The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
springtime has come.

opIlnStime mas come.
Idleness rusts the mind.
AT Santa Ana. Cal, there is a celery
garden of 500 acres.
Rolled oats or coarse oat meal is a
muscle and bone builder.
A COW can catch flies out in the field
in summer with just as much ease as a
ball player can.
From the gas tar has been extracted
an oil Identical with that of bitter al
monds
Perhaps the first industrial exhibition
on record was held in 1869, in the Rath-
haus of Nuremberg.
Japan rice is being sent to many farm
-ers in Eastern North Carolina in order
that they may make tests of 1t.
Indiana has six large skunk farms and
the industry is becoming so extensive
that recently trust" has been formed.
Arizona, once practically nothing but
an arid DESERT is fast being covered
with heavy verdure.
Kansas reports say the prospects IA
vor big peach crop and a bigger ap-
pie crop than has been seen in some
time.
There is a sort of affinity between clover
sod and potato growing that is not
KnowRA TO all potato growers. 1 have
wondered why more do not experiment
along this line.
We got lot of bad oil at our house,
and some of the lamps smoked, and as
sam was there l asked him how to pre-
vent it. He said: Keep tobacco and
cigars out of their reach, and they'll
never smoke"
Denmark with 100000 population and
l'l45s creameries furnishes 40 per cent of
all the butter used In Great Britain. The
entire creamery butter industry of that
country has grown up within the last
twenty years.
The farmer who relies wholly on his
own experience must necessarily be a
narrow nun. Theoretical knowledge
such as is obtained by reading, by con-
Versation of by hearing lectures-is much
cheaper than that obtained by expe-
rience and is too often ignored or under
estimated.
Maine is not much in evidence as a corn
state and yet Names sweet corn, on the
cob or from the cans, is hard to beat Last
season tWenty-Seven factories in that
state packed 11,671,0 cans. There are
about 100 factories In the state, all tool.
Something like IS, 100000 feet of Minneso-
ia timber will go to Ontario mills next
season.. OF this 50,00O,99o feet will be cut
by Rat Portage mills. Longs seem to
slide more smoothly northWard than
southwark across the Canadian border
The Mankato, Mimi, Free Press quotes
local architect to the effect that lum-
Der will not again be lower than it is now.
He says that in five years, in his opinion,
there will no pine left in this section of
the country, and whatever Is used in
building must be brought from the Rocky
mountain section or from Canada. Iron
and other materials entering into build
ings will not decline.
A Southern negro has invented a ma
chine geared to the wheels of a wagon,
and by the aid of this device a farmer
can grind his grist of corn while he is
going to town, as 1t is said to grind a
bushel of corn while the wagon travels a
mile on the road.
A young farmer who has no time to
read, and therefore takes no paper, is
=, "agtn" rural free mail delivery, because,
as he says, .''it will increase his taxes, -
and he is not in for anything that will do
that. l have wondered If he believed this.
If he does he is less Intelligent than l
gave him credit for being.
There is no earthly reason for farmer
to use one of these horse-ki1ling con-
trivances called disc harrows, except that
they are the best tool for their purpose
IHdL we nave. But there is no l6I-uD TO
them; they hang right on to team, and
for that reason the team should be al
lowed to rest quite often. Tools may
come and tools may go, but the disc in
some forms will stay forever-or as long
as there is any farming going on. Gould
We but induce the automobiious fellows
to get UP thing that could pull it. They
auto.
1t would be a good thing for farmers to
consult state horticultural reports By
comparing the opinions of men engaged
in the fruit business they would form g
very fair idea of the sorts to plant, such
as would succeed in their locality There
is too much planting at haphazard, and
as might be expected, a corresponding
number of failures. To plant tree and
patiently cultivate it for several years
and then to find it out as a worthless
thing would aggravate Job,
PRODUCE A YEAR AGO SATURDAY
Butter-Creamery. 19Q1915c; creamery
frsts, 17l2QlSc; limitations, firsts, 1870
Ice; diaries, extras, 16Q17c; ladies, extras
14a1419c; packing stock, 1Sc.
Eggs-Strictly fresh, 1212c.
Dressed Poultry - Chickens, 4Q11&c
turkeys, 56l12c
Apples ranged at $4@6 per bbl
Lemons sold at $325Q3.75 per box.
Potatoes quoted a 3S063c per bu
Creameries in New York sold at 17@2115c
- Fresh eggs, New York, 12s4q13c.
Chicago: Creameries, 14Q17c; dairies
extras, 1113G171ac; eggs, 1134c.