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about !it!4,(K){»,(JUU per uiiuuiu. !So we made au object of laisiug cahes 

 aud wanted to liud the best remedy for this disease, and we kept try- 

 ing until we found this one to be good, and in about three out of four 

 eases it is successful. As soon as it is observed that the calf 

 has the scours, which will be soou after it is born, give it twenty 

 drops of laudanum; in six hours give it twenty drops more, and if 

 no relief is manifest at the end of twelve hours more give it forty 

 drops, aud in ten hours more you will have a dead calf or a live one, 

 and in three cases out of four the calf revives. This has been my 

 experience for five years. We raise twenty calves per season. 



MK. CAMPBELL: We have been troubled in Bradford county 

 with these w^hite scours in calves for some years back. In making 

 a study of that thing I found out that we have not got the right 

 hold of it yet. As near as I could study it down on our farms 

 1 found out that it v^'as a distinct fungus poison that takes place 

 in the cow. When the cow is dry they take any old musty corn 

 stalks or any old grass, or any indilTereut feed and think it ^s 

 good enough for her, as she is not producing an immediate return. 

 If you feed your cows good, pure food you will have healthy cows. 

 If a cow wants good feed at anytime, it is the time when she is dry, 

 and has double demands made upou her. And if you feed a cow- 

 poison tliat works out through her, the calf will be poisoned with- 

 out a doubt. So the prevention, in a great measure, is to feed 

 good food to her when she is dry. If you feed a poor food when she 

 is milking, that poison is carried ofif in the milk. So, you will have 

 no trouble if you feed good feed when the cow is dry. 



MR. BLYHOLDER: The next question is addressed to Professor 

 Watts, and is : 



"How do you apply sodium nitrate to growing cabbage, tomatoes, 

 etc.?" 



PROF. R. L. WATTS: Apply it before we put out the plants, and 

 then immediately about the plants a top-dressing is used. With 

 cabbage we make three applications and apply about a teaspoon 

 full at each application. This can be done at a small cost. 



MR. R. S. SEEDS: Last Friday a week ago, on the 22d of May, I 

 went out and sowed nitrate of soda over a poor spot and now as 

 far as the eye will carry, or as far as you can go, you can see that 

 spot with the nitrate of soda over it. 



MR. M. S. BOND: I could not afford in my market gardening to 

 go to the trouble in applying this application of nitrate of soda by 

 hand. We have a machine to apply it with. We go right through 

 the patch as far as a man can walk and throw the nitrate or any 

 other fertilizer we wish to apply right to the side on each side of 



