The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

Buying eggs for cold storage has be-
gun.
The Fargo linseed oil mill has been sold
to the American Linseed company.
Take time to do things right
The smallest yield of corn for a given
state in 1899 was in Montana.
Windmills, though only now becoming
popular fcr pumping water, were known
in Europe so far back as 11O5.
Milfeed in Michigan last week declined
about = per ton.
All grades of beans are scarce in this
market and prices firm Peas are weak,
but not qu5tably lower.
There is good deal of flour in store
at Gladstone, as well as at Washington,
Superior and Duluth.
Wheat seeding in Minnesota is practi-
cally finished. Conditions have been IA
vorable and the present promise is for
good crop.
So usefm are toads in gardens that
they are sold in France by the dozens
for stocking gardens to free them from
many injurious insects.
J. b. Maynard & Co, Parker, S D.:
Every little fax will be seeded in this
vicinity this year.
The American Linseed company has
purchased the Oil mill at Fargo, n. D. 1t
has only six presses, but is located at
an important point.
Sweden is suffering from a scarcity of
pats and nay. Even straw sells at the
phenomenal price of cent pound.
The agricultural appropriation bill en-
larges the free seed allowance at the
disposal of Secretary Wilson by $4,000
for the 1901 distribution.
There are three varieties of the dog
. that never bark-the Australian dog. the
Egyptian shepherd dog and ''lion-head-
ed" dog OF Tibet.
The little town of Moorhead Kan,
has a cooperative hotel, laundry, hall,
creamery and canning factory, and a
cooperative dining hall, with several CO.
operative farms near by.
Christensen & Henderson, Madelia,
Mimi: LAS far as we can learn, fax
acreage this year will be about % per
cent less than last year"
The Kansas people have undertaken to
contribute 100000 bushels of corn to the
starving in India. The need is very
great
Minnesota has the oldest state grange
in the country, and has the only lady
State grange master in the country.
VI Il udHlp ceildTJ place a Sd1lOn CROCK
three quarters full of chloride of lime in
each corner Of your cellar, and renew the
lime every five or six weeks.
Plain buttered toast piled with a purse
of spinach Or beet leaves and finished
with a po2ched, buttered or fried egg
may well take the place of meat or fish
dinner.
T. Mackay, Pipestone Southwestern
Minnesota: There is very little flax land
III this county. Think there will be no
increase in the acreage this year
J. w. Kelly & Son, Huron, S d: 1--WE
see no change in trade. If anything, it
IS duller. Growing wheat is doing finely.
Local receipts are very light
Phoenix Mil company, Minneapolis:
1.-The trade in -four is exceedingly dull,
both export and domestic. Feed is in fair
demand at somewhat lower prices than
was paid a week or ten days ago How
ever, considering all conditions, prices
keep up remarkably well on offaI"
The Kansas experiment station has re-
Gently issued a bulletin discouraging the
growing of sugar beets in that state.
II. D. -Wajsoa, a Nebraska farmer, who
is said to raise Is goo acres of alfalfa has
written to one Of the experiment stations
for enough seed to plant forty acres Of
Soy beans.
There is a boom just now in broom corn
and the market has been ccrnered by a
traders trust. AS a result a large acre
age viii be put in this year and prices
go to smash next fall when the new crop
comes on.
If the old orchard is sod bound try TO
break it up this spring and give it
chance to drink in the delicious June
rains. The orchards Of the stale are like
~ to bear heavily this season, and the
drain on the trees be correspondingly
great. Don't let your generous trees be
the ones 10 break their health and Vigor
this year In the struggle to produce q
crop out of a soil overlaid with d water
proof cover of June grass.
A farmer near Heyworth, Ill, recently
weighed and shelled eighty ears of vel
low dent corn that had been in the dry
house through the winter and got seven
ty-fve pounds of corn and nine pounds Of
cob lie asks: who can beat it?''
August Scliwachhelm. secretary Cam
bridge (AIinnD Milling company: There
is nothing special with US as far as the
flour market is concerned. We keep going
steadily, are sold for three weeks ahead
and directions come IN as fast as we need
them. TIE wheat acreage is about equal
to last years. Seeding is about all DONE
H c. Erwin, manager George Tileston
Milling Co, st. Cloud, MINI: I'VE sold
cur full production last week and kept
going steadily, though prices both al
home and abroad are on u very unSatis-
factory LASTS from the miIlers' stand
point Buyers have no fault to find when
they compare present flour prices and
cash wheat values The growing wheat
needs rain badly and is not stooling, and
We Jock for trouble unless we have god
rains this week"