Most of the cows, he says, get fat enough 
for beef in from four to six months, and as 
they shrink in their milk they are sold and 
their places filled by a fresh lot. Ho has had 
(iOO within the past two years, and has lost 128 
by the disease, the first symptoms of which are 
dullness, followed by a loss of appetite, con¬ 
stipation and cessation of milk flow. The 
cows stand on plank floors, are tied by neck 
chains to stanchions, and are never turned 
out from the time they arrive at the sheds un¬ 
til ready for the butcher. 
The manure gutters are about four feet 
wide, six inches deep and fifty feet long, and 
are cleaned so seldom that they must get 
about full of slush two or three times a day, 
There is no way to clean them but to wade in 
with rubber boots, and with a pushing scraper 
made of a board three or more feet long and 
six inches wide attached to a handle, push the 
contents of the gutters the entire length and 
out into the sewer outside. When the cows 
lie down their tails are often in the liquid fer¬ 
tilizer, which is then likely to be thrown pretty 
much over their entire bodies. It is no won¬ 
der that a good deal of city milk has a 
“ cowy ” odor. 
During Mr. C'heever’s visit two veterinari¬ 
ans, Dr. Baker and Dr. Hughes, with a deputy 
sheriff to assist, came to begin the inspection 
and marking of the cattle preparatory to ap¬ 
praisal and slaughtering. Duriug the seven 
weeks since the stable has been quarantined 
174 aninials.out of a total of 1178, have died or 
been condemned and killed. Of one lot of (18 
Wisconsin cows put in the stables, July 15, IS 
had died or been condemned and destroyed 
before the end of their second month, and of 
the remaining 45 but ten proved entirely free 
from disease. Standing directly opposite 
from these cows was a lot of steers owned 
by Nelson Morris, a large packer at the stock 
yards. The condition of these animals was 
even worse than that of the cows. 
It is much to be regretted that the cattle 
men of the State, particularly the million¬ 
aires of the stock yards, do not see the neces¬ 
sity - of coming to the front with an earnest 
effort to wipe the disease out. On the con¬ 
trary, the stock yards interest has ignored or 
denied the existence of any contagious dis¬ 
ease whatever among the cattle there. If the 
State of Illinois fully realized the danger that 
is threatening her cattle iudustry an extra 
session of the Legislature should be called by 
the Governor to devise methods and raise 
funds for stamping it out before the job grows 
too big to handle. 
Sulphide of Potassium for “Destroyers 
and Poisoners.” —Edmund Tonks, in a paper 
published iu the Gardener’s Chronicle, gives 
high praise to sulphide of potassium (liver of 
sulphur) as a menus of checking and suppress¬ 
ing, iu iuan,l>eastaiid plant, parasitic destroy¬ 
ers and poisoners. Poisoned wounds, skin dis¬ 
eases and most forms of inflammation involv¬ 
ing the formation of pus, if wetted with a 
strong solution of it, soon take a healthy turn. 
The most delicate plant may be dipped—pot, 
earth, roots, leaves and all—iu a solution of a 
quarter of au ounce to the gallon without any 
danger: twice thut. strength is safe hut need¬ 
less. It is efficient against red spider, and de¬ 
stroys mildew aud is probably equally poteut 
agaiust microbes. Mr. T. says that an en¬ 
demic disease attacked his large collection of 
plants, the roots becoming rotten When 
soaked in the sulphide solution, the rotting 
ceased aud healthy new growth followed. The 
cost of the compound to him iu England was 
8d. a pound (LG cents). It is common in drug 
stores and easily tried. 
Soluble and Insoluble Fertilizers.— 
W. II. Bowker, speaking of the difference iu 
the effects of soluble and insoluble fertilizers, 
suggests that we apply 1(H) pounds of nitrate 
of soda to au acre of grass luud and then ap¬ 
ply to an adjoining acre 100 pounds of leather 
waste, containing the same amount of uitro- 
geu. in the latter we see no results because 
the nitrogen is insoluble. Dried fish applied 
to the surface of grass laud us never satisfac¬ 
tory. either because it loses its ammonia into 
the air, or because the process of decay is so 
slow tlmt the plant food is yielded up so grad¬ 
ually that tio results are witnessed, but yvhen 
the same dried fish is applied iu the soil. It be¬ 
comes a valuable plant food. If it seems nec¬ 
essary to have this ammonia and phosphoric 
acid available, what must bo said of the pot¬ 
ash# 'fhe granite rocks of our hills contain 
enough potash for all our soils for all eternity. 
Those who think it advisable to use phosphate 
rock iu its natural condition should with 
equally good reason recommend the applica¬ 
tion of granite rock. Yet no grinding, how¬ 
ever minute, or even chemical dissolving, has 
rendered in a practicable yvay, the potash of 
these rocks immediately available aud yve are 
compelled to fall back upon forms yvhich are 
soluble, aud hence beneficial. 
Mycelium on Chestnut Trees.— The meu 
of science of our practical times are doing good 
service in hunting to them lairs the various 
kinds of obscure but most destructive fungi 
that have so long preyed unseen upon both 
animal and vegetable life—the opprobrium of 
doctors, the work of witchcraft in the eyes of 
the superstitious, aud the consternation of all. 
In two of the departments of France the chest¬ 
nut trees are dying from the. spread of a 
mycelium, of which the complete growth— 
the fungus proper—has not yet been found de¬ 
veloped. The chestnut being an important 
article of human food there, M. J. E. Plan- 
chon has given much attention to the case, 
aud has reported to the Paris Academie des 
Sciencest. He recommends total extirpation 
and burning of diseased subjects, planting on 
entirely fresh ground, and iu the case of re¬ 
cent attacks applications of quick-lime, ashes, 
sulphate of iron (copperas) or sulphate of pot¬ 
assium in such manner as will not injure the 
tissue of the plant. He does not include boil¬ 
ing water, a simple application which seems 
to do good in similar affections of other trees. 
THE LATEST AND BRIEFEST. 
A true agricultural experiment station 
says Dr. T. H. Hoskins, in the Vermont 
Watchman, has for its function exactly yvbafc 
its name describes—the making of experiments 
the purpose of yvhich is to investigate the un¬ 
solved questions connected with the practical 
agriculture of the state or country which es¬ 
tablishes them. These unsolved questions are 
very numerous, and many of them are intri¬ 
cate, requiring much laborious exertion and 
the tabulation and comparisou of results over 
a long series of years... 
When the State is called upon to help agri¬ 
culture in this yvay. it should only be to pro¬ 
vide for that sort of work which the ordinary 
farmer cannot do for himself—the sort of 
work yvhich takes time, money aud trained 
skill, in order to obtain trustworthy results.., 
On the other hand, coutiuues Dr. Hoskins, 
any cheap attempt at dabbling in this class of 
work, with uo proper conception of what it is, 
yvhat it will cost and yvhat kind of men it will 
require to make it effective, is to he earnestly 
deprecated. “Better do nothing in the matter 
than set cheap fools to fooling with it”.... 
It is quite true, os a Press editorial puts it, 
that a college course is not so much to fill the 
student's memory with facts that other people 
have discovered as to train his mind so that 
he can use it like a powerful engiue uuder per¬ 
fect control. The student yvho acquires a 
habit of investigation aud comparison can be 
trusted to possess himself of the kuoyvledge he 
needs in any calling . 
The agricultural editor of the Weekly Press 
thinks that the fundamental reason for the 
lack of success in agriculture is not so much 
that 'armers do not knoyv how to conduct 
their business, as that they f ai 1 to do as yvell 
as they knoyv. 
One reason for this, continues Editor Stiles, 
is that they are not brought into contact yvith 
improved methods. They read about them 
and admit their value and then seem to lack 
the enterprise to adventure any change. If 
they could see these things and become lamil- 
iar with them as actual facts accomplished, 
there would be less difficulty iu abandoning 
the time-honored ways to yvhich they are 
wedded ........ 
From this point of view we see the benefit 
of object lessons at the farms; yve see the ben¬ 
efit of farmers’ clubs. Fanners all know that 
it is poor economy to keep indiffereut dairy 
coyvs yvhen heavy milkers cau be obtained. 
But they act, upon the kuoyvledge yvheu they 
see how much more milk and cream another 
farmer is selling whose stock has been graded 
up. . 
The Canadian Horticulturist says that yve 
give the Earhnrt Everbearing Blackberry a 
good puff in our issue of Oct. 23. The Horti¬ 
culturist says that we claim for it “ hardiness, 
thrift, productiveness and a better quality 
than Gregg.” Yes, that is what yvo claimed 
from the test of a one winter and a single 
season of fruiting. The Horticulturist 
further remarks: 
“Now yve always read statements in the 
Rural with the greatest confidence, because 
it gives its opinions, as yvo also aim to do, 
without fear or favor. But we should require 
the experience of more than one season to es¬ 
tablish our confidence in the wonderful ever- 
bearing qualities of the Earhart.” 
True. To judge of the merits of any fruit 
from a single year’s trial is hasty, to say the 
least. But yvo knoyv of uo reason why yve 
should not state how it behaved for that one 
season. If the Earhnrt fail next Summer, yve 
shall hasten to state the failure . 
State Master, Hale's address to the Con¬ 
necticut State Grange speaks of the Sheffield 
Scientific School of Yale College. It seems 
that iu 94 .veal's there have been seven agri¬ 
cultural graduates. The cost has been $180,- 
000, or $25,u0u for each. He asks if it is not 
true, according to.the admission of one of the 
professors, that the agricultural department 
is “worse than a failure?” . 
Mr. Hale pays a fitting tribute to the in¬ 
valuable sendees of Prof. S. W. Johnson. But 
this fund was given to found an agricultural 
school yvhere young men could receive instruc¬ 
tions in agriculture, and not to hire men to 
gi%e lectures now and then to agricultural 
board meetings, farmers’ clubs and granges. 
Connecticut in this matter is not doing right 
by the National Government that granted this 
fund, nor by her farmers and farm boys that 
were to be benefited by it. 
If we were planting a deciduous hedge now, 
we should use a variety of plants not set very 
closely together as in the old way. but so far 
apart that each plant could show something 
of its own beauty, We should select the dif¬ 
ferent colored varieties of the Japan Quince, 
the barberry,’the forsythia, Spiraea prunifolia, 
some of the thorns, a few Roses of Sharon, li¬ 
lacs, bush honeysuckles, etc. On the outside 
of these we should run a barb-wire feuce as 
suggested by Mr. Meehan. . 
Mr. Meehan, of the Gardener's Monthly, 
impresses it upon his readers that a hedge 
should be kept wider at the bottom than at 
the top, so that the leaves may all get as much 
advantage from the light as possible. The 
more shade at the bottom, the sooner the 
hedge gets thin and leggy at the base, and this 
greatly impairs its beauty. 
It appears that the Blue Gum Tree is not 
hardv enough to lie depended on in Florida, 
according to the Despatch of that State. 
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