Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-15
THE FARM.
KORE ATTENTION REQUIRED TO
CARE OF LIVE STOCK.
New Insect Pests at the East-Ipjury
from Rabbits-Earious Facts
and Suggestions.

attention 10 its care, especially when there
frequently left to themselves under a sort
of " root, hog or die" method. 1t is poor
tlusbendry TO purchase fine blooded stock
for breeding purposes and then be lax in
ats care. 1t is often demonstrated that
animals OF common blood, but haying
superior care and feed, will produce su-
perior results to those obtained by others
having e better grade Of stock under negli-
gent treatment.
This is seen in vegetable life. The fruit
tree which is planted inditferently and
afterwards left without care or cultivation
will yield but poor quality Of fruit, how
over good the variety planted. On the
other hand, an ordinary variety, set out in
q manner which will bring to the growth
of the tree all the forces of nature which
are possible, and which has subsequently
the best care and most thorough cultiva-
ton, will produce superior quality of its
kind, and which will be more tempting to
the eve and more saleable than the former
Among the classes of stock which fastest
deteriOrate in value, under lack of due
care, is perhaps the horse, since it is not
even allowed to look ont for itself, but
its strength is largely required and
appropriated for the use of man.
This fact has brought the horse into special
relation with mankind, and its claims for
protection, and the best treatment that can
be bestowed, is not only q consideration
having a money qualification, but also ap-
peais to the humane sentiment. A writer
in the Anterican Agrictaturist recently,
speaking OF the care of domestic animals,
said " Nine-tenths of the Iniseries SUIT
fered by domestic animals are preventable
Horses suffer from the mistakes of their
owners. The feet suffer most from disease,
the eyes next, the lungs after the eyes and
the feeding produces most of the intestinal
disorders. Bad shoelng causes almost every
prevalent lameness even spavins and
ringb0nes are due TO bad shoeng and the
use of calks, which throw the foot ont OF
proper level, and cause straining of the
joints and ligaments. The cutting away of
the frog exposes the tender interior of the
foot to bruises, and causes disease. Foul
stables with pungent odors, which causes
the harness to rot, and destroy the varnish
sIpon carriages, may well be expected to in
Iure the eyes and the lungs and air pas
sages; and overlooking, or irregular feed
ing and watering, produce indigestion and
collie and encourage the multiplication of
worms. Il is of far greater Importance to
avoid all these causes of trouble than to
seek remedies for them"
THE INJURY CAUSED BY RABBITS.
The Shasta county Democrat refers to the
injury being caused by rabbits i'll the north
ern part of the State as follows: "Rab-
bits are now causing great deal of trouble
and annoyance to horticulturists and witt
cultUrists in the comfy, much more so
than did the grasshoppers, so we are in
formed by w. c. Lee, of Saltwater They
will greatly injure, if not totally DESTROY
growing vines and young fruit trees in a
very short time where the fences are not
light enough to exclude his rabbitship.
AS majority of the newcomers are not
able to fence proof against the depredations
o. this long cared pest, Mr.. Lee offers this
mode o. abatlng or discriminating the evil:
Take cupful of salt, add about fourth
Of teGspuOnfui of strychnine mix it
thoroughly and place il on board in YOUR
vineyard Or orchard. The rabbits will
come up TO lick the salt, and there partake
OF the fatal mixture. Another way is to
divide an apple into quarters, and place
them conveniently under the trees. Be
careful not to use too much strychnine in
either case, as it will make the bait too Bit
Ter to be effectual Mr.. L. saws that one
year the rabbits cleaned him out slick and
clean, but since he adopted the above
method he has not been bothered much"
a NEW SHEEP DISEASE.
j reliable gentleman who has iust re-
turned from northern California and Ore
s@n states that many sheep in the section
which he visited are seriously afflicted with
teeches in the liver. The leeches are a
small, tat insect or worm, much resem-
bling The finger nail in size and shape but
OF the same color as liver. These parasites
literally honeycomb the liver by eating il,
and the sheep soon die. Our informant
believes the leech to be taken into the
system with the water which the sheen
drink, and gradually make their way 10 the
aver Some sheepmen have already lost
large numbers from their fiocks By this
disease Woodland Democrat
ALFALFA ASSESSMENTS.
The County Board of Equalization of
Kern county, says the Californian, has
granted the petition of the owners of grow
ing crops of alfalfa to be relieved from tax
alton thereon, and the assessment of So
per acre on this crop has been stricken from
the assessment roll. That paper saws
This must bring about conflict with the
State Board of Equalization, who were in
this matter the impression is general that
this Board exceeded their constitutional
powers. With the same propriety the
owner of a wild stock range could be taxed
on his grass, because it is perennial spring
ing up every year from the seed or roots.
Alfalfa is a grass, Just the same, disappear
ing at a certain season and springing up
again after an interval of several months.
Fruit trees and vines, on the contrary, are
always there, q visible fact. Besides, a di-
rect tax on production is wrong. The
farmer is hampered enough by natural
causes in making things grow without an
artificial burden being directly imposed on
his efforts"
EARTHQUAKES AND PHYLLoxERA.
h curious phenomenon is reported from
some Of the vineyards in the province of
Malaga According to Spanish papers
plants attacked by the phylloxera and given
up as practically dead have begun to show
marked symptoms of vitality, due, it is
believed in the localities, to the destruction
of the insect by gases or electrical condi-
lions consequent on the earthquakes in
that district. The earthquakes exert q
destructive influence ON the phylloxera
insect Of the grape, in the opinion of S.
Villaiogne who has told the Paris Academy
of Sciences of a vineyard near Malaga which
had apparently been destroyed by the para
site, but which vigorously burst into leaf
after the recent earthquakes in southern
Spain. The destruction of the phylloxera
by earthquakes, if such is the case, is I'M
doubtedly due to certain deleterious gases
which are thereby liberated in the lower
strata of the earth which find a gradual
access to the surface through crevice YER
ideally opened.-IScientitic Press.
NEW INSECT PESTS.
An Eastern paper speaks of two pests
which have recently made their first APP
pearance there, and as all these injurious in
sects will sooner or later reach this coast,
their advent, even as far away as New York
State, is of interest. The exchange speaks
of them as follows: lone makes havoc
among the onion beds and the other at
tacks strawberry beds. So far as could be