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SCIENCE FROM THE STATIONS. 
BEVIKWS OF IMPOBTANT BULLETINS. 
Treating Wheat Smut. —Bulletin 69, from the 
Kentucky Experiment Station (Lexington), dis¬ 
cusses the general subject of wheat growing 
with descriptions of varieties and the proposed 
treatments for the disease known as “smut.” 
The bulletin is well illustrated, and should be 
interesting to southern wheat growers. We often 
are asked to give a satisfactory treatment for 
Wheat smut. Prof. Garrnan, in this bulletin, 
describes two simple methods for soaking the 
seed. One method is to dissolve six pounds of 
bluestone in four gallons of hot water. This 
solution is then poured into a barrel with enough 
more water to make 20 gallons. The seed wheat, 
putin loose bags, is dipped into this solution 
and, after thorough drainage into the barrel, is 
poured on the floor and dusted with air-slaked 
lime. In some cases, the wheat is first placed in 
a pile on the floor and the bluestone solution 
sprinkled over it by means of a water can. After 
it is thoroughly wet, it is dusted with lime as be¬ 
fore, and spread out to dry. This method, how¬ 
ever, will destroy the fertility of some of the seed 
if the solution be too strong. A better way is to 
soak the seed in hot water at a temperature of 
131 degrees. 
The latter method is described in the bulletin 
as follows: “First put a bag of wheat in the 
barrel of cool water and leave it until all the 
seeds are moist. It may be left for half an hour, 
or longer, but ordinarily, two or three minutes 
are sufficient. Drain out the surplus cold water, 
then immerse for a minute or two in the second 
barrel, containing warm water. The object of 
this is to warm the wheat so that it will not cool 
the water in the third barrel. When warm, plunge 
qulekly in the third barrel, and leave it 15 
minutes. If the temperature show a disposition 
to fall below 131 degrees, add a little hot water 
from the kettle till it reaches the 131 mark again. 
It should not be allowed to fall below 130 degrees, 
or to go above 134 degrees F. With a good supply 
of hot water at hand, it is very easy to regulate 
the temperature in the barrel, much easier than 
would be supposed by one who has not tried it. 
At the end of 15 minutes, the wheat is removed 
from the water and spread out to dry. But it 
must not be spread out on a floor upon which 
smutted wheat has lain.” 
San Jose Scale. —The Georgia Experiment Sta¬ 
tion issues Bulletin 36, which discusses the San 
Jos6 scale at considerable length. It appears 
that, during the past three years, this scale has 
spread in various parts of Georgia, and threatens 
to do considerable damage in some of the large 
peach orchards. Our readers are familiar with 
most of the matter printed in this bulletin, as the 
usual life history and remedies are given. In some 
of the large peach orchards, it appears that 
growers have adopted a system of fumigation 
with the hydrocyanic acid gas. As may not be 
generally known, this gas, often known as 
prussic acid, is about the deadliest poison known 
to chemistry. It is certain death to any living 
creature that Inhales its fumes. In fumigating 
orchards, small tents made of eight-ounce duck, 
large enough completely to cover a small peach 
tree, are thrown over the trees. These tents re¬ 
ceive two coats of linseed oil and lamp black, 
the former to render the duck air-tight, and the 
latter to exclude rays of light. In operating, the 
branches of the larger trees are drawn in and 
fastened. The tent is then lifted by ring and pole 
and drawn over the tree. An earthenware ves¬ 
sel containing 4% ounces of sulphuric acid in 14 
ounces of water is then placed under the tent. 
The operator takes, in a dipper, ounces of 
dissolved cyanide of potassium, reaches care¬ 
fully in under the tent, takes a long breath, 
empties the dipper into the vessel and throws a 
sack over it. The tent is then quickly let down 
and earth thrown around the edge to render it 
air-tight. A gang of four men working in this 
way can handle about 12 tents, and the gas is 
permitted to remain under the tent about 45 min¬ 
utes. This is a dangerous treatment, for a single 
whiff of the prussic acid will mean instantaneous 
death to the inhaler. Only careful and intelligent 
men could ever be intrusted with such work, and 
in fact, so dangerous is this method that, except 
in very large orchards, it is doubtful whether it 
can be recommended for field work. 
The North Dakota Experiment Station (Fargo) 
issues in Bulletin 29, an account of the study of 
various methods of cultivation recommended for 
that dry State. Probably many of our readers 
have heard something about the Campbell sys¬ 
tem of raising wheat. This bulletin gives a very 
good account of this method and the results ob¬ 
tained from it in comparison with ordinary cul¬ 
ture. In brief, the Campbell system is about as 
follows : The soil is first worked with a disk or 
Cutaway harrow, which gives it a thorough mel¬ 
lowing. It is then plowed seven or eight inches 
deep so that the mellowed surface is turned to 
the bottom. Within a few hours after plowing, 
ihe ground is worked with the Campbell surface 
packer, which, with its action, is described as 
follows: “ This machine consists essentially of a 
series of cast-iron wheels placed abreast upon 
an iron axle, so that their rims, which are about 
an inch thick at the base, narrowing to a sharp 
angle at the extreme circumference, are about 
five inches apart. The whole machine, when run 
over the soil, is heavily loaded. The object of the 
sub-surface packer is, first, further to pulverize 
the soil, and second, to bring the newly turned 
soil, which is held up to a greater or less extent 
by the stubble, into contact with the bottom of 
the furrow. This packing of the furrow slice 
upon the bottom of the furrow renews the capil¬ 
lary relation between the newly-turned soil and 
that below, a thing desirable in a dry fall, and 
also, opens a way downward for rain, should 
there be any. It is well known that water does 
not percolate so readily into a soil that is dry 
and filled with air spaces as it does into one that 
is already moist and, while mellow, is not filled 
with large openings.” After this, the ground is 
harrowed with a light peg-toothed harrow at in¬ 
tervals until the crop is sown. This keeps a shal¬ 
low mulch over the surface of the ground, and 
retards the evaporation of the moisture into the 
air. All crops are sown so that they may be cul¬ 
tivated, grain being sown in rows 16 to 24 inches 
apart. Cultivation, shallow and often, is kept 
up as long as possible. As compared with the 
ordinary method of plowing, harrowing, and 
sowing the seed in narrow drills, or broadcast¬ 
ing, this Campbell system has, on the whole, 
proved very useful. Those of our readers who 
like detail, would do well to secure the bulletin 
and study the tables of figures. One statement 
made in this bulletin is, certainly, well consid¬ 
ered, namely: “ Soils have their individualities. 
The treatment that would cause one soil to give 
good returns might bring about very different 
results in another. The farmer must study the 
character and disposition of his land no less than 
he would those of his horse.” It would be well if 
farmers generally would think that over, and try 
to handle their soil in such a way as to obtain 
the best possible returns from it. It would, also, 
be a good thing if agricultural writers with a pet 
hobby to present would keep that thought in 
mind. 
The Sutton Beauty Apple.— I do not regard 
this .as the best apple in the world, but it pos¬ 
sesses some characteristics that I think are 
worthy of the consideration of orchardists. I 
speak of it, of course, as grown upon my own 
grounds. First, it is quite inclined to be an an¬ 
nual bearer; it has a healthy, rugged foliage 
which will bring a crop of fruit without inclina¬ 
tion to suffer from the dreaded fungus. In other 
words, we are not compelled to spray this variety 
in order to get a crop of fruit. This, as you know, 
has been an off year with us in this vicinity, in 
regard to apple growing, yet this is one of the 
few varieties that has given us perfect fruit. For 
myself, I am quite fond of a sub-acid apple, hence 
this suits my taste well. Again, it is so beautiful 
in appearance, in my opinion, as to make it an 
attractive apple upon the market, even were it 
not possessed of as good quality as it has. It 
soon begins to mature, yet I have had them in 
perfect condition with simply ordinary care, in 
my cellar, up to the last of March, s. d willard. 
Ontario County, N. Y. 
For Irritation op the Throat caused by Cold 
or use of the voice, “ Brown's Bronchial Troches" 
are exceedingly beneficial.— Adv. 
CONSUMPTION. 
What It Is—How It Arises—And How It Is 
Now Treated with Success. 
(Extracts from Dr. Hunter’s Lectures on The 
Progress of Medical Science in Lung Diseases.) 
Following 1 the various forms of Catar¬ 
rhal and Bronchial disease which I have 
described, we come next to that lament¬ 
able complaint known to everybody un¬ 
der the name Consumption. It is greatly 
dreaded by the people because not under¬ 
stood. By physicians it has for centuries 
been worse treated than any other afflic¬ 
tion in the long catalogue of human 
diseases. 
Formerly all medical schools taught 
and physicians believed Consumption to 
be a disease of the blood and general 
system. This false pathology and the 
false and fatal treatment which they 
based upon it sacrificed millions of 
precious lives. Now it is universally 
conceded by the profession that the old 
theory was utterly untrue and unten 
able. 
Forty-five years ago (1851), I first dis 
covered Consumption to be a local dis¬ 
ease of the lungs. In 1852 I published 
a book on it, giving my researches and 
the grounds for my belief. In 1855 I 
contributed a series of articles to the 
‘•Specialist and Journal of Diseases of 
the Chest,” of which I was then Editor, 
contending that the local theory was 
the only true doctrine of the disease, 
and the local treatment the only one 
that opened up any promise of its cure. 
Had my views been then received and 
my discoveries accepted by the profes¬ 
sion, as they should have been, all the 
sufferings and premature deaths by 
Consumption since caused by false doc¬ 
trine, heresy and empiricism might have 
been averted. 
Unfortunately for science and human¬ 
ity physicians, as did the Israelites of 
old, rejected the truth, and for forty 
years continued to flounder in the wild¬ 
erness of error—from 1851 to 1891. Like 
Ephraim, they were wedded to their 
idols and remained steadfast to their 
delusions. 
In 1891 all this was happily changed 
for the better. The theory taught by 
me in 1851 was proved and accepted by 
the leading teachers and authorities of 
medicine throughout the civilized world, 
as the “ONLY TRUE” doctrine of the 
disease, and since then has been taught 
in all medical colleges and incorporated 
into all text-books for the instruction of 
students of medicine. 
Thus after centuries of opposition and 
denial, the LOCAL NATURE and GERM 
ORIGIN of Consumption is recognized 
and becomes the established doctrine 
of medical science. It is now conceded 
that no Consumption can arise without 
the tubercle bacillus, a poisonous germ 
of the air, gets into the lungs to produce 
it. 
As the germs that cause Consumption 
first act locally upon the lungs, and the 
disease which they produce has its seat 
in the lungs, it follows that it is always 
a local germ disease of that organ. It is 
an axiom of medical science that local 
diseases require local treatment for 
their cure, and all past clinical experi¬ 
ence teaches that no germ disease was 
ever yet cured without specific germi¬ 
cides applied directly to the germ in¬ 
fected parts. 
To cure any bronchial or lung disease 
local treatment must be applied, and 
this can only be done by introducing 
medicated air, gas or vapor into the tubes 
and cells by inhalation. 
To effect the cure of Consumption we 
must kill and expel the germs and heal 
the ravages they have inflicted in the 
lungs. The air must therefore carry 
germicidal antiseptics and healing reme¬ 
dies to act directly on the germs and 
seat of the disease, or no cure will 
result. When properly administered 
this treatment always arrests the lung 
disease. If it be deeply rooted the 
progress may not always be rapid, but 
the cure of Consumption under it is as 
certain as is the cure of other serious 
maladies by proper treatment. 
I some years ago discovered, and am 
now using with great success, germicidal 
inhalants under which no form of germ 
life can live. They are introduced by 
instruments, which medicate tho air tbe 
patient breathes. Asthma, Bronchitis, 
Chronic Pneumonia and Consumption 
are arrested, broken up, and radically 
cured by them. 
(To be continued.) 
{Signed) ROBERT HUNTER, M D., 
117 W. 45th St., 
Dec. 9, ’97. New York 
Note.—Readers of The Rubal Nkw- 
Yobkeb who are interested will receive 
a copy of Dr. Hunter’s book free, by 
applying to him as above. 
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