St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-29

| best or butter, II packed In secondhand
and filthy tubs, or in rolls or Jumps
bearing the impress of hands and fingers
that have evidently been unclean, is
wholly spoiled and will rank only with
the very worst.
| A circular has been issued to railroads
by Secretary Rusk forbidding the trans
portation of cattle from the districts
| comprising portions of Arkansas, Texas
and Indian territory, where the splenic
or Texas fever is known to exist. eX-
| cept under conditions prescribed, with a
| view of preventing the spread of the
| contaglon.
There is whitish grub, with six legs
| near the fore part OF the body.
which preys upon rose bushes. Re-
move the earth around the roots and
kill the grub.
Calves should have some kind of shade
during the middle of the day. If eX-
posed to the heat of the son too long
they become liable to bowel disease.
Use thermometer when churning.
To attempt to churn without therme-
meter only increases the work, causes
vexaton and Injuries the quality OF the
butter.
A flock of hens, if not too many in the
flock, will pay we'll in proportion to cost
of food and quarters, as no labor is re-
Quired In their care, if the hens are
turned out Oh a range. The poultry
house can be kept clean with the use OF
a broom if the floor is Sprinkled with
dry dirt after each cleaning.
Lord Hampden's dairy factory, near
Lewes. Eng, receives about 5000 quarts
of milk day, for which the farmers
are paid 3 to cents per quart delivered
at the factory The butter sells readily
at 20 to 80 cents per pound net at the
creamery, about eight quarts of Jersey
milk yielding pound of butter. The
separate skim-milk sells quickly at ~
cents per quart. Farmers in the same
place who ship whole milk to London
get only to 80 cents per quart, and
find the creamery more profitable.
If your chicks are running with large
fowls make covered Slated feeding
place about eighteen inches high, and
place the Stats so close that the large
birds cannot get in, and your chicks
will soon learn to get there for their
food, and will suffer no annoyance from
the other birds.
The total exports of beef and pork for
the first four months of the year amount
to $50, 229. 762. And the value of dairy
of dairy products exported, same time,
$10,011 800.
Somebody has made the statement
that butter made from cream churned
at low temperature will stand up bet
ter in hot weather than when churned
at the ordinary temperature OF about 60
deg. 1t may be this is so, but who
knows?
A prosperous Missouri farmer re-
az flNnH hT IN
has to ship it to market to obtain sale
buyer comes to him and buys his prod
uct. A little horse sense OF this charac-
ter will open the eyes Of hundreds OF
farmers in this state, and not before it
is needed, either.
Clean up the front yard: tack on that
loose board or picket, slick up and
make home and its surroundings as
neat and CHEEKY as possible. You will
live just as long, have just as good crops
and feel great deal better if you tidy
up bit" Tryit.
Prof. Thorne, director of the Ohio eX-
pertinent station, is another who has
found raw corn meal to produce better
results in pig feeding than cooked meal.
This has now been proved IN so many
cases that it is being accepted as an eS-
tablished fact.
Chloride of lime Will disinfect the
manure heap if the odor therefrom is
bad. The heap is now liable to fire-fang.
and should be turned over occasionally
or it will lose in value. When handling
the manure dry dirt should be added.
We advise every amateur to we'll cen
slider climate and soil before he branches
out very extensively with any kind of
plants. By so doing he will find the
other essentials not very hard to con-
tend with.
The belief that hog Will thrive on
any kind of feed, if he has an abundance
of it. and the shiftlesS, reckless way of
feeding practiced by many is the imme
diate and sole cause of the disease that
prevails among the swine.
Poultry need no grain during the
summer. Make the hens hunt and find
their food.
The Rural Canadian Endorses the old
rule that every COW kept for butter will
keep a sow and pigs. The sklm-milk
and butter-milk form basis for healthy
feed, and if given a run in the pasture
or in the orchard the litter of pigs in the
fall will bring nearly as much as the
housewife has made from her butter.
A few dollars invested in paint will
not only add to the attractiveneSs of the
farm but will save wear and tear.
Nothing is so economical as paint. 1t
ornaments and preserves the buildings.
Butter should be covered when in the
refrigerator, and should be in an apart
ment to itself, and not placed near
meat or vegetables, as it abSorbS odOrS
very readily.
Geese may be picked every six weeks
at this season. but the pluckIng should
not be performed during wet weather.
There is no plant that enjoys plenty
of good manure more than the rose, and
a lack of this will always result in
scraggy plants and miserable blooms.
The registration fee of Jersey cattle
has been reduced to S25 for both sexes.
Undoubted proof of the pedigrees is re-
Quired, and no animals are admitted to
the register that are in any degree of
impure blood.
Watering troughs by the roadside at
convenient distances are highly appre-
ciated by travellers, and are sure indica-
tiOnS of kind and hOspitable farmers.
The farmer who keeps careful ac-
count of his farm, stock and products
will be able to meet the census taker
when he comes next year with correct
statements and not guessed-at positions.
There will be more state and county
fairs this season than in any previous
year. Every farmer should endeavor to
make an exhibit. Fairs promote the
breeding of better stock, the farmers
are brought in contact with each other.
newer and more systematic methods of
cultivation are taught and improved i'm
plementS are inspected.
Some men have faith In DR.. Billings
plan of inoculating hogs as a prevent
i've of cholera. We heretofore stated
hat he was starting an insurance COM
pany to insure inoculated hogs at a
low rate. Capitalists have promptly
come forward with 100000 as capital
in his company.
Messrs. Nelson & Sons, of Liverpool,
England, have purchased of Cruick-
shank the entire Sittyton herd of cattle,
ISL in number. to ship to South Amer
lea. This is said to be the most i'm