St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-22
FARM ITEMS.

We find the following in report
from the Massachusetts experimental
station: Potash fertilizers have de-
.cidedly proved the desirable qualities
of fruits. Wherever the percentage of
this element has been used the change
is accompanied by an increase of sugar
andra decrease of acid. This is impor-
tant-a matter of dollars and cents.
Other things being equal, the fruit with
/. the largest per cent of sugar will bring
sthe highest price. Moreover, less de-
varieties may be brought up to
ia higher standard, thus giving value to
iSome some good quality. as hardness
land prolific bearing. The fact that the
quality and character of garden and
orchard products can be modified by the
effect Of special fertilizers is of immense
importance in its practical as well as
scientific bearing.
The Colorado Farmer, in telling about
; the total loss of the grain crop by drouth,
has the following: The bureau of i'm
migration and its friends continue their
lwOfk to get more victims into the state
; that officers of the land offices may
make more money out OF the office that
3 they sold their vote for United States
senator ahd betrayed their constituents
to obtain; that ditch builders can get
chance to rob more 'tenderfeet' of
what money they chance to bring with
: them.
High farming is kept up on the ISL
and of Guernsey, which last year eX-
ported to London 100000 packages of
garden produce, although it has only
10000 cultivatable acres and supports a
population of $4,000. The produce eX
ports have increased 800 per cent in
Sc zen years, although nearly all the
growers are amateurs. who are princi-
paly engaged in other pursuits and
possess but small agricultural holdings
Porcelain nest eggs are, everything
considered, the best, but they are also
the most costly. Wooden eggs are very
good and durable, and their cheapneSS
jectionable from their liability to break,
or to be accidentally taken from the
nest with good eggs. Nest eggs made
of plaster paris are cheap, but the
porous nature of the plaster causes dirt
10 adhere and soil them in short time.
An apiarian in Field and Farm says:
"The much cOmplained-of foul brood in
bees could be easily eradicated and kept
out if every man having bees would de-
Stroy the swarm having it, and then
burn the old hive in which they lived.
There are too many men who will not
do it unless some one will pay them for
their loss. What would you think of a
man who would not remove deed horse
from his own premises until his neigh
Dors would pay him for doing it? The
two a5eS are very parallel"
The coming farmer will have better
implements and machinery with which
to cultivate his farm. He will employ
his mind to rest his hands. He will do
more headWOrk on the farm. He will
aid in uniting the agricultural interests
of his neighborhood into a union of
strength, a power that will be available
at all times in the maintenance and pro-
lection of honest labor and American
production.
We send abroad poor J. ter. poor
cheese and adulterated lard. Is it any
wonder these things are cheap? We
must make superior things and be hon.
est. The proposition to inspect exports
is sensible. The honest man should not
suffer for the rascal. Secretary Rusk
estimates that we make 1900, 100000
pounds of butter, and we export a little
of poor quality. What condition.