St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-16

and the earlier the work is done the
finer will be the particles of earth and
the more available the plant food.
Quite number of insects will also be
exposed to the surface, while the looS-
ening of the soil also permits the ground
TO become warm early.
Bran will not answer as an exclusive
food for fattening hogs, says an eX-
change, but if the hogs are young, or
you are keeping them over, bran is good
first rate. So are oats. Oilmeal and al
most every other kind of food than
corn. AS to wetting the bran. or feed
ing it dry, it is better to wet it, but not
to feed it when too wet.
In the examination of the stomachS of
oyer 500 English sparrows, according to
Prof. Riley, only eighty-two were found
to contain any insect remains at all,
while the stomach of single truly in
sectivorous bird had $50 web worms.
This bird would have given more aid to
the orchardist than an army OF the USE
less sparroWS.
Many breeders are engaged on the
problem of creating new sheep, says
a writer in the New York Tribune, and
it will be satisfactorily elucidated in due
time. Breeding for wool and mutton
can be combined as well as breeding
fowls for weight and quality of carcass
and quantity of eggs, which have been
SO much improved of late years.
Mr.. Krummer, of Kansas, has in
vented ''hog sanitarium' in which to
feed hogs to save them from disease.
And he wants every farmer to purchase
and use one, as it is warranted to save
90 per cent of food. We suppose if a
farmer purchases five of them his hogs
will need no feed, but.Wil be fat and
furnishing.
More meat, and better meat, and in
shorter space of time, can be produced
from poultry than from any other
source, and the supply from poultry
equals that of any other class OF live
stock. 1t gives an opportunity to those
Of limited means, and the profits are
always large in proportion to capital
invested.
AS to the quantity of food to be fed
we cannot lay down rule. If the
swine are in the fattening stage they
should have all they will eat up clean.
If they are growing animals they should
have enough to keep them steadily
growing. In no event should they be
Oyerfed.
Mulching prevents the early flow of
sap by preventing the ground from
warming too early. As the frost may
catch the trees and vines after they be-
gin to send out shoots the Importance of
delaying the flow of sap should not be
overlooked. Mulching is more essential
during an open winter than at any other
time.
The manufacture of oleOmargarine
within New York state is believed by
the state dairy commissioner to be COM
pleteiy suppressed, and the sale Of imi-
tation and adulterated butter and
cheese restricted SO effectually as to be
a rarity compared with the extent Of
such sales during previous years.
All male animals to be fed grow
larger when emasculated than when en-
tire. They also take Oh flesh more rap
idly. CapOnizing ROSTERS is trick that
the average farmer has hardly yet con-
sidered. A New Hampshire correspon-
dent of the Massachusetts, Ploughman
finds it exceedingly profitable.
Prof. Collier told the New York dairy
men the other day that he believed, as
he believed in his own existence, that
if they would knock in the head one
half their cows, three-Quarters of them
l.
lessor is correct, for an inferior COW is
pretty poor piece of property.
A mother, who was little inclined to
scolding, was featuring her daughter
about her ability Or inclination not to
do anything. "You cannot cook. or
sew, or teach, and as you have no
means how do you expect to live?' The
daughter quietly replied ''she could do
one thing-She could marry"
Creameries are only valuable to the
dairymen whom they serve when they
bring to the business the highest excel
lence of dairy knowledge, order and
cleanliness found in the best private
diaries, and apply those methods
through the creamery syst EN- to the
whole community.
The New England Farmer thinks it
time that the man who has an improved
herd of Jersey or Guernsey cows ana
makes butter that does not need color
ing should be appreciated and get more
for his butter than he who put few
cents worth of butter color in each
churning.
1t is too early yet for spring pigs. The
young pigs are easily stunted by severe
cold, and unless they have very warm
place but few of them will survive. The
brood sow must also be fed literally
while nourishing them. April is soon
enough for the spring pigs.
Many breeds of swine degenerate be-
cause the sows are used for breeding
purposes before they are year old.
Every farmer is interested in good
roads. None but experienced road over
seerS should be selected, and the tax re-
CURED for road repair, if properly APP
piled, is money well invested. Good
roads save valuable horses and avoid
loss of time by the farmer.
The disposition of swine is to pile up
in cold weather. and the warmer we can
keep it underneath them the less liable
they are to do this. and unless they can
be prevented from doing it to great
extent disease is much more liable to
break out among them.
Of the 100000 or more of cattle in
the United States, Texas is estimated to
have 4,724 ,053, the value of which
reaches the sum of SEC, 5lS, $3.50. There
are more cattle in Texas than any other
state, but in value New York, Illinois
and Iowa lead.
The man who feeds ground oats, bran
and corn meal in equal qualities will
get good. many per cent nearer cor
rect, feeding method than is usually
reached, taking our dairymen and farm
ers as a class.
be fed plentifully with wheat bran and
other muscfe-forming and bone growing
foods.
Alden & Faxon,
A Il c.