The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-11
AGRICULTURE


in cattle, and if there is any cure for
Replv;-Among the causes OF the
eo-cailed black leg may be mentioned
a plethoric condition Of the body,
from too high keep, or too rich feod
in large quantity especially, when it
suddenly succeeds sparer diet. Also,
a change from poor to rich and lux
urious pasturage, especially in spring
and early summer. Ill-drained lands
are also considered productive of this
disease. The nslady is peculiar to
Young stock. In regard to treatment,
bleeding should only be resorted to
in the very Beginning of the disease;
later, it will only hasten fatal iesue.
The following purgative medicine
may be used. Take an ounce each
OF common soda and Barbados aloes;
die,soIYe it in half a.pint of hot water,
and add to the solution when cool. an
ounce OF turpentine; also dissolve q
pound of EPSON salts in quart oil
not water. Mix these two solutions
together, and give the whole in one
dose to cattle two years old and older;
half such dose to cattle from eight
months to a year and half old;
and a third of the dose to younger
ones. Give plenty Of salt water in
jections per rectum. Four hours after
the laxative medicine, give every
hour half drsohm each Of muriatic
acid and nitric acid, mixed in pint
OF cold water. Tumors appearing on
the body, should be scarihed deeply,
and spplictiens made of a portion OF
solution of one part of chloride OF
lime and twenty parts of cold water.
As a preventive, remove all healthy
stock to a distant spare pasture, on
high land or wood land; or lessen the
quantity of nutritious food. Also
give access at all times to unlimited
quantities of common salt, and to
pure drinking water. A seton should
be Inserted in the dewlap of all stock
under three years old; taking care
not to use the same seton needle in
Discriminatory to diseased and healthy
ones, whereby the disease may be
spread by incubation. Il may be
stated that there is no certain cure
for this disease. which runs iss course
very quickly, and generally ends
fatally IN from Twelve hours to two
or three days.
Req19uating Worm Soil believe the
easiest and cheapest way to bring up
a worn down farm is by green m an
uring. Suppose your farm is too
poor for clover, and grass makes only
a feeble growth, put on il manurlal
crop that will grow. such as rye.
Turn this under with your plough,
and then you can raise some
thing better. Keep feeding your soil
with everything your shovIl and your
team esa Communicates, leached
ashes, if you can ge. Them by draw
ing them within five miles; muck,
mari, anything that will bring q
green mantle over your fields Soon
you can get your clover pumps at
work, pumping up to the surfacs the
inexhaustible resources Of your sub
coil. II an animal dies, don't stop to
bewail your luck and exolaim,
Everything goes to the dogs on my
farm" Don't send it To the dogs at
all, bat compost it with muck, or
even soil, and thus secure a most val
ushIs asaaure. S&ueen performed 8
wonder by taking honey from the
dead carcass OF q lion. You
can eatdo that wonder by extracting
wheat from the carcass of your dead
COW. Pick up all the bones you can
aAS, pMt thsm andsF cover, and mix
with them two or three times their
bulk of ashes from your kitchen
moisten them with enough water so
that tAe potash may act en- the gels-
tine et the bones; stir them over once
q week, and in a month or two you
will find the bones 80 tender that you
can cut AMI crush them with blow
from your shovel. Beat the whole
into powdsry mass, ard you will have
g manure better than the superphos-
pilates which you feel too poor to
buy. Give a handful OF this to each
hill OF corn, and see how it will wave
it's banner of green and pour into
your basket the golden ears. But in
bringing your soil into good condi-
ton, do not neglect green manuring.
Prot. Kedzie.
abortion in CoaUS, The latest theory
in regard to abortion 10 cows is that
pat fsFth by Mr.. Clark, OF Battle
Creek, Mich, in his wsrk recently
published, entitled Cattle Problems
Mads Clear" He does not conside-
abortion a diseaee, in the ornihary
sense CT tbs terms. but the result OF
serious structural arrangement in the
siss AID the use ct he msmmFIy
arterias-!hose that lead 20 the milk
9l&nds-ths arrangement resnltins
from the engagement and relaxation
Of those arteries which, as their ex-
tFeHely enlarged sixs, eonvsy SO
maos OF the mammsry blood to the
R&dsr. Nat A0t sRoxgh is left to in
crease tie necessary supply to the pls-
ceata, 81 continue the growth OF the
embryo; hence It's death from def.
CHENEY Ell neurishment, and its expsl-
siSz . necessity to save the cow"
He argues that milking pregnant
COWS too late, is antagonistic to their
breeding powsr, and that a large