St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-10
Total, II permits
FARM NOTES.

- "A AtuA ANO
The science of fine butter making is
not a subtle art that few can compre-
bend, but it possesses salient points that
all must observe as essential if they de-
sire to be counted among the successful.
Mature cream churned at the proper
temperature-ab 60 deg. in summer
and Ga deg. in winter-will grain but
ter hard and firm and work into prod
uct of the proper consistency and
texture. Use no color but such as is
known to be reliable, and do not use an
excessive quantity OF that.
DR.. Peter Collier says, in the Elmlra
Husbandman, that the intellectual ac-
tivity which has been aroused among
our agricultural classes during the past
ten years has been astounding, and in
every direction the people are reaching
out for help to enable them more intel
ligently to conduct their affairs. Now
adays thousands of farmers are discuss
ing the problems connected with the
feeding Of their crops ana stock in
terms which were to them without
meaning, an unknown tongue, less than
ten years ago.
The demand for pure milk in cities
and towns is likely to increase faster
than the population. Multitudes of
people are not yet aware Of its value as
an article of daily diet. Milk and
bread are far better for children than
the cakes and apples that are fed to
them in such abundance now. AS the
laws of health become better known
such things as milk and eggs will have
better market. They are natural
products. while cakes, pies and the
<f fol AiShQS
devices that discredit good sense, more
or less.
This is world of progress, and dairy
spondent of Hoard's Dairyman. l have
got in the habit of feeding it the year
round to cows and calves. / feed out
some two or three carloads year. Last
summer bran was so cheap ] putin three
carloads-over forty tons at IS ton-at
my nearest depot. There is noticed like
silage and bran to grow young cattle in
the winter time, considering the cost OF
it, and it is just as good for beef cattle.
The largest single crops grown on
one acre in 1889 we're: Corn, 255 bush
els of shelled corn, green weight, which
shrunk to 239 bushels when kiln-dried:
potatoes, 73S bushels: oats. 1876 bushels;
wheat, SO bushels. These crops are the
largest ever secured from one acre I'M
der circumstances that guarantee their
accuracy, and were raised in cOmpeti-
ton for the American Agriculturist's
prize.
The experiments of Drs. Koch and
Sutton, according to the Sanitary Era,
prove that tuberculosis has its origin
with fowls, and that the waShingS from
barnyards carry the germs into adjoin-
ing wells or brooks, thus communicating
the water used for drinking. These
germs pass into the blood and lodge in
the lungs that are too weak to resist
their attack.
Six thousand ducks are annually mar
keted from the farm of prominent yet
transformations farmer in Massachusetts.
who comprehends the idea of handling
his stock in way to yield him q quick
return, with little expense for their keep
ing. The secret of success in duck farm
ing is competition so small as to hold
the marketable price of ducks to a fig
ure that insureS hanSOme profit.
If the fertility is not in your soil, put
it in. Apply the necessary fertilizers to
grow the crop, and max the crop pay
for them. In other words, manufacture
raw materials into useful and market
able crop that will pay all expenses and
do not make something out of nothing.
but something valuable out of some
thing not so valuble.
According to the New York Star,
hundreds of thousands of tons Of wood
pulp are made in this country. The
finest grade of paper is produced from
the white birch; but nearly all ordinary
tree are more or less available. Wood
chips or shavings are boiled in water
and bisulphate of lime, losing nearly al
their fibrouS character, and becoming
soft almost to pulpiness. The wood is
| thus bieached to certain extent, and
nearly all the fibrOuS matter destroyed
The discovery was in Germany, but
American inventive talent has greatly
perfected the process. largest 81 "
mill and pulp factory is in enada. The
works. on theedge of aayastCafOrcst, d.
| liver their products straight from theil
rooms to the deck of ship or steamer
Wood pulp paper is produced cheaper
by 80 per cent than the old prices of sim
liar articles made from rags, straw, etc
W. 81. Bowker. speaking before the
| Bay State institute. says If he were to
| build new set of farm buildings he
| would have no barn, but instead would
| construct long onest0r y sheds, tieins
cattle on either side. with a pass
| ageway for feeding in the middle.
| He would arrange the windows or
| either side So that one-half OF the cattle
could get the morning sun, and the Other
! half the afternoon. He would store The
| hav outside in stacks. He would Absorb
| all the LIQUID and take away all the ma
nure daily in carts or Sleds having ,
| false bottom. He recommends thi.
| mainly on sanitary grounds, and aist
claims it to be the most economical
| plan.
| Prof. Sanborn, of Missouri. in more
| than 100 feeding tests, determined tina
| to make certain amount of gain, pig
weighing 800 pounds required Is pei
| cent more food; pigs weighing 21
| pounds required so per cent more food
and pigs weighing 325 pounds required
| rs per cent more food than pigs weigh
ing 20 pounds.
1t is said that coat of boiled linseeo
oil and ground charcoal on any kind
post will prove MT its rotting. Any goot
| paint will, no doubt, do ust as well
| The mineral paints are very CHI cap, ant
a coat of them on the post before it i
set in the ground would at least double
is life.
Sorghum as a fodder crop has grea
| feeding value, better than corn fodde
or milet. Sow thick. and cut wheI
large enough to yield FIVE or six tons
per acre.
John Splan, the famous horse trainer
! has written book, and here is sen
tence: 81 have one absolute rule, ant
that IS that l will not keep man abou
me a moment after he has shown dis
position to drink"
The new chrysanthemum Mrs. Ben
iamin Harrison bears flowers sometime
as large as seven inches across. 1t i