The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

Wheat is a serial. am glad of it.
Tho best treated acre treats its treater
the best
wei matured plan Is an excellent
farm appliance.
There is only one flock of pure merino
sheep In England
1t is estimated that one crow will de-
stroy 100000 insects every year.
AS many as 1000 dates have been gath
cred from single palm.
Well rotted, but not leached nor burned,
manure is the stuff for the garden.
The rotating stone may gather no moss,
but rotating crops gather the big viald
AS the soil was fed manure this win,
ter so will 1t feed US better crops the COM
Ing season.
Omaha World Herald-A barrel of nails
costs as much as a barrel OF flour. A
few months ago a barrel of flour cost
four times as much as barrel of nails.
The soil to the farmer: You scratch
my back and I'll tickle you; and the
more you scratch the more tickled you'll
be-"
1t may sound paradoxical. but an ex-
panslon of the principle of contraction in
Farming operations would prove desirable
received
Minneapolis for the week ended SATURDAY.
was as follows: No hard. Il cars; No.
l northern. 47S; No. 2. $50; No. 8, $685. re-
Jected, ISL; no-grade. n; total, 1913.
1t takes S6S newspaper columns of
nonpareil type to hold the delinquent tax
list of Hennepin county MINI. This is
an amazing record at the close of a year
of unparalleled prosperity
1t is expected in Duluth that the Ma
tional Steel company will acquire within
lew days the two most valuable iron
properties in st. Louis county at a cost
or Sl7O0OOO for one and lease with a
royalty for The other
Among birds the swan lives to be- the
Oldest, in extreme cases reaching zoo
years; the falcon has been known to live
over 162 years.
The Commercial club badges "I'm for
st. Paul" distributed eat the lincoln
Neb., buttermakers' convention, made q
great hit, aiding the committee in their
work.
Remember that clover hay is excellent
Tor hens confined in yards 1t is good
winter and summer
1t is bad practice to feed fowls abo,,t
the stable door or to do anything to get
Them into the habit of frequently the
eafn ana stables. Horses and hens
President W. K. Bowman. OF the Ma
eio4IaI butterInakers' association, was
presented at the Lineoln convention u,ft,
a president s arm chair made from Min.
Hesota grass. the gift OF the Northwest
ern Grass Irvine Works. Of ST. Paul.
The selling of 1900 barrels last weeI,
oy all Minneapolis shops represented the
consumption of 3G4, 000eeoined elm hoons
and $4,000 hickory hoops.
The turkey was first discovered IN
America and brought to England In the
early part Of the sixteenth century. since
then 1t has been accIimatized in nearly
all parts of the world.
Dundas (Minn.) Milling Co: 'Tno,,irv
Tor flour is slightly better, although It
is very close figuring to get a profit W.
are running twenty-four hours q dav
ana are sold twenty-five days ahead. We
are selling all feed at the mill door. Re-
celpts OF wheat are somewhat better than
they We're during January Considerable
wheat is held by farmers"
Get ready to force the rhubarb It IL
the first fruit" and can be made to an
pear quite early, If forced. One way to
90 TINS Is to cover the ground with heat
ca Stable manure, which will thaw ont
ground, and 1t may be kept warm bv
FRESH additions Of It. By this method
rhubarb pie will ripen much earlier than
one would expect.
Northwestern Agriculturist: 1t is
not true that ]. j. Hill is a cousin
or "Wun Lung or that he is becoming
Acknowledged, from his Oriental speechi-
Tying. He has two strong lungs and he
sees perfectly straight to great future
for the Great Northern carrying trade
westward. That Is q good combination
and our farmers could do nothing more
directly to their own advantage than to
ponder on what he is saying in his little
speeches about the Oriental grain mar
ket
A large pine tree was recently cut near
Wausau, Wis, measuring five feet six
inches In diameter at the base. Eight
logs were cut out of the tree, the dis
lance from the top cut to the stump be-
ing lO2 feet. The smallest log was TWEEN
ty inches in diameter at the top An
other good fourteen-foot log could have
been cut had the top not been broken by
the fall. The butt log scaled over 500
feet.