Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-03-13

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The bee keepers of Connecticut are
to petition the general assembly to
pass law to prevent the spread of
foul brood through the carelessness
be drawn under sanction of bee ex-
perts of the United States department
OF agriculture, and one of. its objects
will be to aid the development of al
industry which in the past few years
has had remarkable growth in Con-
necticut Foul brood is a disease OF
virulent type which quickly deciml-
mates a hive of honey gatherers. Its
spread is due to robber bees. There
are two distinct forms known as the
European and the American. foul
brood the latter being particularly de-
|structive. The proposed bill provides
penalties for those who persist in
keeping hives that have been in
fected.
The department of agriculture will
issue in a few days bulletin II of the
forest service, entitled wolves in re
lalion to stock, game and the national
forest reserves" The bulletin calls
attention to the present abundance of
wolves in various western states, the
losses suffered by stockmen on the
western cattle ranges and the de-
struction of game in forest reserves
and in national parks. with sugges-
tons for the destruction of the wolves
Among the protective measures rec
commended are bounties and wolf
proof fences. The means of destruc-
ton suggested are hunting, capture of
ping, The bulletin is illustrated by
three full page plates and FIVE text
figures and will be on sale by the SUI
perintendent of documents govern
ment printing Office.
The onion acreage in Texas is like
ly to be decreased by about one-third
the present year Last year some of
the growers lost money with the crop
and have become discouraged. Others
planted the crop too far north for best
success and are giving it up. Trans
planting season S now under way,
and there is great difficulty in obtain
ing help; in fact, the labor difficulty
Is one of the principal reasons why
the acreage has decreased. Formerly
large number of Mexican laborers
came over the border, but enforce
ment of the immigration rules has in
terfered considerably with the Mexi-
can labor supply, to say nothing of
the demand for labor in other direc-
tons, which has made farm labor ex-
pensive in Texas as elsewhere
American Cultivator.
The ripening of cream should at
all times be considered a matter of
paramount importance in the manu-
facture of good butter, but more es-
.pecially so during cold weather.
cMoreover, ordinary temperatures,
such as will insure a fairly vigorous
development of Tactic acid germs,
are not nearly as apt to give us I'M
desirable favors in milk or cream
as those temperatures which stop
the growth of these organisms, and
which, by virtue of this. foster the
development of undesirable kinds ca
pable of growing at relatively low
temperatures The increased num-
Der of undesirable germs, together
with the increased length of time
during which the milk and cream
are kept, undoubtedly account for
much of the inferior butter made
during cold weather Elgin dairy re-
port.
On account of the general import
ance ind prevalence of scours
among calves fed on skim milk, L.
A. Klein of the South Carolina ex-
pertinent station tested the value
of formalin added to the milk before
feeding to the calves. In these ex-
reriments u calves were treated by
adding formalin to the milk at the
rate of one part to 1000. Eleven
calves recovered without any further
treatment-seven on the second day,
three on the third and one on the
ninth. In one case r. was found
necessary to administer castor oil,
creolin and subnitrate of bismuth De-
fore a complete recovery was
brought about Ia three cases OF
1 scours in calves running at pasture
and receiving grain at the same time
the f1rmalin treatment did not prove
effective
Bottles handled In an ordinary
! commercial way at the Wisconsin
experiment station and exposed TO
steam for 10 minutes we're found 20
, contain a much smaller number of
bacteria. In the condensation water
in bottles which had been steamed
and allowed to stand at room tenn
perature for "a hours the number of
bacteria varied from 1,7S6.S00 10
1881 900. In two corresponding
series OF hottles containing no con.
! densaticn water the number of bac-