The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-08-28
AGRICULTURAL.

Reports generally from Nebraska,
shows the wheat crop to be fair, going
from 6 TO 20 bushels per acre, oats are
vary heavy averaging nearly 80 bushels
per acre. All small grains have been
gathered i'll good condition. The corn
crop will be the best over harvested in
the state.
KNEE SPRUNG HORSES.
Fl. a. B., Eagle Rapids, Smith Co.,
Kan.-Query: Is there any cure for a
horse that is knee sprung? If so, what
should be the remedy for it?
Reply: Although this deformity most
ly arises from work. it is sometimes met
with as natural formation of horses. If
not natural formation, it is generally
the consequence of work, and may be
due to contraction of the iexor
tendons. Liberty on pasture for some
length Of time, say two to three months
is very beneficial, end often has the effect
Of lessening the crookedness. Remedial
applications, with view of Strengthening
the legs, generally prove Intellectual.
Horses with such legs should have shoes
with corks, but with no toe piece.
POLL EVIL.
1. s., Charleston, ll.-Query: have
a horse that think is taking the poll
evil. 1t is considerably swollen, very
sore on one side. not broke. Can you
tell me remedy through the Prairie
Farmer and oblige subscriber?
Reply: Clip the hair short over the
extent of the sore place, and apply bis
ter, composed of one part of powdered
cantharides and three parts OF hogs lard.
Let the animal go loose in a box stall or
shady place, and use no halter. If it
does not break and discharge within a
week, apply another blister. Meanwhile
| apply q coat of lard to the blistered place
| every day. When the abscess opens,
enlarge the orifce, backwards and for
wards, and after cleaning it out once or
twice daily, apply a suficiency of tine
ture CT iron, by means of a small linen
swab, SO that it comes in contact with the
| whole Of the inner surface.
OREGON WHEAT.
The Willamette Farmer of August g.,
says a great calamity has fallen upon the
l fo, int &c -,
| the rusting of Spring wheat from the
Columbia river to the California line and
| in manner never before known there,
and that much of the crop, it is found,
| will be severely damaged, and some of it
entirely ruined; but adds: that it is
claimed BY men used to rust in Califor-
mia that the worst of the fields will still
be worth cutting, and that most of them
will make fair crop. Mr.. Wilkins,
president of the State Agricultural Socie-
ty, is reported as expressing similar
| views, and as feeling confident that the
harvest will not be seriously impaired.
In summing up, it says: The late
| spring sowing was due to continued
| heavy rains through March and April,
which brings the growing season in such
cases to the last of July, whereas if the
grain had been sown in February, March
| and April, it would have all been ahead
| of danger and so advanced that the sun
| of July would have no such disastrous
effect, owing to the heavy rains all the
winter and spring farmers sowed spring
wheat month later than usual, so that
1t IS growing vigorously at a time when
it ought to ripen. The acreage the pres
ent season is much larger that ever be-
fore, yet Ii the yield is equal to last
year, farmers will be fortunate.