St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-04

| pounds of butter per COW, and take good
solid lessons III the kind of cows that
are used, how they are bred and all the
| snug economies that these people know
| so well how to practice
Hothouse lamb growing is progress
| ing finely in New York state. The out
| put will be increased this year. One
| man averages annually $1,000 from the
wool and lambs of his 100 ewes. A
| Rhode Island gentleman is reported to
have sold last season in Boston ninety
| seven dollhouse lambs for 81, 900, and he
| had the wool of the ewes besides, which
marked up his income to $1,000.
Poultry is nutritious and easily di-
| gested, aud for these reasons the farmer
! who grows it should reserve good sup
| ply for his own table. He can afford
| the best as we'll as anybody. If he goes
wholly On the principle of saving by
combining his meat diet to salt pork, it
| is ten to one that he loses more through
| the inactivity of his mind because of
this indigeStiDle diet than he saves by
| its decreased cost.
| How long have we been taught that
the mole is blind? We have looked
upon him as having only four senses,
| and have tried to sympathize with him
on account of his deficiency, and now
| comes German philosopher and tells
US that our sympathy has been mis-
placed. Investigations have recently
| been made that show that the mole has
| eyes, and that he can see as we'll as
| any other animal.
1t is suggested that, in forcing lambs
| to market, a good cow is an excellent as
| siStant. There are always more or less
| lambs which would be better if they
had more milk. The correspondent of
an exchange speaks of neighbor who
has trained cow to act as ''wet nurse"
lie says: sit is an interesting sight to
see four lambs hanging to her man.
mary gland, and working for dear life"
Prof. Harry Snyder, the chemist at
the Minnesota experiment station, holds
that professional dairying is the highest
development of high type of agricul-
tnre. AS profession it has made more
progress within recent years than any
other branch of agriculture. The sue
cessful dairyman is botaniSt, a Yeter-
marian and chemist"
President Z. S. Pope, of the Maine
State Pathological society. says apples
are profitable crop to raise. even
when the price is low, as it is this year.
He would buy trees grown in the near
vicinity rather than go to New York
high-colored pictures of fruit.
We see the annual loss Of agricultural
products in this country by the depre-
dations of insects estimated at 10 per
cent. But what does this mean? TAX
Ing the estimate Of our farm products
at the figures given, $500, 600, 900, it
means that these little pests destroy
every year products worth the snug lit
tie sum of S3S. 000,00
The best success in raising turkeys is
to put the young turkeys with turkey
hen. She understands their nature and
requirements much better than the
chicken hen. A turkey hen and chick
en- hen may be set Oh turkey eggs at the
same time and all the Matching given to
the turkey. She will be able to care for
sixteen or twenty easily.
When COW is due to calve put her in
a box stall! few days before the calf is
expected, SO that she will get used to
her new quarters. If she is excitable
after she calves don't 90 nearher oftener
than is necessary, and don't allow
stranger to go near her at all.
An exchange says it is strange that
Spain whence came our Merino sheep,
and which country bred them over 200
years, having as many as 20,003.000 at
yet no literature pertaining to sheep;
hence the ancient history of the breed is
buried in oblivion.
Australian sheep seem to find favor
in South Africa. About forty rams sent
to Cape Colony not long ago from Vic
toria. Australia, averaged $40 per head,
the highest price being S27J. A Tas.
manan ram at the same time brought
$780, The expense for transportation
was S35 for each sheep.
He who can put question fairly and
squarely to nature, and wait perhaps a
lifetime for the answer, is more than
one man picked out of ten thousand;
but upon such men the progress of our
agriculture depends.
Chilling or freezing cream has been
found by Hoard's Dairyman to be in
furious to the grain or body of the but
ter as well as the flavor. The mechan-
ical effectIof freezing cream is about the
same as scalding.
Study your horses appetite, and feed
accordingly. 1t is as irrational to neg
lect this as Il would be to order that a
certain ration be allowed your children
every meal, regardless of their likes or
dislikes.
1t is an old axiom that he is farthest
from market who has nothing to sell.
Less grumbling about poor markets and
more attention paid to growing some
thing to sell in them would help some
farmers out Immensely.