The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS.
Turn the scrubs out.

Turn the scrubs out.
The butchers block is the final test of
all breeds.
Meet ne at the Chicago live stock ex-
position in 1907
Tallow is a good thing, but it wants to
be in the right place.
Everybody is In favor of live stock
exposition, and a good one.
An old saying is that the COW milks
through her mouth. See the point?
Practical beef cattle buyers are weary
of paying high prices for warmed-up
scrubs.
Breeding and feeding good cattle seems
to be a wonderfully good business. Let
us hope it will not be spoiled by inju-
diciOus booming.
The old idea of having breeding cattle
In the show ring fat enough for Christ
mas beef received a well merited rebuke
at the hands of the Hereford breeders in
Chicago.
The only enemies the pure-bred cattle
breeders Rave to encounter are ignorance
and scrubs. The former is being dis
PEELED pretty rapidly, and the scrubs, like
Aguinaldo, are on the run.
The Swiss milkmaid commands the
highest wages if she possesses a good
that a cow will yield one-ffth more milk
If she hears music during the milking.
A COW that had made a record of 977
pounds of milk and IS. SIS pounds of butter
in one month was taken in hand by an
experiment station and fed according to
scientific methods, and the next month
she gave 1,246 pounds of milk and 81 6S
pounds Of butter, a difference, without
any additional cost for feed of 269 pounds
of milk and 1866 pounds of butter
If the corn can be taken off and the field
plowed before it freezes up, it will furnish
an ideal spot for spring wheat. 1 know
OF several fields now clear of stalks, some
OF which have been eaten out by cattle
and they could be as we'll plowed as not
There is common feeling with some
people that when the corn is out the
years work is done, and it IS extremely
difficult to get them to do anything more
than the chores and fixing up for the win
ter.
Is it fact that COWS can get drunk by
eating apples? If so, when and how is
the alcohol formed?-J. H. S., Redding
Ridge, Conn. ct is not fact.)
The Journal of Owatonna, says: The
board Of directors of the creamery at
Meriden have decided not to erect the
proposed new creamery this fall The
foundation, however will be laid and
everything will be planned so that the
work can commence as soon as spring
opens. None of the bids for construct
ing the building which were recently sub
mttted have been accepted
The new creamery building, which has
been erected at Roscoe, Minnesota, in
place of the one DESTROYED bv fire last
June, is completed and In operation. The
structure is 24X40 feet, with a solid brick
boiler house, 1SX20 feet, and IS built upon
the latest plans and equipped with the
latest machinery throughout The entire
plant was built at a cost in the neighbor-
mood OF $4,000. It will be operated on the
cooperative plan. John Schoenleben IS
manager, and M. J. Molitor buttermaker.
Speaking of the opening of the cream
cry at Marshall, the Messenger says: Mr..
Seaman is an experienced creameryman,
VINO mas come here solely because he be-
ueVeS creamery can be profitablv con-
Quoted here. He has occupied the former
creamery building with a complete cream
cry plant, thoroughly up to date and ex-
celIent in all of its machinery, and com
Inenced buttermaking operations Nov. 1.
lie mas the experience and reputation "a
a buttermaker to insure a good market
the capital and the machinery to warrant
q success, and should receive the unstin+
ed support Of the community
The salt production of the United States.
which the newest trust seeks to control,
amounts to 100000 barrels a year, val
ued at over $4,000 600. Salt was first made
IN the United States in Ohio in 1898. and
the Michigan mines have been worked
since 1853. There are two methods of OBJ
tanning salt, it being gathered either from
mines or by evaporation. Sea water is
seldom evapOrated for salt The more
Saline water in certain springs and pools
IS used, being placed in pans and exposed
10 sun or artificial heat until the water
passes away in vapor, leaving the salt
deposit.-Chicago Tribune