New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-09
CONTRIBUTORS NOTES AND QUERIES.

CONTRIBUTORS NOTES AND QUERIES.
Nv experience has made ms an advocate of barbed
wire for cattle, but for horses it is never safe
fence. Where the horses confined are old and ac-
customed TO each other they may escape injury.
Colts are in constant danger. Even severe hurts at
one time will not keep the colt FROM being run
against il again by some master horse, mule or colt.
There is no other fence 80 cheap, permanent and
satisfactory, especially across swamp or bottom
land barbed wire, where cows only are 70 be con-
ued prefer to cut ditch by the side OF the fence,
throwing the exczvated dirt under the wires. or
follow small stream, then the cattle cannot be
booked through the fence, as sometimes happens in
the absence of a ditch B. w. H., Eatcnton, Ga.
Chronic diarrhcais best cured by removing the
cause, which mast be known in order to be avoided
In horses it may come from over-driving, over
feeding, or imperfect msstication from defective
teeth. or from eating too fast from an unnatural
and too greedy appetite. II the friend who has
trouble in this direction will carefully look over all
the habits treatment and surroundings of the anI-
NAL, he will be very likely to find the cause him.
self. In the meantime. lot the exercise be gentle,
the food easy 10 digest and. il possible, IN shape
10 prevent swallowing too hastily. Tonic stimu-
lants are useful IN all such cases. as tiucture of
spice. cloves ginger or peppermint. given steadily
n moderation; Medication Will be less effective
than looking closely TO feed aud exercise.l Profess
s0r l.. Il. Arnold.
in very instructive paper in reference to the
food habits Of birds and iredacios nsectssocalled-
Professor Forbes shows that many of the ground
beetles lCarapid@ are largely plant-eaters The
structure of the jaws will enable one to tell whether
the insect is wholly insectiyorous, or whether it
lives in small part OF almost wholly on plant-food
1t is also true that birds eat very sparngly of the
wholly intoxicating species. while those that eat
largely of vegetable food are preyed upoa largely
by BIRDS. NV own researches in respect 10 the robin
r.. o.. demonstrated
The ea1e facts. The lady beetles (COccineld@i eat
plant-lice, pollen and spores OF fungi. Is they iced
Un nothing that Is valuable except pollen, aud as
they have abundant OF this redundant ma erial to
.eFve It's natural purpose. we may sun class the
beautiful beetles, the fayortes OF all children as
wholly our friends-fprofessor A. J. Cook, M.chI-
gan Agricultural College.
i have found Inns and soft-soap excellent for
GppIe-tee borers but soft-soap is Just as efficient
without the lime, and my mind the natural gray of
the tree is TO be preferred to the whitened trunks
have found that cariolic acid mixed With the
soap makes the application servieeable for longer
period. Soft-soap. early In June and again tas LIST
OF July, is usually sufficient, though not always
think two applications will always suffice il the
carbolic acid Is added. | take two quarts of soft.
soap. and add ono gallon of water. then heat till IL
boils and then remove from the Ire and at once
STIR IL one pint OF crude carb0Iic acid. Apply with
hwhtewash brush, the LIST Of june or three weeks
after tue trees bloom and again four weeks later
Ia Purchasing Entosl0logist
Twas formerly much annoyed BY seV-sackihg,
And resort was had TO sundry methods Of breaking
up that habit, several OF which quite effective.
But they have all been superseded by very sim
PIE device which Ibuy In the hardware stores fol-
about thirty to sixty cents depending upon the size
q the animal. II 10 Jewell which closes upon
Tue cartilage OF the nose, and liz tied there by q
spnng Several sharp poinis project far that the
intended victim OF the sucker get edmonton to
move On before the teat Is reached IL is Just the
nng 70 break up m inclination 10 surreputious
sucs'ng whether Of self or some other body. IL is
Biiss. A~"0N '"' "o-"0i ~ -
ihe easiest applied and best remedy for cape Ia
'cSe'sis caustic line, either air or water Stacked.
.s snoa'o be n dry. powdered state. Tske the
salc.on In tie left hand and open its mouth keep
H. a Upright, and then drop pinch Of the dry
mr., ,m ~. ~ Hold in this position few seconds.
sass - - - Obliged to breathe, when 10 will nale
,ha l; VIC ii9c, fhcr let 10 co. One application Of
eyarn 10 IN tuis manner has cured. In my experience.
i, 'aso Oh rapcs some Of them in the last stages.
Valrh y saHhuinbero Of remedies have hit upon this
d. ne, 'e beat OF all a. IL IL simple and sure, and
vofre = ,t ssigis the chicken. The itins kills the
49, % ~ osfiis, kirby Homestead. n. X.
"sDern giving mo glo wing account Of the