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KILLING FEVER TICKS.
Promising Experiments Undertaken by the Agricul-
tural Department
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. GgV/7y
To stamp out Texas cattle fever.
This Is the hope of the Department of
Agriculture. The Department haß been
working on the problem for some
time, and It baa almost been proved
to the satisfaction of officials that the
tick which causes the fever can be
eradicated from a pasture simply by
keeping cattle out of that pasture. The
tick is not n herbivorous insect, and
it will die out if the pasture Is kept
free of cattle. It Is believed that if
one pasture on a farm is always kept
free of cattle over what might be
termed the life period of the tick. It
will furnish perfectly safe pasturage
'or uninfected animals in case fever
breaks out In the rest of the herd.
Os course, the Department of Agri
culture has no rigid to go into a State
nnd enforce the free pasturage policy,
and the matter cannot Ik-, or at least Is
not, always dealt with satisfactorily
by State officials. Ilut. in cases where
the Department Is officially invited to
come Info a Stale and take charge of
cleaning It up, It Is quite ready to do
so. Tentative arrangements have al
ready been made fur this work with
the authorities In some States, and it
is believed that It will be quite pos
slblo to stamp out the fever nnd al
low the free Interstate transportation
CATTLE INFECTED WITH TEXAS FEVER.
of cnlflo, which In now prohibited. Tho
saving In money nnd the convenience
to shipper:-! of this arrangement can
easily bo understood.
To Introduce Cattle from India.
While tills quarantine nnd extirpa
tion work Is going oq, a similar experi
ment on different lines directed to
tho same end will noon be under way.
Thero have been Imported to some
of'the Texas ranges specimens of tho
Indian sacred cattle, anil it lias been
found that, they were immune to the
Texas fever. Apparently there is an
oil la (lie skin that is repugnant to the
tick. At any rate they will not har
bor tho parasite. The half-bloods and
even animals containing lint one-six
teenth part Indian blood have been
found Immune, and tin y make just as
gotyl beef cattle as can be found.
Thero are very stringent laws
against the importation of foreign
stock into tills country without thor
ough examination nnd quarantine;
therefcire It is risky to Import stock
from so far away as India without
especial provisions for Its examination
Mr. A. 8. Borden of Pierce. Tex., lias
arranged, however, with the Agricul
tural Department to make a large Im
portatlon of the immune Indian cat
tle, and lias already left for British
India to pick them out. Tho Depart
ment of Agriculture will send a spe
cinl veterinary after him, and tin* first
shipment of about 100 head will be
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examined before they are shipped, nnd
then quarantined on one of the small
islands o(T the gulf coast till it is de
termined that there is no danger of
their bringing into this country some
strange bovine affliction even worse
perhaps than Texas fever.
After the animals have been thor
oughly proven, they will be introduced
among tho Texas herds, and it is hoped
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that they will produce a fever-resisting
strain that will boa valuable acquisi
tion to the cattle m-n of the South
■ west
These -wo experiments of Uncle
Sale's farm department hold out a
promise' of very great importance to
the live-stock Industry, and conse
quently to all meat consumers.
The Manure I'il.
Where is the wise farmer who would
sell to his neighbor a load of his finest
corn or a load of some green crop for
a dollar bill. Yet there are thousands
of agriculturists all over the country
who are doing practically tills very
thing when they dispose of their barn
yard manure for $1 a load. Others
are wasting the most valuable constitu
ents of the manure they save. The
manure produced on the farm is Its
most valuable asset
There are In tho United States, In
round numbers, 17,000,000 horses, 61,-
000,000 cattle, 47,000,000 bogs and 45,-
000,000 sheep. Experiments havo
shown that if these animals were kept
In stalls or pens throughout the year
and the manure, both liquid and solid,
carefully saved, the approximate value
of tho manure produced by each horse
annually would bo $27, by each head of
cattle $lO, by each hog sl2 nnd by
each sheep $2. The fertilizing value
of all tho manuro produced would,
therefore, be for horses, $450,000,000;
cattle, $1,159,000; hogs, $561,000,000;
ind sheep, $00,000,000, or a total of
$2,272,000,000.
These estimates nro based on the
values usually assigned to phosphoric
acid, potash and nitrogen in commer
cial fertilizers, nnd nre possibly some
what too high from a practical stand
point. On the other hand, no account
is here taken of the value of manure
for Improving the mechanical condi
tion and drainage of soils which is
almost ns important a consideration
as Its direct fertilizing value. It is
generally conceded that at least one
third of the value of manure Is lost by
present wasteful management or a
total loss to tho country of over
$750,000,000.
Kcturn Full Value to the Soil.
If a farmer desires to maintain the
productiveness of his land, it is es
sential that tho amount of *s»yt:ish,
phosphoric acid and nitrogen removed
through the selling of meat, milk,
grain, hay, fruits, vegetables, etc.,
should be restored through an Intel
ligent conservation of the barnyard
manure.
It seems to be a hard matter to in
duce the average farmer to abandon
the time-honored practice of piling
manure in tho open air, exposing it to
leaching by rains and fermentation by
hot mid-summer suns, and adopt ra
tional scientific methods. He also hesi
tates to incur tho necessary oxpenso
of building suitable receptacles for the
storage of manure, frequently gssum- j
j ing that this expense is greater than
jit really is. Manure is considered a
, waste and it is hard for him to put
into practice the new Idea that the
manure should be as carefully pre
j served from unnecessary loss, as
* sheuld any other farm product, after
i he has for twenty years stored the
I farmyard manure under the eaves upon
the slope which forms one border of
l the running brook,
k Experiments made by various Gov
) eminent experiment stations show that
the construction of sheds or covered
? yards for the protection of manure is
i- well worth while. The manure from :
• the horse and cattle stables and the ;
sheep and calf pens should be spread :
a
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THE WASTE Os BARNYARD MANURE.
i
■ out evenly over these yards, covered
• with coarse litter, and the whole kept
1 firmly packed by allowing animals to
run over it, thus preventing injurious
fermentation.
'lo Save All the Fertility.
i A more elaborate and expensive
stylo of covered yard, a plan for which
is furnished by the Department of
Agriculture, provides not only for the
required protection of both animals
and manure, but also affords an ex
i cellent grain chamber where feed can
be stored for convenient use. Under
the side roofs is also afforded a chance
for tho storing of small tools and a
great variety of articles that are con
tinually in the way when lying about
the farm buildings. It also provides
splendid protection to animals when
boused at night during the summer,
this roof protecting them from heavy
showers in the night and affording
good chance for exercise in the win
ter, as all the sides, except that
toward the south, can be protected
against cold winds through tempo
rary boarding.
Many stables are so situated that
by adding a cheap lean-to, a manure
“pit" Is easily produced. The out
side boarding of the lean-to should
be, for a part of the way at least, put
horizontally and hung in the form of j
. flat doors, so that the manure can be
easily loaded on a wngon standing on
, tho outside of the building.
A great number of farmers who have
adopted inunuro sheds and covered
A CONVENIENT COVERED BARNYARD.
yards have obtained unsatisfactory re
sults, but the Department of Agricul
ture believes that this is probably due
to the fact that these structures have
generally been loosely put together,
allowing a free circulation of air,
which lias dried out the manure. On
tliis account barn cellars, so common
in New England, possess decided ad
vantages as receptacles for manure.
The common practice of allowing
swine to “work over” the manure in
these collars is a wise one, since it
mixes the manure and keeps it well
packed and moist. In fact, if these
collars are provided with impervious
i ottoms to hold the liquid manure,
this system of storage is probably the
most perfect practiced.
Manure the Best Fertilizer.
Barnyard manure Is the most ef
fective means at the disposal of the
average farmer to permanently im
prove his soil. No other fertilizer pos
sesses to so great a degree the power
of restoring worn out soils to produc
tiveness and giving them lasting fer
tility. It provides actual fertilizing
constituents; it Improves the physical;
properties of the soil, increasing the
amount of humus, which is generally
deficient in worn soils, bettering its
texture and increasing its water-ab- 1
sorbing and water-holding power. Ex
periments have shown that the influ
ence of manure may be perceptible
twenty years after application. It di-|
I rectiy represents fertility drawn from I
I the soli and must be returned to it !
if productiveness is to be maintained,
jln many cases it has been demon
strated that the value of the manure
obtained in cattle feeding represents
largely, if not entirely, the profit of
feeding. There are sound, scientific
reasons for the high esteem in which
farm manure is held. It contains all
the fertilizing elements required by
plants in quickly available forms that
insure plentiful crops and permanent
fertility. It supplies nitrogen, phos
phoric acid and potash, and it also ren
ders the stored-up materials of the
soil more available, makes it more fri
able and warmer, and enables it to
retain more moisture.
Rattlesnake Den.
We were lumbering - in central Penn
sylvania during the summer of IS7O,
our portable steam mill standing in
a piece of woodland, near a small
stream and within a short half mile
of a rocky ledge, known as “Rattle
snake Den.”
During the hot days, rattlers were
constantly met, and “Harry,” who
drove the daily stage through the “Nar
rows,” had won quite a local reputa
tion from having killed more than a
score since the melting of the snows.
The pretty young wife of our en
gineer had charge of the boarding
house, and after the noon meal was
served, the dishes cleared away and
the house put in order, she was ac
customed to bring her sewing into the
shade near our Planer, which was the
cleanest and coolest part of the mill,
and sit for an hour or two before com
mencing the preparation of the sup
per.
She was a sweet, attractive sight
that hot afternoon of which I speak,
her beautiful arms and neck rival
ling the whiteness of her simple frock,
the only female in our camp of rough,
brawny men, but one whom any of
us would have defended from all harm
at any risk.
Some of the men were rolling up
the logs on the skid, some sawing them
into boards, others carrying the boards
to the yard, while my partner, Manuel
Motz, was personally tending to the
more skillful work at the planer, in
front of which and facing it, May sat.
I was just then acting as engineer
and fireman, and as I happened to
look in their direction, to my horror, i
saw an immense rattler, coiled within
a foot or less of May’s back, his body
swaying to and fro, and his angry eyes
shining like sparks of fire. I was lit
erally paralyzed with terror, for
though but twenty feet away, it seemed
as if tho blow would be struck be- j
fore I could take even the first step, j
Motz must have seen the snake at the;
same moment, for I heard his voice
clear and sharp above the roar of all \
the machinery, “May, there’s a rattle-!
snake that will strike if you move; sit!
perfectly still.” As he spoke he;
grabbed from a beam the bull whip,
which we used for our ox team, and
with the slightest movement of his
powerful wrist snapped it at the rep
tile. as if striking at a fly. I remem
ber I thought what a fool action that
was, why didn't he dash forward and
at least attract its attention! But I
looked again and the body lay quiv
ering and twisting, but with a broken
neck.
I “Pretty close call, May,” he said
cheerily, “but its easy when you know
the trick.”
| May had been perfectly cool and
obedient till the danger was past, and
then, womanlike, she quietly swooned
away, and for a day or two we did our
own cooking.
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