The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-11-14

prevented by the proper care and treat
ment of animals. The doctor gives adj
dresses to the farmers in towns where he
goes. informing the people as to the nat
ural cause and cure Of the disease. He
will next visit ILLINOIS, and return to
Northern Iowa, where he will 60 through
the infected districts. Farmers who have
the opportunity should 20 and hear his
talks, and learn how TO treat even a hog
decently.
WATER FOR BEES.
4 correspondent of the Pacific Rsrdi
Press writes as follows about giving wa
ter regularly to bees: Water Is some
thing we cannot get along without
THERE'S great quantity used by the bees
on hot day to keep the combs from met
ing down. besides what is used in feeding
brood in the latter part Of the season.
When the wind blows from the east. hot
and dry. ! have known the bees TO use "A
pound day to the hive, allowing sui
ticient quantity for evaporation. A bee :
life is governed, We might say, 10y the
work i, does, and if IT has to fly hong way
for water. II cannot during ITS life
bring the honey to its owner It could II
the water was handy. Wet sand Is the
best tor bees to suck water from, for none
are drowned. Ii looks to me a. If the
old bees carry the most water. ! water IN
troughs. and ON closely examining the
troughs find good many in the evening
dead. and others wet and cold. | should
Judge ninety per cent of these are old and
worn out. their wings notched and broken.
| have known an apiary of 800 or 100
stands TO carry from forty 70 sixty gallons
per day. 1t Is not policy to have IT too
close, for bee will circle about so much
anyhow when he comes and goes; one or
two hundred yards think is about right.
A small trough of salt and water in the
height of the breeding season is always
covered with bees. In some Locations
there are natural salt springs. on which
the bees work the whole season.
.'sLuDGE ACID FOR INSECTS.
A writer in the paper mentioned below,
has the following on this subject: The
readers of the ImericaH IgricniturisI
probably know of the hue and cry that has
been made in New York about the use by
the fertilizer makA of what is called
sludge acid-that is, the sulphrric acid
which has been employed in extracting
the impurities from petroleum. and which
| by the process becomes highly charged
| with oily matters. and emits IA nauseou,
oior The superphosphate of lime mad,
with this. retains 10 considerable extent
its peculiar. pungent, aromatic, and
very disagreeable odor Now, insects ar,
sensitive to odors. ahd | find that wire
worms avoid potatoes where this fertilizer
is used, and that my corn has not been
troubled with cut WORMS and white grub'
whrre this was on or near the surface.
attribute the freedom 10 the presence
| of the sludge acid used in the manufae'
ture of the supersphosphate, and amconti'
dent that it does no harm 10 the plants.
GREEN FOODS.
II is remarked by a Germa paper that
there is great difference IN the nutritiye
qualities of different foods, commonl,
known As green foods. and also that they
vary with the age of the plant: thus IN
clover and lucern the most important sub
stances or principles decrease in quality a.
the plants grow older. This materially
alters the nourishing properties. and the
| feeder has 10 guard against this deterior
alton by changing the food, or by the AT
dition of a little dry food and hay and IN,
like, cut and mixed. There are some adj
vantages in dry food which cannot b,
found IN green: for instance. when cut II
proper time and well secured. there Is !
large proportion OF saccharine matter II
dry hay, clover and lucerne, which doe
not exist IN green state. On the othel
hand, there Is no change Tor the better IN
green fodder as II grows Older, but quit
the reverse. as the fibre becomes mor'
woody.
NEW MEXICAN Ant TRArs.
In New Mexico the following method %
ea'chih2 ant u oo'h PpPu'"i al" ~