'oio General Notes. [December, 



Csokor, which of course would destroy or materially depreciate 

 the market value of the animals affected. Csokor calls attention 

 to the fact that all of the herd in question were affected, as indi- 

 cating a much readier infection by contact, than has been observed 

 in the case of the dog. It is further to be noted that the mites in 

 each gland are not to be reckoned by individuals or tens, as in 

 other animals, but by thousands. 



Mr. Awde finds about one pig in twenty affected, from now to 

 the end of the pork season. The parts involved (as also in Csokor's 

 cases) being the head, belly, and legs.— A 1 . Ramsey Wright, 

 University College, Toronto. 



How Bad Weather Affects the Birds.— The early part of 

 this season was very cold and wet, seriously impeding every 

 operation on the farm. The temperature finally became more 

 genial during the month of June, though the rains have kept 

 coming at frequent intervals. Urasses, wheat, oats, and potatoes 

 have been growing very satisfactorily, but corn, our great staple, 

 has been sadly impeded, and its promise to-day may be set down 

 as simply " doubtful." Coupled with all this ill luck, we have had 

 a frequent repetition of high winds— tornadoes, in many localities, 

 as the reader will remember. At my place we had a terrible gale 

 the night before the destructive tornado at Grinnel ; trees were 

 blown down, fences destroyed, and the crops damaged in all 



This state of things has had a very disastrous effect upon the 

 birds. They have not been as plenty 'as during previous seasons. 

 I noticed this especially in regard to' the house wrens, blue birds, 

 redwing blackbirds, crow blackbirds, blue javs. Baltimore orioles, 

 and indigo birds, possbilv other species might be included. It 

 has seemed to me that they have been kept away by this unto- 

 ward weather. Then again, after the tenable storms, we have 

 found many young birds dead, while the wuvh and beating rams 



this subject'all the season through, and I cannot but regard it as 

 having been 



, a most unfavorable' vea 

 4/dric/i, Webster City, low. 



r for all kinds of 



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: of Color in a Spider. 

 r spiders, that conceal tl: 

 ' unwary insect that may 

 have generally found them 



— I suppose you 

 lemselves in the 



, white and yel- 



>r, and by experiment, 1, 

 me and put it on a sun- 

 flower, it will get quite yellow in from two to three days. I 

 believe they capture almost anything, but they seem to be partial 

 to the bees. I found one the other day with a wasp, the latter 

 was not yet dead, but it was tightly held by the throat by the 

 spider. The next day the wasp was found lying dead under the 

 flower. — James Angus. 



