St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-25
ever, and they do not again resort to the
inferior kinds,

SONS should remain on the farm. Every
boy has his own inclinations or ideas
regarding his future. and if these in
clinations are high and lead to an hon.
Orable, respectable life pathway, they
should be encouraged and aided by just
praise and the best educational advan-
tageS on hand.
The idea to stop churning when the
butter has gathered into pellets. wash
out the buttermilk, ETC., says the Breed
erS' Gazette. has saved butter makers
hard labor, and the good yet to be done,
when all the old fogies have been con-
verted, is beyond calculation.
The Kansas Agricultural college has
found by experiment that an equal
weight of cob, when ground and fed
with corn, is worth as much as feeding
material to mich cows as an equal
amount of corn meal. Corn meal alone
is not merely too hearty, but it is too
heavy for healthful food.
Prof. Roberts found that it took seven
pounds of hay and grain to raise 100
pounds of water from SO deg. to 90 deg.
by the animal economy; and, on the
other hand, 5 cents worth of coal per-
formed this Office of understanding for
twenty-five head of stock daily, saving
175 pounds of hay.
1.-The sheep is the one domestic ami
NAL which never dies to its Owner.'
said l.. S. Coffin, in his address recently
before the Improved Stock Breeders
Association of Iowa. 1.-THE cOnsump-
ton of WOODEN goods per capita has
more than doubled in the past fifty
years."
Two hundred and thirty million BUSH
i,,f
country in 1888, 10000, coo bushels of in
crease over the crop of 1887. New
York, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota and
Dakota are the principal potato-grow-
ing states.
Hiram Smith. of Wisconsin. says that
winter dairying is much more profitable
than summer dairying when Que has
SitO and wise combination of business
principles. Mr.. Smith keeps 100 cows
on 200 acres of land, and the silo ell
ables himEto do so with profit.
There will be no danger of variety
of potatoes running out" if the best
tuberS are saved for seed each year.
Everyone who plants potatoes can inn
prove the variety by carefully selecting
the seed and giving good cultivation.
Asparagus is very early vegetable
and any work to be done on the bed
must be done early. 1t is gross feed
er, and can appropriate any amount Of
manure, which should be brOadcasted
on the beds now, to be forked in as
soon as the ground permits.
Vigor and strength of vitality are of
prime Importance in any breed; they
give power to transmit qualities to Off
spring, overcome disease. exposure
and the many hardShipS which all
focks are more OF less exposed to.
A great mistake, says the Country
Gentleman. is made by many cultiva-
tors in spreading out their business
over too many acres for the amount of
appliances they can use for thorough
and profitable work.
1t is a general rule that any fodder
: likely to affect the odOr or taste of the
milk will be less likely to do so if fed at
milking time, Prof. Wing asserts. 1t
will not affect the milk then drawn. and
will have time to become dissipated be-
fore tue next milking.
For early potatoes prepare a special
plot, and after the plants are Well up
thin them out, so as to have only one
plant to the hill. The potatoes grown
this way will be more uniform in size,
and also earlier.
A farmer says keeping a steer until it
is three or four years old. in competi-
ton with Western range cattle. does
not pay. Early maturity, that can be
secured with better stock and more lib
eral feeding, will enable the farmer to
realize profit.
The brood mare that is expected to
fOal this season should not be spared
from work. If given moderate exercise
she will be benefited. 1t is unwise to
keep brood-mare in her stall and over
feed her.
The mutton of a well-bred sheep not
only gives profit by reason of extra
weight attained, but higher price is
also received owing to the better quail
ity, as compared with the ordinary COM
mon sheep.
The Milling World says American
-four sells in Europe on its merit, and
that 50 per cent of the flour exported
hence, last year, went to England. Our
roller flour is the best in the world.
Take good care of the ewes from now
on if you would have good flock OF
lambs. Do not keep them too fat, but
give sufficient nutritive food. Feed
roots moderately but regularly.
All the vegetable-eating insects,
which are the more nOxious tribes, are
increasing rapidly. The reason given
food find their pabulum scarcer.
To the farmer large and fine crops.
raised at reasonable expense and pay
joyment. Men like the business in
which they are successful.
The settling of the earth before
sowing wheat is as important as the
fine mellow surface to receive the seed,
and these are attained by early blowing
and frequent narrowing.
Isaac Davis, the Lake George rattle
snake hunter, has killed 1,7OO snakes
within the last four years. He is said
to be the only professional rattleSnake
hunter in the world.
There are two classes of feeders of
stock; one is for production, the other
for reduction. You make your choice,
and you should abide by the conse-
quences patiently.
Good farmers are sticklers for i'm
proving their hogs, cattle, horses, poul-
try, etc., but will encourage their sons
and daughters in marrying any kind of
two-legged scrubs.
Bran is and has always been consid-
cred one of the best materials for stock
feed. Farmers may dispense with
wheat for family use in the shape of
lIouI, uut lHey VIII always ueeu Drdn
for the animals.
Water under foot is a great detriment
to sheep growing, and hence in wet sea-
sons the flOcks have to be watched
closely. Foul foot is seldom known in
billy country.
1t is claimed that soft food for cattle
is better than dry feed. and that in the
dairy is no trouble, with plenty of en-
silage, to keep a summer flow of milk
all the year.
Stock should never be allowed to run
down or get low in flesh. 1t costs