The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-23
MISCELLANEOUS.
Persevere and prosper.


The Yankee is a beany factor.
In the garden there is much wealth.
and its chiefest item is good health.
The more hope there is mixed with the
springs work the easier the work will
be
This is the season when
Hope and fear alternate chase
The farmer through his uncertain race
The field that was freely fed to manure
this winter is best prepared to do its
summer work
We haven't much use for the man who
travels on his shape" but with the COW
It's different
we want less trusts. less subsidies and
less monopoly, more forests and more 800,
pouild-of-butter-a-y cows, rather than
more colonies.
some fancy seed oats and barley from
England sold recently at Walla Walla,
Wash, for s. per bushel.
A correspondent from Madison S. D.
says: Nearly as much grain is shipped
now by the farmers tts by the grain
dealers" What is the matter up there?
The prison warden at WaMa Walla,
wash, ceased receiving orders for grain
bags Tor this season on March 81. The
orders exceeded the ability Of the prison
to fill them.
Over 500 horses are now at Montgomery
Park to participate in the twentieth an
nual meeting of the New Memphis locke,
club, and lovers of racing are all agIow.
The meeting began on Thursday and will
end on Friday, April 81
II does seem a little peculiar that about
all the butter consumed in Cuba Is made
In Denmark and sells for rs to 80 cents
per pound, and from what we can learn
the. quality is not up to the average
American butter.
A. complete epttome of history by Sec
rotary Colburn: '.Hitching the plow
ahead of the COW has strewn the Western
prairies with wrecks; where the COW is
worked in front, prosperity follows The
man with the COW is a missionary and
philanthropist He should lead the pro,
cessiOn."
To cure a hen of feather eating. pare
her beak so that she cannot hold a feath.
er, and feed her scrap meat and ground
fresh bone. If she eats eggs, cut off the
tip end of her beak, so she cannot peck
through the shell.
A Chicago paper says that Charles
LoVeIeSS, farmer living near ClarkshilI
Ind, drew TO town a load Of 157 bushels
end "A pounds of corn in a box eighty
two inches deep and five feet wide above
the standards He drove two horses
weighing about 1900 pounds each.
1t is reported that the Chicago Board
of Trade committee having in charge the
reVlsions of the rules and the formula
ton Of "a commission rule. have decided
that rates, shall be 1sc per bushel for
grain, 24ae per barrel for mess pork, 215
per tierceo for lard, and 1215c per 100
pounds short ribs to non-members, with
half7rates to- MEMBERS The penalty for
violating this, rule wilt be- expulsion. and
reward Of $1,000 is to be offered Tor the
conviction Of each violator.
The Owatonna Manufacturing company,
on Friday of last week. shipped a car of
churns, to Chicago; on the 10th Of the
month a carload was sent to Waterloo,
To-. and car was shipped to Minneapolis.
Besides these large shipments a large
number of smaller orders have been re-
ceived since the LIST Of the month. The
company has about fifty men at work.
New York dailiesr say that contract
was completed In that city: last week to
supply the British government with so coo
or more horses for cavalry and artillery
service in South Africa They are to
conform to the United States army re-
quirements in SIZE breed and soundness.
Buffalo is to be the point of inspection,
where horses will be brought by the con-
tractors and inspected by the British
purchasing agent. The latter hopes to
get 5000 weekly.