Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-12
KArYD1D AND FLOUR BEETLE
FARM NOTES.

| CellSnleHquluS iOr mixing with the 1000 OF
poultry Exchange.
A prominent farmer ,dvises the use of
paint as a saving material on all kinds of
wood and iron implements ON the farm,
and says every dollar so expended Is a saw
ing of ten to him.
The most profitable way after all to raise
poultry Is as nature intended. Get plenty
of hens and roosters and turn she business
over to them; they understand it, and
rarely make mistakes.-[[T Troy Times.
A common word among farmers is the
term 'gambrel," to indicate the stick put
through the hind leg OF hog to suspend
it in dressing. The best authority gives
CANNON as the preferable word to use
Exchange.
A French naturalist says that the AL
mighty created birds to protect the grain,
vegetables, trees and fruits against the raw
ages of the insect tribe. For every bird
that dies millions of insects are spared from
death, and millions OF insects mean fam
inc"
The period of CESSATION in the mare is
in general forty eight weeks the COW forty
six weeks; the eve twenty-one weeks and
the SOW sixteen weeks. Having the date
of service, the date at which birth is due
may be easily ascertained. Careful breed
| ers always keep strict record Of each animal.
Experiments with poultry in orchards
prove that they efectuaily protect plum
trees from the curculio. A few of the
largest farms devoted to poultry are set
partly in plums, among them being that
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peach trees always bear best when poultry
range among them New York Herald.
To satisfactorily test the contents of a
grain sack, without the necessity of empty
ing it, Mobiles proving staff is offered, by
means Of which samples from any desired
part or grain-flled sack can be quickly
obtained. The staff is placed in the grain,
and by revolving the outside layer three
divisions upper, middle and lower are
thrown open. The instrument now being
shaken, grain falls into the openings, and,
the staff being withdrawn from the sack,
may be easily examined Mueller lei
tung,
\ correspondent of the London Lire
Stock journal says that the fact that con-
siderable quantity of milk is now watered
to greater or less degree, and does not
keep, owing to the stagnant ditch and pond
water that cattle are allowed to drink in
many dairy farms all over the country,
tends TO lessen the consumption 1t is not
at all unusual to see mich cows drinking
the soakings from the manure yards This
Is the reason why many persons do not care
TO drink milk, the writer saws, as they can
not be certain that il has not been elabo-
rated from sewage ard filthy water: and as
they are afraid to drink water from i'm
proper filtration and other causes they
have been induced to drink beer, as the
water used in its manufacture is remark
ably pure.
An account was recently given in the
columns of the RECORD-USION of the foot
and-mOuth disease among cattle, and the
result Of an investigation by board of
eminent veterinary surgeons at Neosha
Falls, rs. 1t was there unanimously de-
termined by the veterinary experts present
that the disease was caused by the eating
of ergot, which existed in unusually large
quantities in the wild straw upon which
all the stock found to be affected had been
feeding. This explanation and conclusion
upon the subject is not, however fully ac-
cepted. The State Veterinarian of Illinois
where the same disease has made its APP
pearance, pronounces it species of foot
rot (parachitisl, entirely of spontaneous orr
gin, due to unknown atmospheric or tellu-
ric influences, combined with or aggravated
by local causes, such as exposure to wet and
filth and to frost, besides poor and unnutri-
tious food" Speaking further upon the
subject, he adds: D." The maIady is of spo-
radio and entirely non-contagious nature.
The disease cannot be said to be due alone
to local causes, for the affected herds have
been kept in a manner similar to that in
which the average farmer usually keeps his
stock during the winter months The NAL
ady is evidently Of a spreading nature
! as evidenced by it, present existence in
Effingham, Clay and Perry counties, Hi
nois; Louisa county, Iowa; Adair county,
Missouri; WoOdson and other counties,
Kansas, and also in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, the disease being in all instances the
same one, with more or less variations in
Its intensity and results. So far it has been
of slow progress, and by re~orting to clean
illness it has been checked, with fair show
of ultimate recovery"