St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-10
NOTES FROM MANY FIELDS.

The price of wool should not influ.
ence farmer overmuch in his decision
as to Keeping sheep, for if he has
Gooo, large mutton sheep he is sure of
profit. He cannot always have
things his own way, and should look at
all sides Of a problem.
In test with linseed meal with cat
tie, pigs We're allowed to follow the
cattle with no other feed but water
The gain with the pigs was proportion
ately larger than with the cattle. The
feed was mixture of linseed meal and
crushed corn.
If there were half the pains taken to
develop speed at the walk that there is
in the trot the value of the work
horses produced in the next few years
would be doubled There is a chance
here for the farmers boys to put in
some Of their time to special advan-
tage.
Our corn crop will not yield to us its
full worth until we use all the stalk
the stubble and the cob. Then the
lower prices will affect us less. Ensi-
laying the crop is probably the most
economical way of saving it all. Next
to the grain, dried "husks" are the
most nutritious and digestibIe part OF
the corn plant ~ -stqa
A well-known swine grower finds
that the hog cholera Is scarcely known
in Canada, where, peas, oats, barley
and roots take the place of corn, and
that there is very little cholera in the
Eastern states except among hogs
brought fromiJthe West. He argues
from this point that the prevalence of
cholera is largely due to the almost eX-
elusive GRAIN feeding that prevails in
the West. sYs
So long as farmers must be at the ex-
pense of maintaining fences of one
Iii |, o. No.
posts can be made durable will be one
Of interest to them. There is no better
nor cheaper preventive of rot than
salt. Bore two or three holes in the
butt, beneath the ground, fill with salt,
an secure with an oak plug.
1t is reported by one of the Chicago
deilies that perfumed butter Is becom-
ing very fashionable at American tea
and breakfast tables. The butter is
made into pats and stamped with
floral design, and is then wrapped in a
thin cheese cloth and placed in a bed of
roses, violets Or carnations arranged
in a flat-bottomed dish. Over these is
placed layer of flowers, so that the
butter patties are imbedded in flow
ers. They are then placed on ice
where they are allowed to remain for
several hours. This butter is eaten
with crisp Vienna rolls, accompa MED
only. by a cup of chocolate Or delicious
Mocha.
We will gladly give any scientist all
the space he needs to explain why
muscle Makers "fat-formers' and
pure fat" used to describe the nutri-
tive principles in animal foods, are not
just as scientific as, and a. good deal
more expensive than, protein" nitro
gen-free-extract'' or carbohydrates"
and fat" The r. Ny. thinks that
it would be an advantage to use the
simpler terms. If we are wrong, we
wish to know why.
The bulletin of the Minnesota expert
ment station says that when potatoes
are peeled and started in the cold wa
ter, so per cent of the total albumen
is lost in the water, while if they are
at once placed in hot water the loss
is reduced to 2 per cent. This is a,
statement of much Importance to those
who eat potatoes for an essential part
of their daily nouriShment. 1t is just
as easy to cook in the right way.