McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-19
INDUSTRIAL BREyITIEs.

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 whitewash all stables or sheds,
being careful to have the whitewash
penetrate every crack and corner. If
once rid of them, examine every new
animal brought on the place, and if
necessary doctor Immediately.
An English writer suggests to Here
ford breeders to try to improve the
hinder parts of their cattle. As a
rule, he says, they are sadly deficient
in weight where beef is choicest and
worth the highest price, and, if any
thing, are Overabundant in their
brisket, which is only worth half to
the parts where many of their ami
mails are deficient. This is not the case
with shorthorns; their loin and quar-
tiers, containing the choicest and most
valuable pieces in the carcass, are in
considerably greater proportion than
the Herefords.
1t has been found that milk set for
cream forty-eight hours at 63 degrees
in an atmosphere of pure oxygen, and
another sample SET for the same time
and same temperature, in an atmos-
phere of no oxygen, both soured alike
and produced same quantity of butter,
but that set in pure oxygen gas re-
quired 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 twigs
of fruit trees has disclosed the fact that
it is caused by contagious and trans
missible disease, in which, as the dry
necrosis of leprosy in man, the cells
of the affected tissues suffer degcn-
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, II feet and so feet; yellow will
low u 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 90 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,
and causes death in thirty-six hours.
A thick, black fluid escapes if the part
be lanced. The loss is estimated at
$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 a.
horse. The most humane and profit
able course to pursue is to make the
work light at first, gradually increas-
ing it until the full capacity of the
horse is reached.
A good word for Devon cattle comes
from Texas. H. johnson, of Kinney
county, has recently made sale of
stock at 500 per head. He declares
the Devons ''the boss cattle on the
range. as they keep fat where other
cattle fail to get living, mature early,
and make splendid beef
Bella, the famous Hereford cow, has
just dropped a male calf, for which its
owner refused $50 guineas when the
creature was three days old. A form
er calf of Bella sold for 1000 guineas.
The sire of these calves is the famous
bull Lord Wilton, which is valued at
1000 guineas.
The governor of Arizona says that
territory has grass enough for five
million head of cattle, but fully four
ffths of it is not available because of
mo water" He thinks, however,
that most of the country may be made
productive in the interests by means
of artesian wells.
A lady in indianapolis has had
glories poisoning in her
parlor all winter. She placed, by &C
cident, a small plant in q pot with
some other plants. and it continued to
grow in the house. 1t soon blossomed
and has been in flower every morning
during the winter.
The Wolf question is troubling the
western grazers. One company is now
offering provisions and poison to ell
persons who will go out to exterminate
The wolves. They also offer 81 for
each coyote, and SIS for each large
wolf killed, the owners to keep the
pelts.
One of the strangest uses for snails
mas been discovered by the London
Bruised in milk, and |
boiled. they are much used in the man.
fracture OF cream, and retired milk
nan pronounces them to be the most |
successful imitation known.
The cultivation of madden was I'M
lertaken by farmer in Erie county,
Ohio, in 1912, and was reported as
very profitable. No one seems able
20 give reason why it's cultivation
las been abandoned.