The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-03
AGRICULTURAL.

A farmer in Appannoose County,
Iowa, has 100 head Of stock cattle that
he has fed only three times this winter +;
they having been on pasture alIthe time;
and in good condition.
A wonderfully strange prejudice exists
against cattle without horns. The alb
surd and contemstuOus name ''muley'
sticks to them, although they may belong
to breed as old and as high-bred as the
short horns. e.is@'
Insects must be looked after now.
The cluster of eggs Of the Tent Cater
pillar may easily be seen against the sky
in a full day; they are be looked for as a
ring, about three fourths of an inch wide
near the ends of the twigs. Cutting
and burning one of these destroys about
500 caterpillars. ..,........
Some farmers in Waldo county, Me-,
are trying the Miller system of feeding
stock in winter, which consists Of corn
meal alone, disusing hay entirely. One
farmer in Unity has fed COW for
twenty days upon three quarts Of meal
daily, and the animal thrives. 1t is
said that COW can be wintered by this
system for S12.-Prairie Farmer.
The annual report of the Illinois de-
partment of agriculture places the hog
product of that State for 1877 at the
following figures Number of hogs as
sessed in May last, 1851, 1866 per cent
of hogs assessed in May last, 1861 1865
per cent of hogs assessed and marketed,
II; hogs marketed, 2,1l5,S04; average
gross weight, 253 pounds; total gross
weight, $50, 969,971. pounds; value of
hog product, $22, 738, SSI.
HARNESS should never be kept in the
stable where manure is constantly gen
Grating large quantities of amonia. This
amonia is rapidly absorbed by the leather,
and the effect upon the leather is about
the same as would result from saturating
it with strong I've. In a word, amonia
rots leather, and hence keeping harness
in the stable is sure to result in its dam
age, more or less. 's...--,.-'
The following prescription handed us
by Mr. T. Picket, of Buckley, ILL.,, and
given him by physician, he informs us
he has found good in that class Of diseases
usually denominated hog cholera. It is
as follows: i..,'. .......-., -''' 81
Black anthony ....g.....4... 49,. -. 2 OF
Ground ginger ............ ......!... $500 OF
Flour sulphur J.. -. .........i.- ..... OF
PulveriZed nitTe ..... -.... 49,. OF
Suphate OF iron 49,. =. T.. -. t..- 4 OF
Dose one tablespoonful for well grown
hing twice day. f.f p" .-f..its4.
AS preventive the same dose is. to be
used say four times a year, one dose a day
for week. The doses, Of course, to be
graduated according to the age of the hog.
Prairie Farmer. --------
However much short-horns may be
under cloud in America. English blue
bl0ods would seem to be at premium.
The North British Agriculturist says
@ We have reason TO believe that the Earlof
Dunmore has lately been offered 10, 00Q
guineas for his handsome two year old
daughter Of the celebrated Duchess 81
and 18th Duke of Geneva" The heifer
is nearly eight months gone in calf to the
beautiful young Oxford-DucfeSs bull now
5n service at Dunmore, and the only con-
dition accompanying the above extraOr
binary offer made by we'll known Eng
lish breeder) is. that the animal should
produce a live heifeF calf, --.-
Chambers in horses is one Of the worst
diseases 10 which the horse is subject, and
it is readily transmissibfe TO man, in
whom it Is almost invariably fatal. 1t Is
engendered by impure air, hard work
and low diet. Preventi6n-The nasal
disease may communicate the disease to
sound horse which is afterward placed
in the stall formerly occupied by the
diseased oneI The discharge adheres. to
the maneer and other parts Of the wood
work of the stall. The cleaning OF the
manger. and other parts of the stall may
be affected by scrubbing them wifi b5il.-
ing water, with strong solution of pot
ash and soda, and with q ,saiAtiosK of
chloride of lime, using a shevelfut sak Ii
to pailfui of water. - go
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