874 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Noy., 1902. 
PREVENTIVE AND CURATIVE SERUM FOR ALL ANIMALS. 
M. Ligniéres has, says the Pastoralists’ Review, made researches on 
diseases arising from cocco-bacillus of the same order as that in distemper, 
which affects horses, cows, pigs, and birds. It is reported that he has discovered 
a preventive and curative serum for all animals. It cures typhoid in the horse,. 
pneumonia in cattle, as well as distemper in dogs. 
KEEPING POOR COWS. 
Only a rich man can afford to keep poor cows, but it is only the poor man 
who does keep them. The rich man, who looks carefully after the dollars, pays. 
a high price for an animal, and still makes a profit; the poor man buys a poor 
cow, thereby saving money in the wrong place, and then works double time, 
feeds more food, gets less returns, and comes out a loser at the end of the 
year. Better buy one good cow than two poor ones, for the same money. The 
old parable of the man who built his house upon the sand applies to other 
things besides houses, although frequently the application is not so evident. 
So says Hoarid’s Datryman. 
BLACKLEG IN CALVES. 
A Clermont correspondent, Mr. C. Keune, writes :—I have used garlic for 
years with great effect in the following way—Open the dewlap, make a hole 
with a steel, and place one clove of garlic in the hole, then pass clean seaming 
twine through with a pack-needle to keep the garlic from falling out. 
CAPACITY OF TANKS. 
When calculating the capacity of tanks, 315 gallons are estimated to one 
barrel and 63 gallons to one hogshead. 
A Crroutar Tank One Foor In Depra. 
Galls. 
5 feet diameter holds ¥. es, ee bs 
6 ditto oe oP ral Gs 
7 ditto ea a0 ... 2404 
8 ditto oF fed vee LA 
9 ditto aes dee .. 3972 
10 ditto 4905 
A gallon of water weighs 10 lb., and measures 277:274 cubic inches; a 
cubic foot of water contains 6°23 gallons, and weighs 62°35 lb.; 1 ewt. of 
water contains 11:2 gallons, and measures 1°8 cubic feet; 1 ton of water- 
contains 224 gallons, and measures 35:9 cubic feet— Home paper. 
CURE FOR TAPEWORMS IN DOGS. 
In an article on “Tapeworm in the Dog,” appearing in the June number: 
of the Agricultural Journal of Victoria, the following recommendations are 
made under the head of treatment: To expel tapeworms from dogs no remedy 
succeeds as well as areca nut. The dog should be kept off food for about 
twelve hours, and then from 15 to 60 gr. of powdered areca nut should be: 
given in a little milk. A dose of 30 gr. will suffice for a dog weighing 25 Ib.., 
and 60 gr. may be given to a very large dog, and 15 gr. to a little one. About 
a couple of hours after the administration of the areca nut a dose of castor oil! 
should be given and the dejecta watched for the segments or joints, which 
may be seen to be crawling about, and these should be burnt before they get 
a chance to burst and scatter the eggs which they contain. 
