
is authority for the statement that pork
packers can tell the breed of the hog by
the shape of the ham as it comes from
the cutter. The Berkshire ham is round;
the Poand-China is nearly round,
little elongated, while the Chester
White ham is long and comparatively
narrow.
The common quail is the best ex-
terminator of the chinch bug, and is
followed by the prairie chicken. If
protection were given these birds and
they were provided with opportunity
for increase, and considered to be pri-
vate property, the insect pest would
undoubtedly be very much decreased.
The practice of paying fratefhal visits
to neighboring farmers organizatins is
recommended as means of widening
our acquaintance and the promotion of
a fraternal spirit. And when you go
visiting try to have something intesting
to say to add to the pleasure of the
meeting.
The smaller plant is when set out
the better it is, providing it has a stem
stout and stocky enough to be handled
without damaging it. A four-inch cab
bage OF sweet potatoe plant is better
than a larger one, more sure to grow
and to give valuable product.
The sugar refneries of this country
use the beet and cane sugar indiScrimi-
nately in the manufacture of the block
sugar of commerce, and the family gro
Ger sells the imported refined beet sugar
at price from 25 to so per cent above
the price of cane sugar.
1t is supposed that many fires of un-
known origin in hayStacks and farm
buildings may be accounted for from
the fact that wasp nests sometimes take
fire by the chemical action of wasps on
the material of which their nests are
composed.
Some German chemists are reported
to have found that the highest proper
ton of albuminoids and gluten is pres
ent in that grain which has been ma
tured rapidly. The respective percent
ages are then little over 13 and 1S.
An exchange remarks: "No insect
that crawlS can live under the applica-
ton of hot alum water. 1t will destroy
red and black ants, cockroaches, spi-
ders, bed-bugs and all the myriad of
crawling pests which infest our houses
during the heated term"
The Washington Press thinks inter-
planetary communication is one of the
possibilities of some future century. 1t
is about all that is left for astronomic
science to wrestle with.
What the earth needs to bring forth
it's increase, is a steady, uniform sup
ply of water in small quantities through
out the season when plants are growing
and fruit is filling out.
In spraying with poison liuuids, Prof.