The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

An Irish grocer advertises quart pals
BY next season the Kansas farmers will
ride to town in their own automobiles.
A friend named his horse BAD Egg"
because he said it could not be beat.
Dollar wheat and Decent cotton. Pos
Eibilities suggested by the rapid advances
in New York
Oxen and sheep fatten better in COM
pany than when kept alone.
In some of the farming districts of Chi
M pigs are harneSsed to small wagons
and made TO draw them.
The rise in flour may affect bread
prices, but the rise In beer means only
more foam.
The cotton acreage this year will be
the largest on record, and will not fall far
short of 26GOO,OO0 acres.
Minneapolis has in public elevators
about 100000 bushels more wheat than q
year ago.
Lanterns in the poultry house in winter
will raise the temperature perceptibly.
Hang from the roof.
Wages paid by farmers in Oklahoma are
so high that harvest hands are called
'high-binders."
The farmer who knows no more at the
end of the year than at its beginning is
like a clock that does not run-remains
just the same.
Considerable wheat sold for export and
TO go from Duluth has been resold in
mat market. The exporters made a hand
some profit by this course.
The price of bread is to be raised on
account of the advance in wheat This
Is where the poor pubic is interested
Some Kansas farmers are adopting Cal
Iornia methods. Near Mulvane a field Of
wheat was threshed direct from the reap
ers.
Kansas City Is going to have a horse
show next October, 22nd to 9th, copying
the New York prize list as near as NAV
be- AIR. A. 4. Ashbrook is secretary.
1t is very hard to figure out what Amer
lea would be without a corn crop We
could easier spare the American eagle.
Coal has gone up again, but as the Their
mometer has, too, the general public
VIII have little time TO prepare for the
shock
A slight advance in grain prices. based
on reports of drouth, bugs etc. suggests
that farmers can enjoy better prices only
al the cost of disaster or calamity.
Timothy hay will be a very small croo
In the Northwest. and car lot prices have
advanced $5@6, now selling at $l4a15 per
ION in Minneapolis Should there be heavy
rams wild hay might yet amount to
something.
When sheep are turned on rape there is
Danger of diarrhoea or bloating from
oNereaun6. They should be pastured a
lew hours first, or allowed the run Of q
pasture In addition to the rape
Farmers are watching the fight of the
wheat market toward the dollar mark
with as much interest as a small bow
watches the sputtering rise Of a rocket
on Fourth Of July night.
The German meat inspection bill re-
quIes uhat all meats and meat products
be inspected before being placed on the
market and as 1t is impossible to in
spect canned meat without opening the
cans, such products are excluded alto
gether.
A Seal Harbor (Me) woman tells
Hoards Dairyman" that she has four
teen cows She cannot feed a cow for
year less than 500, having no pasture
ana being obliged to pay a hired man
Alsh wages, as it is not easy to hire a
good man that will do Just as he is
loId' and will be bossed by a woman. In
spite OF this she cleared a profit of $50
per COW last year"
Yes" said the young woman .T find
books IN the lunning brooks 'eWell.''
said Farmer Corntossel, them summer
poarders Uttered the place up terrible
with them trashy novels last year. Me
an ma done the best we could to burn
EN- all in the cook stove, but they do
seem to keep turnin' up"
a Winnipeg, Manitoba, dispatch to the
Van Observation-Disclosures company, saws:
,od thermometer ranges from So degrees to
lO2 degrees all over the province Our
crop is virtually burnt up We shall
not raise one-third of an average year
even II We get good rain. Farmers
are blowing up their crops along the
disaster"