The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-06
Kansas Farminx.

Grasshoppers will net eat growing
fax hops or castor beans. All can
be raised with profit. There Is safety
and profit in q variety Of crops.
Manhattan Nationalist: Judge
| Emmons and Welcome Wells report
their bees doing well. Those that the
Judge wintered in his cellar consumed
but nine pounds of honey, against
twenty-four pounds that would other
wise have been needed.
Mr.. Martin Winger, Of Euphrata,
Pa, owns 96e acres of land on Silver
creek, Chase county, and is negotiat-
ing for the purchase of 1900 acres
more. Mr.. Winger proposes to go
into sheep raising on an extensive
scale. He will bring eight families
from Euphrata with him.
M. C. Newton, of Cottonwood Falls,
has cow, although not q Thorough
bred" Is eQuaf to the best. Over q
pound OF butter per day was made
from her milk during the menths OF
Jan. and Feb. The income from sales,
over and above what was used by the
family averaged S1.1O per week. The
butter was sold at twenty cents per
pound.
Eureka Herald: T. L. Holloway
came to the Herald Office a few days
ago, and showed US q cottonwood tree
OF tive years growth that was four
teen feet high and seven ana one-half
inches in circumference at the butt.
This was upland growth.
A Kansas farmer purchased q revolt
yer for his wife, and insisted on tar
got practice, so that she could defend
her house in case of his absence. Al
ter a bullet had been dug out of his
leg and the COW buried, he said he
guessed that she had better shoot with
an ak.
The Sedalis (Mo.) Democrat has
this to say about hog cholera. Why
don't it publish the receipt:
DIR. J. w. Gray, a practicing physi-
clan and q scientific gentleman, who
resides on q farm near Calhoun, in
Henry county. has devoted the past
eighteen months to investigate the
disease called the hog cholera. This
name, however, is a missioner, as the
disease is nothing like the cholera.
The Doctor has large herd of hogs,
and has every facility to study closely
the disease and administer curatives.
The Doctor says that the malady Is
| an eruptive contagion, and is more of
| type of measles than anything else,
! and runs its course with the swine in
a similar manner that the disease
does with the human race. The con-
tagion is as easily cured as the mea-
I sies. There il no preventative when
/ an animal has been exposed to one
! that is diseased.
The disease Is very likely to locate
in the kidneys or bowels, and no: on
the lungs, as many think, although it
sometimes settle there.
The Doctor found but one instance
1 where the lungs were affected, out of
1 large number of cases that he treat
4 cd.
The treatment is very simple and
/ cheap, and he offers to furnish the re-
ceipt and instructions for the use of
the remedy to any one who will make
4 application to him, by letter or other
wise, at Calhoun, Mo. He further of
fers to take any herd where the dis
ease is raging and have them apprais-
ed, when he will give security for the
payment of the appraised valuation
upon any animal that dies, provided
he is given the hog that is saved.
The Doctor will lay the matter be-
/ fore the Legislatures of Missouri and
I Illinois, and will claim the rewards Of
SIC, 900 offered by each of the States.
The receipt and directions have been
1 left at this Office and will be Furnish
/ ed to the owners Of hogs. We are
anxious to have It tested, and hope
| that some of our friends will call at
once; as the Doctor invites a trial.