The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-10
SHE Alba amp Regjster.
SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1869.
AGRICULTURAL.
INTESTINAL WORMS.

people against the fatal practice of eating
uncooked pork, in any of its forms, and
whether smoked or unsmoked; and says
that of the many scores of persons who
| have died of 1richina Spirais in this
country, every one had eaten either raw
ham or raw sausage, or some other un-
cooked or partially cooked preparation of
pork. All kinds of flesh used as food
should be thoroughly cooked before eaten
for the editor found in one instance that
| the flesh of the wild duck (Mallard) was
full of parasites, similar to those which
produce what is commonly known as
''measly" pork. Speaking of the intesti-
nal worms (Entozoa) known to inhabit
various parts Of the human body, the
Entomozogist says:
''It is now satisfactorily proved that
the Tape-wor1n originates from the pas
sage into the human intestlnes of little
bladder-like creatures (Cystadids) which
inhabit the liver and other parts of the
hog, and, when abundant cause the meat
of that animal to be technically known
as measly pork. And the notorious
7zichina soiirazis, which is very minute
worm, also found in the flesh of the hog,
in the same insidious manner, and, when
in excessive numbers, cause excruciating
paine in the muscles, and sometimes even
| death In both these cases, cooking
destroys the worms, and prevents them
from finding their way alive into the
body of the living and breathing man,
and there incre easing and multiplying.
But the same law prevails in all such
eases as these, namely, that there is no
fear whatever Of any of these animals
being introduced into the human body,
except through the dangerous and every
way exceptionable practice of eating raw
meat. Neither are we safe by simply
abstaining altogether from pork. The
flesh of wild uck, and probably that of
many other animals hitherto unsuspected
and supposed to be peculiarly cleanly,
may prove to be as dangerous as that of
the hog provided it be eaten raw or only
partially cooked"
| ToP-GRAFTING OLD APPLE TREES.
| A correspond ent of the Prairie Farmer
thinks it better to regraft old trees (if
not enfeeblea by age) than to set young
ones-although it generally costs about
| 81 so to regraft tree of twenty -four
limbs, or to set six young trees. They
make much stronger growth of shoots,
come into bearing earlier, and are in less
danger Of injury by mice, rabbits, sheep,
&c. He recommends for this purpose
the Fourth of July apple, Ben Davis,
Crimes Golden Pippin, Willow Twig
and stark-all fair and productive Wes-
tern sorts. He carefully avoids the
) common practice of cleft-graftins into
the limbs some twenty or thirty feet up,
but inserts the scions into the sprouts
near the centre of the head.
PRETTY POOR PRACTICES.
It is pretty poor practice for a farmer
to dig and delve, tug and grub, and clear
up fifty acres of land at cost OF 81 900.
and then in a third year surrender about
one-ffth of it to the briars, hrambles,
and oxeyed daisies.
Poor practice to half manure, hall
plow, half seed, and half cultivate a field
and then harvest from it half a crop.
To keep two inferior, scrawney, scrut
cows for dairy purposes, that give less
milk than one good one, and consume
more more food than three.
To depend upon borrowing your
neighbor's rakes, mowers, and all sort:
of implements in haying and harvest
time.
To house up thousand bushels O.
: grain waiting for rise till one-tenth has
gone to feed rats and mice, and the re
mainder smells like the the essence O.
Il rat, and the price is down 40 per cent
To plant out big orchard of choice
fruit trees with first thought of money
making, and leave them to do or die.
It is poor policy not to keep posted OF
the market value Of the products yo,
: raise, and to allow spectators to mak'
: !, more money out of your labor than yo'
do yourself. So take the papers.
TESTING FLOUR.
Place thimbleful of flour in the pain
of the hand, and rub it gently with tn
9 finger Of the other hand. IL the fou
!. IS smooths down under the finger, feelin.
is silky and slippery, it is Of inferior quality
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