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1 Duc., 1899.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 599 
WARTS 
Tiere are many so-called remedies for warts on animals which sre more or 
less non-effective. The latest we have heard of appears to have proved successful 
in the case of dogs. A gentleman in England had a beagle puppy whose 
mouth, tongue, lips, and face were covered with white warts closely packed 
together. Several so-called remedies were tried without result, and the dog 
died, choked. A. year or two after he had a cob with warts over the shoulder, 
neck, and face, when, either in print or from hearsay, he learned that warm 
bullock’s blood would remove them. This was tried, on the principle that if it 
did no good it could do no harm ; result, after two or three dressings the warts 
disappeared, and did not come any more. 
Another case. Vive years ago he had _ six ereyhound saplings, whose 
mouths, tongue, and lips, outside and in, were covered with warts. It was two 
days after discovery before he was able to get to the butcher when killing. By 
this time a fine crop of warts had developed. The method was this: As soon 
as the bullock was knocked down and stuck, the dogs’ heads were dipped in a 
bowl of the live blood, and all the parts affected were well rubbed with it while 
warm (after it begins to clot or solidify it is no use). The day after the first 
dressing the warts turned brown. ‘Two days after they were dressed again, 
The following day they (the warts) began to get soft, and looked rotten, many 
of them falling out on being handled. After two days, dressed again, when 
they all disappeared, leaving small marks such as smallpox leaves. After a time 
nothing could be detected at all. ‘ 
He gives this as his experience. At all events, it is harmless and painless, 
and the price of a pint or two to the butcher is not costly. 
This remedy might be tried in the case of fowls. \Varts on chickens nay, 
however, be absolutely cured by dipping the fowls’ heads in urine. After a 
few applications of this remedy the warts disappear. We cured nine valuable 
cochin chickens in this manner, whose heads were a mass of warts. 
A NEW TEXTILE PLANT, 
APOCYNUM VENETUM., 
A new textile plant is being experimented with in Russia (says United States 
Consul Atwell, of Roubaix). ‘This is the Apocynum cenelum, a1 bush about 6 
feet high, yielding a silken fibre. It grows in Europe, Siberia, Asia Minor, 
North of India, Manchuria, and Japan, and it has long been used by the 
Turcomans in the manufactnre of cords and woven goods. It has never been 
cultivated, and grows best inland under water for part of the year. The fibre 
has great strength, and its cultivation would require no care. In 1895 the 
Russian Government began to use it for bank-note paper, and the results were 
so excellent that the plant has since been cultivated at Poltaya. 
HOW LONG PLANTS WILL LIVE. 
Annuals.—Some plants grow up, flourish, produce seeds, and die in one 
year; they are called annuals. These are again divided into the hardy—such 
as the rocket larkspur, candytuft, nemophila ; the half-hardy, which need 
protection and artificial heat in their early stages, such as the China aster, phlox 
drummondi, marigold ; and the tender annuals which should be cultivated ina 
greenhouse. 
Biennials ave plants which flower and bear fruit only in their second year, 
and then die. They do not flower in their first year. The foxglove is a biennial, 
xo also is the wallflower, stock, carrots, turnips, parsnips, &e. Biennials may 
become annuals if sown early and forced to develop their flowers, while, if 
seeding be prevented, some may last longer than two years. 
Perennials.—Plants which continue for several years, and which exhibit a 
great variation of longevity. 
