The Charlotte Democrat., 1895-10-18
Disease in Cattle.

Eczema epiZootica is disease Just now
prevalent among cattle and horses i'll
some sections of Georgia which is transs
missable to man and one which is seldom
ever heard OF in this section of the coun-
try. Yesterday a telegram from Mr..
Charles Anderson, at Austell, called DR..
Will Carnes, of Atlanta, to that place
where he found that the disease was
prevalent among a herd of cattle which
Mr.. Anderson had on his plantation.
The cattle had come from Tennessee.
The disease is more commonly known
as 'foot and mouth disease" and is an
eruptive, hig hly contagious and infectious
illness, chiefly affecting cattle, sheep,
goats and all kindred animals and &C
cording to the version Of DR.. Carnes can
easily be transmitted to a person. 1t is
often found in England and foreign
countries, but seldom ever in the United
States. The symptoms are as follows
Discrimination for food, the animal stands
apart from companions, back arched,
shlvers, restless, temperature increased,
suspension of milk, muscles bot and dry,
eyes watery, mouth infested with ugly
masses OF sores and ulcers of pale straw
color involving the whole mouth, lips and
gums sufficient TO loosen the teeth and
tongue is swollen, heat and tenderness
accompanied by ropy saliva, the udder
and teats are involved, caused by their
young. The cleft of the foot is mass of
ulcers; occasionally the foot drops off,
also the horns and often amputation is
necessary, great lameness is invariably
present.
1t this dreaded disease is allowed to
proceed with no medicinal or sanitarian
measures the constitutional disturbance
becomes aggravated, which manifests
itself by an enormous elevation of tenn.
perature, internal irritation and rapid
emacipation, pyrma, sloughiNg and sym
pathetic fever and death
DIR. Carnes prescribes the following
treatment: Isolate in a pasture. Use
astringent antiseptics, internal and exter-
nal. With proper treatment all will re-
over.-Journal.1
FEEDING APPLEs.-In mapy localities
apples are unusually abundant this fall.
Where the windfalls cannot be used for
cider, drying, canning, apple jelly, or
some similar purpose. feed them TO stock,
so that any insects they contain will be
destroyed. By cleaning. up under the
trees frequently a medium for the devel.
opment of many fungus and insect pests
will be removed. Rotting apples are
conducive to the propagation of orchard
diseases. Henry Phillips, Massachusetts,
dairyman, who is very successful in
making fall and winter butter, writes
that he considers apples away ahead of
roots for making yellow butter. "I feed
pailful of chopped apples daily to each
cow with little bran and corn meal.
Last winter l did not feed any apples
and the butter was very pale"
GETTING GRASS ON PooR LANp.-If
you have a patch of poor land that you
wish to get into grass, seed it to'rye this
fall, as this grain fiourishes better than
wheat on inferior soils. In the spring
SOW the clover or mixture of clover
and timothy, and when the frost is out
of the ground and it has settled, gu e9er
the field with q smoothing ,harroW = This
will do the rye no harm and will give
the grasses such depth of root that they
will not be as easily killed by dry
weather as those simply sowed on the
top of the ground. Careful seeding in
the case of grasses and rclovers is just! as
important as with small grain = Orange
Judd Farmer, z E f1HC -