The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-11

| Of the outbreak show a total loss of
| at least 1900 head.
| Investigations made by the expert
ment station show quite plainly that
| We have a complication of at least two
Infectious diseases to deal with, and
! quite commonly there have been mixed
infections of these two in each out
break. Very few typical cases Of either
| swine plague or hog cholera have been
| seen.
The fact must not be lost sight of,
| in this connection, that frequent out
breaks Of swine disease appear and
alarm neighborhoods when the trouble
| is purely epidemic and due to local
| causes They are usually diseases Of
the digestive apparatus and due to
errors in feeding. All the patients
! become diseased from the same source
| ana In the same way, and the disease
| spreads no further; several neighbors
| may make the same mistake at the
| same time and get similar bad results
| These are the cases which are called
| hog cholera and which yield to treat
| ment.
Mr.. Reynolds closes his paper with
| the following "Don'ts" in connection
with the disease:
Don't visit your neighbor's hog yards
| when you hear that he has been los
| ing his hogs and don't allow any one
! from those yards to visit your pens
! whether yours are dying or not. 1T is
| wrong in either case
Remember that there are at least
/ two infectious and very serious swine
| diseases. now in this country; in one
! the bowel symptoms are more promi-
| nent, and in the other lung symptoms
are more prominent They are equally
| fatal and both spread rapidly. They
| frequently travel together
When you have bought in hogs, that
/ from rxHx. tiki
hoods in strange cars, don't take them
right home and put them with your
others that you know are free from
| disease; but keep these new hogs in
/ rigid qarantine for at least two weeks
better three. Keep them as far as
/ possible from your other hogs.
Don't mistake a filthy sWill- barrel
cholera for the infectious hog cholera.
Scalding out and disinfecting the bar
rel or tank will cure the one and there
! is no danger from it's spread. Nothing
| cures the other
Don't spend money and time in try
ing to cure the real hog cholera, nor
swine plague; but spend the time, in
studying how you will prevent your
hogs from getting the disease, and
keep your money in your pocket.
Don't bury these patients along the
! edges of streams or lakes, just be-
cause there it is easy digging. Don't
! bury them in such places at all, for, be
it ever so deep, it is still too shallow
for the place. 1t is far better to de-
stroy the carcasses by burning; but,
if you must bury at all, bury deeply,
with at least four feet Of dirt on top Of
the carcass, having first sprinkled the
carcass literally with kerosene and
| covered it with fresh lime as it lies
in the hole ready for burial. There
are two good reasons for this latter
/ inIy lao
fine-spun theory. Hog cholera is no
| joke, and farmers can't afford to treat
| 1T as such.
The sheep department goes into de-
| tails regarding the summer forage for
sheep and relates how eightysix head
| of sheep were paStured on ten acres of
! land from May l to Nov. 4.
In addition to the pasture these ten
acres furnished more than eight tons
of cured food in the form of clover
oat hay and sorghum. And more than
six tons of green soiling food, which
was fed to young cattle and swine
| The sheep gathered all their own food
| At night they were allowed to lie in
the yards, in fact they were inclosed
| in these for fear Of dogs, and they
4 were kept on the pasture during the
| day after the dew had lifted. Although
| last summer was one of great mortal
ity amongst lambs in many places on
| account OF the great amount VI rain
! that fell, our lambs were In the best
of health. all the season through. Not
one Of them was ailing even tempo
rarily. And the same is true of the
! old sheep, with the exception of q few
| individuals lost from blOat while pas
turing on clover as further noted be-
low And today these sheep and
/ lambs are all in excellent condition,
better considerably than when pastur-
/ ing began in the spring
| The poultry department, edited by
Mrs. Ida E. Tilson, tells plainly and
Understandings about the progress
made in poultry culture in the way of
shelter for fowls. The ventilation of
! the poultry houses, bills of fare for
| fowls, amount of food to be fed and
the care Of eggs and development of
breeds are also treated Of.
The horticultural department, edit
ed by Clarence Wedge, Of Albert Lea,
| advises as to the proper and eco
ncmical use of land in setting out a
| Minnesota orchard. There is, accord
ing to Mr.. Wedge, an assured income
from the orchard. He says
There is no denying the fact that over a
| large portion of the state the apple tree
lis not as long lived or healthy as in more
| favorable chimes. Blight, cold and drouth
orchards, but if with a small return Of fruit
| from trees that look much the worse for
the Few years That nave passed over tneln
| can point to the orchard and say that we
took 200 bushels of potatoes, or four tons
OF fodder corn, or such a quantity of ber-
ries or garden vegetables with little trou-
| BILE as If the orchard had not been there we
| may still have the courage to I'LL out the
orchard with harder and better cared for
trees. We take no stock in the whine ''It
don't pay to grow apples in Minnesota" You
| will hear the same stuff" down through
| Central Iowa to the apple regions Of Mis-
souri, and eastward to Indiana and Ohio
Success is not matter of climate.
The farm department has this to
say on the forage and soiling crops:
The question of forage and soiling crops in
this state will always be Of first import
ance Several reasons may be assigned as to
why it is so, among which are the following
| First-It is peculiarly adapted to stock keep
! ing, and therefore, it is important that the
food supplies should be abundant in sum-
mer as in winter. Second, although our
state is fairly well adapted to the growth Of
| pasture grasses, these are apt to become so
dry in summer as to call for the growth Of
| food more succulent in character to supple
ment them. Third, our soil and climate are
possessed Of peculiar adaptation for the growth
of certain forage and soiling crops which may
be pastured. or cut and fed in the green state
may be desired.
The great extension of the dairy interests
makes it imperative that such crops should
| be grown; and the growth of the sheep indus
try will soon call for similar aid In fact
| the question of forage for pasture and for
soiling, linked with that OF providing fodder
for winter use in addition to hay, is in the
Judgment OF the writer, the question for the
farmer who is keeping live stock extensively
| or who is looking in that direction Only
some of the more important products ADAPTED
| to these uses will be considered in this paper
| These include winter rye, peas and oats grown
| In combination, wheat, rye barley and oats
| grown in combination; rape, millet, sorghum
Kafir corn and corn, or as 1t is sometimes
| called maize.