Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

spayed heifers in good condition win sell
as well as steers.
George Mcdonald writing to the Live
Stock Indicator says, that he has care
( fully watched ''blacll Leg for fifteen
years and has now considerable expert
ence in treating, or rather preventing it.
Five years ago he was feeding eI9hty-five
head of calves. They had good feed,
fine spring water, salt, salt petre and
sulphur mixed, always by them from the
time they were weahed, but they began
10 die at the rate of two and three day
for several days. He says: During
that time l was fooling my time away in
trying TO doctor the sick ones, but find
ing my labor i'll vain | turned my imme-
date attention to those not at
tackled, and to find a preventive
against the above disease
had heard that bleeding i'll the feet was
q sure preventive, Tut did not then be-
lieve it TO be q sure thing. ! sent for a,
man who knew about bleeding in the.
feet, and together, we bled the balance
of the eighty five head, afterwards leav-
ing them liz the same yard with the same
feed, but taking away the sulphur and
the saltpetre, and only giving pure
salt. lost no more calves. [ have bled
since, on an average, q hundred TO
a hundred and fifty a year, with
the same success, excepting in one
case, when l was asked by nelglfbor
to bleed few for him He had no
corral, so we bled them in the stable,
which was dark, and l told him / feared
] would not make a good job of them.
Subsequently my neighbor sold fifteen of
tn 'se calves to man who was going to
tulI- feed a lot of calves. He lost several
head with black-leg, and among them
was one bled.
Bleeding in the feet prevents black
leg, feel perfectly sure. 1 think, how
ever, there is no cure for an animal
once attacked. Black-leg is not in the
least contagious. l bleed my calves
about July TO lst of August.
The American consul, Hon. e. w.
Griffin, at Sydney, Australia, in his re-
port regarding the live stock interests of
that country makes statements of more
than passing value as effecting the future
of American wool. He says millions of
sheep die in Australian regions on ac-
count of the severe drOughtS which occur
SO frequently. One of the chief difficult
ties is the scanty water supply for the
sheep. 1t may be possible TO discover
ways of supplying this need. But there
is another and perhaps greater
difficulty to overcome. In some
parts of Australia and New
Zealand, especially in dry seasons, the
grass supply is insufficient for the fiocks
now kept there. These statements would
indicate that the number of sheep in
those countries cannot safely be increased
To any great extent. The wool market,
as the demand increases, will have TO be
supplied from other sources. America
has the soil and climate TO furnish
much larger supply of wool than she is
now growing. A small flock of sheep
could profitably be Kept on every one OF
the 5000 ZOO farms in the United States
However, the right kind of sheep must
be kept, it VIII not pay to raise sheep,
either for mutton or wool only: both
must constitute the sources of profit
This viii necessitate a sheep that pro-
duces a good grade of wool and good
quality of we'll Favored mutton. A few
sheep on each farm would greatly in
crease the value of the annual wool crops
OF this country, and add just so much 20
farm income as the difference between
the wool and mutton produced and the
food required in its production which
would be considerably if properly done.