The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

1t is a Bavarian maxim to plant
tree in every open space.
The milkman who uses short measures
is selling condensed milk.
This fine weather will not last always.
Winter will come, for 1t always has. Fix
for cold weather now.
The steamship Orizaba on a recent trip
from Australia for London carried 444
tons of butter.
From its focks of 100000 of sheep the
colony of New Zealand exports three
times as many sheep carcasses as does
New South Wales with fiocks aggregat-
ing 100000.
Unless this Indian summer weather
shall come to an end the storm sash
manufacturers will have to recall their
lists and send out screen door circulars.
According to Hoard's Dairyman. a
number of cooperative creameries in
Southern Wisconsin have recently been
sold to individuals
The best stockholders In this general
and generous prosperity are farmers
They have the preferred stock and can
water it whenever they feel inclined
Wlntering an animal ought to be done
In such manner as to have It as much
better in the spring as the feed required
TO winter 1t is worth, at least Much of
through winter
rather than fed through.
Never whip horse for shying or get
ting scared. If you want to make a con-
firmed shyer out of a horse Iarrup him
every time he SHES and see how COM
pletely you will succeed.
Negotiations are being made to form A
combination of all threshing machine
companies in the country, with a capitali-
cation Of S6O,O0O,00O, and with headquar-
tiers at either Indianapolis or Chicago
The hemlock tree, so very abundant in
the state OF Wisconsin, is found, curious
ly enough, in but two small isolated
patches in the state of Minnesota. one
In St Louis and one in Carlton county.
These patches do not contain trees com
parable in size and value to the best
hemlOck of Wisconsin,
Deciduous trees can be moved very
easily at this season of the year. By dig
glng a trench around the tree now the
change OF location can be made without
trouble at any time during the winter.
EVIL associations corrupt good man
herS one can of bad milk will spoil
whole vat full Of good milk The rule
don't work both ways, however. The as
ISOLATION OF the bad milk with the good
dont seem to improve the former
Texas cattle receipts at Chicago for
eleven months Of 1899, compared with cor
responding period in previous years. are
stated by the Drovers' Journal as fol-
lows: 1899, l62,20O; 1885, u.s. &c., 1897, 1911. 700:
1886, 30S,100; 1895, 337, Geo.
1t pays to feed a good cow we'll. Prof
OTIS OF the Kansas Agricultural college
reports that 1t cost $3.50 more to feed
the best COW in the college herd than the
average cost. but that per contra the best
COW was $2412 more profitable than the
average cow.
Eighty farms in Massachusetts report
an annual production of from $4,000 to
$0U,OOO each, and several farms of less
than an acre each yield from 81 900 to
5000. Poultry farms in that state re-
turn $40 an acre, dairy farms $27. and
plain agriculture $14.
The broad-tired wagon will make hors-
es, man and wagon tired when run in the
mud Whole acres of mud can be car
rled between the spokes.
In trying to take out an old rusty screw
don't swear and get mad, but just heat
small rod red hot, and let the end of
1t rest on the head of the screw for a
short time, and when the screw has been
heated 1t can be easily removed with {.
screWdriver.
The railroads report a great falling
off in shipments of beef cattle from
ranges west Of the Rockies. The ex--
cattle are sent to the Western market
for Filipino subsistence
[ am sorry for the man that has raised
q big crop of corn, and now has to sell
most of it. 1t takes labor to raise corn,
labor to husk it, and it ought not to leave
the farm as corn When it is fed up
through the winter there is pleasure in
handling it again. 1t is like getting wages
every gay, and that is pIeasanter than
getting 1t once a year.
There is a sugar-beet factory at Leh,
Utah. At Springvale, twenty-five miles
above, there is no refinery, but there is q
'crusher' where the sugar beets are
sliced and the sugar extracted. The sugar
and all the impurities, in Il very thin
syrup, are piped twenty-five miles to
Lehi, where the sugar is refined and ex-
tracted.
DR.. Knowles, the Montana state veter-
marian, having been satisfied Of the ex-
istence of blackleg in the vicinity Of Gull
bertson, the extreme northeastern part of
the state, has provided for the vaccina
ton Of 800 calves belonging 20 one man
the estimated cost per animal being 1919
cents. Other cases are reported in the
Upper Missouri valley.
There is g strong suggestion of an ac-
ceptation of the principles of forestry in
a Minneapolis lumberman's purchase of
large tracts of California sugar pine It
is said he will hold them for his sons to
develop, when they become of age
If you are troubled by the freezing of
the water intended for the hens, dig a
hole and bury 2 nail key so the top of it
will come even with the surface of the
ground; fill it with fresh stable manure
and set an ordinary crock in it to be
filled with water Keep renewing the ma
nure as occasion requires. 1 have not
tried this yet and can't speak from ex-
pcrience, but it looks all right.
All kinds of Leaf Their and hides are now
advancing so rapidly as to create almost
a panic in the leather market Grades
used for betting have advanced in sixty
days from IS to 40 cents a pound. and
other heavy leather in like proportion
The American supply Of hides has been
continuously low for some years, while
the Transvaal war IS now adding to the
scarcity If supplies drawn from abroad
TO TEST DRINKING WATER.