The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS.
Straw hat days are near.
t'ilberts came from Greece.
Take pains with your work

Straw hat days are near.
FiIberts came from Greece.
Take pains with your work
Cherries and strawberries are plenty
In the St Paul market, and cheap.
When you get sleepy after dinner you
may make up your mind that you are
getting old.
The total increase in the value of the
farm animals of the United States in
the last three years was $50, Goo coo.
Over 50 per cent of the cotton exported
from the United States is cleared from
the ports Of Galveston and New Orleans
The first commercial CONSIGNMENT Of
oranges from Florida to Northern mar
ketS occurred in 1865, and was from the
grove of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Sweet skim milk can he usesd to adj
vantage in making rice and Indian pud-
ding custards, squash and pumpkin pies
and the like and in the prepare ton OF
chocolate or cocoa as a drink.
Shipments of wheat from Argentina
since Jan. !, 1900, have been IS, liz, 600
bushels. against 24.1S4,O0G for the cor.
responding period last year.
United States Consul Griffith. of Mata-
moras. Mexico, states that the average
annual production of cotton-seed oil In
that country is about 3,306,9 900 pounds.
The consumption last year was about
SG.S64, 100 pounds.
The present season. so far as the
growth OF crops is concerned. Is about a
month later than usual in Great Britain
France, Holland, Belgium and Germany
The American Wool company has Is
sued notice that there will be a very
serious discrimination this year against
WOO! which has been dipped in lime
The Ohio supreme court has just rem
dered a decision sustaining the consti-
nationality of the anti-ColCring law of
that state This is an important decision
IN favor of thc dairy interests of Ohio.
The beet has been so much improved
by cultivation. notably in Germany that
it now contains about three times as
large a proportion of saccharine matter
as it did century ago.
Recently the farm department Of the
Kansas Agricultural college made ship
ments OF each Of their varieties of kaffir
corn. red and black hulled white to the
nited States department of agriculture
who viii forward them to Algeria. where
they will be grown beside native African
varieties.
A summer meeting of the Western
Guernsey Breeders association will be
held at the farm of George c. Hill &
Son, Rosendale Wis, June 5, 1909.
Bread and cheese form a perfect diet,
according TO good authority. This fact
appears to be better understood in Eng
land than here, for in that-country it is
customary 10 speak of man or woman
as earning his or her bread and cheese
Here we say bread and butter.
A recent shipment of $1,000 bushels Of
wheat from Portland, Or. to Yokohama,
was the frst cargo made up exclusively
of this cereal that ever crossed the Pa
cific to Japan
A Chicago paper says that an In
d ana milling company has discovered a
new product derived from corn. While
experimenting with corn oil, the COM
pany's chemist accidentally found meth
cd of distilling and clarifying the liquid,
and it is TO be placed on the market for
cooking purposes.
And now the milk druggers are at
work in Cincinnati, with a compound
they call 'Sweetine." DR.. Busch the
milk inspe tor of that city, proposes to
make it wa m for the users of such dan
gerous drugs.
A fire extinguisher which may easily
be made and kept stored in bottles ready
for use consists of three pounds of salt
ana one and one-half pounds of sal am
moniac dissolved in a gallon of water.
Down near Pana. H., guiIeless farm
er tagged a freight train last week to
ask the conductor If certain packages
which should come on that train were
aboard. He explained that he did not
want to hitch up and drive to town for
nothing