The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

III trust We trust
Cooperative societies may die, but CO.
operation Will not
Every dirty creamery is a promoter Of
the sale of Oleomargine.
The first man was farmer, and the
last one must be, or starve
Dec Is and IA a state farmers institute
will be held in Alexandria. \ large at
tendance is expected.
The most profitable breed of stock for
the farmer is that which is best cared
for.
IF vain our toll
We ought to blame OAr culture, not the
soil
The hog tolls not, neither does he spin,
bur solomon in all his glory never got so
faJ,
Good farming is scientific farming, no
matter whether it was learned from
books experience or how.
Trusf are making some things that
twill ealiZe no dividends on, such as
co-operators, socialists and the like.
The chances are that the warm fall has
been winters opportunity to spit on his
hands and set ready for business.
Those who are throwing stones at the
Minnesota grain inspection and Weighing
awhile how CLASSY their own houses are.
y receiver has been applied for for the
S.. Louis County Agricultural society,
which manages the annual fair held near
Duluth.
The average yield OF wheat to the acre
In England this year is thirty-One
bushels. in the United States it may prove
to be thirteen bushels.
When farm work presses hard the
farmer is apt to feel that farming IS
good vocation, but that there can be too
much OF a good thing.
The OK is very useful animal, but is
out of place IN 4 garden; there may be
races of people admirable in their way,
bur out OF place in republic.
The worlds production Of gold is I'M
precedenred." Yes, then why don't its
price go down? 1t was the quantity of
silver that made it cheap, why not gold?
No answer viii come to this from gold
WOrshiper.
Not satisfied with the advance in the
price Of lumber, freight on it IS also to
be advanced, another evidence of agricuI-
tural prosperity, for without such pros
perity there could be no such advance,
See3
1t can hardly be said that the advance
in price OF lumber is owing to scarcity.
Tho Minneapolis cut this year will be
about 10000 600 feet and last year ii was
U3OvuUVu feet, the largest up TO that time.
The Winona hay market is reported
doing large business Wild hay is
quoted at So and 81 per ton tame hay
IS to SO.
Farming for pleasure and profit is
the title of a tickle-Uhe-faruer newspaper
article. Farming is all for pleasure now.
the profit Is matter of course, that don't
have to be worked for.
Last spring I read in F. S. & H."
said a Carver county farmer, % go SOW
at first il growing sugar beets;' I didn't,
1 went in heavy, and now wish I had fol
lowed the advice
\ dollar is not more important or DOW
erful than a man; nor million dollars
caan million men, il each has a dollar;
but give one Of than all the dollars and
see what Insignificant things the others
become in comparison with dollars Nor
al; Dollars should be fairly we'll distrib-
uted among men.
Runaway horses are unknown in Rus
STA. No one drives there without having
thin cord with q running moose around
the neck Of the animal When the animal
bolts the cord is pulled and the horse
stops as soon as he feels The pressure on
the windp.pe,
Pencils from slate dust nodded by by
draulic pressure are made in large guam
titles in Tennessee. They are much m re
popular than the sond-cut slate pencils.
one concern last year made . 900 600
nodded pencils.
All telephones and telegraph lines in
France are operated by the government
There are lI2 towns outside OF Paris sup
piled with telephones, with an average
population of 100000
Out of the 100000 American families
the income of 100000 of these families
Is less than $500 each per year and the
incomes Of nearly SO per cent of the entire
number are less than $1,000 each per year.