Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-12-11

which is sometimes very 0
from cold or an attack of u,
treatment is to give haif-ounce doses of sulphr
(not sulphate) of soda, with five grains of pow
dered Spanish fly, at night, in cut feed for seve.
raj weeks, or until the discharge is stopped. The
nOstrils may be washed with chlorinated soda
solution, and chloride of lime should be plen,i-
fully sprinkled upon the stable floor Il is not
at all improbable that a confirmed case of catarrb
may degenerate into the dangerous disease,
gIanders, through absorption of the pus or dis
charge into the blood and its consequent poison
ing. The Distinguishing marks of glanders are
an enlarged gland under the jaw, ulcers upon the
lining membrane of the nose, and greenish dis
charge which often dries upon the nostrils. This
discharge is 4 virulent and deadly poison to both
man and beast. There is no cure for glanders,
and the diseased animal should be destroyed
A REMARKABLE Cow.-On June 3, 1871, a COW
belonging to John Harmon, colored man living
ON farm belonging to Mr.. Joseph Colgan, and
, situated about five miles from this place dropped
four calves. They were & male and three f.
males. The male calf was dead when fouud.
but all the others survived some time On Aug.
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time, all of which were perfectly formed. On
Saturday uight, November IA, she dropped three
more calves, all of which, at this writing, arc
alive and doing well. This makes ten calves
which this little COW has dropped in the short
space of three years, five months and eleven
Gays. The COW is only six years old, and was
raised and sold to John Harmon by Mrs Conrad
Opper, of this place.--PriaccSs 47aas Sontersst
( Cop1stJ) True l1rylander.
AGRICULTURAL CHEmsTRY.--Dr. Lee, a dis
tinguished agricultural writer and chemist, said
in an address before the New York Agricultural
Society 81 regard it as one of the greatest dis
coveries of the age, that about % per cent of
the ingredients which make up the whole sub
stance of wheat, rye, barley, oats, peas, and
bears exist in the air in inexhaustble Quantities
To transmit these aeriform bodies into the plants
above named, and into grass and roots, at the
smallest expense, is the object of nearly all your
hard work. This was spoken thirty years ago.
aud the doctor says that views then expressed
will not now be called in question. The use OF
clover and plaster to enrich the land he advises
as The most ready means to accomplish the OBJ
ject of transmitting these gases into the plants
named by him.
/ INSECTS on C4TTLE.-A correspondent after
having experimental to his hearts content with
several kinds Of greese, tobacco water, kerosene
ashes, anguentum, &C., for killing lice on cattle
has arrived at the conclusion that sulphur sprnk-
| led on the animals, and well rubbed into the
hair, and Z tablespoonful of ginger in meal daily
for week, is the simplest, safest and surest
remedy he has ever tried.
! The MODEL SHEEP MAS-The best sheep man
we ever heard of was a soldier of StoneBan Jack
son, who saw somewhere how yalua bic are sheep
for renovatng worn out land, and after the cruel
war was over, he went home to his poor farm,
and bought thirteen ewes-alI that, fortunately,
he was able to buy. He put them in a small
field of briars and weeds, which they soon de-
Stroyed. Then he fed them on bran and meal in
the winter, and in the spring he had thirteen
fine lambs. Saving the manure, he planted the
old briar patch with corn and harvested fine
crop. All his spare time was devoted to caring
| for the sheep. The next spring he had more
lambs he was able to plant more corn then
came more lambs, when he sowed clover and
grew turnips; aud now, to-day, as 4 result of
such small beginnings, he has several hundred
fine young sheep, free from disease, bringing
him $4,000 year, while his farm has become
extremely fertile, and he is a rich man. We
know thousands and thousands of poor young
men have free course open to them to become
wealthy by beginning in the same way.
Bat the trouble is, the way is too humble and
slow; they want to get along faster; they have
no patience, no faith, no pluck. Truly, it does
seem small business to watch dozen sheep, as
If 1t were beneath the attention of bright Ameri-
can youth but if said youth will look the sub
ject al over, he will see it worthy Of all his DOW
ers. young man can well afford TO sit down
with dozen sheep on the plains, live in a dug
out, and feed on antelope meat, rather than un-
dertake to become independent in city on 4
clerkshp of 81 ,OOO year --T-iJune.
We see it stated that the cheese-make in the
"western reserve Ohio, purpose to send a
mammoth cheese to the Centennial Exposition.
The weight of this mammoth, should the project
be carried out, is set down at twenty-eight thou
sand pounds, or fourteen tons, and will be tkir-
teen feet broad by eleven deep. 1t is to be made
in two days time, in May, 1876, and will be en-
braced by an iron hoop made in Pittsburg. A
car to carry it will be made expressly for It.
The statement goes on TO say, ''After it has been
looked upon sufficiently, it will be cut up and
distributed to the four quarters of the GLOBE
Should this proposition be carried out, it will be
a very tall feather in the cap of the western re-
serve lactiferaus manipulators. GeYmaatou7s
Telegraph.