264 THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



millions of acres that had to be covered before the final result 

 was attained, the new practice represents a change of truly won- 

 derful magnitude and celerity. A universal specific for all 

 the diseases, insects, worms, etc., which afflict plant life has, 

 of course, not been found, but the old laborious methods of 

 application have passed away and chemists, plant patholo- 

 gists, economic entomologists and other scientists and experi- 

 menters of the highest attainments are untiring in their efforts 

 to add to our list of efficient remedies. The present practice 

 in combating plant afflictions has been a prime factor in ren- 

 dering possible the magnificent scale upon which many of 

 our agricultural industries are now carried OIL 



The method of dealing with the diseases of domestic ani- 

 mals is as revolutionary as is that which deals with the mala- 

 dies of plants. Vaccination and inoculation, which any far- 

 mer with a little skill may practice, now saves thousands of 

 animals where formerly thousands died. Texas fever a 

 few years ago killed from 80 to 90 per cent, of the thorough- 

 bred cattle that were shipped to the South for breeding pur- 

 poses, and which are now rendered practically immune by 

 inoculation. Thousands of farmers have in time past suf- 

 fered the loss of valuable cows because of the disease com- 

 monly known as milk fever. Read the following record of a 

 treatment : "Zola, a cow five years old, calved on the after- 

 noon of September the 2Oth. Milk fever developed on the 

 morning of the 22nd, and at seven o'clock the cow was down 

 and unable to move. Iodide of potash 120 grains dissolved 

 in a quart of previously boiled water was injected into the 

 udder, and in one hour the animal showed signs of recovery, 

 and at twelve o'clock, five hours after the treatment, she was 

 standing up and eating." Or this: "Princess, six years old, 



