The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
March came in like a lamb.

March came in like lamb.
In changing feed to 1t gradually.
Cows should be salted three times a
week
Milk with dry hands; never allow the
hands TO come in contact with the milk
Provide water in abundance. easy Of
access and always pure, but not too cold.
Do not use the milk within twenty DAYS
before calving, nor within three to five
days afterwards.
,DelaX-1i1 longer to put implements and
machinery in order for springs work.
Robins meadow larks and bluebirds
nave made. their appearance.
An orange hit in the exact center by a
rife ball will vanish at once from sight,
scattered into intinitesimal pieces.
American agricultural implements are
lower in price in st. Petersburg, Russia,
than IN St. Paul, AIinn.
A cargo of 1900 bushels of seed corn
was'shipped from Philadelphia this month
to be used in Egypt.
Why not introduce a new crop to the
old wheat field? One grain crop year
after year gives lana that tired feeling"
Try a little bank account Add to it
every dollar for which you have no imme-
diate use, and you will presently be as
tonished. TO see how respectable the ac-
count Will presently appear.
Six cotton mills We're chartered In South
Carolina during January and a like num-
ber in February.
There are between 700 and 800 breeders
OF Guernsey cattle in this country, and
the cattle number about 1900 head
The wise gardener crops closely. Idle
hands breed mischief. Let one crop fol-
low another quickly, for delay means a
crop. OF weeds in which there is no profit.
Get your work horses in shape for the
spring plCWing by giving them d little to
40 each day, gradually increasing the dose
until tney are in good muscular trim.
a recent writer advices steaming
horses head to cure a cold. The steaming
can be done by means of an old tea ket-
tie, rubber tube and grain sack Have
holes in the sack for ventilation.
The Northwestern and Dairymen and
hog RaiSers' association covering Mon
tana Washington, Oregon and Idaho), will
hold its third annual meeting at Moscow,
March 2l-L3.
Sugar making time is near. and fresh
country syrup will be offered in the gro
ceries.- Our. pure food law is severe
against authorizations, and glucose and
brown sugar Will not be used so freely as
IN former years.
The packing business of Armour & Co.
Is to be incorporated with $4,000, 900 Of
capital stock. The grain business will
not be included, however.
British Columbia contains the largest
compact timber area in the world 1t in
cludes Douglas pine, cedar, spruce and
Alaska pine worth many millions of dol
lars.
Cb,oD;cIc Sl,a4
the acreage seeded to wheat for the new
crop is about the same this year as last.
The weather is reported favorable, the
rains having been opportune and sufh-
cient-, .- s...,-
According to a recent decision Of the
North Dakota supreme court, grain in ell
eVators in that state on April l Is taxable
and the tax is chargeable against the ele-
vator. The elevator owner has lien on
the grain to the amount of the tax, which
he can thus compel the owner to pay.
California advices say that almonds
are in bloom in nearly all parts of the
state, while peaches, apricots and prunes
are advancing rapidly. Unless frost in
terferes there will be large yield of
citrus fruits.
The following has more than a grain
OF truth hidden in it's nonsense:
Mrs GTiInes-How in the world do you
get rid OF all your stale bread? I have
to throw lots of mine away.
Mrs. Sm&rte-There is no need for you
to do that. Why not do as I do? just
hide 1t away from the children.
Mrs. Grimes-Hide it away from the
children? What then?
Mrs. Snarte-Then the children find 1t,
and eat up every morsel Of it.
The foliage of trees and plants In the
orchard and garden suffers much more IN
time of drouth than that of those in the
woods. IN the forests, nature has mulch
I'd the ground thoroughly, and the moist
ure is retained about the roots a long
lime. 'Weecan go to nature for proof that
nuching is profitable In summer and win
Ter.
This season never comes around that
my memory does not go back to my ma
tive state, in my minds eye, and 1 can
see the sugar trees tapped with pals
hanging to catch the sweetness. All the
pleasant memories connected with the
business come back to me, but not its
realistic features. 1 can't taste the sugar
wax, but what 1 have tasted has left a
pleasant memory, even if the pleasant
taste be gone.