The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-10-19

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

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ma, 1. Murrain, or the Texas Cattle
PIaege.
i've notice the disease, whose name is
Heed at the head of this article, has
its appearance in Illinois, Ono,
New York, Tennessee, and probably IN
states, and that northern veterinary
,%ufgeous, having little experience in the
trsstment of the malady, have mistaken
NJ cause and character. The oldest
,ecord of this plauge is in Egypt, where
tis indigenous in a cotton region rs 1t Is
n bur sea.land cotton climate from The
tiae water district of Virginia to the Rio
Before the exodus oil the
|sraeIites it is thus referred to. oil thou
to let the Hebrews go, and wit
bold them still, behold the hand of the
IOrd is upon thy cattle which is in the
ied, upon the horses, upon the asses,
don the camel, upon the OK and upon
he sheep, there shall be a grevious MUIR
xin: and the Lord shall sever between
M cattle of Israel and the cattle OF
&ypt, and there shall nothing die OF all
Id children of Israel, And the Lord
Id that thing on the morrow"
7This plauge is mentioned or described
" Honor, Hippocrates, Plutarch, Livy
IA Virgil; while its history from the
"a OF Virgil to the present day Is exceed
Fly interesting. 1t was the prevalence
II a highly contagious and fatal cattle
Mer in Europe about one hundred n
Wenty-6ve years ago that caused the
ikt veterinary school to be established
d the continent, The true cause OF TINS
nalarisl disease was not known until
tie recently and only those physicians
Iho make it a part Of their professional
ptv to keep posted in the rapid progress
I science appear TO understand the
Veterinary doctors in Limos
hd Ohio have very sapiehtly tod Tue
eblic that the numerous TICKS Oh
outhern cattle well known to many OF
b. readers) produce the fever corruP,
bn and death. They might as Wen
scrlbe the manger in the dog to the bite
4 Hess, or the rot and tlukes in the liver
/ The sheep to ticks in its wool. Wen
fen practice the healing art on farm
tock with little reading aud less science
he light of truth GENES not when the
lind lead the blind, but from systematic
tudv and research.
Texas cattle, full Of the germs OF MUIR
bin, brought to Louisiana, as to New
)rleans market, do not give the disease
d cattle there, because the local climate
! malarial like that of Texas. Bring
hese cattle to the healthy, non-malarlal
Gstricts of Tennessee, and southern
0gsnisms of pestilence find new ana
fesh pastures, and cattle susceptible TO
pisOnS Southern cattle improve IN a
healthier climate, while northern ANIMALS
be from southern centagion
. One form of sickness is contagious, an
pther is not. We shall try to make this
question of contagion plain to u agrl-
cultural friends. Cows drinking water
Tom springs or brooks that have copper,
bad or arsenic salts in solution, IN a
nlDeral district, may poison, little by
little, their blood, milk and flesh. Such
pix sickness is not contagious tor the
essOn that no delelerious molecule of
Petal earth or gas a multiply itself,
lnd pass indefinitely from n animal or
person to another. With living germs,
whether plant or animal, the case is
1iferent. All parasites, whether visible,
ike nits and lick, or invisible like
|tickine, not only spread from one post
b another, but multiply their species
Eith astonishing rspidity. The farmer
lhOuld know that every contagion and
halarial disorder breeds true to its
30 that the organisms OF yellow
ever can not produce cholera, nor the
germs OF cholera give existence TO yellow
ever. Murrain IL a thing of Lire, and
should be dealt with accordingly. In
lected animals should be wholly isolated,
lleansed by csthartics and strengthened
by strong bitters, as a decoetion of cherry
willow and poplar bark.
Many parasitic contagious are expelled
sulphur and to give cattle, sheep,
hogs and herses a lick of equal parts of
talt and sulphur placed within their
reach, throws the sulphur remedy into
'helr systems to act as a preventive or
iure. For persons laboring under any
common malarial disease, one may take
Pqual parts of sulphur and cream of
tartar, In moderate doses, morning and
evening.
Draining all swamps will do much to
purify the atmosphere, and lesson its
humidity. A useful book might be
written on murrain climate of the south,
urawlng the line that bounds it on the
uoIth IRON James river in Virginia to
ne western bounds OF Texas. In another
siuoie we will cite authorities illustra.
i've oil this ine.---Ndshotue american.