St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-16
unable to meet bills made on them for
margins for future contracts.
FARM NOTES.
Hints and Facts That May Be of
Value f1, Tillors OF the Soil

purpose of breeding and selling spring
lambs to the best advantage, says the
Rural New Yorker. The lambs are sent
to the New York market. great pains
being taken to secure the best possible
specimens as well as to ship them in
good condition. By combining and con-
centrating their business the members
of the club are enabled to secure lowest
rates of transportation and to present
lambs of uniform grade.
1t will often be found that cows will
prefer to drink stagnant water, even al
most filthy, from pools, rather than to
take that fresh drawn from the well. 1t
is not the cleanliness of sthe water that
the cow objects to, but it's GOODNESS.
Leave the we'll water in tubs or troughS
exposed to the air few hours in sum-
mer. The COWS will drink more freely,
give more milk, and do better every
way tor it. Filthy water they should
not be allowed to drink, at least while
giving milk.
Fresh ''grass" butter may be vitiated
by salt Salt is necessary if butter is
packed in October for winter use, but
only the whitest and finest should be
used, and that with discretion. The
nutty, delicious flavor of genuine grass
butter can not be improved, but too
much salt destroys it. An old butter
maker says: THE excellence of the
best of all creamery butter is based on
the fact that it is as fresh as it can pos
sibly be, and has thus retained all the
flavor in the making"
The principal want of a young chick
is plenty of warmth. The broOder
should never be below 80 deg. in tenn
perature. Whenever the chicks crowd,
dead ones are found in the brooder in
the morning. 1t is sure indication
that there has been lack of warmth.
Chicks never crowd each other with
comfortable breeders.
An honestly made implement, well
cared for, ought and usually does last
fifteen or twenty years; but. mainly
from a lack of shelter and care, does
length of time. Careful farmers should
have plenty of well ventilated. dry
storage for tools and implements. Moth
ing pays better interest on cost.
There is no economy in making a
small cistern. Have it not less than
eighteen feet deep, jug-shape. twelve or
fourteen in the widest place. Cement on
brick wall. When dry enough glaze
the inside surface with coat of boiled
oil and yellow ochre paint, adding a
little Japan dryer. Put on with white
wash brush.
A writer says: "Too much corn is
used by poultry men, and not enough
wheat. oats, barley. middIings. bran
and green food. Glover mown for
winter is valuable, owing to the large
percentage of albumen it contains.
Variety of food is essential to the well
being and productiveness of fowls"
A dozen cucumber vines will produce
an enormous crop of pickles If looked
over daily and the small cucumbers
picked off. They grow SO rapidly that
| delay of one day will sometimes rem
| der them too large for use. If picked
over carefully the vines will continue
to bear until frost.
The Prairie Farmer says: although
| some horses. unless very thirsty. Only
| drink small quantity each time, they
| should have it all the more punctually.
| They want the little just as badly as the
| horse which drinks greater quantity.
| Many horses like to take their time to
| drink"
A plant grows in Central and Eastern
| Arabia whose seed, when eaten, pro-
| duces effects similar to those of laugh
ing gas. Theif flavor is little like that
| of opium, the taste is sweet, and the
odor from them produces a sickening
sensation and is Slightly offensive.
Ensilage and the silos are not beyond
the ability of the small farmers. The
supposition that ensilage can only be
used On large farms is erroneous. 1t
costs very little to construct a silo. while
ensilage is more easily grown and pre-
pared than corn-fodder.
An exchange says: milk may be
canned just as you would fruit. Bring
| 10 IN bni1
| your jars to the brim with it, then shut
alright. This will keep any length of
time, and be quite as good when opened
as when it was put up"
All insects are not enemies. Some of
them are the best friends the farmers
have. Spiders, WaspS, dragon flies and
other insects prey upon insects that are
injurious. There are also other numer-
Gus parasites that greatly assist in de-
Stroying insects.
An English writer says there are
"ventilating bees" in the hives of India.
During the hot season two or three
bees post themselves, on their heads, at
the entrance of the hive and fan the in
terror with the incessant motion of their
wings.
The National Stockman says that It is
estimated that it would require over
100000 gallons of pure milk to manu-
facture the pure butter imported by
Great Britain last year-Or say the yield
of 100000 cows. They may. have good
coal and iron about Pittsburg, but if their
cows don't give but five gallons of milk
each they had better trade them off for
| goats.
| In reply to an inquiry for remedy
for cows leaking milk, the New England
Farmer gives this: Blue vitriol
(suIphate of copper. two ounces, in six
ounces of water, thoroughly mixed and
applied to the end of the teat two or
three times, or till the difficulty is re-
moved. The efficacy of the solution is
doubtless due to its astringency.
Corn and sorghum grown for silage
| should be planted thin enough to ma
ture ears and produce a crop of seed
and not harvested until nearly ripe.
The silage will thus contain consider
able amount of grain and be of more
value to feed with cotton seed and with
cotton seed meal, and produce a better
quality of beef.
Once in full year should be cOnSid-
cred often enough for a mixer to bear
calf, and Tor younger cows once in
from fourteen to sixteen months. Older
COWS that may be considered fully de-
veloped and of established habit, cows
eighth or ten years of age, may, if their
calves are of great value, be put to rapid
breeding.
Amber cane and evergreen sweet corn
were not injured by heavy frosts at the
Dakota experimental station. This is
remarkable, as both are semi-tropical
plants.
The tax required for road repairs, if
properly applied. is money well in
vested. Good roads save valuable teams
and avoid loss of time by the farmer.
When "scours" occur with animals
feed nothing but cut hay for a few days,
Scald the hay and add little salt to it.
Diet is better than medicine.
The summer is the time to put the
barn in condition for winter. Painting
should be done now, and the roof should
be made tight and close.
A hog, four years old, weighing 1885
pounds. was exhibited at the Houston,
Tex, state fair in 1880 by Joseph Mass,