Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-07-05

sect depredations and incursions Of
weeds, and reduce agricultural pro-
duction to an equilibrium, at the same
time increasing materially the margin
of profit. There is an infancy in the
growth of every industry. and wheat
culture has had its mumps and measles,
its whooping cough, and should now
be ready to cut its eye teeth and enter
upon season of judicious and pros
porous activity in the maturity of its
development Then wheat will be
worth growing, the country will be
well supplied, a moderate surplus will
find remunerative foreign market,
and the yield will be fifteen to twenty,
and eventually twenty-five bushels per
acre, and q population of hundred,
even two hundred millions will feel
no lack of bread within the bounda-
ries of our own acknowledgements
Review.
lLLusrRATIoN.-On this page we
show the Swiss method Of slaughter
ing cattle. The arrangement for
slaughtering cattle in the city of Basle
is so perfect that brief allusion to it
may be pertinent to the object Of this
report. On the Rhine bank, below the
city, is q large. newly-constructed
abattoir, built by the city government
and placed under the care of Director
Siegmund, an accomplished veterinary
surgeon, who inspects all animals be-
fore they are allowed to be slaught-
cred, and controls all the processes of
preparing the meat for market
Dr. Siegmund has invented and put
in use at this establishment per-
haps the most perfect and merciful in
strument yet constructed for killing
cattle. 1t consists of mask or q plate
of iron, which fits the forehead Of the
animal, and is readily attached by
straps which are fastened round the
horns. In the center of the mask is
fixed q steel gun, 10 inches long and
of about .3s caliber, the breech being
outward and provided with steel
needle, which on being struck with q
small hammer, explodes the ordinary
metallic cartridge. with which 1t Is
loaded. The barrel is fixed at such an
angle to the interior surface of the
mask that the bullet pierces the center
of the brain and is buried in the spinal
marrow, producing instantaneous and
painless death. With tame, quiet, cat
tie, form of this implement is used
which is not bound to the head, but
simply applied to the forehead and
fred. In either case the result is the
same. The OK walks without fear or
apprehension to the shambles, touch
is given to the fatal needle, and the
huge creature drops, utterly dead and
incapable of suffering. The bleed
ing afterwards is perfect, and thus the
only excuse that can be decently urged
for killing cattle by long and painful
methods is met and overcome. Com
pare this instantaneous process with
the barbarous methods in use else
where, of pounding cattle on the head
with a sledge or swinging them up
alive by hind leg to below and
struggle until they bleed to death
Farmers Review.
REMEDY FOR BoRERs various
tree borers are larvte OF well known
beetles. Those most common and
| which do the most damage are known
| as the flat-headed wood-borers. The
| beetles which produce these borers lay
their eggs on the bark about the roots
of apple and other trees during the
summer, most generally in June. The
eggs hatch and the young grub
promptly begins to work its way into
the wood at the root of the tree. As
a preventive remedy it is advised to
wash the trunks of trees with strong
soap suds- This should be done most
carefully at the surface of the ground
or among clods or other open rubbish
which may serve to harbor the beet
les. White washing with lime will
also serve the same purpose When
the borers are at work they must be
promptly dug ont with sharp knife.
Woodpeckers of various kinds feed on
these grubs, and should be eencouraged
about the orchard.
a BREED can not be perfect in even
a single characteristic as long IS i'm
| movement can be made.