St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-10
pearly white in color, the inner petals
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verging upon straw color.
Nine cases out of ten. where variety
of fruit which once flourished in a given
soil, has ceased to flourish and perfect
fine fruit there, the change is due to the
fact that the soil has become destitute
OF the necessary mineral manure.
There arc at the present time in Ger
many upward OF 600 cooperative cream
cries. OF this number BOP are situated
in the province OF Sclileswig Holstein,
where they are chiefly engaged in pre-
pairing butter for export to the English
market.
A fifteen-mile journey is an average
days work for a horse. How far does
the COW travel in q poor pasture, nip
ping penny-wcight of grass here and
there, to get her daily ration? Then
she is expected to pay for it through the
milk pail.
We often see cooked milk recon-
mended as preferable to raw. IL may
be for some stonachs. Large quantities
of very cold milk are likely 10 prove i'll
furious. But nature does not cook
drop of milk for the young, but she gen
errlly gets these things about right.
Prof. Henry says of feeding cattle:
"YOu can not be too careful about put
ting your feed and money into young
cattle and avoiding old ones" This Is
more applicable to hogs than cattle, as
the hog reaches maturity in about one
half the time cattle do.
Fowls swallow their food. broken or
not, and it enters the crop OF first
stomach and remains in 1t until it has
become S0ftened, more or less, when
small quantity at a time, just as grain
init nyiC mill ic
giZZard among the gravel stones. This
giZzard is strong muscular stomach.
and plays night and day when there is
a grist to grind, similar to bellows, con-
tracing and expanding, thus forcing
gravel stones into the grain and break
ing it to fragments and triturating the
whole mass, after which it is in suit
able condition to be quickly digested.
Prot. J. w. Beale, Of the Michigan eX
pertinent station, calls attention to the
frequent occurrence of the seeds Of rib
grass or English piaintain in clOverSeed.
Beware of it. The seeds are brown. OBJ
long, concave on one side and convex on
the other, and about the size of clover
seed.
A correspondent of the Live Stock In
dictator says: II can invest $1,000 in
sheep and burn every pound of wool
produced for five years and make more
clear money than can be made on cattle,
horses or hogs in the same length of
time.o
During the agricultural exhibition in
Vienna, fixed for the beginning OF next
September, an international college OF
agriculture and forestry will be held
there, in which the United States should
be well represented.
The Philadelphia Ledger says mar
ket gardener in suburban New York,
who devotes his care exclusively to
raising celery, thyme. parsley, etc., is
said to have made $4,000 in the last ten
years.
A Denver exchange says that Jersey
milk in Colorado sells for to 10 cents
more per GALLON than the milk from
other cows.
A really good dairy COW, well kept
and individually attractive, backed up
by we'll tested and desirable blood lines,
is recognized by the practiced eye at
sight. and other things being equal, will
always be in demand at a good price.
while poor ones ale rarely wanted at
all and are a bad investment at best.
A writer on dairying says he main
tains his 70 mich cows on cost of 20
cents per day, with a ration composed
as follows: IL lbs corn ensilage, of
clover and timothy hay, 5of corn slower,
Of carrots, 4 of shorts, 2 quarts OF Oat-
meal, and quart of cotton-seed meal.
He says "a clean manger before eating
is one of the conditions of thrift" Cows
coming in are fed on hay, oats, straw,
shorts and turnips. Cattle differ so
much in nature, temperament. capacity
and needs, that each one requires
separate study.
A correspondent of the Massachu-
sets Plonghman says that quart OF
vinegar in half a pail of water, If thor
ougIy Sprinkled over the interior OF q
hen-house, will free it from lice, when
whitewashing and other remedies have
failed.
The seed bed should be in perfect
condition, which means mcllOwed deep.
all manure thoroughly Incorporated
with the soil. narrowed and planked
Until all clods are reduced fine.
If the time spent in grumbling about
the depredations of insect pests was de-
voted to the study of entomology the
results would be more satisfactory.
To get at the quantity of shelled corn
in a crib of corn in the ear, measure the
length, breadth and height of the crib
inside of the rail; multiply the length
by the breadth, and the product by the
height, divide the product by two. and
you have the number of bushels i'll the