St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-04
Total, eight permits. ................s
Observation-Disclosures NOTES

1t may not be amiSS to call attention
to the fact that before milking the cow
the hands of the mixer should b
washed, as well as the udder and teats
of the COW. with warm water and wiped
dry with clean lowell. Unless this is
done there will be more or less filth
reach the milk, as the COW is not very
clean animal in her stall. In the South
ern states the udders are always
washed, and no milk is used from the
COW until the calf is atleast two months
old; and in those matters the Southern
farmers are right. New milk is rOpy,
and is certainly not in good condition
for use. especially as it is used in some
diaries before the calf is two or three
days old.
Interesting experiments designed TO
show how great an influence may be
exerted upon vegetation by electricity
are said TO have been made recently
in Russia, where the growth of radiShes,
carrots and. other vegetables was great
ly accelerated by the application of an
electric current, at first to the seeds
and afterward to the soil in which they
had been planted. The Western Elec-
trician gives an account of growth of
wheat subjected to electrical influence
which was greater by so per cent. than
that taken from an adjoining and equal
acre where electricity was not applied.
The chinook or norther occasionally
does great damages to vegetation in
California. 1t dries up root, branch,
leaf, trees, vines and shrubs. Lieut..
Tinley. of the signal service, admitting
that there is no way to prevent the mis-
hap, suggests the formation of insur-
ance companies TO take risks on prop
erty liable to injury from the chinook
as fire risks are taken.
A man who has spent many years in
numbering camps, where many horses
were used, has proved to his own salts
faction that watering the horses i'm
mediately after they have eaten is the
most frequent causes of collie. l have
always thought it better to give the
horse what water it wanted before it
ate and to moisten its food; then it is
not thirsty after eating.
The best way for young city men and
boys to learn how to farm is to live with
good country farmers, as apprentices, a
few years, more or less. Their fathers
can then present them with snug little
places. when they become of age, and
make them independent for life.
No sure method of preventing rats
from burrowing and lodging under farm
buildings has yet been discovered. The
rats destroy large amounts of farm prod
uce, as well as undermine buildings.
1t is not safe to poison them, aud traps
are avoided by them.
Corn, when dry, retains an even tenn
perature in the bin. Eggs, apples and
potatoes packed in shelled corn may be
preserved for quite while, much de-
pending on the dryness Of the corn, and
its location in the barn.
Spontaneous combustion may result
from the material in the barn being too
closely packed, especially il such ma
terlals have not been thoroughly cured.
All breeds of sheep do not thrive on
the same kind of soil, and to carry on
sheep husbandry best, attention must
be paid TO adapting breeds to soil.
The practice Of whitewashing trees is
not injurious bnt commendable. 1t de-
stroys eggs of insects and insects them
selves which the bark harbors.