Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-02-08
OF Interest TO Sfockmen.

The sixth Annual convention of
the Oklahoma Live stock association
will be held at Ell Reno Feb. I3-IA.
$4,000 head of cattle near Bliss,
Okla, were recently dehorned and
only two head were lost. The work
was done by an expert who dehorn-
ed them at the rate of one steer
minute.-Live-Stock Inspector.
We rode few miles with M. C.
Campbell, the Wichita stock man,
Wednesday morning. He was go
ing to his Ashland ranch. He says
feed is so high out there that he will
move 900 head of steers into Chase
county and feed them on cane and
corn. He has between 1900 and
2, 400 head of stock on his Ashland
ranch, and has 100 head of stock
fattening in his feed lots at Mulvane.
Wichita Star.
Speaking of blackleg and its
treatment, J. B. Elliot, of Coin,
says in substance: Blackleg is con-
fined for the most part to domestic
cattle or cattle in fine condition. 1t
results rather from constipation,
and cattle that travel far to and
from water are seldom afflicted with
with it. Dehorning is good pre-
ventive. So is vaccine. The
symptoms of blackleg resemble those
of foundered horse, and acquired
largely from lack of exercise. Salt
is good cure for blackleg, but
should be put into water tank
instead of out on the Prairie, as is
usually done. A pint of salt should
be placed in the tank and if this
amount is insufficient to effect a
cure, more should be added. This
is sure cure, based on experimental
knowledge. One stockman who had
been losing five or six cattle daily
from effects of blackleg tried this
remedy with the result that he has
not lost one since.-Beaver Herald.
GETTING RID OF PRAIRIE DOGS.
How to get rid of prairie dogs is
question that has puzzled the
stockmen for many years. The
destruction caused by these little
pests every year is almost incalcul-
able. 1t is estimated that in the
pastures in which they abound they
destroy more than so per cent OF
the grass and in some instances the
damage is almost total.
Various expedients have from
time to time been resorted to, but
none of them seem to quite answer
the purpose. Capt. J. D. Mitchell,
manager of the Square and Compass
ranch, has a receipt for killing
prairie dogs which he has tried with
success, and highly recommends.
He used the receipt on SO section:
and freed the land entirely. Some
of his neighbors have seen the gooc
results of it and say they intend to
try it on their ranges. Capt.
Mitchell desires to bring the receipt
to the attention of stockmen who
are annoyed by the dogs and ask:
that the following be published:
Put into glass jar and let stand
for "a hours, the whites of one
dozen eggs and five spoonfuls o.
green coffee. Dissolve in one and
one-half pints of hot water one-hali
pound of cyanide of potassium, ano
pour into the mixture of eggs and
shake well. Then pour into the
mixture one-quarter pound strych-
nine, dissolve in one pint of hot
water, and mix we'll together. Their
take one gallon of good syrup and
stir in with the poison, and ther
mix with two bushels of good wheat
or kafir corn and stir in one gallon
of meal. Stir we'll so as to get wei
mixed.
A prairie dog that partakes of the
above mixture will Immediately take
flight to that bourne whence ne
prairie dog returns. = Colorado
(Texas) Stockman.
The second annual meeting of the Kansa
State Mutual Hail Association, whose head
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