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TVJ) PvF, >> S.
Guay, Jonkh Co. April W. ttf»
PrnusnKD Every Tih'uhxiay.
SUBSCRIPTION I’KICK, $1.
EDITORIAL EA UAGKAI’HS.
Cuba furnishes 11:in ntry
with a good deal of niolas s':.. and
y Glow f< ver.
Tlti'ie is talk of n’’’Sou thorn man
for president in 1 'lId, but it-
a longish wny oil'.
Is Major Hanson’s munti fact ti¬
ring club inlended to be a Hi pul )-
lienn club in disguise?
At last neroniit.-''I’lionms U ni¬
son hud neither bulldozed nor
legged the governor into ordering
anew election in the Tenth dis¬
trict, at a lime suited solely to
Thonjas.
There was an old-fashioned be¬
lief that Easter was intended to
comnmrnte a sacred event, but the
world is rapidly grasping the more
modern idea that the day was es¬
tablished for a display of the lat¬
est thing in sprung hats.
It is said that no news is good
news, hut no news iu Tine Nun's
would make a very poor News.
Tin; News is here to give the news,
and has done ho ho far as it knew
it. It will continue to do so. and
tie subscriber who renews the 2Lc.
(three month) snbseription that
lie handed in January ought to
have bis example numerously fol¬
lowed.
“Don’t be a parrot,” says the
Macon Telegraph, and it goes on
to explain that people should not
cry hard times because other peo¬
ple ery them. There have been
hard times; they are hard yet,
and they were harder beenu.se ev¬
ery body was following his neigh¬
bor’s example in bewailing them.
Better times are ahead. The tide
is beginning to turn. Don’t hin¬
der it.
OUGHT TO SETTLE IT.
There has boon some controver¬
sy as to whether or not Mr. Lin¬
coln stated at the Hampton Roads
conference that in the event of
the restoration of peace between
the States as a result of that con¬
ference the United States govern¬
ment would pay ' l, four hundred
million .... dollars , ,, to the former .
own-
era of „ amancipatou slaves; and
1 ’
recently , the , matter has , been
brought up ' again "... ,/ by (he assertion
of ... Mr. Henry Watterson „ that , Mr.
r LincoJn . , did , say so.
in the Katonton Messenger of „
A,.ril III C„„l. II. F. I>..„,1 „l„,
i,,,vll inform.',I concm,ii, s th,
, f , | , ,
* ... j . . 11 1 11 , 1,111 ... 1 11
proposition, . , hut that on the con-
trury lie virtually demanded un-
conditional surrender 11 must
l>e borne in mind, in the first
place, that Mr. Lincoln had no
lawful authority to make such
terms; and the ii arest an; r >ach
to any "that proposed payment
slaves ho made was t lie state-
in,mt that personally he would
be willing t<> tie taxed for that
purpose, and that he knew other
nieti, the mention of whose names
would create surprise, who favor-
ed tho payment. L’apt. Rowel
quotes from Mr. Stephens’s liisto-
ry of the United States a coinpre-
heneive account of the conference,
and it does n<>t app ai liom this
or that Lrfi.Tit.rT a > n to n, thG Mat
branch ot tile subject, except the
statements of Lincoln already re-
triTcd to, w as made. As Mr.
Stephens was one of the delegates
pit the part ot the Uontederaoy,
nnd as lie was a luithtnl historian,
his account must be accepted ; and
it is the more entitled to belief
because others of tlie Confederate
delegates, who were alive when it:
wa9 published, never entered a
denial. ..........
IW1V article is a valua-
Lie contribution to war history,
and it ought to settle the question !
in dispute. We think it likely
that personally Mr. Lincoln was
in favor of paying for the freed
slaves, but beyond this there is
nothing assertion to warrant Mr. Walter-
son's that he proposed
to bind the government to do so.
lie could not >7 lave bound it to
do anything , of he kind, ilor in -
our belief could ho have induced
Congress to appropriate money
for that purpose. j
i Hr. Nk\,"s is ot the opinion that
H'ing of tampering with
names—we won’t say “fooling,”
for that might be taken as an in-
sinuation t],at the girls who proc-
" ; ■ “ h lu,1 { b , mass j nom ■
which the word is derived—has
reached the danger point, and
ought to bo checked. Girls ought
to have sweet, sensible names, and
, .
1 ,0,e “ rp llonp ^ l wUlt ’ r
fhan Annie, Mary, Ruth, Mable,
Maud and the like; and after they
get them, they ought to stick to
(hem \ 11rot.tv 1 name 1 needs 11 1 no
-
trimming—either up ov down. !>
may require :i good deal ot moral
courage to face one’s (ashionahle
friends through all the caprices
of fas hion with an unchanged
‘
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ionv of character and a ue!l-hal-
anced mind; and wo suspect that
gj r | s are soonest asked p,
change , t <D»:r Siirmuv.-'S.
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Advise your neighbor ;<» sue-
scribe for Tb£ News. t
“FOOLING” WITH NAMES.
The Mudison Advert! .;*:r says:
“A girl who spells her name
Merci is visiting in town, W« -
would like to know what her
name whs before she begun to fool
with it. ”
This brings up n delicate sub¬
ject. •
We don't, like to treed on the
feedings of the dear girls, but we
i fear we will have to. “F ooling”
| with names, as the Advertiser
suggestively puts it, has gone
ubout fur enough. A name is
one’s own property, and the
or can do with it as , he or she ,
nlenses' * ’ we have moreover ’ rm
very good ailt lionfy that there
need be no iron bound rule for
spelling proper names, but thin
lias boon supposed to apply to sur-
aiii change as
now generations came upon the
scene of action and fashion, un-
II." family .mm. of tl.e
"»l i»«n.ilor ™» .1001 ly
This may do very well, and some¬
times we have had it in our heart
to forgive the man (or h.s
who made an improvement on
surname that was adopted evident-
ly nftor all tbo nicn ones had been
“taken;” but when the imitiln-
tion of time and llio fad of the
hour begin to show up in baptis¬
mal names, a halt ought to be
called. This sort of “fooling”
is not to be tolerated.
It was tho fashion a few years
ago for girls with good, plain
names to twist them into some-
t iling fancy. 1 he girl named Ma-
ry—a sweet, name it is—who went
olT to college M ^ irpiioriillv y cimo hnel
named “Mamie” (Marie), with it
long accent on the “e, ” and like¬
wise Nannie became Nunnetto,
Laura became Laurelte, and soon,
ad libitum et ad nauseam. Re¬
cently, however, the fad has
changed, and it is considered
quite • tho , thing for „ Sullie
and
Nannie to nc known respectfully „
as Surah and Nancy. T Jus ii fol-
with a vengeance, hut it cannot
bo i denied , liii that when u SaJlio. on- and ,
Nannie become grandmothers,
rnh and Nancy will fit. them
ter, and yet who is to guarantee
that by then tin ir names will not
have been changed to Bulletin or
Nannetta?
Another . verv remarkable , , , form ,
ot ,■ the penchant for „ .... tooling ,,
with names—and'perhaps , , it .. is . the .,
deadliest , ... . and , worst . form , of th
e
disease—is m the ,, spelling of r
them, as the Advertiser , , .. has . lun-
ted. , , A , glance , tbo society
over
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strange names to make a matter-
oi-i net person suspect he was
reading a Russian newspaper.
]y[ orc j j .’ s no p 1( ‘ p u ‘ ]| { | 1(> ^> 1{ , wo ,. Ht
.... *bo contrary, . it
" 011 rep-
roseu ^ s rather u mild attack. Not
1° nm tho ganimnt, we are expect-
<’<1 t<> got May out of Mae, and
Ruth ! out of Kntlm ■ mid wo l-mm
’ <M> , vU1 ‘ *’ K "
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111 nnothei town, who walked into
telegraph office the other day.
and signed a telegram “Lowyse.”
And she did it without a quiver 1
m i , , Tl! r< nn ,ls ,
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MT 0*
INQUIRIES ■
Some Important Information on
Various Subjects.
INSPECTING COTTONSEED HEAL.
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mti«ia Ciratui—»rr«>t< ction I or F.*r * « f:i
1' riU'lularit F«*rtiJ iz - th-- < r<*]>
aii fl Other News o» r Interest*
Department op Acatieui.Ti'RY.^
: Atlanta, A; ail-L*
( .iatiu .lilas. )
i QmtSTioN 1.—There is a fertilizer be-
iu# offered for sale in tho state uad-r
I t * 1B name of “Natural Plant Food.
Please tell ns something of it, its eon-
Kliment.-;, aud if it is what it claims to
!***• “Natural i>i t
Answer 1.—Tha in
j Food” is masquerading under
: SS? S—
Tne K°°?* 18 a Florlda “J phf 7 na -®
which claims 1 per cent of potash and
i
fact ..............
, 2.87 per cent, only, of a«.i.lab i
I phoric acid.
th# man ^ aotnre „ that they cannot
lef , 3ily gell it uuder its preseI1 t name,
if they put it on the market in its true
character with correct analysis and
farmers choose to buy it as such, there
can be no objection urged.
INSPECTION of cottonseed steal.
Question 2 .—Does not the law re
quire that all cottonseed meal sold in
this state shall be inspected, aualyx ?d
and tagged with a printed guarantee
of ammonia on each sack?
Answer 2.—Yes. Inspectors have
boon instructed to exercise great vig¬
ilance in order to detect violations of
the law, aud have discovered that at-
tempts are being made to ship meal
into .this state from Texas, and in or-
dor to avoid the 10 cents inspection Jll
fee, efforts are being made to this
meal without inspection or guarantee.
It is to tho interest of farmers to report
all such cases, as tae meal varies in
ammonia. The law requires first grads
8 12 per cent of ammonia, second
grade 7 1-2 per cent, lmt iu some sea-
BOU,! ra “ vl ruiB tsmu tiu.- •■’(•o.d
ard, ’ and instance j or adulterations aro
als( n , > r6norted reiiorted. !
veterinarysurgecn. '
i
Question 3.—Han the stdtte a rcten- i
In* from some unknown disease and
we want information and direction as
to troatment et & , ;
Answer 3 —No provision is spocifl-
cally made for a veterinary surgeon,
but under the terms of tho law the
commissioner is impowere 1 to invosti-
gate all „ such , diseases, and will, when ,
called upon, use funds from the depart-
ment to send a o< mpetont surgeon who
will examiuo and proscribe and report
results to the department.
CROP STATISTICS.
QcKSTiON 4.—Can you give rm the
latest crop statistics lor this stato ?
Answer 4.—Iho crop statistics for
1893 toll in an eloquent way tho story
of its agricultural possibilities, and
show the wide diversity of its produc-
tions, and are as follows: Wheat, bush-
el. USS.000:m B».e73,ot»; o* 7-.
847 , 9 t> 7 ; ryo, lSi, 191; potatoes, 483 , 886 ;
bay, tons, 824,117; peanuts, bushels,
624,528; cotton, bales, 1,191,146. It has
105,984 horses, 161,024 mules, 878,920
meat cattle, 4H,169 sheep and 1,791,507
ll0g& Tho woo [ clip waa 881,141
pounds; the butter product, 14,84S3,323
pounds; honey, 1,056,084 and 48,935
pounds of beeswax. The poultry stock
numbered 7,857,934 and the egg product
11,522.788 dozen of eggs. Tho rice
product was 14,556,433 pounds, aud of
tobacco 263,7)2 pounds.
These figures show better t.mn any
n» or ® words that Georgia is well adapt-
cdt0 a11 branctos of lmsba ndry, and
further comment as to its agricultural
possibilities is superfluous.
upland rich.
Questions.—C an yon tell mo some-
~V ng O ^,, tho of u P !an ^ ritie -
rice planted in this section of Georgia,
«« we have » good nee huller and mill.
Answer o.-The following is the
sncoe9sful plan pursno d by a South
Carolina planter, who says:
“I consider upland rice a fine and
profitable grain to grow—tho grain for
* h ® table and forego for cattle. I se-
loot the stillest land on my farm for
rice culture. It would grow equally as
we mf no t better oa swamp land I
break up my land very thoroughly,
then run off rows three foot wide, bod-
ding the land as if for cotton, and ns-
ins abont 300 DOUm j 9 commercial or
othor ferti!iZ er to the acre. I then
opent hebed with a small plow A nd
drill the rice seed in tho drill using
only about half a peck to the acre,
Then putting a board on my plowstock
I drag it over tho furrow, covering the
seed about 1 1-8 inches deep. I plant
$j. om April 1 to April 15. I cu! \ wave
with a sweep, as with cotton. huH
it for table use in an oldfashioued
wooden , beater , . or halier; , ,, or I T send :t to
Charleston to be hulled. I make from
85 to 30 bushels par aero. I have boeu
planting rice for three years, aud have
? a j iu making a good crop
Kaemeti c,
„ (,, showed u , not long . smoenuw innn what
to be a very sm hi p»«t o* Krona l, .
he grew ou it a two years stpp.y *
rice for his family.
o . Ga„ arows gr w. no- '
Another v at .qur.a,
land rice solely as a forage cro,.
b an 'ill-mitorwrda in
sheaves. He make, at leas* 40 bushels
per acre of need, His cattle arc more
load of it tliiiu or.tr He considers the
rice a better food, and he can make
more of it than of oats.
In the M irch number of the South-
era Cultivator is a most excellent ar-
tide on tho culture o f upland rice in
southwest Georgia. r> L-to.e -e the tho war, w-ir
and several years after, when we
planted in that section of tho state, the
iu(;nstrions , v . ro ., son the various plan-
tations had their patches of rice from
which they not only added to their own
^ ^ p,.
“ " z
“ .....;;V D0I _^ , , u
il0 followilw is a re-
-..Id. Aaill
Answer 0.—Dear Sir: Youri of tho
thirtieth at hand You can buy kuirnt,
muriate ot potash, and other chemicals
from Wilcox, Giubs «c Co., Savannah,
Ua.
Kainit contains about IS per cant of
P°Giui. Muriate of potash contains
about 50 par cent of potash, or about
four times an strong a3 kainit. If you
wish cheap hauling you should buy the
concentrated fertilizing chemicals,
You can buy muriate of potash at
all0ut jqo.OO a ton, probably a little
higher in less lots than a ton.
As a $3 combination of fertilizers I
snggest the following:
No. 1—Muriate of
potash containing of potash. 50 ,»7 lbs.(at 810 ton) .4
pit cent a
phoipi'ut’^r'.r.viin'- is per cent of
mg 1^X3. to,)2.W
, 1 ^, 0
;■ nnctlmes call 'd
qftivakv.t to hi nor ^ Ibsfat $15 tcn)3.14
1!< ’y ' T/'f. a
u marl..’....15ss
cart,ix or lbs. CO
^ lb „
If yon wish an ammouiate not quite
so quick \ r as nitrate of soda, endless n „ A lneso
likely to “fire” on shallow soils, yon
, -
. f
v 0 rf .,L o r « 1Q .74
2.10
2.15
Muck.woods earth or marl 1571 lbs .00
sooo lbs n.oo
If you desire to use sulphate of am-
monia as aa ammoniate, tho following
formula will answer:
No. 15—Muriate of potash 37 lba .74
sulphate High grade of at amuuiniu id phosphate (At 880 lba 2.10
Y” a ton)................ 54 l'vi 2.10
Muck.woods earth or rnurl 1629 lbs W>
1C32 lbs 85,00
No. 1 will givo yon from the chsm-
icals alone:
Potash.............. ..... . -92 1-2 per cent
Ammonia...... Available p'uospho, acid 2.52 per cent
.......13 1-4 per cent
No. 2 will give you from the ehem-
j c „< a a i 0U3;
p n , n: .;,......................93 ibie 1-2 per cent
Av iil phospho. acid. ..2.52 percent
Aimuonin. ..._..........•• .«»1-2p-r cent
■ No. 3 will give you from tuc chemi-
icals alone:
^ , „
Availl .: \ :t phospho. ncid..2.53 percent
Ammon i................... hi i 2 percent
The filler which you mo, whether of
muck.woods earth or marl, will add
something to this if well selected.
The sulphato of ammonia is a more
expensive ammonia that either blood
or nitrato of soda. Yon write that you
will have to pay 8 cents a pound for it.
This is a very high price. If you find
any of the chemicals higher priced
than figures given above, use about-75
cents worth of your potash compound,
about LI 10 worth of your acid phos-
phate and about 82.15 worth of your
ammouiate, aud then use your muck,
woods earth or marl to make up tha
balance of the ton, and von will strike
about the proper proportions for your
$5.00 a ton fertilizer,
mkclanical effect of potash.
th ? t OT ^"° J, lay '^r e ^ e oa 1 "^ 0 I SL^S
condition of the soil. Do any of the
ordinary ingredients of a fertilizer,
phosphoric acid, ammonia and potash
have a mechanical effect?
Ansmi.r .. Aside from tho organic
matter which is snpplied with some
forms of ammonia, potash, by combin-
ing chemically with the sand of
soil, acts as a mechanical manure. By
the combination the surface of the par-
is ron » hfi11 ' 5 ’ in ^ hicb
condition the soil is less liable , to be
compacted by rain. This mechanical
ciIeot is llot - however, of very great
importance, for the reason that it is
only produced when the potash is ap-
piled iu tho caustic form. The usual
commercial fertilizer is supplied with
pot-vh in the form of kau,itor muriate,
which does not produce the mechanical
effect. All potash salts are beneficial
« oonservar-rs of moisture.
Question ntTtT1 V —«hat do you consiqei
tho most, economic method of saving
stable manure ?
Answer 8.— There is no better way
to avoid loss than by plowing manure
cl; racily into the soil. Where the mv
i.urin ; Is very heavy, especially ou clay
soils, a b3ticfit nrisoj from it*
tation iu the soil, a mochaaical effect
1)oin{? produced by the chemical action,
Corapostin!f properly also requires more
]ftbor and more expensive aoooramoda-
tionfl, tied if decomposition takas place
v , itUout ptop er precaution the most
.
, ra - t 0 f the manure will bo
lost/ It must be remembered, however,
tlnt it is ouIy afta r the manure is do-
^ ^ tho nitrogen converted
into ammonia that it becomes avaiia-
>r p..i,,ts. ^ J 1 an immediate
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offect is , as in
the case o intercnltural ertflmng, it it
is os: jutial that t-io mauuro be com-
posted. is the subject of ,
Ba-ivard i...... i manure
investigation ot a P . ‘ , h c ter
.
that will iutgyest our readers, ha.m- _
j er’s Bulletin 81, experiment station,
department of agriculture, Washing-
j ton, D. C., will explain all. Write for
it; it will be sunt to you free of charge
HSSSS kind of
J parts; influence of ago and an-
! j. influence of quality and kind of
Iua
T
1 yard manr.ro with other fertilizing
| materials; lasting or cnmulating cifoct
of barnyard manure; summary.
QLAXDKBS.
Question 8 —Is it true that a per¬
son can contract glanders from an in¬
fected animal?
Answer 9.— The veterinarian of the
Michigan stato board of health in his
last annual report thus speaks of gland¬
ers. It is a caution well worth con¬
sideration :
Glanders is one of tho most loath¬
some, infectious and fatal diseases
which infect the equina race.- And
yet, no well animal kept ■ or worked
with one having the disease, is more
liable to contract it than the owner or
person who feeds, grooni3 and drives
him, unless ho has knowledge of the
disease and caro necessary to bo used
iu handling the animal The person
who uucoiisciongly takes care of and
drives a hor se affected with glanders
takes his life in his "own hands every
time he feeds, grooms or adjusts a
bridle. The' virus from the horse’s
nose, ejected by v conghing or sneezing,
and striking in the eye, or falling upon
a scratch or pimple in the skin, will
perform tho fatal'inoculation. Matter
from eruptions from the legs and other
parts of the animal’s body, caused by
its kindred disease, “farcy,” will pro
(luce the disease with equal certainty.
Reports of more than a score of men,
and several woman, wh6 hare lost their'
lives by this disease within the past
few years in this state, have com). to
our commission, the doctors attending
almost invariably calling the disease
“blood poisoning.” Is there not
field opened here for useful study and
investigation? U it not possible that if
practitioners better understood tho ha-
ture anil most approved treatment of
tho disease, soms valuable lives might
be saved?
TO destroy BHT’tTTPV. CBA^S.
Oncsi’ioN 13. — Can via give mo an
off- ctnal method of destroying Bermu¬
da grass?
Answer ,10.-.rThp following, taken
from bulletin 25 of the Arkansas exper¬
iment nation, is said to be entirely
successful:- • ■ ■
Break close with-scooter (bull tongue)
«"•*<* ■ i f*
harrow thoroughly, A few days later
harrow, iu,rye or barley in the full and
oats in the spring. Cut grain for liny
and remove from tho gTonnd. Break
again with' scooter, and heelsweep as
before and harrow in dry weather.
If grass is not ail killed, plant peas
(whippoorwill or unknown cowpeas)
j | thick iii two and a half or three feet
i rows and cultivate frequently with
heelsweep until peas lap across rows.
If grass still remains, which is very
improbable, oat peavines and plow and
| j harrow should be again. thorough, The plowing unbroken in all places cases
no
j being left. By this treatment tho Ber¬
muda will be destroyed and the labor
employed for its destruction will have
produced two crops in one year on the
same soil, either of which will pay for
| the labor expended for the production
I of both and the Bermuda killed inch
dentally and without cost.
frauds in fertilizers.
, Question 11. —We are afraid
, i ia y fe been imposed upon in tha pur-
chase of onr fertilizers. How can
! protect ourselves and obtain redress?
Answer 11. —Keep one of the sacks
unbroken and place it under shelter, so
that the analysis on the bag will not
1 f oc > me b!orred or f ac0d ~ then notlf v
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the department and a sworn inspector
will’ be sent, who will draw a sample
and forward the same to the depart-
ment, where it will be thoroughly
analyzed without cost to the farmer,
The law is very strict, and if there is
evidence of fraud, the ponaly is heavy
and the farmer is not compelled to pay
for the goods. If fanners would oaiv
acqalint themselves with the law an 1
avail themselves of its provisions,, it
Lirmslv-s them ample protection,
sprayiSO operations.
QinsTips _ 12—Can
yon give some
_. h’-.ii. di- ■ for spraying
trees, vines, etc.:
A s w ee 12.—From ya 1 o able esperi-
mcr.t station bulletins w fiud tha I
»prayk« operation* for this month »i I
iuo.ude the spraying of app-L, pe W f
plum trees with Bordeaux &n
strength, with mixture hi :
Paris green one blossjl p ounL l
in 150 gallons, just before the
open, anil again after the
fallen. A
Grapevines should be sprayed befoB
the leal burls open with ; a strong sol
toon of copper sulphate. Just befoH
the flowers open with Border
tare ami Pans green, 1 pound
gallons. i
should Rispborry and blackberry banS
be sprayed with Bordeaux nr
ture half strength just before the bL
soms open.
Strawberry vinos should bo spun
with Bordeaux mixture half strena
and Paris green 1 pound to ICO gall .
as early as possible, the Bordoan x n
ture without Paris green to be n
just before flowers open. Spray a-
after the fruit is picked if the bed is
bo kept over, no ; both Paru g'.fi
and Bordeaux mixture.
SS 3
one-fourth the strength as used for i
pies or pears. The poachbuds
'™"tx f t “ dl “= ““ “»^d
,™ „» aCT m
^“« Question alMi#*tho^boeta”ofl 13^—-Can you te’.l Wh mo Ch a"
*
fQ our cai :
the young ones more especially? \>,
causes them, aud is there any pro
tion?
Answer 13.—Wo have freqne
been annoyed by tho posts to G
yon refer, and while they seam too
sion tainly little decrease, pain to the tho amonn aniu in mtm
of the flesh and lessen tho value oil
hides at least one-third. J
As to their causes, habits aud
vention, we extract the following
formation from tho North Carolin
perimeiit station:
The fly which causes this dams
about the size and very much ri
bios a honey bee. It deposits its
in the spring, during the peril
shedding of hair, on the legs, ta|
bo[!y of cattIo> preferably ycai
By licking these parts tho
taken into the animal’s gullets i
the maggots hatch aud clings j
walls. It soon bores into tissd
eventually—during the sncseoiif
or winter—finds its way to ti
mill’s back where it forms a tug
beneath the skin. Here it re|
some time and completes its grfl
a maggot. Each tumor, if cloJ
amined, will show a smalll
through which the maggot obtJ
When faU grown the maggot d
this pore, and through it comes wliichT jj
drops to tho ground, into
tors and remains dormant as a d
about six weeks. It then coma
as a per fee* fly to lay its eggs as
Runcdies—During the period, slionll
shedding, horned cattle
'-b® belly aud legs—espm,
orriirie'tinms'a of kerosene fish wwk^jjy; oil pc <•
or
sulphur. th
In January aud February
of cattlo should be carefully rea<| ej
for the tumors, which are
or felt just beneath the skin,
enclosed maggot squeezed carbolij c
killed. A little crude I
mercurial ointment shoukl
rubbed be on squeezed the spot. out, If the th<j oil
cannot i:l
ment should bo well rubbed
close up the breaking pore id
inor, thus smothering tho mad
Tho warble flv is not a great!
rxtr rraufta
February, that farm will bo
quite free from introduced the parasito wj
years, unless
stock. Killing the maggots suresi I
mors is tho easiest and
getting rid of this expensive!
OXEN EPIDEMI
Report of tho Veterinary Sm
Destructive In Dool**;
The following is the rep:
veterinary surgeon, sent by t
ment of agriculture to inves:
prescribe for an epidemic wovkii a.
oxen, 60 in number, <j
lumber wood of Messrs.
Gross in Dooley county.
Atlanta, Jl
Hon R. T. Nesbitt, Comm!
of Agriculture:
Dear Sir—A t yonr reqnes
the lumberwood of Messrs.
Gross, at P -nia, Dooly counl
tho nineteenth to iuvestigai
among them work oxen, i
dead and buried inW/)uj \I VB
four sick in tha lot mif .
out ou a tram car four’ wd
woods, where the oxen
overseer reported ^ about „ <-0 OA
jj 1 ®™; a hasty examination 1
® thrOT-hThe^ntSi
onld go thenT
j advised to bo seat
where they conhl bo put ui
affiled SSS*
Ml I took the ten
eac h one, many going as
and 103 3-4.
char:icttrizcd by emissmm
ed urine; the discharges ir
els were ringed with bit
WM qU ‘
W Cim s«s of this ontbr il
are due to impure water
the ox»n were-watered fr
fromTifiot’wM washed i
I consider the epidemi 1® f*
that readily responded ptf*
which we gave first by
lowed by antiseptic and mf*
iciues. Respectfully, 3 1
Yfsterinr-*