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Show may be. and then when wa get fall I rain the pastures kept free from ! stock now will furnish much more feed , and feed later In the season thaa If I tramped while dry. j Sorghum. Kaffir corn, cow peaa and i alfalfa make pasture after cattle become be-come accustomed to them, but great i care muil be uaed In starting atock on auch pastures. At the College we fill the cattle with atraw or hay In the morning and then turn them on the aorghum or other green cropa only fifteen fif-teen minutea the first day. the next day thirty minutea, and then Increase the time fifteen minutea each day until un-til we reach an hour and a half, when It la aafe to let them atay on all the time and not give them other feed. Cattle turned on auch pastures at first. If hungry, will often eat few tnouth-fula tnouth-fula and die In a few minutea or hours FA KM AND GARDEN. i HATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS, AGRI-CULTURISTS, j Some t p-t.-liate IllaU A hoot Cnlll-vatloa Cnlll-vatloa of the soil aaa Yield. Thereof Hortlraltare. tltlrullais aaa riortraltara. Aathras. The recent outbreak of anthrax or charbon near Palatine, 111., has directed di-rected wide attention to the disease, seeing that It proved not only fatal to cattle attacked, but to at least one mrt In attendance upon the bovine victims vic-tims Some particulars about the disease dis-ease will prov of Interest to our readers, read-ers, as there la quite a misunderstand- Ing of the difference between anthrax and the more common disease of young cattle known as "black leg." In this department of the paper we have taken paina to impress upon the minds of stockmen the necessity of keeping cattle away from atagnant water In ponds or sloughs and even from running run-ning rivers or creeks. The Importance Import-ance of thle precaution will be the better bet-ter understood when It Is stated that most cases of anthrax are found where cattle bare been so exposed to the rod-Hke, rod-Hke, microscopic organism to which the disease Is due. The "bacillus." as It la called, la found In such places It either originates there or la brought there by water coming from a place where a dead anthrax animal has been cast. For the latter reason It ahould be made a misdemeanor punishable by fine or Imprisonment for anyone to throw a dead animal Into a running stream or drinking place. Ia Iowa a bad outbreak of the disease was traced at once to a pond Into which a dead anthrax animal bad been cast and at which a Urge herd of cattle took drinking water daily. The disease properly called anthrax occurs la different dif-ferent forms. In some cases there are diffuse swellings seen about the head and neck and when pressed these swelllnsa are found tn he solid and do Rape sown as late as September 1 will furnish pasture for hogs. Sow Dwarf Essex rape, Ave pounds per acre broadcast, or three pounds per acre drilled. It will do to feed In alx weeks after seeding. An acre will pasture ten to twenty hogs and aa seed costs only ten to fifteen cents per pound the cost Is light Rape la a fair pasture for cattle, cat-tle, but some dry feed must be given with It to prevent scouring. It takes a heavy frost to kill rape, so that It furnishes late pasture, and Kansas farmers should sow a large acreage to this crop. Turnips should also be sown largely as the seed la cheap, and if a crop Is secured the turnips will save a great deal of other feed needed for the cattle, cat-tle, young stock and bogs. We have not had success with lata sown millet, but If the fall should be damp and cool, millet would make a fair crop. Wheat, oats and rye will furnish large amount of pasture if the season Is favorable, and while these crops are It) good condition cattle will do well n them without any other food than itraw. A farmer pastured hia dairy rows on oats and sold during the fall 17.00 worth of milk for each acre of oats pastured, the cows having no other oth-er feed. not conuln gas. On cutting Into them there Is found a yellowish. Jelly-Uke mass, more or less stained with blood. In other cases the animal dies almost Immediately from a form of apoplexy and dlschsrges stained with blood come away from the natural orifices at the body. The body bloats and decomposes decom-poses at once. This form Is not so common as tbe other. In a third form the disease Is subacute and tbe victim may live for Ave to aeven days. In the form characterized by external spellings tbe animal dies In from one , Oatlooh for Tr Fruits, Scott Remington. Lenawee County, Michigan: We have no pears and no plums. Apples will be a light crop; but peaches promise well. H. K. Kelsay. Miller County, Indiana: Indi-ana: The outlook Is for 75 per cent of crops of tree fruits. My own trees promise good crops. Geo. J. Kellogg ft Sons. Rock County, Coun-ty, Wisconsin: In this section the prospects pros-pects for fruit are very poor. What few applea there were have mostly dropped becauae of continued dry weather. There will be a light crop of plums. U E. Hartwigs. Benton County, Missouri: In tbe spring we had a splendid splen-did prospect for a big crop of fruit-But fruit-But the long continued droughl has completely ruined the peach crp. It jus causd tbe apples to drop badly, and on the south sale they are sun scalded. The hot sun and wind together togeth-er have caused a great many of the young trees to die. A great many forest trees have also perished. Should we have an abundance of rain from now on we would have enough fruit for home use and perbaps some to sell. C. P. Hask.ns. Cuyahoga County. Ohio: Apples -will give 10 per cent of a crop; pears Z-. Peaches will be a fair crop, but there are but few orchards or-chards here, and there will not be enough fruit for home consumption. C. M. Jonnwn, Fulton County, Illinois: Illi-nois: The tree fruiu in my locality will not make one-ba'.f average crop, and the quality will be very inferior. L. G. Hubbard. Champaign County, Illinois: Apples are very scarce, but smooth and fair. Peachea will be plentiful, plenti-ful, but the dry weather ia checking their growth. Only a few pears have set and the trees are blighting badly. Wild goose plum trees are loaded with fruit; others are stung badly. to two djys. In man the disease usually usu-ally takes the form of "malignant pustule" pus-tule" or carbuncle and Is contracted through a wound or abrasure of the kin when a person skins an animal dead of anthrax. The d;sase may also be carried In the same form to man b7 Insects and it Is probable that flies are tbe means of spreading the disease to other animals when dead bodies are left to decompose In the open air. In this way anthax may be spread to shes'p and horses. Swine and dogs are largely immune from the disease. From what has been said it will be seen that it is very Important to destroy de-stroy tbe carcase of an anUi ai vict.rn so that the disease may not be spread by this means. The bes way to get rid of the carcase Is to totally destroy It by fire, but if this cannot be done It should be buried deeply In quick lime. It Is not enouKh to bury It deeply, deep-ly, for Darwin has shown that earth worms may bring the spores of the disease dis-ease to the surface, where they may be taken Into the systems ol cattle pasturing pas-turing over the graves and again cause the disease. When an anthrax victim la opened the spleen is always found to be greatly enlarged and filled with tar-Uke matter; the biood Is dark snd does not coagulate; the mucous membranes of the chest and abdominal cavities are covered with dark red spots and blood-stained d.scharges issue is-sue from the natural orlScea of the body. When an animal is attacked with black leg the disease e characterized character-ized by external swellings, which are found to be filled with gas. whkb makes the swellings give out a era k-llng k-llng sound when handled. After death the spleen Is found to be unchanged and tbe blood coagulates and turns rd on exposure to the air. Blac kleg df e not attack animals other than young cattle. Cattle may be safely lnjcu-lated lnjcu-lated against blackleg snd with soue degree of success against anthrax. In case of an outbreak of anthrax cattle ihould be changed to a fresh pasture sway from stagnant water. Disinfectants Disinfect-ants (such as the tar product disinfectants disin-fectants advertised tn this paper) should be freely used around the buildings and for washing tbe banda. Dead animals should be destroyed and not skinned. Cases should not be treated. I Iva Stork NnUtL Local showers in many parts of Utah have greatly Improved the ranges, aaa Louisiana reports state that pastures have greatly improved and range stock is generally In good condition. aaa The protracted drought in New Mexico Mex-ico was broken the last week In July and official weather and crop reports state that the ranges show great Improvement Im-provement and that all outside water boles have been filled. In some cases the heavy rains have formed large lakes on the plains of such magnitude as to last many months. Irrigation water Is plentiful in all districts and the prospects for the later crops and stock interests are extremely promising. Weather reports from Idaho state that on the high mountain ranges the grass Is more abundant than usual, but on low ranges it Is exceptionally scarce. Tbe condition of stock varies with the grass on the range. On the high ranges the stock Is fat and ready for shipment direct to market, but on low ranges Its condition is poor. In some southeastern sections the scarcity of water has contributed to the poor condition of stock. Fall re.tarinc stark. Press Bulletin SS, of the Kansas Experiment Ex-periment Station, says: Where It Is possible to keep the stock off dried-up pastures and put them on sorghum or other pasture. It should be done. If be stock sre kept entirely off the grass It will make a alight growth, do matter bow dry snd hot the weather |