St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-21

chase the canneries, and $1,000 shares
OF stock have been subscribed tor.
Says n. J. Shepherd, in the Kansas
Farmer: The only cure for low prices
Is to increase the yield. With present
yields and present prices it requires
good management to be able to realize
a profit. We can only increase the
yield by enriching the soil, giving more
thorough proportion and more complete
cultivation. In proportion as we in
crease the fertility we can hope TO in
crease the yield, and in doing this we
can reduce the cost per buShel so as to
be able to realize profit"
Pudding roots in clay mortar pre-
vents drying or injury by freezing il
buried or left we'll packed in a cellar
until frost is out. Care should be taken
in mixing the puddle to have it of prop
er consisetence-not merely dirty wa
ter, or so thick as to have large sur
plus adhere to roots. In the first in
stance it would be of very little, if any,
benefit. If too thick it only adds I'M
necessarily large percentage to the
freight bill.
The Corn Trade News of Liverpool
says: 1T is estimated that with the
partial failure OF the potato crop in the
United Kingdom and the severe cold
weather experienced there this winter,
the consumption of wheat and -four has
been materially increased over previous
estimates, and some calculate that the
consumption has reached as high as
4,S50.000 bushels weekly, against 4,200,.
GOO bushels previously estimated"
An exchange says: 1t is frequently
stated that MerinO sheep are light feed
erS compared with the mutton breeds.
An experiment was made last winter at
ID TfnI,i c.,,Ig Cfy.I
where five MerinO sheep, weighing 435
pounds, were fed in one lot, and five
SOuthdown sheep, weighing $50 pounds,
in another lot. The effort was made to
feed just what they would eat clean.
Although the lot of Southdowns were
245 pounds heavier in the aggregate. vet
they did not consume more hay than
the Merinos.
Cottonseed meal can be fed to sheep
with good success if applied in IeasOna-
BILE quantity, and with other suitable
foods. With roots, Silage or other feeds
which tend to loosen the bowels, | think
it would do excellent service, since it is
somewhat cOnstipating in effect. Watch
the droppingS carefully, and if there is
any tendency to cOStivencSS give relief
at once with bran or anything at hand
that will produce the desired effect.
know everything abOlt farming. The
world is progressing, and IN no other
department is there more progress being
made these days than in agriculture.
We can all learn. Learn from expert
ence, from one another, and from those
who are making life study of the sell
ence OF farming, and the more we learn
the better we are prepared to make a
success of our business.
Feeding favors all animal products,
more especially the fatty parts of them,
says the Practical Farmer. This is due
to the fact that the fats and oils of food
are not digested, but are absorbed in
their natural condition without decom-
position or change. Hence the greas
Importance of using foods devoid OF ILL
tlayors or impurities of any kind.
The hens need to work. Thousands
of poultry raisers get no eggs in winter
because the hens do not have to work
for a living. They get too fat and cam
not lay. Keep deep layer of chat or
cut straw in the hen house and scatter
wheat or corn among it, and let the hens
scratch for it and get exercise, and they
will lay eggs.
Competent vegetable Psychologists
say that for the perfect maturity Of the
grain of corn under, say latitude 40 deg.
north, the growing season must have an
average mean temperature of 70 deg. for
ninety days, or there must be an excess
of IS multiplied by 30, equaling 6,75O
Fahrenheit degrees of accumulated
heat.
Since the introduction of the tomato,
says the Michigan Farmer, no vegetable
has so rapidly changed its position from
a luxury, cared for by few. to 4 neces-
sity, eaten by everybody, as celery has
done. Its production is constantly IN
creasing and yet the consumption seems
10 keep pace with it.
Russia's total export Of grain for the
calendar year Just ended is given as
24O.0OO, 900 bushels, compared with 276.-
100000 bushels in 1889. and 32S, 000 600
bushels in 1888. The exports Of wheat
are equal to 102, 544, 600 bushels, against
I10212.0 900 bushels in 1889, and l22, 760,-
600 bushels in 1888.
A New York farmer raised an acre OF
SunhOWerS for seed, and found that the
seed was an excellent addition to grain
for the use of hogs and poultry, small
mill being used to grind it Tor hogs.
The stalks made excellent Kindling-
wood and the heads and seeds were
ground together.
A herd of eighteen COWS In Vermont
for each COW. The amount is not a
large one, compared with the records OF
noted COWS, but it is excellent for a
nerd, and shows what dairymen can do
by using well-bred COWS and giving
them proper care.
Old strawberry beds are mulched
when the ground is frozen, and then
burned over clean. 1t does not harm
the plants, but clears off the ground and
causes the plants to come up in better
condition in the spring. 1t is method
now highly recommended by some
fruit growers.
The beet in its natural condition is an
annual. but years Of breeding and
cultivation have so changed its nature
that at present less than 8 per cent, OF
pedigreed plants develop seed at the
close of the first season; that is, less
than three per cent tend to revert to the
original type.
1t is reported that the visible supply
of lard in the principal markets of this
country. on passage to Europe and in
the principal European markets is 469,-
600 tierces, against $4,000 tierces one
year ago.
An animal raised on the farm is al
ways more valuable than one purchased
and it does not introduce disease.