The Saint Paul globe., 1899-12-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

horse than YOU give him in his food.
Your horse intends TO please you, but
does not always know your wishes.
Two hundred and eighty-four thousand
acres of land were recently leased In the
Shcshone Indian reservation, to be used
for sheep pasturage.
Minnesota has many peat beds. and
these are likely to become valuable
through recent Introduction of an Eu-
ropean process of making paper out OF
the peat fiber instead Of out of wood
pulp.
Cruelty qualities for crime; they are
close neighbors. 1t is cruel and silly to
whip horse for fright. SoOthe him with
kind words
A dispatch from Atchison, Kan, says
that most farmers in Northern Kansas
seem to be feeding their corn to stock
instead of marketing it. For this reason
the rush of new corn is not what the
Missouri Pacific road had expected.
The farmer should be particularly in
terested in having good roads, first, be-
cause he is usually taxed heavily to main
tain them-as real estate cannot escape
taxa tiOn-and secondly, for the reason that
he has occasion to use them to greater
or less extent in the prosecution of his
business.
If your neighbor says his hogs have
the ClOIeTd take MS WOIu LOT II anu stay
away from his place and keep him away
from yours. Pigeons, pOlecats, crows,
ETC. will be active enough in scattering
the germs of the disease without any help
from you.
A Washington dispatch says: Active
negotiations are proceeding to secure from
Brazil such tariff concessions as will eX
tend the market for American wheat and
-four In that country. IT is understood
that a proposition to this effect was sub
mitted to the authorities at Rio de Janeiro
and they have sought to accede to the
desires Of the authorities here.
Getting gates in repair ready for winter,
when stock will be trying on them, means
that they should be given more strength
and if it can be done with little expense
they should be made so as to open read
lily, if snow drifts come. Good gates and
fences VIII be needed now as we'll as in
summer.
The fax fiber mill at Fargo is nearly
ready for operations 1t promises to be
good thing to tie to, and We wish it sue
cess. An enterprise which will make the
straw valuable which is now only In
cumbrance, is as great a blessing to
community as is the man who makes two
blades of grass to grow where but one
grew before.-Northwestern Agriculturist.
The range season is drawing to close
and with the cessation of shipments from
the far West, medium corn-fed cattle will
probably strengthen in demand and there
will be motive to make them ripe. Still
no great advance is anticipated in this
class of stock, for whatever may be the
actual fact, the supply is believed to be
quite equal to the winter demand
Nice walks about the premises are a
pleasure in muddy weather, and a place
looks much better when they are kept in
good repair Walks with boards taken
off lOOk nd lyo
feel ragged when he falls on one at night.
I speak advisedly. Where gravel Is at
hand 1t makes better walks, but we do
not have that. Coal ashes will make O
better walk than none, and will answer
very well for walks.
The rise in beef cattle has not only af-
fected dairying by driving a great many
farmers, who occupied the borderland be-
tween milk and beef, clear over into the
beef producing camp, but it has also af-
fected city milk supplies IN many locali-
ties. Many small dairymen, who formerly
sold milk, conceived the idea that It
would pay better to fatten their COWS for
beef than 1t would to keep them for milk
In the winter time when fodder, straw
and hay are being hauled almost every
day or two 1t is d good plan to have one
of the wagons fitted up with rack that
is never to be lifted off, but Is kept for
that kind Of hauling all the time. I know
farmers who have but one wagon and it
is continual lift of boxes and racks.
Lifting IS all right if it has to be done,
but there is way out of some of it.
Why not find that way?
It is not a good plan to have stock lie
down with insufficient bedding when there
are straw stacks the place rotting
down. l have in mind an instance where
stock shows unmistakable signs Of hav-
ing no bedding, and several stacks on
the farm are rotting because 1t requires
little time and labor to haul and use
the straw. If the stock get nothing else
than comfort out of it 1t will be worth
the time spent.
A man might as we'll bend the barrel of
his gun, in an endeavor to shoot around a
corner, as to bend his back and bones
IN trying to successfully work out i'll
devised plans. II a man builds a costly
mouse, II the government builds a fine
postoft1ce, If a county builds a court
mousse, they employ an architect who is
educated, and who will, because of his
special education, bring forth plans which
are practical. A farmer cannot afford to
hire specialist to lay out his work. but
1t must be planned, and well planned foo
and he must plan it himself He must
therefore, in order to be blessed with the
highest order of success, study well his
plans The quality of his plans and the
ease with which they are worked out will
uepeHd upon the amount of thought and
skill which is given to their preparation
Much depends upon a mans early train
ing.
There IS a growing distrust on the part
of the public for what are called "officiap'
statistics Of the live stock Industry. One
investigator shows that in 1892 the agri-
cultural reports placed the number Of
hogs in the country at 52,O00,OOO and in
1899 at 3S,0OO,0OO. while the packers sta
tistics show killing for the season Of
lS92-l893 Of 18,196000, averaging 233 pounds.
and for the season of 1858 of %, ,791. 900
OF the same average weight The mis-
leading character of the agricultural re-
ports lies in the fact that there appear
to be 100000 more hogs in 1892 than in
1889, and yet 100000 more hogs are killed
out of the smaller supply. According to
the Cincinnati Price Current there has
been as between the two years named an
increase In number of 100000 hogs
killed and an increase of $62, ,O0O. 900 in
value while according to the department
ngures there was decrease of 14,OOO 900
in number and 100000 in value.