The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07

AOOAS' In VgD40 cases there Will De
large core q home out remove it care
iuly with thf Numb and finger, cleanse
Ine cavity Se, with soap and water.
ana then I'LL 18th warm tar. Keep the
parts Thoroughly covered with tar, even
II 1t Is necess to use bandage. Keep
the animal iaH clean, dry pasture. 1t
Is no more u Ole to affect the whole sys-
tenn than az timer ulcer. when once
cured there 70 danger of it's appearing
again unless the same cause.
THERE are k$feat many people in the
world, it is -, but this little planet is
very far FROM vercrowded for all that,
and there is III plenty of room for hui
manlty to spread itself In this country
alone, excluHye of Alaska, where we
have great a& valuable possessions, we
have 40, 66S. 090 acres of available land
not yet SURVEYED but open to settlement,
and 734, 951, 600 acres surveyed but not
yet taken up. Aud vet, Great Britain
has more virgin land than we have. In
the Australian colonies she has 2,000,-
900. 900 acrcs Of land never vet touched
In Cape Colony $1,000, 900 acres all
ready for sarTlement but with no set
tiers in Natal. Cevlon md the West
Indies IA, 500 600 a res, and in Canada
probably something like 800, GOO, 600
acres OF upoccnpied and very fertile
lands All this vast territory OF unused
land is enough 10 give a farm OF l6O
acres 20 81 $4,000 families of five per
sons each. or to l56 625. 900 persons.
Ina timely article encouraging sheep
husbapdry tie Farmers Per'e,0 says
The increase Of the worlds wool crop
during the In I decade IS immense, and
yet It has not exceeded'the requirements
OF tle race. The great variety Of fabrics
made from wool, aud the ever widening
demand for them. leave very little room
TO fear that wool growing will soon he
overdone The English nation consumes
vast qun1titirs Of mutton annually, the
amount eaten. il my recollection is not
at fault, rs shown bv statistics, being
greater than that If b set consumed. Be
that as II may. mutton is held 10 be the
healtLiest Of al m"ats, and the British
people have long cultivated sheep hus-
bandry for tie FRO lucton of choice
mutton. Then agnln. our own people
are consuming more mutton now than
they have ey r usel before, and as its
healthfulness. as compared with pork,
becom more generally known, home
consumption Of mutton will enlarge.
The mIsmg On iuues OF cows are the
state gives rs mn II milk as viii keep
calf about tive moaths, then for four
months us mu h rs EiI partially sustain
IL after that It takes care Of itself On
the other hand, the COW which art has
produced gives rs much milk for four
months in the Year as will support four
or Ave calves. and for five months more
as much as would support three, two,
and one. Thus we find that almost every
breed has its milking strains. The Dur
ham has IFS milking qualities Just in
proportion as imam has induced them.
The Hereford is also a noted beef
producing breed: but these are strains
which are deep mixers. But man has
not succeeded so well in converting butter
and milk producers into heavy beef
animals. The Ayrshire. the Jerseys, the
Guernseys, are not easily converted into
beef animals yet it may De said thai
man changes the characteristics of ami
mails almost at will.
THERE Is always something new crop
ping up in the butter and cheese trade,
one of the latest innovations being the
iptr. duciion Of Russinu butter into
the English market One of our we'll
known exporters, while staying in Lon
don recently, saws the Produce Err
change Bulletin, was surprised to find
Russian butter offered for sale in good
sized quantities III several wholesale pro-
vision stores jim that metropolis. The
sartv farreg4O was ut first inclined to
be somewhat scephcal about this butter
being The. met of the Russ, but he
was soon nced # the fact in more
than onl er. 1t was Handsomely
got 90 "a ok tubs, and very much
resemble adian. 1t is stated that
butter "A eese factories have been
started in number of the Russian
districts. andkhat the production of
dairy Pro LUCE (pon scientific principles
is likely to boone staple industry of
that vast Erpre. The American dairy
man should not be cutdone in quality of
product by t. farmer of any other