The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-09
PLEA FOR GRASS THYME.

| what is the value of grass binding
| Irvine, as compared with the standard
tWine known to all of you? 1t is claimed
by those who advocate the use of grass
binding Irvine and who are prepared to
make rigorous efforts in the introduction
| of same that
1T runs fully $50 feet to the pound; is
smooth and runs no knots or thin places
! 1t is put in twenty-five pound balls, very
compact, easy to handle. One ball will
suffice for half a days work. It binds a
] neat, tight bundle; much easier to handle
shocking than that bound with other
Irvine, as the cord is larger. 1t will not
| rot from exposure; insects will not touch
! II. Add to these advantages the fact that
grass twine is sold at from 50 to 40 per
cent below the price of other twines.''
BENEFITS OF WEATHER BUREAU.
t. S. Outram local observer at Mime
| apolis, presented an interesting review Of
the work of the federal department of
agriculture, especially the weather bu--
| reau. He said:
| Two weather forecasts are issued daily,
| based on the readings of delicate inStru-
| ments at stations we'll distributed over
J the whole United States and the adjacent
ed to the points from which the fore
| casts are issued and to the other cities
In the country. Washington city receives
all these reports, and from those taken
at p. m. the officials make the forecasts
! which are sent to all morning newspa-
pers using the Associated Press service.
office makes state forecasts for the after
| noon papers of a large portion of this
western country. At local offices In
| about seventy of the large cities, many
| of the morning reports are received, and
| from them are made the weather maps
! SO well known, on which are printed the
state forecasts, a local . forecast Tor the
| also a general synopsis of the weather
! conditions over q large part OF the coun-
try, About 10000 of these maps are IS
| sued daily and in addition to these, the
! forecasts are distributed on cards every
day by mail and train service. to some 80
GOO other addresses. Heretofore farmers
| been able to obtain the forecasts because
| of a lack Of easy communication but
with the advent of the rural free delivery
| service of the postoffice department, TINS
| class of our population may soon enjoy
| the same privileges in this respect as the
city people. The country telephone lines
are also being. interested in the dlssem-
ination of weather news.
Besides the daily forecasts, special
warnings are sent out as occasion re-
quires, the most important of these for
our farmers and inland commerce being
cold-wave and frost warnings. In our
Northern states the cold-wave warnings
are of great service. The magnitude OF
the business affected by the cold-WaVe
warnings is enormous. One cold-WaVe
warning has tied up in round houses and
~
car loads of fruit and potatoes between
the Twin Cities and Kansas City alone and
it would be a great undertaking to estimate
the many hundreds Of carloads cared TOT
in ali other sections to which the same
warning was sent. Hhe saving 10 Vege-
table and fruit growers by the cold-WaVe
and frost warnings last winter mas Deen
| estimated by very careful and 1mparLlal
men to be about $2,500,OlO.
Other special warnings give timely no
tice of severe and destructive storms fer
the benefit of lake and coastWlse COM
merce, and the exactness and accuracy
of this branch of the service is SHOWN
by the fact that during the past fcur
years no general storm of a dangerous
| character has visited any part OF the
United States, the coming of which mas
not been announced to the interests con-
Reports received from points along the
path of the September hurricane in SOUTH
ern ports of the United States and on
the Great Lakes state that shipping ag-
gregating in value millions of dollars re-
NAMED in port, and by so doing many
of them doubtless escaped the fate of
the warnings.
Special studies of weather ,forecasting
Scientific men, and it is confidently ex-
rected that the forecasts will become
of greater and greater value to our peo-
pie, and that with increasing facilities
for reaching the farming regions it will
not be very long before the farmer can
order his daily operations by the fore
casts, as does the CITY merchant.
During the past year some very en-
couraging experiments have been made
with wireless telegraphy, with view
of establishing communication between
vessels at sea and exposed points on our
lakes and seacoaStS, and 1t is hoped that
In the near future coastWlse and great
lake craft will be placed in instantaneous
comm unication with the weather bureau
stations nearest them.
Special storm forecasts are soon to be
undertaken for the North Atlantic ocean
for fho han Of hot no RI of
traVerSed by the ocean liners through
the use of reports received from the West
Indies, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Azores
and Portugal.
In the bureau of animal industry en-
couraging work is being done in the in
vestigation of the diseases of our dOmes-
tic animals, which will soon be the saw
Ing to our people of millions of dollars
annually
In the division of entomology careful
study is being made in the investigation
of injurious insects and the discovery of
means for controlling or destroying them
and foreign insects are being closely
watched in order that none of the unde-
shable ones may gain entrance to our
fields.
Seed and plant Introduction is receiving
extensive attention, special stress being
laid on the Importation of valuable cere-
and fruits
The evening session Of the Minnesota
State Agricultural society at the capitol
building was under the auspices of tie
Minnesota Stock Breeders association.
The house of representatives was we'll
flied, but owing to the fact that many
who were booked to speak did not make
an appearance the programme was not
as long as it would otherwise have been.
Following were the speakers on the gen
eral subject, cattle: Prof Thomas Sh wv.
John J. Furlong and j. c. Mills. c. w.
Hale, Prof. Shaw. Thomas Keough spoke
about sheep, and George Craig. Charles
Kenning, c. II. Murphy A. w EIson
and Edgar Tyson on swine
Prof. Shaw's first speech was in part
as follows:
Cattle kept for meat and milk pro-
duction always will be the class of cat
tie that will predominant on the average
farm. Especially will this be true of
farms rich in production, and more par
ticularly will it be true of those large
enough to maintain from ten cows up-
wards. or even a less number, so that a
cream separator can be kept upon the
farm. There are several reasons WHY it
should be so, the chief of Which are the
following: Good milk production and
good beef production are not incompati-
BILE in the one animal Growing animals
for milk and meat will ensure the more
profitable consumption of all the varied
| food products grown upon the farm
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