The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-01

several seasons / have secured more
honey from colonies land their lncrease)
that swarmed than from those that did
not. The last season has been the only
exception: and the reason is, that the
honey harvest came very early, was cut
short bv the drouth, and no honey was
stored afterwards during the remainder
of the season.
The following reputed cure for black
leg is going the rounds: In experiment.
ing with this fatal disease, Richard Hill
ton, of Inyo county, California, saws he
has s;.ved all animals treated as follows:
An lnclSion was made in the neck of the
beast and downward opening made
under the skin, into which We're put
saitpetre and lump of assafetida each
about the size Of bean. The opera
ton was applied to the animals, sick or
well, and after few days the sick in
variably recovered.
One of the strongest points in a really
good COW is that she will continue to
give a good mess of milk during long
time. Many otherwise good COWS fail
in this respect. They give large quanti-
ty in the first flow but soon drop off and
are dry half the year. The habit of the
heifer with her first calf fixes her habit
as a COW in this regard. 1t is therefore
not advisable to allow young heifer to
drop a second calf within year of the
first. lis better to wait so as to have
the calves fifteen months or mole apart,
in which case the heifer can be Kept in
milk a year or more.
A Colorado farmer writing as to the
best method of sowing alfalfa lucern
says that in his opinion shallow sowing
is by far the best OF conrse the seed
was sown as it always is, the land being
first ploughed. fin the instances we have
referred to. deep end shallow. When
the seed is deep sown, it is difficult for
the warmth of the sun to penetrate the
soil to a sufficient depth to cause the
seed to terminate, and in consequence,
much smaller proportion of the
amount sowed will mature than If it lay
within reach of the influence of the
suns rays; neither will that which does
develop prove of first quality, and its
vitality. which'is of course the source of
its nutritiousness. is greatly exhausted
by the effort of fin2ing its way to light
and air.
In the instance of the shallow plant
ing to which reference has been made,
the seed terminated unusually soon, the
growth of the alfalfa plant was steady
and rapid, and the stand resulting a
splendid one for the first year of growth.
Perhaps nothing is more strikingly in
dicative of the growing spirit of improv-
ment among stock-raisers than the
gradual dying out of hospitality to the
idea of registration of straightly-bred
stock. 1t has not been many years
since the opposition to recorded pedi-
grees was quite formidable, and while
It still exists, the most careless observer
can see thatit has lost much Of its force
and point. Opposition now is more
captious than real, those breeding any
kind of stock for the trade understand
ing, from the revelations of popular
sentiment within the last two or three
years, that their greatest obstacle
to success is removed when they can
show indubitable evidence that their
stock is Straightly bred "a kind of
evidence most difficult to procure and
satisfactorily establish outside of regis
tration. One Of the questions which the
buyer now asks is, SIS it registered ?"
and it is disadvantageous beginning
TO negotiations for sale when the seller
must answer mo" 1t is not to be
claimed that our live stock records are
wholly free from error and fraud-but
they are incomparably better than any
thing else we have had. a genuine good
is not to be rejected becauseitis counter
teited. The very money we use is open
to this obiection-but shall we refuse to
receive it2 Notmuch. Let us have the
records of breeding.-NationaL !Stockn,dn,
The disease in cattle known as milk
sick ;ess or trembles, is not well under
stood by owners of cattle nor by veterin-
arians. 1t has, in some respects, a SINH
larity to some other diseases of the
blood, as red water, splenic fever and
black quarter, and seems to be caused
not only by contagion, but primarily
by the Indigestion of over-succulent or
unwholesome food, the New York Times
thinks. 1t is also certainly caused by
malaria produced by the exhalation of
injurious vapors from rich vegetable
soils that are undrained and highly
charged with decaying organic matter.
All the diseases mentioned are produced
by the same causes. and all are marked
by serious arrangement of the liver and
kidneys. These diseases are frequent
upon dairy farms, where the pastures
are 1ndrained and wet. and where the
stagnant water is drank by the cattle;
also in woods, with rank, rich vegetable
soil, III which the vegetation is soft and
succulent. They are spread by infection
of the soil by the excrements of the
diseased cattle and by its pollution from
the burial of diseased carcasses TOO near
the surface. 1t is found that when cat
tie are kept from such lands until the
dew is dried off or when the lands are
drained, exemption is secured. All this
suggests the use of extraordinary
measures for safety of the stock.