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Did you ever see a rat or mouse or
wild rabbit sick from what might
be termed natural causes? Any
one who can contribute such an animal
to the Department of Agriculture may
unwittingly confer a benefit of mil
lions of dollars annually on this
country. Whnt the Department wants
Is a fatal and contagious malady,
which It Is working hard to get now,
but up to date the work is merely
promising, there having been no satis
factory result to record. So If any one
has a hutch of rabbits swept off by
a sudden and mysterious disease, or
If he notices any swift and sudden
mortality among the ruts and mice
In his locality, that may be the very
thing the Department Is looking for,
be bought by the pound and spreat
on bread. The contagious quality
has not developed yet In any of the
foreign cultures tried.
TIIE RABBIT PEST.
The biologlcnl survey has been able
to do a good deal In a practical way
with the rabbit pest Some time ngo
the forest service set up a howl of In
dignation. It hnd planted some hun
dred thousand young trees, nursery
stock, In one of the California forest
reserves, and the rabbits ate them
up In about a week. Then It seeded
several hundred acres with white pine
to restore the land after a fire, and
the rabbits cheerfully set to work, dug
up all tho seeds and ate them. But
PRAIRIE DOOS.
One of the Pests of tho West.
and one of the rodents should be forth
with dispatched to Secretary Wilson.
He will be glad to get It.
Of course, every oue knows that the
gopher problem la a serious one In
many parts of the West, and the rab
bit pest has at times threatened to
devastate Australia, and even Cali
fornia. Altogether the small animals
do a great amount of damage, but
most people do not realize what its
aggregate really is. Yet In one coun
ty of the state of Washington last
year field mice destroyed at least
half a million dollars worth of Prop
erty, while tu the same time wolves
In Wyoming alone mulcted the stock-
men of |1,OOQ.OOO worth of cattle,
while the damage from field mice, and
similar little “varmints” throughout
United States, especially In the
West and South, amounted to many
millions.
TUgfK OF THE SCIENTISTS.
,To cope with these pests Is one of
the most Interesting tasks of the
biological survey of the Department of
Agriculture. It has been working In
a quiet way for several years, and has
about come to the conclusion that al
though It la possible to trap, poison
and otherwise reduce the pests in
many Instances, the thing that is
really needed is a contagious disease
that can be bottled up in the labor
atory and distributed to do Its own
work on au Infinitely more effective
scale than can traps and poisons.
That there is some such disease, or
that one can be produced, the scien
tists of the department do not doubt.
The trouble up to date has been
to find It. The biological servey Is
working In conjunction with the
bureau of animal Industry. Some
promising leads have been struck, but
none of them have turned out to be
Just what was wanted. For instance,
while they aro working with one dis
ease now that Is fatal to a certain
breed of field mice, it will not touch
others, and the rats laugh at It in
conscious Immunity. Also there are
plenty of contagious animal diseases
that could be turned loose on the rats,
ground squirrels, and rabbits, but as
they would kill a horse just as quickly
as they would a rat, they are not
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON’S
FIND.
Some years back the survey lost
Just the chance It has been looking
for. Ernest Thompson Seton was p
In Canada, where there was a pest of
rabbits, and noticed that they were
rapidly dying out. Some mysterious
disease was carrying them off, and it
was not long before the country was
almost cleared of them. He realized
that this disease might prove valuable
and managed to catch some sick rab
bits which he shipped to a laboratory
in New York, but the problem was not
Just In the biologist’s line, and he did
not realize the Immense Importance
of It, so the secret was not grnsped.
Now the biological survey Is looking
ont for similar occurrences, and If the
opportunity offers, will make the most
of them.
There is a field mouse disease that
Is harmless to domestic animals, and
the survey Is trying hard to make It
virulent enough to do business with
some of the larger pests. It promises
well, but the scientists have had too
many disappointments to be bragging
In advance. They are, however, act
ually trying to relnforee the disease
and make it worse than It has proved
up to date. This Is getting pretty deep
into the network of germology and
toxic science. It means really breed
ing up disease germs on somewhat the
same plan that plants and animals are
now bred by the department. But
there Is a hope that they may be able
to do something with it. Anyhow
they are trying.
There has been a number of reports
from abroad of the wonderful things
foreign bacteriologists have succeeded
In doing In tbe Hue of contagions dis
eases for small animal pests, but
though cultures have been bought
abroad and tried faithfully here, no
results have ever been obtained. Some
of tbe germs have proved fatal to the
animals that ate them, but the same
!• true of any sort of poison that can
the biologists were loaded for rabbit,
so to speak, and they furnished the
forest people with a harmless wash
to Boak their pine nuts In before plant
ing, and with a cheap dip for the
nursery stock which a self-respecting
rabbit will no more nibble than will
an ordinary human being smell auto
mobile odor for a perfume.
In this the biologists confessedly
took a leaf out of the book of the
Tlute and other desert-dwelling In-
dluns. The Plutes have been caching
food supplies of pine and pinion nuts
In the desert for hundreds of years
und they found that the rabbits, tbe
ground squirrels and prairie dogs
would clean out their cache. But
they found by experience that there
was a little desert weed that the
ground animals disliked excessively
und that anything dipped In a tea
steeped from the bnrk of the weed was
rabbit-proof for a long time thereafter.
So the rabbits were checkmated on
that play and the forest officers have
no more trouble from that quarter.
PLAGUE OF THE WOLVES.
But It Is the very presence of the
forest reserves that has bred the
present plague of timber wolves In
the West. No bunting Is allowed In
the reserves and they form nurseries
for game of ull sorts. But it seems
that they breed wolves quite as fast
as they breed anything else, of which
fact the cattle raisers have been made
painfully aware.
In the days of tbe buffalo on the
plains, thousands of wolves lived on
the herds. When the buffalo were
killed off the wolves disappeared nlso,
till there was not one where there used
to be a thousand. Then the cattle
men began to stock tbe ranges, and
the wolves found conditions much tbe
same as In the buffalo days. They
promptly multiplied and Increased tiu
they are now doing nn immense
amount of damage, aided largely by
their asylum In the forest reserves.
The biological survey has sent out
Mr. Vernon Bailey, one of Its best
men, to study the wolf problem, and
be has been skeelng and snowshoelng
through Wyoming and Montana while
the snow was on the ground and the
wolves were particularly easy to track
and study. He has not done any
shooting, lput Is trying the effects of
poisons und traps. But the wolves are
about as cunning as foxes, and after
you have trapped and poisoned a few
in a given district tbe rest grow, wary
Ht Farms of California.
.. By T. F. McORP.W.
Many years ago I assisted a friend
In the loading of a car of poultry for
California. This car was shipped from
Central Ohio, and the fowls contained
therein were very well selected from
flocks of desirable varieties. The
owner of this car crossed the conti
nent In care of bis birds and settled hi
Central California. Reports from
there a few yenrs later told a direful
story of the Impossibility of success
In poultry-growing In California.
It is unnecessary to relate the many
troubles experienced, except to say
thnt tbe nmnteur In poultry at that
time Imagined thnt the birds would
live and prosper In the California cll-
mnto without proper shelter within
bouses during the cold, damp weather.
A close study of these conditions
has entirely eliminated nil these mis
takes, and to-day there Is no plnco
In the United States where thei'e Is nn
enthuslnsm equal to that found
throughout California with reference
to this Industry.
The construction of proper houses,
the selecting of proper breeds and the
proper cnrlng for them has built up an
enormous egg business through thnt
section of the country.
In the neighborhood of Petaluma,
more Leghorn fowls aro probably kept
for producing the white-shelled egg*
for the California city markets than
cun be found within the same number
of miles In any other place In the
world. One enthusiastic visitor to that
locality has mnde the statement thnt
every acre In the fifty thousand acres
visited eontnlned a hundred Leghorns.
The climate of Southern California,
the beauties of the scenery, the pleas
ure of fruit cultivation and the profit
able growing of poultry have attracted
many hundreds to that section to em
bark In these pursuits under pleasaut
conditions.
A Mr. Brownlow who purchased a
few acres of ground In thnt locality
ten years ago has built up for himself,
with the assistance of his wife and
children, a most profitable combination
of poultry, fruit, bees and squabs, all
of which thrive continually under tbe
softer climates of that locality, ena
bling these people to produce broilers
every month with a minimum amount
of care and attention, the fruit and
bees being a remarkable source of
profit during the greater part of the
year.
PROTECTION AGAINST DAMP
IMPORTANT.
Tbe buildings used for poultry In
these localities need not be so expen
sive In construction as is necessary in
that portion of the country visited
and other necessities Is not ao
high as In the colder parts of
the country, as much of it is
usually produced near at hand. All
of these things combine to make the
regions of Southern California most
attractive to poultry growers, who may
l>e seeking a softer climate to lessen
the aggravation which the rigors of
winter heap upon some member of
the family. Many have gone there
seeking a place merely to benefit their
health, and have been much improved
by so doing; but they have also been
able to make a living for themselves
and their families through the com
bination above described.
ALL CANNOT SUCCEED.
All do not succeed. This can not be
In any following of life. Those who
do succeed usually bavo more or less
experience in tbe business before they
embark upon It. The failures come
to the Inexperienced, and those who
are unnble to contend with the diffi
culties always confronting one In the
upbuilding of a new home in any lo
cality.
What are known In the San Fran
cisco innrkct ns “range” eggs, the Nc w
York market designate!; as ‘•fresh-laid”
eggs. Rnnch eggs of California are
the fresh-lnid eggs that are brought
direct to the market and sold as such.
During November and December last
tills quality of eggs sold In the mar
kets of San Francisco ns high ns fifty-
one cents a dozen, and as low as thirty
cents, Influenced, no doubt, by the sup
ply and demand, governing this pro
duct in every locality.
Eggs sold in Chicago during the
year of 1905 as low ns fifteen cents,
in San Francisco the lowest price
quoted for the year was fourteen
cents. When the lesser expensfe of
caring for them Is c msldered, the ad
vantages or profit from poultry grow
ing should be fully equal tp, If not bet
ter tliun would be the same pursuit In
Illinois.
BUSINESS METHODS IN FARMING
Successful Kansas Farmer Who Has
Kept Trace of Receipts and Ex
penditures for Twenty Years,
the Kansas City Journal of the suc
cess of A. L. Holllnger, a well-to-do
Kansas farmer who opened • set of
books when he began farming twenty
years ago and who has kept his ac
counts as accurately as a bank does
its. The other day he struck a trial
balance and found himself $50,000 to
the good. He has now retired from
the farm and will make s tour of
America.
The compilation of his long record
beginning with 1886 shows the total
figures given as follows: He has
raised 5,265 acres of wheat, a yearly
average of over 263 acres, and on
that area has raised 98,791 bushels, or
an average per acre for twenty years
of 18% bushels. During all the two
decades he never had an entirefnllureof
wheat, although an average of 1%
bushels an acre In 1895 came very near
to it
His corn record Is equally interest
ing. He has raised 2,846 acres of
corn, a yearly average of 142 acres.
The total number of bushels was 72,<
672, or an average per acre for twenty
years of 25% bushels. Tbe corn
THE SCOURGE OF THE CATTLE COUNTRY.
feeding the fowls; and the facility
with zero weather during the winter
months. Protection from rain, damp
and vermin Is the most necessary ad
junct to a properly constructed poultry
house when the poultry can not run
at large and range over the land.
There Is no month In the year In which
they can not find more or less aniraul
and vegetable life for food upon the
range. This 12 months of food supply
reduces tbe expense very materially in
made two entire failures, one In 1895
and one In 1901. In 1895 It was very
near a failure, only 3 bushels per
acre. Less attention was paid to oats
and only 679 acres were raised. This
averaged for the twenty years 25%
bushels per acre. In all these figures
the number of acre* sown to given and
tbe number of bushels harvested
“During the twenty years,” said Iff.
Holllnger, “I have aimed to carry
enough cattle to use up the rough
ness and the corn raised on tbe farm,
usually from 100 to 400 head. Of late
years I have paid more attention to
cattle and alfalfa, and have found
that it was a far more reliable com
bination than purely grain farming In
which I was chiefly engaged in the
earlier time of my experience. There
is no question but tbat any Intelligent
farmer can make a competency, and
support his family In abundant com
fort In central Kansas. I have done
no more than any c/ my neighbors did
or might have done. Etch year the
same income approximately can be se
cured If the work Is carefully planned
and such crops are raised as areadapted
to Kansas soli and Kansas climate.”
As an example of Mr. Holllnger’s
stock raising It may be mentioned tbat
he came to Kansas City recently with
$9,500 worth of stock which be sold
off his farm. He has lived on the
same place for thirty-three years and
Is not leaving Kansas because he Is
entirely satisfied with his wealth but
because he wants to give his family
broader education and to secure
recreation for himself. “I think I
have enough to keep me from want,”
he said, “and I am entitled to get some
thing more out of life than I have
heretofore done.”
GREAT BEAR COUNTRY.
Representative Bede of Minnesota
Tells the President About Big
Game Hunting In Duluth.
How it happened that the war cor
respondents at Washington found out
about J. Adam Bede’s conference on
bears with President Roosevelt does
not appear. However, a full report of
the Minnesota Congressman’s tales
has been made, and was made public
in the New York Evening Post. It
makes an alluring document. Mr. Bede,
who is the acknowledged wit of the
House, sought the President with the
friendliest intention. “You like to
shoot bears,” said “Jadam,” diplo
matically. Mr. Roosevelt admitted it.
"But you don’t have to go into tbe
wild West for your aport,” went on the
Minnesota statesman. “Think of this
fact: thirteen beara were shot in the
Btreets of Duluth' last year—in Du
luth, the pride of the Northwest, that
beautiful city on the great unBalted
sea.” The statement had a perceptible
effect on the President, and Mr. Bede
was encouraged to go on. “It’s the
only place in the whole world, Mr.
President, where you can go bear
hunting by trolley car, under the elec
trie light, and on asphalt pavements.
We have all the conveniences so dear
to the heart of tbe true sportsman,
and without leaving your hunting
ground you can vfalk across the street
to the mall box and drop In a postal
card to your frlende, telling them all
about the game you have bagged.”
With the Congressman was a Duluth
constituent, a lady with first-hand
knowledge of bear hunting In that
city. She added her corroborative
statement: “Oh, yes, Mr. President, a
short time ago a friend of mine heard
a noise outside his window, and on
looking out saw that it was a bear try
ing to climb a telegraph pole. He shot
that fellow without leaving his bed
room.” Then, to the Joy of the Presi
dent, Mr. Bede took up the tale: "Why,
bears are common things with us up
In Minnesota, Mr. President. Last year
five bears held up one of our trolley
cars. They were two old ones and
three cubs. This occured right In the
streets of Duluth. The big fellow got
In front of the car and put his' paws
on the dashboard, driving the motor-
man off, while mamma and the cubs
went around after the conductor. After
they had had enough of this sport they
raised the siege and trotted off toward
the outskirts of the city. Oh, no, we
don’t let the hears trouble us much.
When they get too bothersome we turn
them over to the police, who drive
them out of town; but it’s a great bear
country up there, and I’m sure you
would like to see a bit of it.” Now, If
It 1b announced that President Roose
velt means to take a vacation up In
the Minnesota woods, the correspond
ents may go straight to Duluth, where,
as Mr. Bede la a true prophet, the
great bear slayer may be found sitting
In the door of an up-to-date hotel, a
rifle across his knees, waiting for the
promised sport.
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