Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-03-10

tobacco remedy. Tobacco can be
bought cheap, and stems can be got
from the cigarmakers for nothing.
Steep until you have strong decoction
and apply to every part. Apply the
second or third time. To exter-
inmate the lice one must not
only kill all the lice on the stock,
but burn all the bedding, fumi-
gate or whitcwash all stables or sheds,
being careful to have The whtcwash
penetrate every crack and corner. If
once rid of them, examine every new
animal brought on the place, and ii
necessary doctor Immediately.
An English writer suggests to Here
ford breeders ito try To improve the
hinder parts of their cattle. AS Il
rule, he says, they are sadly deficient
in weight where beef is choicest and
worth the highest price, and, if any
thing, are ovcrabundant in their
briskct, which is only worth half to
the parts where many of their ami
mails are deficient. This j. not the case
with shorthorns; their lOin and quar-
ters, containing the choicest and most
valuable pieces in the carcass, are in
considerably greater proportion than
the Hcrefords.
1t has been found that milk set for
cream forty-eight hours at 63 degrees
in IN atmosphere of pure oxygen, and
another sample set for the same time
and same temperature, in an atmos-
phcre of no oxygen. both soured alike
and produced same quantity OF butter,
but that set in pure oxygen gas re-
qured but two-thirds the time for
churning the other. which was envel-
oped in carbonic acid gas The butter
of the first was of fine flavor, and kept
well; that from the other was of
poorer quality and spoiled quickly.
The study of the dry rot in the twlgs
of fruit trees has disclosed the efact that
it is caused by a contagious and trans
missble disease, in which, Us the dry
necrosis of leprosy in man, the cells
of the affected tissues suffer u degen-
Grafton into minute bacteria. whose
germs are afterward disseminated by
the rupture of the cell membrane.
One diseased tree is capable of infect
ing whole nursery, and old and
Young are alike liable to the raVages
of the parasitic organism.
There are great differences in the
average growth of some of the more
common trees. In twelve years white
maple increases foot in diameter and
80 feet in height; ash-leaf maple, or
box elder ] foot and 20 feet; white
willow, Il feet and 80 feet; yellow will
low Il feet and 35 feet; blue and white
ash, ten inches in diameter and % feet
in height; LOmbardy poplar, 10 inches
and 40 feet; black walnut and butter
nut, 10 inches and 20 feet.
A fatal disease is devastating the
herds of fine cattle in Cameron county
West Virginia. The name Of the dis
ease is unknown. A swelling appears
near the hoof, gradually extending to
the body The swelling is enormous,
ard causes death in thirty-six hours
A thick. black fluid escapes if the part
be lanced The loss is estimated ut
$4,000, and the disease is rapidly
spreading.
Too many. in breaking their horses,
put them Immediately to work. This
custom, while effective, destroys
somewhat the temper and action Of Il
horse. The most humane and profit
able course TO pursue is TO make the
work light at first, gradually increas-
inc it until the full capacity of the
horse is reached.
The governor Of Arizona says that
territory has grass enough Tor i've
million head of cattle, but fully four
, tifths of it is not available because OF
"no water.n He thinks, however,
that most Of the country may bc made
t productive in the interests by means
of artesian wells.
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