VOL. XXIV.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., AUG. 3,1889.
NO. 31
Wzt&Awxxs.
Jho. Elliott, V. 8., Veterinary Editor, US Kast
Wabash street.  Telephone 23).
Correspondents who desire an Immediate reply to
their queries Bhould enclose a stamp for the purpose.
J. W. J.—The eneuresis in your mala
might be caused by any oneof anumberof
different disturbances. Have her examined by a veterinarian; find the cause and
remove it.
Clover Pasture— Enlargement —
Will clover pasture prevent a mare from
getting -with foal?
I have a mare that has a lump about
the size of a hen egg on her left knee a
little to the left side, which came about
the latter part of April, about three weeks
before she foaled; supposed to have been
kicked or ic j tred in some manner. It
seems to be getting a little calloused.
There is a diversity of opinion in regard
to clover preventing a mare from getting
with foal.   We hardly think that it  will.
Try the aflect of a fly blister on the enlargement.
Poisoned Hogs —J. W.—There are various substances that would poison your
hogs, but we can't understand how they
oould be poisoned while runnntng on
pasture, as if there were any tendency - to
affect them it would be beneficial rather
than in j arious. There are several diseases
that afflict hogs, suoh as cholera, anthrax,
■■'?«to.» and -st**, ura of the -opinion that- investigation will reveal your animals to be
suffering from something of that nature.
You might make a careful note of the
actions and condition of the affected animals and submit same to us and perhaps we may be able to enlighten you on
the subject.
Epistaxis in Hoas —I have a hog eight
months old; keeps nose down at the
ground and blows it; bleeds after it blows
a few times; hog weighs one-third less
than others same age. X.
We are inclined to think that your heg
has received some injury in the region of
the nasal chambers whioh gives rise to the
irritation and snuffing. We would reo-
ommend you to make a careful examination of the parts, as it is possible that it
may have received a kick from a horse or
been hit with some hard objeot perhaps
violently enough to produce a fracture of
the nasal bones. You can tell this by the
dents on the surface.
liETJcoRBHEA.—My mare has had rheumatism nearly a year; has been so bad
-that when she lay down she had to be
helped up. She is now nearly over it, but
has what is called whites, and has got
very poor, almost a skeleton. She has a
good appetite, eyes look bright and coat
sleek. We do not feed her much as the
more she eats the worse the disease is.
J. C.
This i3 generally met with in old, debilitated mares. It consists of a white, glairy
discharge from the uterus whioh looks
.Uke curdled milk. It sometimes accumulates in the uterus coming away in
large quantities and having a foetid odor.
"The drain on the system gradually debilitates the animal. We would recommend
you to inject the uterus with warm and
then with cold water containing carbollo
acid one part to 50 of water, and internally
give tonios such as: Ferri Iodide 24 dr.,
Gentianapvl. 1 oz.\ make into 12 powders
and give one in feed, morning and even-
lug, feeding on oats and bran made into
mash.
White Scours in Calves.—I have a
nne Jersey calf which has white scours.
tu y0l*_ &n wme remedyT It is getting
to be epidemic, in this locality and all will
be glad to hear of a g ->od remedy.       B.
This disease usually occurs in rearing
•ealves taken from their own natural Jood,
the first milk of the oow, and artificially
fed with milk from old milched cows,
Whioh is defloient in oolostrnm which
■wte as a natural purge. Constipation is
at first set in, followed by an add secre-
wo n from the mucous membrane of the
stomach and intestines, which coagulates
the milk and separates it into its component
parts, the curd and the whey, the curd remaining in the bowels and the whey
coming away in the shape of a white
semirlildfo3.es, sometimes mixed with
solid portions. You must endeavor to
find the cause and that must be removed.
And theu the bowels regulated by good
milk. You may have to get rid of the
irritating substance by means of alaxative:
2 or 3 ounces of linseed oil, with an equal
amount of lime water as an antacid. If
there is pain add 20 drops of laudanum and
in case the mother's milk is either too
rich or not nutritious enough the food
must be changed so as to remedy either
condition.
Chronic Bronchitis.—I have a fine
young milk cow tbat has a bad cough.
She is in good order and seems to be in
good health every way except the cough,
and shortness of breath. I lost a fiae
young heifer last spriog with the same
disease. She coughed for six months or
more before she died; became very lean
and ran at nose and mouth; she looked
very much like a man with consumption.
C. A J.
A non-contagious disease, "the result of
exposure, neglected catarrh, etc. It is
tot liable to excite mnch attention from
the casual observer in the primary stage,
and is only noticed when the cough and
wheezing become aggravated and the
emaciation becomes apparent. It is, necessarily a fatal dis*ase when not diagnosed
and treated properly in the start, and the
troatment must be suoh as will bnild up
and strengthen. Stimulants in the form
of beer, a pint three times a day, given
with pulverized cinchona, and persevered
in, and a mustard plaster along the course
of the trachea and chest and over the surfaces of the lungs on the side, are beneficial. When the patient begins to con
yalesoe such toni*-s as the ferrio or cuprio
sulphates are indicated.
NoteB from Posey Oounty.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
The outlook for the wheat crop of this
year at this time is gloomy enough. A
very small per oent of the crop threshed
and muoh of that which has been is in
damp condition.
Nearly the entire crop, the largest and
best ever produced in this county, is yet
in the shock, whioh the weeds almost
cover on the best lands and still it rains
It is raining now with a prospect of continuance. The intermissions between
showers scarcely suffice to start;thethreshers.
Notwithstanding all the delays and
rains but little noticeable damage has as
yet been sustained by the wheat, but it
must be confessed that both wheat and
oats are in a very critical condition; a very
little more suoh weather as we are now
having will work dire destruction and
turn our bright anticipations of a very
short time ago into disappointment.
Corn is on a boom, and will undoubt
edly be a heavy crop, the humid and
warm weather we are having being j ast
the kind required to produce the best results.
About one-fourth of the corn ln the
river bottoms was destroyed by the late
flood in the Wabash, a small portion ot
whioh was replanted after the water receded. The acreage in the low lying bottoms will be about 20 per cent short, but
the great growth of what was left will very
nearly compensate for the loss.
Hogs in some neigborhoods are dying
with a very malignant type of oholera; as
far as observed every animal attacked has
died.
Prof. T. J.Barrill, ofthe swine plague
commission says in, a communication of
the21inst; "There is positively no efficient remedy."
On account of this disease nearly all interest in swine raising has been lost and
the*industry measurably abandoned, except in a very small way.
Clover the second crop is making too
strong a growth for best result ln producing seed; the notable scarcity of bumble
bees, the principal agent depended upon
to fer til/, a the bloom of that plant gives
an unfavorable prospect for a large yield.
Naw Harmony. J. B. E.
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Important Innovation at the D epartment
of Agriculture.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Dr. Gjorge Wm. Hill, lately the editor
of the "Parmer" at 8t. Paul, Minn., is al
ready at his new editorial post at the Agii
cultural Department. He is charged with
the important duty of editing the reports
and bulletins issued by the various divisions of tbe department, so many of which
being prepared by scientific men for
scientific eyes are comparatively lost to
the general public, and especially, as the
Secretary believes, to that part of the people whom the department is particularly
designed to serve—the farmers. Advance
sheets of bulletins issued hereafter from
any and every division wili pass through
the Secretary's effi se, and their contents
will be carefully read and digested iu the
editorial di\ jsion. A careful resume will
then be prepared in the plainest language,
giving in substance the facts and conclusions of each bulletin, and suited to the
wants of pradical farmers. ....._
In advance of the distribution of the
bulletins themselves there will also emanate from this editorial division a brief
synopsis of each bulletin, p repared especially for the use of the press. Tbe general reader will thus be enabled to gather
important
results of scientific investigations
without being compelled to peruse an entire pamphlet or book. He will also be
enabled to keep pace with the Important
work of the department, which has heretofore been practically impossible because
of the small edition printed. These synopses will be distributed to all the newspapers throughout the country and readers everywhere will be enabled to send for
suoh bulletins as may be of especial interest to them.
To take the case of the book on "The
English Sparrow in North America," a
publication of 400 pages, lately issued by
the department; in one place in it is a
poem of seven stanzas, and a very bad
poem it is, which clearly there ought to be
no room for. In another place are 10
pages of tables to show what kinds of food
have been found in the stomachs of 500
English sparrows. The tables are very
costly to piint and are almost incomprehensible except to the scientist when they
are printed. The gist of the whole matter
is that the 522 stomachs—to be exact—gave
the following results Wheat was found
in 22 stomachs, oats in 327, oorn (maize) in
71, frnit seed (mainly of mulberries) in 57,
grass seed 102, weed seed ln 85, undetermined vegetable matter in 219, bread, rice,
etc., 19, noxious Insects in 47, beneficial
insects in 50, insects of no economic importance In 31. Proper credit is given to
different persons in the course of the book,
and yet in the baok part the names are repeated in a bunch to the extent of 30
pages. Dr. Hill will pull these matters
down. The annual report of the department^ which 400,000 copies are printed,
can readily be reduced one-third if hot
one-half, according to Secretary Rusk's
estimate, and $50,000 in the printing bill
will be saved to the Government. __lf
KaBk has great confidence in Dr. Hill.
He has known him for years as one of the
best agricultural writers in the oountry.
This establishing cf an editorial division is ,
ONLY ONE OF THE PRACTICAL REFORMS
which the Secretary of Agriculture has
already in view. He does not know
whether the Signal Service and the Geo
logical Survey will be transferred from
the War Department and the Interior Department, respectively, to his new department or not. Nobody knows that.
It all depends up in theaotion of Congress. The feasibility of both propositions has beeu dlsoussed, however,
and the desirability of them also,
and although there is no recognized
movement yet to bring about the changes,
it would gather friends quickly when
onoe started. The Weatber Bnreau pursues investigation whioh benefit the farmer more than anybody else. Seoretary
Rusk believes that it properly enough belongs in his department. Not quite so
much can be said for the Geological Survey, yet that too may be of great service
to the farmers, and it is not improbable
that the Interior Department might be
-willing to be relieved of it. The general
reason why both of these bureaus might
be urged upon the Department of Agriculture, would be that the Bureau of
Agriculture has now become a department
by itself with a wide-awake Cabinet Officer
at its head and that Congress might therefore feel Uke making the most of the situation. The Agricultural Experiment
Stations in the diflerent States and Territories are under the direction of Secretary
Rusk. The Weather Bureau and Geological Survey, though of dissimilar methods,
are yet of somewhat similar purposes.
There is lKtle doubt that the p -parti lent ■
of Agriculture under Secretary Bask will
increase in importance and claim, from
time to time, recognition in the shape of
liberal appropriations from Congress, not
only beoause its work will broaden and be
eftuient, bnt because as in the, case cited
above, a wise economy will be praotioed.
Dr. D. E Silmon with whom I talked,
as well as Seoretary Risk, on my
visit to the Department of Agrioulture
to-day, is chief of the
BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.
He and his force of sometimes 200 men,
make investigations as to the existence ot
contagious pleuro-pneumonia and other
dangerous diseases of live stock, superintend the measures for their extirpation,
make original investigations on the nature and prevention of suoh diseases, have
charge of the quarantine stations for the
importation of neat cattle, and in general
report up m the oondition and means of
improving the animal industries of the
oountry. Dr. Silmon is mnch pleased
with the editorial idea. H Itherto the publications of his bureau have been so limited in number that they have necessarily
been technical or they would not claim at
all the attention of scientific men, and ao
would not be considered as of any value
by the country. Now the plan is to issue
short bulletins for the benefit of the scientific men and to cover tbe same ground in
a practical way in additional publications
for the farmers.
This is the general scheme to be followed. Dr. Salmon has, almost ready to
be issued, a comprehensive book which
treats in a practical, everyday way of the
diseases of horses, cattle, hogs and sheep.
It will give also, oommon sense, everyday
remedies for these dUeases,.and enable the
farmer, if it proves to justify its purpose,
to administer oures all by himself without
the aid of a veterinary. This may not
please the veterinary but the greatest good
to the greatest number is the thing sought
for. The book will be put, it is hoped,
literally as well as figuratively, within
the reaoh of everybody.
Marshall Cushjnci.
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The New Era Exposition at St. Joseph,
Mo., Sept. 3d to Oot. 6th, offers seven cash
premiums aggregating $888 for best dozen
ears of corn, plaited together in one bunch
with the shuck. Also $1,750 is offered for
best three displays of agricultural products by oountles.