The herald., 1897-05-21

tR09u t49 COAup4rl3Vu0 VI Aou8 tus tStS,
OF breadth to length, shape or color, AL
| point In the direction OF q general struc-
tural modification" It would seem that
| the Introduction of the sparrow INTO
America is leading to deterioration.
Thus these observations have interest
respecting the current theories Of de-
generation. panmixia, etc.
We have all read much of late regard
ing the diphtheria antitoxin. 1t Is known
that this IL prepared from the serum Of
horses blood. While this antitoxin
seems very effective. It takes long time
to prepare 1t and it Is very expensive and
is difficult to keep. The raising Of \
horses serum to the requisite pitch for
effectiveness requires many weeks. Dr.
Smirnow of st. Petersburg, Russia.
claims to have discovered an equally
effective diphtheria antitoxin which re-
quires but a brief period for prepara-
tion, and need cost almost nothing
1t is prepared by taking virulent diph-
iberia broth cultures, and submitting
them to electrolysis. DR.. S. employed
this on dogs. which animals are, per-
haps. the most susceptible of any to
diphtheria poison. with wonderful re-
suits. He states that a dog weighing
from eighteen to twenty pounds, inocu-
lated simultaneously with o.5 c, C. af
vlrulent diphtheria broth cultures.
usually dies in two or two and half
days after 1t has been infected. The
protective treatment of a purposely in
fected dog was commenced one day after
inoculation, and from to 5 c. c. of the
electrC@ytic antitoxin sufiiced to save
the animals life. Dr. s. thinks the
amount might probably be lessened
without interfering with it's value. The
preparation of this new antitoxin is said
to be incomparably simpler than the
Old and with the broth on hand, can be
prepared in a day. If this antitoxin
proves to be as valuable for man as 1t
has undoubtedly proved for animals. 1t
will rank equal to the great discoveries
or Pasteur.
Aurora, in the New York Tribune,
speaks very highly of the clio And
without doubt his words may well be con-
sidered by our California dairymen:
THE economical beauty of this plan Is,
that there is no puttering with different
kinds Of soiling crops. The extra SOIL
ing crop is grown with the regular one,
the extra silo IL filled with only one
days more work, and then all anxiety
and forecasting is over, and IL more is
put up than may be needed, it will not
spoil this year. or next, If covered be-
tween times as indicated. 1t has not
BEEN discovered that there Is any soiling
crop grown that is a full equal of num-
ber one eilage as an extra succulent food.
or a crop from which more feed units
per acre can be taken than from corn
The silo Is also the most economical
method of preserving these food units,
for the loss by siloing is only about ten
per cent, while the loss by field drying
has been shown over and over to be fully
twenty-four per cent. In the clio this
loss seems to be final, while to the loss
by field curing there is no stop, but it
goes right on until in few weeks the
corn fodder pile is a mass of almost
wholly indigo estible wood, and its food
value has largely evaporated. The coun-
try is full of witnesses of successful
experiments of those who are using the
silo in lieu of soiling, and have prac-
tically given up pasturirg their dairy
COWS. 1t is a good acre of pasturage
that will supply during the season five
hundred pounds of digestibe food for
the COW; while the lusty acre of corn will
supply from six thousand to eight thou
sand. These are lessons that have no
uncertain sound about them in these
days of close competition. The silo has
come to stay, and every day demon
strates in yet palmer terms that it is one
of the greatest economical agencies to
make Eastern farming still profitable
business" Aurora has kept silage with
out any deterioratiorffor three years. To
protect his silage after having fed
part of it he puts layer of wet straw
over the silage and then sows on It
bushel of lightweight oats. This, he
says, will keep the silage entirely sweet
The editor of this department has had
long experience in the use of eilage, and
is now using two large silos. He can en-
dorse every word that Aurora says, and
believes that the silo will yet take an
important place on our dairy farms of
California. In the same number of the
New York Tribune that able writer, T.
B. Terry, says that the slo is no longer
an experiment. and urges that more of
them be built. In the near future we
shall give directions for building a sio
in California, and shall explain all the
details of preparation and feeding.
The able agricultural editor, DR.. Geo
Tree Planting in Waste Places"
Every waste place on the farm should
be planted with trees valuable for tim
ber, fruit or fuel, or for all three. What
ever land is too rough or too barren to
cultivate should be planted to trees. It
will grow crop of these without ex-
pense. There should be at least an acre
of timber on every farm. Probably its
annual product would be worth as much
as from any other acre on the farm.
This advice is equally applicable to
California. We all recognize the fact
that extremes of drouth and rainfall are
becoming more and more common, and
we think with dread of the terrible inun-
datons such as have worked fearful
havoc in the Mississippi valley during
the last spring. 1t seems very certain
that the immediate cause of these ex
tremes and this growing danger comes
| from the destruction Of our forests
Through mans stupidity and careless
ness forests are being swept away as by
fire. Indeed, we may say, often in whole
sale fashion by fire. 1t is the part OF
wisdom that we take every possible
means to not only stay this destruction
but to make good the tree growth which
has already been swept away. Thus as
individuals and by associated effort We
should all do whatever we may to en-.
courage this work of tree planting. Oul
foothills and mountains, and, as DR.