The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17
THURSDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

THURSDAY GLOBE CHANCES.
There ought to be some general I'M
Outstanding among the states in the mat
ter Of uniformity in pure food laws, or
else congress should take hold of it. In
vestigation shows that at least 40 per
cent of prepared foods, spices, lard, etc.,
Is adulterated.
Minnesota has forty-eight cheese fac
tories, with an output last year of $685.
SIP pounds. The patrons number 1929
and received for milk last year the sum
of $217, 1872.
The st. Paul Farmer says: "The man
who has a craze to buy and sell, sell
and buy, and "dicker' should do that
business, and not try to raise corn
that he fails to furrow out, and hogs
that he forgets to feed or lambs that he
lets die for want of shed"
The agricultural department estimates
that the United States last year pro-
duced Of corn, 2,105, 1885 bushels; oats,
SOs. 125, $3.50; barley. 5S925, 1888; rye, 1885,
92; buckwheat, 1866, 966; potatoes, no.
s26,Ss7; hay. 60 11O,sO6 tons. The area from
which these crops were gathered was
as follows, in acres; Corn, So, 320, S72; oats,
1884. 7s5; barley, 1884, 1882; rye, 1851 1926;
buckwheat, 6S7. $50; potatoes, ISL, 054; hay,
Sc, 1S2, 800.
The Minnesota Farmers institute force
is at work and will hold meetings in the
various counties until spring. No money
spent by the legislature is better placed.
A Home Discipline society has been
organized in Indiana to correct wives
who go out to reform the world. Mr..
Lease regrets that one had not been
organized long ago in Kansas.
The national agricultural department
estimates the United States wheat crop
of 1860 at 522, 229,5 sos bushels, the area
actually harvested being AZ. 49,, 1856 acres,
the average yield per acre 1929 bushels.
The production of winter wheat Is esti-
mated at 400 bushels, and spring
wheat, 172. 204.O96 bushels, the area act
ually harvested being 26,235, 4SS acres.
1t Is often wondered why men who
work in the woods-the lumber jacks
wear bright-colored clothing In the con-
duct OF the business of this world very
few things are done without good rea-
sons. 1t is the object Of the man whose
life Is spent in the woods to make him.
self as conspicuous as possible, so that
he cannot be shot by accident by
sportsman or felled by tree that a
fellow-workman is chopping down. Gray
and blue and brown, the common colors
of workaday clothing, are too near the
SHADES of earth and sky and the banks
OF trees and the fur Of wild animals to
be readily distinguished, so foresters and
tree choppers wear the brightest colors,
often In plaids of clear green, yellow,
red and blue.
The report that European governments
are after $4,000 cavalry horses, has
braced up the market in this coun-
try.
Minnesota had $50 creameries last year
according to Maj. Bowler's report,
handling Y72799, 299 pounds of milk and
making 44,007,S33 pounds of butter an
nually. OF this butter, &c, 750, 3z5 pounds
are annually shipped out of the state
There are 1919 creamery patrons, and
the amount they received last year for
milk was $3.50, 915.55 The total number
of. cows employed in supplying milk to
the creameries was 331, 512
Levi p Morton has a Jersey COW ON
his New York farm that was born blind.
It is splendid mixer, last year giving
1900 quarts Of milk.
The Flathead valley in Montana claims
the worlds record on large apples. The
record breaker weighed 241k ounces and
measured 16 inches around.
It looks as If the newspapers and
stenographers were killing conversation
and written correspondence. Why is it,
asks an Eastern quarterly, that so many
educated men, who are fastidious re-
gard1ng their personal appearance and
bestow upon their bodies the most So
Hcitous care, are yet willing to send
their minds abroad in a state Of sloven-
Illness, regardless Of the impression they
make? A good many men are forgetting
how to spell, because they have some-
body to spell for them.
The diplomacy Of Messrs. Mckinley
and Hay is regularly toiited by the ad-
mtnistration press, and their diplomacy
consists Of never taking any except an
evasive position. If the other fellows
own government may meet them. These
diplomats Of ours act as If there was no
honesty in any other government.
Last year over 100000 pounds of rab-
bit meat went to England from Australia.
1t is becoming rival Of mutton.
The extension of the rural free delivery
Of mail has reached such a point that
it is proposed now to test it in whole
counties, instead of particular settle
ments.
When little John Rockefeller McCor-
mick was buried the other day the fam
lily would have no hearse for the baby
boy. Each member of the Rockefeller
family shrank from it, 80 when they
carried him from the Tarrytown On ",
mansion It. was to a wagon, and then
they covered him with flowers.
A well known actress has papered one
of the rooms in her home with receipted
bills. 1t is not the luck Of every actress
and actor to get receipted bills.
The car Of Russia has three children.