The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-07-25

USE OF FLESH OR MILK OF APHTHoUs
CATrLE.-Professor Dammann has lately
renewed, with great care, the inquiry as
to the wholesomeness of flesh or milk of
cattle that have been affected with the foot
and mouth disease, and has come to the
conclusion that the use OF these substances
cannot be forbidden with sound reason.
He states that the flesh is absolutely
harmless, and its use should be allowed
under any circumstances, taking care in
every case that the slaughtering be done
in one and the same place, in order that
no new locality be unnecessarily tainted
by the liquids resulting from the opera
/ ton.
In reference to using the milk, he states
that should any misgiving be felt, it may
be converted into butter or cheese, in
which case it is absolutely harmless. No
reliable instances could be found, in the
course of long and careful inquiry, Of
any infection or disease having been com.
municated to mankind or the lower ami
mails by eating the flesh of animals thus
afflicted, or by drinking their milk. The
author concludes by saying that it is en-
inently right and proper that legal and
other precautions be taken against the
propagation of the disease in living ami
mails, but that these measures should
always be subordinated to the general
principles which have now been fairly es.
tablished.
ACTION OF PoTAsm ON FRUIT TREEs.-
DR.. George B. Wood, in late commune
cation Of the American Philosophical So.
ciety, in Philadelphia, presented the re-
suit of certain experiments made by him
upon the effect Of salts of potassa whom
applied to grain and frut-producing soils.
In his view, the depreciation of the pro-
ductiveness Of apple, peach, and ounce
orchards is due to the exhaustion of pot
ash from the soil Several of such or.
chards, formerly very valuable, but which
had within few years ceased to bear
much fruit, on being treated with an ap-
plication of wood ashes to the roots of
the trees, became completely revived,
producing full crops the following year.
A still more striking effect was seen the
second year, under renewal of the ap.
plication. He cited several other instan-
ces where the same results followed in
one case where an apple orchard, planted
on an old orchards site, which had never
borne fruit, was made to produce n good
crop by the application Of ashes.
Hr-on
Monterey County is a great sheep-walk.
Flint, Bixby & Co., of San Juan, on 200,.
600 acres Of land grave $4,000 sheep and
thousands Of cattle. We learn that they
sheared this spring over 100000 pounds
of wool realizing s55 900. The Breens,
on $4,000 acres, feed 5000 sheep and
large numbers of cattle and horses. P.
Vacca & Co. have 10000 sheep Herman.
DEE, 10000; j. D. Carr, $4,000; F. j.
Dounelly, 10000; A. Mitchell, $500;
Reynolds & Russell, 5000; Gooderich &
Baker, 5000; Moore, 1000 Pendleton,
1900; Gorgan, 1900 DR.. Matthews,
1900; d. Wilson, 1900; D. Dodge,
1000; W. II. Stone, 1000 j, W. Stone,
5000; n. Crooks, 1000; +. James,
1900; Wilcox & Bro, 5000; U, Mat.
thews, 1000; T. Butter6eld Il Son,
1000, besides 200 Angora goats, worth
from 500 to 500 each The total Of all
the above focks is 203, 500 sheep.
THIN SEEDING.-George Wilkins, Wix
Nicarage, (England,) a correspondent of
the Gardeners Chronicle, gives the results
of his experience as follows: For four
teen years in succession he never exceed
ed two pecks, or sixteen quarts, of seed
wheat to the acre, and sometimes used less
than one peck, and yet, in each of two Of
those years he harvested SO bushels of
wheat to the acre, and the average of the
fourteen crops in fourteen years was "A
bushels to the acre. The seed was sown
with q drill One of the conditions
necessary to the production of large crops
from thin seeding he states to be the SOW
ing of the seed early in the fall, that the
plants may have fair start before the
setting in of winter. Thorough drainage
he also deems an essential condition.