The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

Good, salable Cotswolds are hard to
find.
Dip the Sheep, especially the lambs, at
sheaTing time.
No bun is ever safe to handle as a
pet except dead bull.
William Rice, the veteran fruit dealer
of Ogdehsburg, N. Y, is dead.
Wouldn't you like just now to have
good roads everywhere?
The selling of 81, 900 barrels last week
by all Minneapolis shops represented the
consumption OF $4,000 coiled elm hoops
and $4,000 hickory hoops.
One test of good shepherd is to know
when every eve is expected to lamb; and
another is, to have proper preparations
made for the event.
The best sheep is the one that has short
legs and a good body of good length and
properly shaped, square on the shoulders
round ribs, good straight back, well
rounded hams and a good brisket.
Reports from Corpus Christi, Tex, say:
yesterday and today twenty carloads
Of cabbage left here for northern mar
kets. The shipment breaks all Southwest
Texas records
Reports from Polk county, Florida, say
vegetables are being shipped freely. Cell
cry, cabbage beans and lettuce are
shipped daily and growers are satisfied
with the results.
There is a dearth Of fine wool in the
world. and that grade is largely advanced
in price But the most of us viii manage
to skin along if we can't wear any finer
wool than is grown in the United States.
But we don't grow enough for home con-
sumption, mores the pity.
The largest wheat field in Oklahoma
is near White Eagle, on the '101 Ranch"
and is controlled by George Miller & Son,
Of Winfield. Kan, and consists of 5000
acres. The Millers have thirty-two self
binders and three threshing outfits, and
this year will buy six more binders and
another thresher.
The Kansas Experiment station declares
that there is no remedy for corn smut.
Soaking the seed in chemicals is without
effect" In severe cases the smut balls
Should be gathered and burned.
There will come a time when the farmer
will be as much ashamed of working
overtime as he is now of sleeping over
time. Farming can be done and should be
done on the ten-hour-a-day plan, with
Shorter hours on Saturday.
Very young lambs are as like as peas
in a pod to everything except the noses
of their mothers. A hundred ewes at
make no mistake about their children
that is, if the children have once been
accepted as their own. Sometimes 1t hap
pens that, for no visible reason, a eve
rejects her lamb, and cannot be induced
to own it. If she has twins, she may
own enc and reject the other.
A dispatch from Norfolk Va, says:
THE Norfolk & West India Fruit COM
pany's steamship Habil has arrived today
To-, A., ~
punches of bananas. After May 1 another
steamship will be put on, and the new
line will have weekly sailings between
Norfolk and Jamaica ports.
Under Secretary Wilson'S foreign seed
introduction, the department of agricul-
ture has received during the year over
2r0oO different species and varieties Of
economic plants and seeds. In many
cases, however, the quantities s: cured
were sufficient only for tests to be made
by The various state experiment stations
and by a few private specialists. If the
secretary could be authorized to utilize
his entire seed appropriation for this clas
sQf seed Introduction, the present free seed
farce would be transformed into one of
the most splendid duties of the govern
ment.
Some people go into ecstacies about
farmers feeding hogs corn. 1t is the
when great many of the crank writer's
are dead and gone, hogs will still be fed
corn. hog that has been on pasture
all summer is in the very best condition
to fatten on corn, and is fully prepared
to undergo the strain of eating large
quantities of heating and fattening food
Its digestive tract is large. 1t is now
ready for large consumption and thorough
digestion Of a one-sided food like com. It
goes without saying that an occasional
meal of bran. steamed clover hay or
ground oats will make the animal more
comfortable
The work on the dairy farm is quite
exacung. 1t comes every day in the year,
and cannot be neglected on Sundays
Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years,
Fourth of July or circus day cry mora
than at any other time. On The other
hand, however, the dairy farmer gets
cash for his milk every month, can pay
cash for what he buys, and buy where
he pleaseS. He is not obliged to trade at
particular store because the merchant
is willing to carry him" Dairying has
the advantage of giving regular and prof
liable employment all the year round
while almost every other branch Of farm
ing the work drives the farmer too hard
at times and leaves him more Idle time
than he would wish to have at Others
Partly as an illustration of the fact that
timber grows in this part of the country,
and partly from the fact that lumbermen
are cutting closer than formerly, is the
story Of a railroad man to the effect that
the Omaha road has recently sold some
timber lands in the northern part of Wis
consin that were sold once in the early
times of logging in that state. They were
cut over and reverted to the railroad com
pany. After a number Of years the tim
ber had grown to such an extent that the
railroad company again put them on the
market. Again they reverted to the COM
pany, and have been sold for a third time
The railroad company protected them
from fire and gave the timber a chance
to grow, with the result that three crops
of logs have been sold.