The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

Some women need to buy larger shoes
and smaller hats.
The product of the potato farms In De-
troit in 1899 was 10,4SO bushels, produced
at a cost of about eight cents bushel.
Is there big tree In the garden or near
1t? Then either move the tree or the
garden.
Give the cows all the water they want
and as often as they want 1t. Milk Is
mostly water.
F. Bartholomew, Des Moines, TO-, is the
present owner of the successful sire Bet
terton, by George Wilkes.
This is the finest weather imaginable,
but for the sake of the wheat. we ought
to have little snow.
Prosperity Is not when some men are
making ali the money they can, but
when all men are making some money.
All the famous trotting horses of the
late Robert Bonner, with the exception
of Maud S. will be sold at auction In
New York next month.
Let us all plan now for good garden
next summer. Where shall 1t be, what
shall we plant, and how shall we culti-
vate?
Absalom Miller, of Spice Valley town
ship Lawrence county Indiana, shot an
American eagle measuring seven feet two
inches from tip to tip.
A man is somewhat q vegetable after
all. He has ears on his head, an apple
in his throat. corns on his feet and a
heart full of beats.
There are said to be only ten surviv-
Ing entire SONS of Hambletonian. The
Oldest is Artemas thirty, and the young
est Leland, Marlborough and Sir Wal
kill, each twenty-five.
Minneapolis millers manufactured A.
POI, 7S9 barrels of flour during 1899, against
about the same amount the year before.
This means they ground about 64,00O,0O0
: bushels of wheat.
The Ohio State Dairy association has
offered $235 in prizes for exhibits at It's
next meeting, which will be held at Co.
lumbus, Feb. 13 and IA. Competition Is
open to all residents Of Ohio.
A recent writer notes that while some
of his cows will eat silage almost to
bursting, others cannot be induced to eat
over ten pounds at meal. He finds
that COW will digest more grain when
she has silage to go with it.
Minneapolis received S7,961, $50 bushels
of wheat in 1899. This Is 100000 more
than ever received there in the calendar
year. but 4.500.000 bushels less than was
received in the last crop year ending
Aug. 81.
1 would not give much for rooster
that has no fight in him. 1 don't want
him to be a "scrapper,' but I want him
to be able and willing to scrap if he
must 1t is evidence that he has the
qualifications for which I want him.
There are two ways of failing at farm
ing. One way is employed by the man
who don't take paper, but who knows
everything, and the other by the man
who tries to follow everybody's advice
This is OVERRIDING and underdoing Strike
a balance by getting in the middle of the
road.
1t was evidently person who has OBJ
served the large number Of fires trace
able to a certain cause who said: Turn
out of doors the first person who dares
to dream of using kerosene to help start
@ fire, and severely admonish her who
persists in filling the fire box to the top
of stove or range. That is the way to
burn out or crack the stove and to
destroy f1rebrck."
1t is estimated that the cost of a COW
for one year for food alone is about
SIS. This amount she must return to her
owner before she can make any profit,
and yet there will remain the cost Of