Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-26

uliar system or mortgaging
-..ans Is used in Switzerland. A farmer
may borrow of "a dozen men successfully,
q simple record In an official book show
ing their order. If he fails TO pay sue
cessof isSfound for him by beginning at
the bottom OF the list OF debtors and
calling on each in his order to assume
all the debts and manage the farm or
step aside and lose his claim. s
A three year old Holstein COW, owned
by Arthur ID. Sutton, of the Ortondale
Stock Farm, Indiana, Pa, dropped
calf recently that weighed l35 pounds,
measured four feet three inches long
and tbirty-seven inches high immedi-
ately arter its birth. This fellow is well
named "Jumbo," for he is probably the
largest calf on record, The sire and
dam were both imported.
The pig acquires full mouth of in
cisor teeth at about three months old,
some time previous to witch three mo-
lars have appeared in each jaw, viz,
the first, second and third. AT six
months the primolars and the fourth
permanent molar; in nine months the
tusks and permanent mOlar are changed.
Three months later the first, second and
third temporary molars are shed and
replaced by permanent ones. At eigh-
teen months the sixth or last molar and
the lateral incisor are cast, and the
changes at this time are complete.
A late number of the London Live
Stock Journal says: "Over- big horses
for any purpose are a mistake, so the
corporation of London have found out.
When they started to do their own
scavengering, instead of contracting for
it, they selected all tne giants they
could let-seventee1i hands were pre-
ferred. The mistake has been found
out; sixteen hands is now the favored
height. These do more work, and are
altogether more healthy.
A couple of ounces of carbolic acid to
three quarts of water sprinkled on the
poultry house through the fine rose of
small watering-pot, once in three or
four weeks, will destroy lice and other
parasites.
Success in the incubation of stock in
France by the Pasteur process has in
duced the Russian and Italian Govern
ments to send veterinary surgeons there
to be initiated into the mysteries of vac
cination.
Three-year-old Short-horns are under
the best management made to weigh
200 pounds, which sell at $3.50 per hun
dred, or $50 per head. FOur-year-old
scrubs sell for $50 per head. Grass and
Short-horns make farmers rich.
Professor Stalker, of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College, gives to the Homestead
the following cure for foot rot in sheep:
"Tbe following will apply to the major
ity of cases of simple foot rot: All loose
flakes of horn should be carefully pared
off and the hOof5 trimmed to a proper
shape. The foot should be thoroughly
cleaned and carefully done up in tar
bandage. Wesimply pin tar and band
age with bit of strong cloth. If there
is much liberation, a chronic sore
having been formed, touch the surface
with q solution, one part sulphuric or
hydro-chloric acid and three parts wa
ter. Dress as above. Theanimal should
be kept where as little wet and filth as
possible will reach the feet"
Dr.. ]. ]. Ridge communicates to the
London NetCS his plan Of repelling flies
from horses. He remarks on the suffer-
ing their attacks occasion, and thinks
that the irritable state into which some
animals are thus brought is frequent
cause of accident, Before Harvesting,
a mixture of one part of crude carbolic
acid with six or more parts Of olive oil
should be rubbed lightly all over the
animal with rag, and applied more
thickly to the interior of the ears and
other parts most likely to be attacked.
This application may need to be re-
peated in the course of the day, but
while any odor of the acid remains the
flies decline to settle, and the horse is
completely free from all annoyance"
The flesh of the sheep is the best meat
in the world; it is also the poorest. A
lean, thin sheep, that has Outlived its
usefulness as q woel-bearer, and been
cut down by the relentness knife as a
cumberer of the pasture ground, and
consigned to the pot in the vain hope
of macerating its toughened fibres, af-
fords an unsavory and unpalatable meat,
which has taught many to loathe the
very name of mutton and abominate its
very smell. On the contrary, not the
aromatic fiavors Of venison, the gamey
richness of wild fowl or the sweet juices
of q Short-horn surloin can surpass the
virtues of SOuthdown marrow and fat
ness. 1t is sweeter to the palate, more
digestible and more nutritious than any
other variety of meat food.