Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-01-14
Agricultural.

THE SHEEP MAoGoT.-Shepherding In
England requires a careful counting
twice every day, more particularly In
July and August, for the black beetles
there strike the same as the fly; and
the maggots are striped along the back
with a blackmark they are so large
and yoracious that they sooa get into
the poor sleeps insides and cause
death. In showery and sultry weather,
in summer, the beetle viii strike IN any
damp place in the wool, especially if
soiled with the sleeps own dung or by
lying down on cows droppings. A
shepherd becomes practised so that he
can detect the place where ''hy blown
or blown fly beetles, before maggots
have begun to worry the sheep; and,
by applying some lotion (mercury water
which he generally carries in his pocket
when the animals are in many fields, as
they generally are, the evil Is checked
at once; bnt when an oversight has
given time for the maggots to begin
gnawing at the skin, the animal struck
will be very uneasy, lying down and
rising again directly, running fast some
steps and then stamp; and il it has
sought some private corner, or other
place ont Of sight, 1t has become sick
from the continued worry, and the shep-
herd finds 1t as soon as, on counting,
one is seen to be missing. However, a
shepherd feels himself disgrGced when
the maggots are allowed TO get this
headway before being discovered; hence,
every careful shepherd viii, with the
~ 4, tra ha m
every field, steadily along, so that he
can look closely into the wool on each
sheep as they file past him or as he
slowly goes by them and after viewing
one side, he goes round and examines
the other; or when he has frst-class
dog, that sagacious creature will make
the whole number lengthen out SO that
they can be clearly looked all over in a
few minutes. The shame felt by the
shepherdw when maggots get large enough
TO break the skin badly is because the
wool comes off and the mark remains
till after the next shearing.
LIVE SrOcK TO PoPULATtoS. - Pro
fessor ThOrold Rogers. of Oxford Uni
versity, England, has male up curious
return of the proportion OF domesti-
Gated live stock to population in the
most prominent countries OF the world.
IL shows the following results:
Great Britain-One COW to every IL
persons one sheep to every person,
and one pig TO every 10 persons.
France has a COW to every q persons
q sheep to every person, and pig to
every persons. .-
Swedenhas COW to every'3l persons
a sheep to every >! persons, and pig
to every I3 persons.
Norway has a COW to every ., sheeI
to l, and pig to every IS persons.
Denmark has COW to =, q sheep to !,
nd a pig to 5. persons.
49, russia has COW to ), sheep TO l,
and pig to persons.
Wur.emburg has COW 10 4, sheep
to q, and q pig 70 Z persons.
Bavaria has a COW 10 every !, a sheer
to every q, and pig to every Per
sons.
Saxony has a COW to Z, Il sheep to s.
and pig to every persons.
Holland has a COW to 4, sheep TO T.
and pig to every 10 persons.
Belgium has COW to Z, sheep to 3
and pig to every persons.
Austria has COW to 6, sheep to 2
and pig to every persons. 81
Switzerland has COW to 81, sheer
TO 3. and pig to every u persons.
The United States has a COW to 4 per
sons, a sheep to each person, and a pie
to every Il persons. ....
The Dominion of Canada is not in
cluded, the fgures not having yet beer
public. So far as the province of Onta
rio is concerned, the census returns oi
1871 will compare satisfactorily witt
those of any other country.