The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

The receipts of milk at the Medford
creamery last week, were $4,000 pounds.
At Graceville, Joseph Windorpskt re-
allied $500 for his milk taken to the
creamery.
Lumber has been hauled for the cream
cry building which is to be erected in
Boon Lake. They expect. to have the
creamery in running order IN the early
part of next spring.
Recently a two-year-old buffalo, weigh
Ing 40 pounds. sold at Kansas city at
Ice per pound. The animal was bred On
the famous Goodnight ranch in the Texas
Panhandle.
The interest in swine breeding is In
creasing and no doubt the year 1900 will
see many new herds established Farm
ers who have been improving their herds
see the value of good stock. and some
will no doubt be full fedged breeders next
year Let the good work go on.
The winter is upon us Are you pre-
pared for it? Have YOU shelter for your
hogs? Are you mindful of The fact that
a good shelter saves feed? Shelter pro-
tects them. If you have none, more feed
is required to keep up growth. At a
very little cost shelter could be provided.
Soc to 1t that 1t is done.
The latest device to encourage high
stepping In coach horses Is glass worn
like goggles, the crystals being So formed
that the ground appears nearer than 1t
Is. 1t is said to work all right.
The creamerymen of Kansas are going
TO Lincoln III February in strong force,
and many will take their wives. They III
tend to count $50 strong in number. Min
nesota ought not to be very far behind.
According to a Louisville KY, contem-
porary Short-horn steer weighing 5000
pounds was sold on that market one day
last week at ~ cents per pound, making
the total purchase price $225
If horses are fed we'll for a short time
when put up for winter, to restore the
flesh lost in the summer and fall cam
paign, they will thereafter keep very
easily.
Now that the horse market is beginning
to strengthen and the demand is growing
for good horses, 1t is pertinent to ask if
the past taught lesson that will be re-
Inembered, or whether the same thought
less breeding will continue?
The packers and warehouse men of
Chicago, have adopted the following rates
of storage on provisions, to go into effect
on jar. 2, 1900. Mess pork 212c per bar
rel each ten days; lard, 31ac per 100
pounds each ten days, the warehouse
man 10 dpSOID rep1ilnS. snort IT'D SluSS,
&c per 100 pounds each ten days, and sc
additional per 100 pounds for each rebuIk-
ing.
If the invitation for the third annual
convention of the National Live Stock
association at Fort Worth, JAN 1el to
49, is any Indication of the time" that
delegates will have, it will certainly be
royal. The man who receives one of these
invitations from Chairman B. B. Pad
dock will surely consider himself sum-
moned.
Northwestern mills were today (Tues-
day. quoting patent at $3.80G3.90 per bar
rel in sacks, thirty-day draft for deliv-
cry at Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin points
outside of Chicago and Milwaukee; bulk
shorts, S13 anc bran $3.50. in mixed cars,
thirty-day draft. For cash, DC per bar
rel and 25c per ton is discounted from
these quotations.
Cane sugar is produced mostly in the
tropics. While the beet is grown In the
temperate zon:. 1t is thus shown that
the sugar producing area is gradually
shifting northward and that the farmer
of the temperate zone is able not only
to compete with the low-priced labor of
the tropics, but in doing so to reduce one
half the cost of the article produced.
The first American horses taken to the