The Advocate and news., 1897-12-22

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reasonable salary for the work done.
This will entail responsibility and In
most cases insure reliable reports.
Waldo f. Brown, an experienced
farmer, is Of the opinion that 1t is bet
ter to market pigs at six or seven
months, rather than to keep them three
or four times that long. The best mar
ket demand Is for young pork, and he
says cost of making meat increases with
the age of the animal. Probably a ton
of pork can be made from pigs six to
seven months old for one-third less
money than from mature hogs.
Among internal parasites OF sheep,
stomach worms are the most wide
spread and destructive, and they seem
to be increasing. AS among thebest
remedies DR.. Niles gives this: An emul-
sion of one part OF turpehtine to sixteen
of milk, the mixture to be well shaken
or churned until the milk and turpen-
tine are completely emulslhed. Give
two to four ounces to each sheep, &C.
cOrding to age and size, and II neces-
sary repeat in three or four days.
Kansas Experiment Station Bulletin
No. So, treating Of cattle diseases, says
the only successful remedy for black
| leg is vaccination. The disease does
not spread from one animal to another,
but the sick animal infects the pasture
or feed trough and drinking water.
Hence the we'll ones should be moved
to new quarters and dlsinfectants should
be used freely on animals, troUghs and
premises. Promptly burn every dead
animal to prevent spread OF the infec-
tion by dogs and buzzards.
A Howard county, Indiana, man, after
having thought the matter over, con-
cluded to try sheep, and this is sum-
mary Of his operations as 1t appears in
Breeders Gazette: I'm November, 1896,
he invested $493 in ITO ewes. Last sum-
mer he sold his wool for $21250 and
raised 1853 lambs, thus increasing the
flock to 1888. Recently he hau an offer
Of 81 head for his entire flock, which
would have yielded him $2.366. Adding
to this amount the money received for
the clip and he would have had a total
of $2,578 in one years time from an
original investment of $49S."
Concerning Texas fever it may be
stated Q) That 1t is communicated to
Northern cattle by perfectly healthy
cattle coming from south of the quar-
antine line; (2) that northern cattle
do not contract the disease directly
from Southern cattle, but from passing
over ground which Southern cattle have
infected with Southern cattle ticks: (3)
that Southern cattle do not infect
ground nor do Northern cattle con-
tract Texas fever after sharp freezing
weather sets in; (4) that Northern cat
tie taken south of the quarantine line
into permanently infected territory con-
tract Texas fever.
The Nebraska Independent says the
mortgage debt of Nebraska has greatly
increased since 1890. In that year the
total amount of real estate mortgages
on record in the State was $1S2,9 1922.
The increase of farm mortgages since
that date has been $25, Asa, ,0S781, and
the increase of mortgages on city real
estate has been $40, ,425, ,70S.5O, a total
increase of $35,S79, ,746.35, making the
total real estate mortgage Indebtedness
at the present time $16S, 1882, ,O68. .35.
While the mortgage Indebtedness has
been increasing the assessed valuation
has been decreasing. The assessed val
uation July 1, 1890, was $115,1S1, ,167,
and on July /, 1897, 1t was only $112,-
96S,67S, decrease of $2,212,494.
The Massachusetts experiment station
lately issued bulletin on tOads. 1t says
the toad lives from ten to forty years.
Beginning the fourth year. to produce
young, 1t lays about o thousand eggs
a year after that It's food consists OF
bees, wasps, yellow-iackets, ants, bee
ties, worms, spiders, snails, bugs, grass
hoppers, crickets, weevils, caterpillars,
moths, etc. The station examined with
microscope the stomachs Of seven
toads in April thirty in May, siXty-six
| In June, twenty-six in July, ten in Au-