St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-10
Hints and Facts That May Be o
VaIue tn TiIiers of the Soil.

An old SOW that has shown herself a
good mother should De preferred to one
that is younger. The practice of using
young sows is sure to end in a degen-
eracy of stock sooner or later. To avoid
liability from the weight of old sOws,
which sometimes crush their pigs, re-
duce them in flesh. AS rule most
brood-sows are too fat, in which case
the pigs come weak. Clover, with bran
slop at night. is the best food for
brOOd-SoW in summer.
The consumption of oleomargerine for
the current fiscal year is 45,0OO.O00
pounds, in comparison with 34,0OO,O00
pounds last year, and the aggregate
since the law went into effect in N0vem-
Der, 1886, 10O,0OO,000. In comparison
law was enacted taxing oleomargarine
and compelling its sale under proper
name, the amount consumed since that
time shows all increase of nearly rs per
cent, or about $3.50, 900 pounds per
month.
Much of the creamery butter is made
by men. A contemporary thus insinu-
ates his objection to it: 1--WE rather
prefer butter that is made by woman,
if she is up to the times in butter-mak-
ing. We feel very sure there is no dirt
in it, even by implication.' There are
few men who are cut out for butter
makers"
1t is currently reported that the pres
ident of the Michigan Salt association
is Ell route TO England to get $10.000,0O0
to complete the monopoly that will con-
troll the entire salt product of the United
States. This obnoxious trust tells the
old story that it is not the intention to
put up prices, but simply to equalize
them.
Nothing promises to so revolutionize
the present waste of corn fodder in the
of cutting the field corn close to the
ground as soon as the kernels are well
glazed and putting the Who'll crop direct
" into the silo, either whole OF cut into
half-inch lengths, ears and all.
There is something peculiar in the
small tract of land in Holland on which
are raised the celebrated Dutch bulbs.
There is only 14S acres of it. and there
is annually shipped to England. France,
Germany and the United States over
100000 worth of bulbs from this less
than quarter section of land.
"a humorous old agriculturist,"
says the Newell Mirror, ''tells the edi-
tor that he has a Jersey cow which he
carries across the field to good place,
and then milkS her, getting SO much
milk that he can not carry it back to the
house."
1t is always better to own farm than
to rent one, for every stroke of WORK
you do on the place will be fully for
your own benefit, and not partly for
another; but if you do rent it is self
profitable to work as we'll as you know
how at any rate,
The time is not far distant when
farm or dairy without silo will be con-
sidered as incomplete as farm house
without cellar; and it will soon be the
fashion for steam engines to go from
farm to farm to fill the siio; as it does
now to thresh grain.
In the Northern states to 1engthen
the season would be to increase the
crop, nine years in ten: Hence the
fist measure to increase the yield on
land not thoroughly drained naturally
is thorough artificial drainage.
If the 1883 corn crop was loaded on
two-horse wagons, thirty-three bushels
to the load, and the wagons wers
placed twenty-six feet apart, or ae
nearly as possible in string, the string
of wagons would reach twelve times
around the glObe-30O,000.
Think of s1OO, 900 being asked for with
which to fight the fraudulent sale of
oleomargarine and adulterated milk.
This is what the merchants, not the
farmers, of New York have asked the
state assembly to appropriate.
England is said to have one cow to
81 persons; France one COW to 311s per-
sons; America one COW to 225 persons;
Vermont one cow to ~ persons. Yer
mont ought to be the leading dairy state.
An exchange suggests that man
with sharp tools can do more work in
day than two men with dull tools. 1t
may take little time to sharpen the
tools, but it will be labor saved.
The signal service reports the annual
average rainfall in Oregon and Wash
ington territory from 70 to 1O7 inches,
according to location, averaging three
times as much as in Iowa.
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