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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



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hoases, and can raise a sufficieDt stock of 

 these plants, shuold try them in the open 

 ground, in this country. If they should be 

 hurt by our ardent sun, then shade. If 

 they pine for want of moisture, water freely. 

 We see no reason why we should not add 

 this beautiful flower to our garden lislf. 



Cattle Plagvc on the Continent of Enrope. 



There ia a cattle plague nuw in Germany. 

 Heasares have been taken both in Eogland aud 

 France to proveotits importation into their re- 

 spective coantriei. It has destroyed vast nuiu- 

 beraof cattle. The disease and its progress iu 

 the nei(^bborhood of Meckltnburg is thus de- 

 scribed: 



"From the taking, or first attack of the dis- 

 ease, till its breaking out, Sdven days generaily 

 elapse, during which the cattle attacked are at 

 times more dull, at times more lively th.iu Uiiual. 

 Tbry hold down their heads, but with their 

 horns, freqaeoily low, and when driven to water 

 o'ten jump about and become qui e unruly 

 S Jmetimes they take their food and chew the cud 

 with anusuai quickness, sometimes nut at all. 

 Towards the fitth dayjespiration becomes some- 

 what aSeoted; they are attacked by an uaire* 

 queat but short dry cough; the back is somewbat 

 beot, and when stroked is unusually sensitive. 

 On the ^gbth day the disease breaks out: iLe 

 hair stands on end, the eyes arefiztd and dull, 

 nostrils and muzzle hot and dry, inside of mouth 

 hot and of a deep red, gums spongy and swollen 

 and i&arked with red spots; front teeth loose; 

 hide hsrd like parchment, and adhering to bones; 

 •ars and horns febrile, with intermittance ot 



Sreat heat and cold; respiration accelerated but 

 eep, with visible motions of nostrils; cough 

 more frequent, violent and ringing; palse bard, 

 from 70 to 75 pulsations per miuute; appetite 

 entirely gone. Though some cattle in this stage 

 of the disease take their food as usual, most ot 

 them are unquiet, toss up their heads, shiver and 

 gnash their teeth. If stroked on the back, they 

 bend down and low moanrully, seldom lie down, 

 and when they do no instantly get up again; 

 they void ezcrements frequently and urine 

 seldom. In voiding excrements the back is 

 roach bent, the animal turning its head towards 

 the rump and striving to lick it. Excrements 

 are dark colored, hard, dry ujtnlatious pellets, 

 urine red and elear. The fever is more intense 

 in the evening, than in the morning; and as it 

 increases, the animal shakes its head, shivers, 

 gaashes its teeth, and refuses to take food — 

 Oows give but little milk, which is however 

 more creamy than usual. Nine and tenth day 

 fever becomes putrescent; small white pustules 

 break put iu the month, which, when they burst, 

 leave dark red spots that easily bleed. Similar 

 postules appear in the nostrils and between the 

 cleitaot the hoofs, the hide is in some placts is- 

 tumesccnt, the eyes are dim, the eyelids hanging 

 down. Prom the eyes flows a watery hum r 

 which dries up at the edge of the nostrils; nostrils 



exude a dingy white viscous humor; the tongue 

 is shrivelled, and often hangs loose out of the 

 meuth, covered with an impure saliva: the teeth 

 are loose; the mucous membrane of the mouth 

 sab.tcc'OU!^, and falling oS iu large places; breath 

 Dutrid and nauseous; muzzle hard and cracked 

 like the b.trk of a tree; hair rou^b, and without 

 the least gloss; parchrnent-like hide, now cofer- 

 ed in some places with nodules, on which appear 

 small pustules containing a yellowi-<h humor; 

 pustules buist, humor drives up, an<1a mangy 

 eruption msnes, commonly on the back, anus, 

 and udder; rumination cases; animal reduced lo 

 a i^kelton; pulsation 80 to lOO per minute; 

 Vespira-r.ion quick, wailing, and painlul; i termit- ' 

 tence of he^it and c dd; on the !<iide8of the more 

 diseased lung heat greater, and ot I ODsrer dura- 

 tion; excrement previously hard, now soft, loose 

 «nd watery." This state is followed by ciiolerio 

 diavrl oei, with acrid, purulent, brownish, or 

 blacki-ih green TaBce*, fmelliug like carrion. If 

 constipation now ensu( s the aniical swells up 

 un I soon dits; if, instead of diarrhoea, a more 

 nitural evacuaiiiMi of the bowels takes place; if 

 tieanimnl warinih becomes more normal, respir- 

 ati'ii more free, r.ul.-ie slower and fuller; if the 

 tiide scales off, a d regularly running snres (ab 

 s'-e-'ses) are formed, recovery may be expected. 

 'ih'-« is, however, vtry seldom the case; the 

 a Ik V! mentioned symntoms generally increase, 

 afterashon idusory am^lioraMon. The animal 

 thee Rtaggers. tails, roils on the ground, gasps 

 for breath, swells up, is seized with convulsions^ 

 and dies. 



A Fall in Suqab.— For the past month high 

 as sugar was before, it has continued to advance 

 a quarter or a half a cent a week, and is still 

 rising. But there is reason to hope for a de- 

 cline before next Christmas. The crops are 

 promising. Production has been highly stiin- 

 ulated by the high prices of two years past. 

 Consumptit n has somewhat diminished. Stocks 

 have increased, and the Louisiana crop, which 

 will be in by October or November, will be four 

 times greater than last year. The maple pro- 

 duction has been enormous, and if the experi' 

 ments with the Chinese cane should result in 

 nothing but syrup the increase of saccharine 

 matter will be large ; — so that speculators who 

 have bought for a rise will find that sugars must 

 have a fall. Louisiana, maple and Sorghum 

 with a restraint on consumption, will prove too 

 strong a combination for iLtva.'^St. Louis Re* 

 publican. ! * . 



Bean Culture. — A farmer of West 

 Gaines, New York, states that cultivating 

 four acres of winter beans, it cost him, in- 

 cluding interest, $62 10; and that he 

 received from the product, which was 94 

 bushels of beans and two and a half tons of 

 bean straw, $197, or a profit of $134 90, 

 which was $33 72 per acre. -v ^ 



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