The Columbus journal., 1896-10-21

0AC AoAu " pIOpd6otc IIOm cuttings.
All cuttings should be placed in rich,
well prepared soil and thoroughly cul-
tivated the following season. In evcre
climates protect in winter with a mulch
of coarse manure or straw. There are
some advantages in propagating your
own plants. You can continue those
varieties that do best in your partic-
ular locality and soil. You can trans
plant them as soon as your ground is
properly prepared. You a use more
care in transplanting and fill in the
missing hills at leisure. The care OF
young and tender plants, as with young
and helpless animals, creates a per-
sonal interest and love for them, which
insures better protection in the future.
II, however, you have not this natural
personal interest within you-no affec-
ton for the things cared for-then
trust the work to other hands-you
will not succeed.-M. A. Thayer.
Symptoms Of Anthrax and Biackieg.
Stockowners occasionally appear to
have difficulty in distinguishing be-
tween anthrax or charlton and symptO-
matte anthrax or blackleg. writes the
veterinarian of the North British Agri-
culturist. But the distinguishing char
acters are well marked. Anthrax is
readily communicable to man, horses,
sheep, and even occasionally to pigs.
and carnivora which have eaten the
flesh of cattle. Blackleg occurs spon-
taneously only in cattle and sheep.
Anthrax occurs usually in adult cat
tie, blackleg in young animals and
adolescents, seldom before they are six
months, not commonly after two and
half years. The anthrax is more sud-
den and rapid in its course, death In
many instances occurring in an hour
after the animal has been seen grazing
or Illuminating. The spleen in cattle is
almost invariably greatly enlarged
with dark colored, imperfectly coagu-
lated blood, but there are no notable
external swellings. The blackleg pa
tient is noticed to be dull for a few
hours, and ven in acute cases the fatal
issue does not ensue until ten or twelve
hours after the characteristic symp- |
toms appear. The emphesematous |
crepitating swellings about the back
lions or shoulders are eminently char
acteristic, but there is no enlargement
of the spleen as in anthrax. The bac-
teriologist isolating the bacilli from
the spleen-pulp. the blood, or a Of
the anthrax patient, or from the local.
ised muscular swe!lings Of the black
leg subjects, has no difficulty in dis
tir gushing between them. They diff
fer in size, contour, and nobility. Some
of the lower animals show notable diff
ferences when injected with the infec-
tive products of these two diseases.
Rabbits and mice are not injured by
the blackleg injection, but these, as
we'll as the guinea pig, are killed in a
few hours by incubation Of anthrax.
quickly destroys the bac-
illus of anthrax. but not that of black
leg. The bacilli of both diseases find
to the body by much the
same channels. They may be inhaled.
Most commonly they are swallowed
with the food. as cur with cattle
grazing in infected meadows, and
horses eating contaminated, usually
oats. They may be implanted
On abraded skin and mucous surfaces.
az in anthrax in its familiar form of
w~ool-sorters' disease in man, or in seiz-
ures in sheep from scratches with dirty
during shearing. Both disor-
iers are liable to be spread by the dis
charges of infected subjects and BY
skinning and cutting up infected car
Both are prevented by deeply
turying the earcasses uncut and I'M
Lpenel, and burning Of burying any
litter, or other subjects con
with the specific bacilli or
heir spores.