The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-10

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all of these involved in one
general ruin. This has been, will be,
and must be, the end of this illegitimate
use of the bountiful soil which is made
to pour out its life in a few short years
of wasteful, riotous agriculture.
Manure-What to Do With It.-That
question is sometimes like the follow
ing: Money-what to do with it."
The manure is to be used wisely, but
how to make the best use of it is some
times a problem.
The wheat crop is Unexpectedly large,
and many farmers have not barn room
for it. They can not stack it, because
the wheat is heavy and in many places
fallen.
The sheaves made by the average
reaper are not in good shape for stack
ing. The manure is in the barnyard
when the straw-stack is to be built, and
the farmer to-day does not wish to haul
manure to the grain fields and plow it
under. He wants it for top dressing.
There are two remedies for our
dilemma. We can haul the wheat to
the stack yard and build ricks twelve
feet wide and cover with sixteen foot
boards. The wheat can be threshed
after seeding time, and the straw passed
into the barn-yard through the barn. In
this way the thresher can stand on the
barn floor, the best place on the farm for
it. Wheat should be hauled in as soon
as possible. The nay crop is short, and
straw is bright and plenty. 1t will pay
to save it. If we all had ample barn
room for storing our wheat and barley
we could do better farming, have better
feed, better stock, and care for it, all
with less labor and in better time, and
make more manure, and handle it at the
right time. If the barn-yard is full OF
manure, and the team can be spared from
the field, an extra hand can be well EN-.
ployed hauling and piling it in the wheat
field, ready for fall use. This is per
haps the best thing to do with it. Al
any rate, the barn-yards should be thor.
oughly cleaned before the surplus straw
is put in the barn-yard.
Manure will be greatly improved by
hauling it TO the wheat field and spread
ing later in the season. 1t will pay.
The Microscope in the Pig Pens.-
The agricultural editor of the Cincin
natl Commercial says: Some months
since, when the theory of bacteria as the
cause of hog cholera was advanced by
members Of the Ten-thousand-dolla
Commission, we called upon the learned
nine, who had just made visits to all the
sick pigs in the West, TO give us the re
suit of microscopic observations in proc
Of their theory. We stated then thai
" seeing was believing" and if bacteri,
did exist, a good microscope would dis
close them. Since then further obser
vations have been made, and D..
Detmers, prolific in names, has nance
the insects bacillus suis, because, he says
they are common only to this disease o
swine. The different members of tn,
commission had inoculated pigs, sheep
dogs and rabbits with the blood from dis
eased hogs, and in from nine to fourteen
days the inoculated animals were at
| tackled with disease. These germs o
bacilli were removed from the bloc
taken from diseased animals, aud health,
hogs were inoculated Herewith, but il
no case did disease follow. The infer
euce then was that the bacilli were tn
cause of the disease. Microscopic ez
aminations discovered this new order c
bacteria in all the fluids of the body. S
uniformly were bacilii found in th
blood, urine, mucus, and fluid exud,
tions, and even in the excrements an
diseased tissues, that DR.. Detmers claim
the bacilli to be the true infection
principle.
At about seventy degrees Fahrenhe
one of the globular germs budded an
grew twice the original length in w
hours, and gradually changed to the ro'
like form of the bacteria or bacilli. I'll
presence of oxygen is a necessary cond
ton of growth. When magnified eigl
hundred and fifty times they seem to
from one TO six inches long. After Il
rod-like form is assumed, knees or augl
appear, and then a separation tax
place, preceded by a swinging motion
the two ends. This motion lasts but
minute or two when the separated en-,
move apart. They seem capable of i
finite multiplication.
The rod buds, and ever-changing for
is noticed by close observation. Und
certain conditions, after the globul
form has budded, it ceases suddenly
grow, and the myriads have an afini
for one another and gather in clusters
irregular shapes. These clusters a
found in the blood, but in tuners tn,
are seldom found, but in their stead a
countless numbers of fully develop
bacteria. The immense numbers foul
in the excrements show a favEat
means for their dissemination.
AS soon as decomposition is well a
vanced they SCENT 70 lose their vitalit
which seems to account for the har.
less nature of thoroughly putrid su
~s'"nees when consumed by healtl
animals.
The vitality Of the germs seems to
affected especially by decomposition
the fluid in which they are found.
they are placed in a glass stopped bolt
ali air excluded, they will remain in t
same condition for five or six weeks.
air is admitted they develop according
the amount of oxygen and heat.
! In the water of steamboats,, ditch
, and ponds, their vitality is retain
J some time. They are destroyed VIII
: brought N contact with alcohol, carlo
: acid, iodine, and so on.
DIR. Law found in the blood of a d
: eased pig swarms of bacilli the seco
: day before death, all very active. 7
J blood from a pig inuculated from t
above showed same living germs
abundance.
s The blood of a sheep, a rabbit, inc;
? lated from the first named pig, show