The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

Cut The dead wood out of the raspberry
7 vines.
It win pay TO keep the pigs weu fed
ana happy this summer.
+ Grass is not the proper food for cur
I 1aut ana gooseberry bushes.
i Almost eco rural free mail delivery
routes have been established up to this
( date
Don't enpty meat brine where hogs
I can get a, it, il may kill some of the best
pi0s.
More ard more we are beginning to
understand the wonderful value of the
corn plant.
Hogs with lop ears are not so nervous
/ as those with upright ears. They make
! better mothers, as rule.
Fresh lime Whitewash can well be used
I promiscuorsly around house coop and
stable these days
/ II each home We're beautifed with frees
and feweTs the entire country would be
beautiful; pity tbs that it can't be so.
freqrem cause of digestive derange-
ments with swine Is the consumption of
soap and soap powders with house slop.
Ten years ago the United States had
no export trade in horses. Now the re-
ceipts from that business are $S,O00,G09 a
year and growing.
. A bunch of cherries containing s42
cherries was recently picked in Astoria,
Or.
Teach the colt to be obedient by being
kind 10 il. Brute force never made the
disposition that brings the highest price
in The market.
Canadian breeders everywhere report
grand business being done in eggs for
Matching. The business Is on the boom
in Ontario at present.
The agricultural experiment station at
Storrs. Conn, has lately issued two val
uable bulletins. They are No 20,
study of dairy cows, and No. q, on the
Ilpenins of cream, and Will be sent free
To any one interested.
The receipts of Egyptian onions so far
this season were 600 bags as against >. 800
bags for the same time last year
1t is gratifying to realize the growth
of interest in forestry in the United
States Ii argues well for our future
and for those to come after us.
The pig must be warm and dry. If pos
sibie give MIN sleeping room where he
can make his nest separate from the
feeding room Then it viii be undis-
turbed ard ne will take pains to keep it
clean.
Mr. Homewood -. Are you doing any
gardening this spring? Mr. Williamsburg
Il have ulade beginning I planted
cat under a peach tree yesterday even
ins--Pittsburg sGhroniele-Telegraph
Plant garden truck seed in succession.
So as 90 .nutfle. the season. Il longer one.
Radishes. green peas and-corn, and 9TH
or goodies may be enjoyed all summer in
this way. # slsrT
e'ryooa Pc f'ra eeeo-
me i"ils Wins. Is suggested as test
for detecting glanders: Let the mueu3
from the uosFrils drop ia water: If it re-
mains On top spreads -or -dissolves, the
disease is not glanders.- If it remains
undissolVgi and sinks You may assume
that it is glanders.
Somebody has an awful account to rem
der sometime. somewhere for allowing
the surplus wheat grown in India last
year To b. shipped to England for SALE
while millions Of the people in the coun-
Fry where il was grown are starving to
death for the want Of it.
At the Iowa station last year five shall
low civilizations of corn, ~ to 2 inche
deep, produced "A bushels Of corn to the
acre, while the same number of deep
CIVILIZATIONS, AZ to : inches, produced SIS
bushels. These results We're in different
sections Of the same field
The lake Erie grape belt crop, along
the southern shore Of Lake Erie, be-
tween a pcint about twenty-five miles
west of Buffalo and Sandusky, is esIimat-
ed at l35,oo)o00 to 150,O0O,OOO pounds.
Some California grape fruit this week
averaged high Some fancy stock sod
high as $11215, While enc. lot of nearly
q carload ran from IS to $3.50 The fruit
was very fine. ---
1t IS reported that the United States
Fruit company, which owns or has under
charter sixty steamers engaged in the
fruit trade, within future ensure its own
vessels. 1t will set aside as a permanent
fHnd the money which otherwise would
be paid to the insurance companies for
premiums
A bovine mutual insurance company
has been formed in Minneapolis by which
over LOCO cows now have their lives in
surcd for s25 each, payable to their own
ers. The company was formed by the
dairymen of the city to protect them
selves against loss on cows condemned
to death by the state board of health
All cows giving milk. are eligible at a
premium Of 10 cents each.
We want colonies because it viii pay"
We want b5unties because they will
pay We want trusts because they
win pay We devastate forests because
it viii Tay." Plundering fakes are in
vented because they will pay" Ever
the question IS: 'Will it paw" and new
er is asked: us it right?7 And the
pay" is always gathered in by few,
while the many do the paying
The agricultural and live stock depart
4ment Of the Pan-American exposition at
Buffalo, \. Y, in 1901, has been installed,
and The managers are prepared to send
II those Interested in this part of the
exposition any information they des re
regardinS space for exhibits, premium
lists, classification. etc. Minnesota should
be well represented there. All interested
should address the superintendent of live
stock and agriculture, Ellicott Square,
Buffalo, X. Y.