The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, March 15, 1906, Image 4
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 RYE GROWN ON WELL MANURED LAND, TYPICAI CROP WHERE MANURE IS WASTED. 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 ™ SI.OO. SOCIAL 611 MY OFFER TO INTRODUCE OUR NEW EXCELSIOR SOUR TELESCOPE, jjmi? . II AT YOU WANT ON SEA. 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J Ruoh ~—.l you anp'fct to frrr «Mui|iwguawM*aiwg. *ir r >i.;.vv (*ni! l niro:-l hadl wh me on ray recent Enroremo trip, one of toot Excelsior 8ol«r T«toror« with .tirt i ■Mdgby ope nf ttoUryo.; ,»f v ' '~ rr »’* tar - *™_l»** *»**+. l Th«w ttltwonrwß «-* "h» -.TNI «n BcUpje of tes n. /• th* A -r-l«n Tttol it war *<moor to iwr otnl. twm,l d w'« 77. - iLj H OiTfiZ, fh./’“rV* — » a.l-SyStS uT, SUPERIOR TO A 915 CLASS. o.iR.-rwuunag. IB ▼a— i j cm oa Uu i occ*aioa mar v t.n»e- premier tlan *r-tirC LueTl (*u?<,«-tr, vrtth P»v -''nt *?* Colson «t£h m«t lo e\.Hudo w Youm truly, L S HENKV -.taeeuLpa. k /* k * l, * k0 '- *„ Ttta farnjper-i'-r *?*%?£** lek ~ f ~ «n, .U i* '.V:.: . «.*"* SECURE TIES TELESCOPE AND TAKE A LOOK AT OLD SOL. IrZ'ZZCZ- *"* —COULD DISCERN' BO ATS FROM FIVTB TO TEN MILES. fsT'?fsL2?jrj&. T 2rZ; /fUT **“* ~ • I# - # «- E3 ■—*<**,. or B«X Ml Kvobl.to 23 *tS 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 - Ijf V ~ •• - x r Wp 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. 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