St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-31
FARM NOTES.

| from Germany, and is said to be an
| extra good one: 1t consists of fifteen
ounces Of the best white glue, broken
| into small pieces in two pints of water,
and allowed to become soft; then dis
| solve it by means of water bath, and
add two ounces of glycerine and six
| drains of carbolic acid; continue the
heat until thoroughly dissolved. On
cooling this hardenS to an elastic mass,
and may be kept for any length of time.
| When required for use it is placed In a
water bath until sufficiently liquid, and
| applied by means of brush. 1t forms
shining, smooth, flexible and nearly
| transparent coating over the surface.
Ice is good thing in the dairy, but
not always absolutely necessary. With
| we'll or spring water at 49 to so deg,
| and cool, sweet and dry cellar, there
| is but little need of ice. In the absence
| of these supply of ice becomes quite
| important, if not absolutely indispensa-
| bic. A good but not necessarily an ex-
| pensive ice house, well filled each win
| ter. is great aid to the summer dairy.
| We do not approve of putting ice di-
rectly into the milk or cream, although
many do it. Aside from other consider
ations, ice is seldom pure enough to be
used in this way with safety. 1t is bet
atOr.
In recent interview Senator STAN
ford, of California. is quoted as saying:
my attention in the future shall be
given more to individuality than in the
past. | want trotter with good head,
an intelligent animal. Let horse have
good head, with all that quality i'm
plies. and you will note that self-pos-
session does much to send him first
under the wire in a cracking race, a race
that all down the stretch may have
been fought inch by inch.-~Such have
tried, and will in the future try to pro-
duce at Palo Alto in addition to speed,
and is what mean by the individuality
of the animal"
A piece of rock salt should always be
kept in the box of the manger, so that
the horse may lick it whenever his ap-
petite prompts him. Salts as necessary
for animals as it is to human beings,
and this way of administering it is far
preferable to the universal practice of
putting handful once or twice week
in soft feed. In following his instincts
the horse will take neither too much
nor too little, and will get it gust when
he desires it and needs it most.
The Rural New Yorker has never
found anything better to kill lice on
cattle than tobacco water, to which
little sulphur has been added. Keep the
tobacco and sulphur in water near the
boiling point for twelve hours, stirring
it occasionally. Apply the detection to
the poll of the head, along the top of the
neck and spine. on the briSket and
under the legs. Of course, the animalf
must be kept in warm place when
treated in this way.
1t is sometimes recommended that
ladies should devote their time to poul-
try raising. This is impossible except
with a small flock. To keep hens in
large numbers requires labor that can
not be performed by ladies. There is
the houses and yards, but exposure to
all kinds of weather must be incurred.
To throw down mess of corn to few
hens once or twice day is an easy
matter, but it is very different when
poultry keeping is made special bust
ness.
Sunf1OWerS planted about a drain or
on portions of land from which impuri-
ties arise will absorb noxiOus gases, and
thereby prove very beneficial to the
health of the people about. Besides be-
ing useful, those plants are exceedingly
ornamental if arranged to form dense
bank. At the rear plant row of the
New Primrose" variety, next row of
the ball-shaped kind known as COLOSSUS,
then row of the California, and lastly
row of Miniature" sunfowers.
Although farmers owe much to the
breeders of thoroughbred stock for the
wonderful improvements made within
the past fifty years, yet it is doubtful if
they have done more than the SeedSmen
nd nf1 rrhn inf ca
many superior fruits and vegetables
during that time. Those who have con-
ferred the benefits have done so with
out the advantages of protection under
patent regulations, their work being
given to the public with but little, if
any, benefit to the originators.
Cold water will absorb, according to
The american Dispensatory, used by
all druggists, about SO per cent of its
own weight in salt. and boiling about 40
per cent. This makes what is known as
q saturated brine, which always means
all the salt that the water will dissolve.
In sailing butter the brine seldom is
made stronger than 80 to "a per cent of
salt.
uHemp can be easily grown in nearly
all sections of this country. but the OBJ
stacle to Its successful cultivation is the
labor of preparing it for market. There
Is wide field for inventive genius in
devising appropriate machinery for
specially treating hemp and other fbrOus
plants which demand more labor than
can be profitably bestowed ON them.
Vick's Magazine says that the keep
ing qualities of the foliage of the Japan
rose, Rugosa, are not less remarkable
than its beauty. The editor has kept
sprig of foliage in water for several
weeks, and it retains its green and fresh
appearance to the last. 1t will serve for
a number of relays of rose flowers that
are lacking in foliage.
The butter for which the Deerfoot
farm was awarded first premium at the
Bay State fair, after very exhaustive
competition, was made from the milk
of cows fed on cut clover at night, pas
ture by day and grain ration COM
posed of Indian corn meal, 40 per cent;
crushed oats, 20 per cent; linseed meal,
20 per cent; wheat middlings, 20 per
cent.
Every season the weight of fleece in
creases. A weight of 454 pounds IS
now reported for the fleece of a merlnO
ram four years old. The fleece was for
365 days growth. Heavy fleeces, how
ever, should be washed before weighing
them, as grease and dirt add to the
weight. In some cases the weight of
the fleece is one-half that of the body.
Out of poplar, beech, ash or
white oak make two paddles, say ten
inches long, and the blades four inches.
With these paddles you can handle the
butter-make it up for weighing, print
ing, etc.-without touching it with your
bare hands, which is something you
should never do.
Sugar beets, mangolds, ruta-bagas,
yellow turnlps and white turnips, in
the order named, are fed to sheep by
those who have studied the compare
tive value of roots. Of these the sugar
beet contains the most fat-fOrming ele-
ments, and the mangolds and ruta-bagas
the most flesh-forming elements.
If you do not get good results from
feeding wheat bran, consider whether
you are feeding enough meal with it.
Bran alone will increase the flow of
milk hut has a tendency to Whiten the