Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-05
Parasites on Live Stock.

Monthly.
Parasites on Live Stock
Colts, calves, and older stock are very
apt to be crowded with Objectionable
parasites. They best thrive upon poor
animals, and are supposed to be bred by
eld, worn out, and miserable creatures.
However this may be, there is no doubt
that they find suitable home in the
dirty matted hair in the late winter or
early spring months, and on sunny day
may be seen literally in millions, every
hair having nits upon it. One reason of
SO much rubbish accompanying them is
that in the course of their development
from the egg to the mature louise the skin
il cast several times.
To get rid of them is not always easy,
as the length of coat and accumulation
OF dandrutf or scurf makes water
proof covering that resists many remedies
which in themselves are certain destroy
ers If only brought into contact with
the parasites.
A sunny day should be chosen, and the
early part of it, when bountiful wash
ing with soft soap and hot water should
be undertaken, SO as to clear the skin of
grease and dirt before applying the
remedy. Stavesacre is an eifectual de-
stroyer of lice if prepared by boiling
one half pound with gallon of water
and brushing well into the coat with a
hard brush.
Tobacco juice is also much in request
for the purpose, and can be procured
from druggists at very low rate, as it is
imported now free of duty, or only a
nominal duty, and the old expensive
plan OF boiling or infusing good shag
tobacco is not necessary. BY the way,
very few people avail themselves of the
governmental privileges of growing
sufficient tobacco for this and fumigat.
ing purposes, though they might easily
do so.
Paraffin is sometimes used, but is very
dangerous remedy, occasionally being
absorbed and causing the death of the
animal, and not unfrequently causing a
blister, and much unnecessary pain, and
subsequent blemish.
There is another kind of louise from
which horses suffer. which, if once seen,
can never be forgotten-we refer to
poultry lousiness. 1t will sometimes
happen that horse stabbed with fowls
will become affected and literally tear
himself to pieces with them unless
promptly treated with one of the fore
going remedies, either of which is as
efectual against these as against the
ordinary louise.
In washing or applying any remedy,
it should always be commenced near the
eyes and worked backward, as if any
other plan is adopted the besieged retreat
into the name and ears, and many escape
altogether, like the rats that are left Just
to keep up the breed after the rat catcher
has gone.
1t is always well to repeat the dressing
and keep the animals moving about till
dry, or they may lick off more lotion
than is good for them, or stand about
and get chilled. = Chemist and Druggist.
Tho Grasses.
For convenience the grasses may be
ranged in two general divisions: the
natural and the artificial. The first divi-
sion comprises all the true grasses or
plants with long, simple, narrow leaves,
and long sheath divided to the base
which seems to clasp the stem, or rather
tA4AVuSh WlllCil LILO SCcul bcCiuS W pass.
The artificial grasses are mostly legum-
inous plants with few others which
are cultivated and used like the grasses,
though they do not properly belong to
that family. The clovers of all the va
rieties, the Alfalfa, etc., belong to this
latter class. The timothy grass may
properly be placed at the head of all the
meadow plants for producing hay of the
finest quality. 1t is perennial in char
acter, and when we'll established lasts
several years without the necessity of
ploughing up and re-seeding. But
timothy is not good pasture grass from
the fact that it will not bear close crop
ping as we'll as many Others. Its chief
excellence consists in its production of
hay Of the purest and finest quality for
all general purposes and especially for
horses, in which it has no rival. Wher.
ever it fourishes it is universally pre-
ferred and sells for the highest price.
In general grasses should be cut not
long after the time of Towering, for al
though there is great deal of nourish-
ment in the ripe seed it is hardly enough
to make up for the loss in the stalks and
leaves, which are most valuable before
the soluble materials. such as starch, gum
and sugar, are gradually changed into
muddy fibre. Timothy is best adapted
to a partially moist, peaty or clayey soil,
and does not suit well on light sandy
lands. When sown alone it should have
half bushel OF seed to the acre and may
be sown in the spring OF fall, but the fall
sowing is the most common, and the seed
is better to be not more than one year
old. A good way to test the vitality
Of the seed is to sprinkle some on hot
fire shovel, when, if it mostly burns up