St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-23
NOTES FROM MANY FIELDS.

Pasteurizing milk means heating to 100
degrees, or at the highest 10 degrees f..
then cooling the milk down to so degrees or
below IS. sterilizlng aIg when zen applied to milk,
cooling. Pasteurizing for butter making is
not the same as for selling cream. In the
first case the cream may be cooled at once; /;
in the second, it should be left 20 to 80 min
utes at the high temperature and then
cooled. l do not believe in pasteurizing
cream for butter making unless the milk
is tainted but l do believe that when but
ter is down to IS or 10 cents for Elgin, it is
time to consider the advisibility of export
ing line butter, and in that case ] believe
pasteurizing is necessary.-J. II. Monrad,
| Cook County, III.
! Cure for Lice-A sure cure for lice on
cattle or colts is insect powder. Place on a
brush and rub In. steer placed over a
canvas and treated as above was relieved
OF over pint of lice. Enough of the pow
der der, was applied to kin the young as fast as
they hatched and in ten days the animal
was entirely free of the pest. Another
respondent writes that with paint brush he
applies crude petroleum along the back of
the animal. 1T will not injure the hair and
the animals can be turned out during any
weather. Paint the hen-house once a year
and the fowls will'not be troubled with lice"
When Prof. Woll of the Wisconsin expert
| ment station. issued his celebrated bulletin
containing the rations used by 100 of the
best dairymen he could find this continent,
the number of COWS represented therein was
| over 1900, each producing an average Of over
| 800 pounds of butter. OF these "a fed ensil-
age. This will give those who are skeptical
about the sio some idea of the proportion
| who use it among the wise men in the bust
ness. There were fifteen in Wisconsin and
twelve of the fifteen fed ensilage. OF the nine
causes c. p. Goodrich to ask: "Is it possible
that twelve-ffteenths of the best dairymen
in Wisconsin are Of the foolish class? Is it
| possible that they are all fools in Canada"
The anti-option bill was killed by the
house committee on agriculture, as announced
last week, by vote of TO- 6. 1t transpires
yoring report on the bill and the Repub-
| hcans voting to table it, except Mr.. Willis
! of Delaware, who expressed some very Wig
! orons opinions of his fellow Republicans for
! ing the defeat of this bill a party measure
| have not been made public.
! Our total domestic exports for February
amounted to $76, 1856 1856, as against $54 999, ga
| during the same month last year. For the
eight months ending with February the ag-
| gregate OF our exports reached total of
| value reached during the corresponding time
! last year. Our imports during February
amounted to $62, ,4s7, ,2sS. and S2S,5240S6 of
that amount came in duty free. For the past
| eight months we have sold abroad $61, 402, ,207
worth of goods more than we have bought.
The agitation for penny postage is not
| ers want is better postal facilities, not one
cent postage on letters. There is no good
reason why mail should not be delivered in
well-settied country districts as we'll as in
| cities. Nor is there any good reason why
packages of limited weight and size should
not be sent by mail at low rates, except
that those strong monopolies, the express
companies, are opposed to it. The latter
have always met postal rates, on packages,
whenever they have been lowered, but they
have taken good care not to have them low
cred to any great extent.
An Iowa writer in the Breeders Gazette
says that while he has failed in controlling
the sex in other domestic animals, he has
met with some success in the case OF
horses He claims to have secured mare colts
from mares bred the first part Of the heat
and the horse colts from mares bred the
last part of the heat
There will be no tariff en- wool this year
| at least, as squad of the silver men in the
senate hold the balance of power, and de-
clare that there shall be no new tariff unless
they are given their demands in regard to
silver. Still wool is likely to keep along as
high in proportion as other industrial values.
Minnesota creamery butter is in brisk de-
| mand in the East, bringing from half a
cent to a cent over top quotations. Most of
our cooperative creameries are now ship
ping direct to New York, where they not
| on shrinkage. About a hundred new cream
cries will be opened this spring, and man
ayers will find it to their advantage to deal
only with old and well established houses
that cannot afford to make false returns or
make unreasonable deduction for shrinkage.
Steer clear of solicitors and make no con-
signments to wildcat commission houses.
When the sheep stampede of something
over year ago occurred, common ewes
| touched very low price, so low in fact that
in many places an offer could not be had for
them at all. In less than two years from
that time, what do we see? In New Mex
leo, where prices were then very fiat, bred
| ewes are selling at from So to $3.50 per head.
We can remember when eve in our native
state, no matter what her breed or merit,
represented So in money, and to speak of an
eve was equivalent to mentioning g. "$3
bill'' as we had them at that time. Later
on they represented two of these bills, and
so it goes. When sheep get so low as to
scarcely pay for the fleece on their backs, it is
time sensible men were buying and doing
some head work.