Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-07-27
FARM AND PRESIDE.
Serious Disease Among Cows.
THE LAW ON THE SUBJECT

Serious Disease Among Cows.
THE LAW ON THE SUBJECT.
| A fatal disease is raging among the
cattle in Albemarle in the vicinity of
| Charlottesville. 1t is known as the .Texas
Cattle Fever" 1t is so prevalent that
| Burnley & Co. IS stock sale for last Thurs
| day was postponed. The Charlottesville
| Chronicle says:
The disease seems to affect the urinary
organs and udder, particularly; the pres
| ence of it may be determined where the
COW refuses food, holds her head low TO
| the ground, is troubled with constipation,
| fails rapidly in her milk. and the udder
frequently covered with parasites all Of
which are rapidly developed after being
| attacked. A gentleman who has had
| trouble with this disease, and saved sew
eral fine COWS after losing one, treated
them by drenching with decoction of
| witch-hazel, pine-tags and cayenne pep
per, and by giving enemas OF soap-suds.
This remedy IS said to have been success
fully used by the late Horsley Goodman,
and is worth trial. There are other re-
| needles of which we are not advised. We
| understand the authorities will take Wig
| orous measures to prevent the spread of
the disease, and see that the law is OBJ
served. It does not seem to affect the
| male cattle; at least we have heard Of no
case. We learn that farmers in various
RI ~ ha oAd SRx,
effect has been to reduce the price of the
cattle enormously. The majority of the
dead cattle have iof course through the
ignorance of the law on the subject,1 besn
hauled out by their owners on the COM
mons, and some have been skinned. there
by contributing very largely to the spread
of the disease, which is contagious; and it
is said that healthy cow may take the
disease by passing across the track where
dead one has been dragged. The law re-
ferring to this subject is a follows
every person shall SO restrain his dis
tempered cattle, or such as are under his
care, that they may not go at large off the
land to which they belong and no person
shall drive any distempered cattle into or
through the State. or from one part there
of to another, unless it be to remove from
one piece of ground to another of the sans
owner; and when any such cattle shall die
the owner thereof, or person having then.
in charge, shall cause them to be buried
with their hides On) four feet deep. If
any person shall offend against this Sec
tion in either respect, he shall forfeit four
dollars for every head of such cattle.
"Any justice, upon proof before him
that any cattle are going at large, or are
driven in or through his county or corpo-
ration, in violation of the preceding sec
ton, may direct the owner to impound
them; and if he fail to do so, or suffer
them to escape from the pound before OBJ
tanning from justice certificate that
they may be removed with safety, the
justice giving such direction sor some 9th
81 'nstlce, shall 100 Iii, them 70 be killed
on, but SO cut unap norru may DC tem.5s,i
to take them up" : 49,
FARMERS FrETY YEARS AGos--Fsftr q
years ago tno farrsx depended .jno.s.ss Ss
wholly upon the PROD q. tho -.
the supply of their tsss2 Nj L. &.
their clothing. A wls'tar ssketohe
the raising of the raw Il tern for gar
ments and the process of featuring
them at the farmhouse M
Every farmer kept flock of Is 10, and
wool constituted large proportio d the
clothing of the family. It was cardaa 81
and woven at home, and made into gary
ments for both sexes. The best clothes forV
the men and boys were made of what was
called ''fulled CLOTH"
This was made at home, of the finest
material, and taken to the mills known
as ''fulling mllls,' where it was put
through process Of thickening, dyeing
and finishing. The women used to wear
gowns Of cloth which was called oppressed
woolen.''
This was simply homemade flannel,
taken to the mills above-named, and
pressed so as to present glossy surface.
Every farmer had small patch of fax.
This was pulled and spread out in rows on
the ground, "rotted," and then ssbroken. ;,
''swingled," and was thus prepared for
the combing, carding and the little wheel
as the machine was called on which
the fax was spun to distinguish it from
the larger machine for spinning wool.
The tailor of the old days, with his
goose, travelling from house to house to
make up the clothes for the men and boys
Or to cut and fit them for the gossiping
tailoress to completes not known to the
present generation.
To KILL CABBAGE WoRMs.--The raw
ages of the caterpilIars of the cabbage but
terhy seem to increase with each succeed
ing year. and the question of how to get
rid of them has become serious one. The
State Agricultural Experiment Station Of
New York has been testing the efficacy of
various reputed remedies, and it states
that the most satisfactory remedy tested
consisted of mixture of one-half pound
each of hard soap and kerosene oil in
three gallons of water. This was applied
the latter part of August. and an examina-
ton the following day showed many of the
worms destroyed. Owing to the mass of
leaves presented by cabbage it is not al
ways possible to reach all the worms In one
SPRING LAMB.-It is not generally
knawn that spring lamb is excellent if
boiled, or rather steamed, instead of roast
ed. 1t should be cooked either in double
pot, or, where that is not to be had, shoa,d