The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

Toronto holds its annual horse show
April &c, Il, g.
There are said to be good openings fox
brick yards at New Virginia, To-, and
Dassel, MINI.
North Dakota will take in as receipts
on her flax seed crop this year not far
from 81, t0O0 600. Some of this will be
spent for lumber the coming season.
J. T. Williams has purchased of John
w. Barr Jr., trustee, the Swigert farm
OF ESQ acres near Spring Station, KY,
for $2O,500.
The new mill of the NealIy-Lien Lum-
Der company at Binon, Wis, was started
up last week. The mill will cut about
$4,000 feet per day.
A report from Cleveland states that the
rate for unloading grain at that place In
1900 will be $3.50 per 1000 bushels, the
same as it has been for the past few
seasons.
The municipality of Pasadena, Cal.
owns siXty-two-acre grove of English
walnuts. This year 1t yielded 5000 pounds
of nuts, for which the city received
S3,02339
With the North Dakota farmers get
ting 900 this year for the flax, and
selling the straw to the fiber mills, the
wheat crop is not the only thing on the
prairies.
The results of trials at the Rhode Island
experiment station are said to show that
the severe cutting back Of tops or roots
in transplantlng trees, as recommended
and practiced by many, is damaging
farmer can't at the same time saw
wood and sit on goods-box and tell
what ought to be done with the Philip
pines. The jobs are too far apart and
require too great diversity of talent.
The United States still have on this
continent 1,652. 500 square miles of public
lands that have not been taken up for
settlement or development-about one
third of the total area.
The lumbermen have given lumber
another hitch, making Sc or more raise
within the past few months. Wheat
keeps ''hitched' the other way, and 10
lower by cents than at this time year
ago.
The annual official estimate of the 1899
wheat crop of Manitoba is 2SS02,000 The
official estimate of the Ontario crop is
22,158,O0O bushels, or $4,000 bushels less
than the preliminary official estimate in
August.
At Minneapolis flour sold last week
within 80 cents per barrel OF as low
price as it has sold in the past fifteen
years. This can be DONE it is said, OH
account of the high price of feed
An illustration of agricultural success
under disadvantages is related by an
English paper, which says that an intel
ligent Irish farmer has discovered that
by planting onions and potatoes in the
same field in alternate rows, the onions
become so strong that they bring tears
to the eyes of the potatoes in such vol
ume that the roots are kept moist, and
a big crop is raised in spite of the
drought.
North Dakota has a source of wealth
which is only half appreciated, in it's
great supply of Ignite coal The use Of
this coal is extensive in the western part
of the STATE, but 1t has not become we'll
known yet at distance from the mines.
Ignite sells for 81 a ton at the mines.
The special expert sent abroad by the
agricultural department in search of new
seeds and edible plants has brought back
an everbearing strawberry which is said
to produce fruit for months on the same
plant A small patch, it is also said, will
supply family table a whole season.
A good many things now used for food
were once considered poisonous. Lemons
were considered poisonous by the Ro-
mans, and were used to place between