The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-25
MIsCEl ANEOUs.
A salt seIler-the grocer.

A salt seller-the grocer.
June turns out a pretty fair month.
One of hte best incentives to work Is
encouragement
Somehow a hen seems happiest when
she has lots to brood over.
Merit should be the supreme test Of
everybody's work.
The oat crop Of Oklahoma is estimated
at 100000 bushels.
Kansas farmers are arranging to run
two sets Of hands through harvest and
cut day and night.
While waiting 1br another day much
hay nutrition gets away.
It is IN periods of drouth that surface
cultivation gets in its best work.
Rape may be sown well into July, and
make most valuable late fall pasture.
Oil upon troubled waters rejoices sail
crs, and upon farm-machine journals it
relieves horses.
Remember that buckwheat and bees
add much to winters living Cakes and
honey. Yum, yum!
Remember that corn for fodder may yet
be planted, and that it makes a vaIE-
able feed, and in great abundance per
acre.
There is plenty of time yet to SOW mil
let and get good hay from it. Sixty days
makes the crop, and it destroys lots of
weeds while making.
Pass by the man with a patent milk
preventative, permitting him and his pre-
servative to pass by on the other side.
The horse cooIs off quicker, is more re-
freshed in a given length of time, and goes
back to work with better zest If his har-
ness was OFF during the midday rest.
Tyy-aY, fy--f;v-a eary,,ars r.oc.,+I,r o,,ro,i1ad
a horse breeders association at St James.
The day has gone by when farmers con-
slider horses a burden. Good horses are
in increasing demand today.
The whole world wants more draft hors-
es. The export trade has increased in the
eager demand for draft horses for war,
and to increase the short home supply Of
all Europe. Even our farmers are short
Of good teams.
It is about time for Uncle Sam to say.
I'm for expansion, even to the point Of
taking in Turkey" We all like turkey,
and Uncle Sam would be only human if
he made this declaration.
One effect of the protracted wet wealth
er in Texas was 70 revive the obsolete Gus
tom Of Grading" wheat. In some locali-
ties the hardware stores We're ransacked
for cradles, and gray-haired men were the
only ones who knew how TO use them.
A few days ago a wind in Kansas blew
q passenger train from the track That
is nothing for Kansas. A story is told,
which is credited to that state, that once
wind blew COW up against barn, ana
held her there so long that she starved
to death.
The fourth annual meeting of the Iowa
Jersey Cattle club. due this month, has
been postponed until some date in the
fall yet 10 be determined on.
The summer series of the Minnesota
Farmers institutes has been a very sue
cessful one. The attendance has been
large in almost every insta-ce, and sat
isfaction of visitors has been general,
but not more so than was deserved, for
the irstu rs have been doing excelle-t
work, after the mann =r Of men and wom-
en- they are.
Col William F. Cody, fam liarly known
as Buffalo Bill prophe: les that we
shall have horse famine in this coun-
try next year. He advises farmers AMI
ranc hmen TO go into the business e
raising goOd horses, as the d mard for
them VII BE- greater and the prices bet
ter than for many years. Col. Cody's
opinion IS that all the talk about bicyc es
ard automobiles driving the horse out
Of business is nonsense.