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PACIFIC TREE AND VINE 



Interesting to Farmers 



JEWELER AND SILVERSMITHS. 



A Query Ans'wered 



Alma, January 6, 190.^. 



Editor Tree and Vine : — Will 

 you kindly advise as to following 

 trouble with chickens : 



The bird seems to have a very 

 large crop, as if over-fed, but grad- 

 ually drops and finally dies. On 

 exainiiiaiion I find l)ird to be very 

 thin, and neck l)one curved out- 

 ward, while skin down back of neck 

 is contracted, drawing back the 

 head. I^ast year I lost three half- 

 grown hens. The one I refer to 

 now was a full-grown hen. The 

 fowls are warmly housed, have the 

 run of orchard, alfalfa field, and 

 fresh, dripping water; well fed and 

 ke|)t clean. A neighbor, today, 

 spoke of similar troul)le among her 

 fowls. The books do not describe 

 diseases, but give remedies, calling 

 by name. What disea.se is this ? 

 The combs are red. SunscRiBRR. 



Ans.— I should think from above 

 statements that fowls are afflicted 

 with tubercolosis. They are housed 

 too warmly and catch cold in the 

 early morning. Let them roost in 

 trees and the chances are that the 

 trouble will disappear. 



The Australian Salt Bush. 



There have been several inquiries 

 made by the correspondents of 

 Tree and Vine in relation to the 

 Australian Salt Bush (a triplex 

 semi) which was loudly heralded a 

 few years since as the one great 

 plant which was to redeem our al- 

 kali plains, and be to them what 

 alfalfa has been to the low lands 

 and river bottoms. While not ac- 

 complishing all that was claimed 

 for it, the Salt linsh has been a 

 very valuable addition to our for- 

 age plants, although in vSan Dicgo, 

 according to the Union, there is a 

 diversity of opinion regarding it. 

 Mr. Allen, who owns the "Come- 

 out Ranch," considers it a nuisance 

 on his adobe soil, where it does not 

 grow high enough to mow. The 

 first cro]) is easily eradicated, as it 



only has one root and spreads from 

 that, but when it begins to seed, it 

 gets thicker than hair on a dog and 

 it is too much for either the pet 

 poland china or the Angoras to keep 

 down. Nearly opposite is C. N. 

 Parmelee with his poultry yards, 

 Pekin ducks and white Leghorns, 

 who has nothing but prai.se for it; 

 keeps green where grass would 

 utterly fail; the chickens get an 

 abundance of seed from it; the ducks, 

 enclosed on a small patch of it live 

 well, and in the orchard of Mr. 

 Teggert it is easily cultivated out as 

 it grows from a central root and 

 does not propagate itself anything 

 like salt grass. Cattle do not care 

 for it if they can get other green 

 feed, but will eat it when young 

 quite well, but do not care for it if 

 it is tough and old any more than 

 for other tough plants. A carpet 

 of it under a grove of trees wculd 

 help conserve the moisture and pre 

 vent baking of the soil; the soil is 

 always moist under the plant, un- 

 less in a spot where all moisture 

 is baked away before the plant cov- 

 ered it. Chicken men prefer it to 

 alfalfa, because it is better feed for 

 poultry and will grow with half the 

 amount of water. It can be trimmed 

 into form to make borders and set 

 designs, its color, an olive green, is 

 always attractive. On the whole, 

 we believe it has an appropriate 

 place in the economy of ranching. 



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