The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1870-06-02
Agriculture and stock Raising IN
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ln the report of the Agricultural
Department for the months Of March
and April, just issued, appears tho
following paragraph on the condition
Of the grain crop of Pennsylvania, as
reported to the Department by its
correspondents in different sections Of
lac state:
In more than half tho counties re.
ported The condition of wheat aud ryo
is placed below the average. not -
much FROM Water killing as from late
sounina.iun aud uuiayuratlo con liz
tious lvr growth before winter set .u.
lnjny from freezing and thawing is
reported ia Chester, Dauphin, Adams.
York, Greene, Mexican, aud Warren.
In the latter county the necessity for
draining ~ means Of exemption from
such injuries is reported. |, is sign,-
tieauty hntcj by tho Montgomery
reporter that wheat looks well where
Il was pu, in well II is also notice
able that it is not injured in limestone
districts, while in poorer slate soils
auG IN low Ig1ds it is more OF less winter
killed. While il is not SO good "a
usual in Mercer, there appears to have
been more than usual sown. IL pre-
>enis fair appearance in Cloarlcld,
FIX, and FraUklin; il unusually
Iue " in Fayctto; fine 10 Indiana; late
though not an average, in WeStmorc.
land and Somerset winter Killed ia
Cumberland thin and poor in Arul-
sroug. Lancaster, Lebanon, Beaver,
Erie, Forest, Lchigh aud Lawrence.
From the portion Of the report on
diseases Of catIi", itappcars that pleuro
pneumonia was the cause Of much loss
aud anxiety during the month Of April
in Chester aud Beaver counties, aud
near Chadd Ford, Oh the Octorara.
Report. OF the ravagcs Of the disease
kuown as g." black Leg are received
from Perry county. 1t is one Of tho
mos, general diseases affecting cattle,
and attack, calves and young cattle
maia'y alter leaving winter feed tor
pa-turagc. The following paragraph
From the report relative to " Spanish
lever - Is Ut interest
The passage OF laws TO prevent tho
summer driving Of southern cattle. and
their su'ict enforcement, have limited
the ios'e, from thi, disease in marked
degree. n few eases aro reported.
One in Chester county, PENNSYLVANIA,
furnishes another illustration of the
iuyariab.c and peculiar icatures of thi.
disease. Last sumner q lot Uf cattle
from North Carolina stopped at Avon.
dale. SoOu after they left, other cattle
turned int, the meadow they had oc.
cipiel became sick. some twenty
were attacked, aud about three. .fourths
OF them died No other cattle were
turned into The samc enclosure, AMI tho
disease did not spread further. Many
believed the ticks which infested tho
North Carolina cattle were ccmmuui,a-
tel to the Datiycs attacked, anl caused
the disease. There il no evidence
that these parasites have anything 70
DO with its diffusion or virlcncc. Z.
More or less fatality among horses
resulted from lunS lever during Aprll
ia Adams county. GIladcrs was re-
ported in Beaver county, and diptheria
in Chester. Many losses from collie
occurred in l.uaerne county, from i'll
treatment 81, aud in that county
twenty horses died in u mine from
some GuknOwn cause.
The losses Of swine by disease are
reported 20 be quito heavy in all sec.
tions OF the country. In Lancaster
counly, one distllcr lost one hundred
out OF three hundred (; miller los, all
Qhirieen) Western hogs, worth from
$50 to 500 each; one half OF lot Of
Ohio hogs died in York loss five per
cent. in Perry; twenty per cent. in
Lehigh .