The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-20

TOPICS FOR THE FARM.
Quantity of Bread In a Barrel Of
FlOur.-A correspondent writes to Lefeps |
Neare: You have an article in your |
January number, from the Prairie |
Former, signed "Iowa," in which the |
writer says the Minnesota -four will |
make two hundred and seventy to two
hundred and eighty pounds of bread to
the barrel, while that of Michigan will
not make more than two hundred and
forty pounds, and asks, in great surprise,
" Can this be trueW It has long been
we'll known that wheat consisting
entirely, or almost so, Of starch will not
make nearly so much bread as that con-
tanning large proportion of gluten. 1t
is well recognized fact that Michigan
wheat is almost entirely composed of
starch, and that accounts for the smaller
amount of bread in the barrel of -four.
The Fultz wheat, now being introduced
into this section, has little or no gluten
in it. 1t is largely grown in the
Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, and,
has been ruinous to the -four trade of
the millers. The Clawson wheat is also
being introduced here, and is very
popular with farmers on account of its
prolific yield, but it, like the Fultz, is
almost if not entirely destitute of
gluten. The -four lacks strength, and
will therefore make but small yield of
bread, and is universally condemned by
nooH hoE Eorz onlyr fhot
but because it will not make a large
sized loaf in proportion to its weight
No miller making high grade of -four
dares to buy it at any price. A choice
grade of flour can not be made of either
Fultz or Clawson wheat: this is the
| universal testimony of all who have
tested them. Farmers should avoid
| sowing them A word in season to the
wise is sufficient.
Hog cholera Commission Extended
The following is from the Cincinnati
| Commercial: cit is vain to extenuate "
Yetthe Commissioner of Agriculture has
hopes of doing the pork raisers some
good, and indirectly benefting the
country at large. He has directed
Professor James Law, of Cornell
University, ard Professor J. Fl. Detmers,
of Chicago, to continue their investiga-
tions of the plague among swine until
further orders. 1t is well, perhaps, to
| investigate still further, yet the COM
mission of six spent the ten thousand
dollars, and we have no report yet. The
| doctors do not seem able to agree. DR..
Voyles says that in examining cases of
disease from fifteen herds, he finds in
every case disease of the lungs. He
feels " fully warranted in pronouncing
the disease in its miller manifestation,
bronchial catarrh, and in its most active
| form, catarrhal pneumonia" He thinks
no specific remedy will be discovered,
and that measures of prevention must
be relied upon.
DIR. Salmon, of North Carolina, one
of the Commission, thinks it g is nothing
more or less than contagious pleuro-
pneumonia, identical with contagious
1 pleuro-pneumonia of England, propa-
gated in probably nine hundred and
| 1linetv-nine cases out of every thousand
by contagion."
| He thinks it may be exterminated, or
arrested, by promptly killing and bury
ing all infected animals, and thoroughly
disinfecting the premises. s
DR.. Detmers, who is ordered to con-
tinue the investigations, entirely rejects
the theories ofiDrs. Voyles and Salmon.
He F." has thoroughly satisfied himself
that the disease is caused by the presence
of small microscopic bodies belonging
to the family bacteria, and the germs
bacillus These bacella permeate the
blood in every part of the diseased
animal They cluster and obstruct the
finest capillary vessels in the lungs, the
heart, the pleura, the pericardium, and
also the capillary Emphatic glands:
carry exudations and blood extravasa-
tions in the lungs, the pleura, the
pericardium, the heart, and more or
less enlargement of all the lymphatic
glands.
The disease is propagated only by
contagion. The bacteria may enter the
system through the stomach or by
! incubation. A hog that has been
affected may inoculate other, swine two
months after ithas apparently recovered.
He has no hopes of cure. He is
satisfied that the same disease exists in
Eurore under various names, and it was
undoubtedly imported to this country.
He recommends destroying all infected
hogs, and active measures for preventing
contagion. He thinks a hog once
| affected never again can be entirely
healthy. DIR. Detmers has gone little
; deeper into the subject than the others
! They have attempted to name The
disease. He has given the bacteria as
the cause. Our observation of the
: various ways in which the animals ot
l the same herd are affected, can be
accounted for on the bacteria theory.
The different swine have different
symptoms, indicating in one case affec
ton of lungs, another of heart, another
of kidneys, another of digestive organs
according as the bacteria may have
7 most clustered and most obstructed tht
( normal fur uctions of that organ.
. But this theory of DR.. Detmers' il
T not new. It was advanced before tht
Commission was formed.
!, Will the Doctor tell us if the bacteri;
have been discovered by the microscope
"Seeing is believing"
y Farmers, we know enough of tn
plague to know that it is contagious.
u Now let us use common sense ant
prevent its spread from herd to herd
from farm to farm, from pen to pen.
We can check its spread by quaran
timing our own herds, by not allowin,
hogs to run at large, by not shipping
n any diseased animals, and especially lie
US never buy stockers at city yards t
e take to our farms to feed. Pens becom
! thoroughly infected, so healthy swim
a may be inoculated by passing throug
IL them. By keeping affected animal
{, from our own herds, and by strict atten
ton to the sanitary condition of ou
e own herds we may hope to keep tn
u !, plague at bay.
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