St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-28
Rural and stockman Points,

Our export meat trade was larger last
year than it was year before. That is
encouraging, anyhow.
Watch the swine just as soon as II
gets cOld-if it ever does-they will
likely huddle together. Scatter them
This IS the roast pig season of the
year. The neat little carcass is dis
played in all the meat shops. 1t makes
good eating, too.
Be wise in time. You have too many
gray hairs for one so yOuDg-lOOking.
Use Halls Hair Remover, the best
preparation out, to cure them. Try it.
Some of the alliances are boycotting
the butcher shops that handle ArmOur's
dressed beef. Give it to them, brethren,
if you find it beneficial.
The man who thinks it improves q
horses appearance to jerk up the head
of the animal with a check rein would
probably think that deformity was the
picture of grace.
Shelter the pig. We should not have
thought OF making the remark il we had
not recently seen herd of hogs without
shelter, except what they could get
from the side of a building.
| Do not overfeed the pigs. Overfeed.
ing of animals is as much to be guarded
against as undertaking. A contempt
rary says that overlooking and exposure
will cause thumps. Quite likely.
What does the market call for, sweet
or sour cream bntte1? asks subscriber.
Sour cream butter, we unhesSitatingly
reply. Somebody will rise up and say
it is a perverted taste, but we cannot
help that.
When the animal shows an aversion
to food, stop putting food before it..
Food does not look or smell very we'll to
us when we are sick, and the animal
does not differ much from human bein gs
in this respect.
What will the new year show for beef
cattle? We cannot answer. but we hope
for the best. 1t has seemed to us for a
couple of wears as if the day were dawn
ing on the cattle market, but the night
has hu ng on.
1t does not seem possible that as many
cattle can be marketed this year as
number the greater the price ought to
be. 1t is no trouble to improve the cat
tie market--On paper.
The better we understand the hog, the
better we shall do with it. The practi-
cal notion which some people seem to
have that swine will pretty nearly care
for themselves is the beginning of at
least comparative failure in swine hus-
bandry.
The hog should have pure fresh
water, something that the animal some-
times never gets. The man who drinks
beer instead of water ls not consulting
his own best interests, and the hog that
drinks Stops all the time does not satisfy
nature. Stops and beer are about the
same.
'"The devils got into swine 1000 year.
ago, and all of them never got out
said man who had been trying to get a
pig into the pen for half an hour. There
is a good deal of devil in a hog, and
there is some In man. The pig no doubt
h inks some men are all devil.
Some people seem to think that ''nerv-
business" In COW is antagonistic to sue
ceSsful cud chewing. The nervous cow
will attend to chewing her cud, if you
will shoot the dog and lick the boy that
goes after her like bulldog after cat.
There is not much difference in the mat
ter of cud chewing betweena nervous"
cow and one that is not. But there is a
heap of difference in the practical re-
suits of the chewing.