The Saint Paul globe., 1900-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

Do not allow the milk to freeze.
Several large pulp mill schemes are
said to be incubating In the Duluth dis
trict
The premium purse for distribution at
Lincoln has now over $500 In it. The
prizes well be worth going for.
1t is shown that last year over 100000
pounds Of oleomargarine was shipped
into Minnesota. Not all of 1t, however
was consumed in, the state.
Australia has $4,000, 900 bushels of sur
plus wheat to export this season. Aus
tralia's average yield is 9.37 bushels per
acre.
Farmers aIe holding onto their pota-
Toes, although prices are good-ranging
about 40 cents a bushel in potato regions
sometimes higher
Yokohama .Naigal Shoji Shuko: In
Egyptian farms the agricultural imple-
ments same as the hoes used 5000 years
ago are still used.
Next to wife and children the farmers
best friend is red clover; like money at
interest, it gathers wealth while he sleeps
Or plays. g.
Kansas City and Des Moines are talk
Ing as. If they meant to reach out for the
national convention for 1901. They are
ambitious and lively towns. and it will
rot do to ignore them.
Phoenix Mill company, Minneapolis:
Trade, both foreign and domestic, was
dull last week, Foreigners are not up to
our views. There appears to be a trifle
better demand for clear and low grades.
Feed in very good demand locally"
Twenty years ago it cost IS cents a
bushel to haul wheat On the great lakes
from Duluth to Buffalo. and now less
than one cent bushel, according to F.
H. Peavey, the grain dealer.
Basswood lath are being manufactured
In Minnesota to take the place of the pine
lath that went out of sight a long time
ago. These are selling at about two-thirds
the price of pine lath and give good sat-
lsfaction.
81 The woodsaw goes necessarily. At the
farmsteads great stacks of stove wood
are going up every day. This saves time
and labor in summer Then the wood is
In a condition to burn that pleases the
aatrons wonderfully we'll
Senator Pettigrew has introduced a res
olution in the United States senate declar-
Ing that foodstuffs are not contraband
of war and that seizure of such goods
by any nation will be deemed an act un-
friendly to the United States Action was
deferred.
In Southern Indiana a farmer, while
driving spike in his barn, struck off a
spark that fell to the floor, and, by ig-
hitting the chaff, started fire that de-
stroyed the barn and its contents That
goes on record as another singular cause
of fire.
Eleven trotters were shipped on Tues
day for St Petersburg from the East
View farm of Mr.. James Butler, West
chester county. New York. They were
purchased by couple of Russians for
racing and breeding purposes; one stall
Hon was included The press dispatch
mentions $4,000 as the price.
Frank Mcdowell. Clay county, Iowa,
writes: 81 have a colt with five top
crosses of Percheron sires that at less
than nine months old weighed $50 pounds,
at twelve months 1,1s0 pounds, at eighteen
months LAO pounds and now, at twenty
three months old. weighs 1,72O pounds,
running rough in the stalk fields"
Secretary Sudendorf believes that the
annual meeting of the National Butter
makers association at Lincoln, Neb., on
Feb 10 to %, will be the largest of its
kind ever held, as 1900 delegates are ex-
pected to attend. The new Auditorium