Show DAIRY AND POULTRY interesting CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS ho diw needful tarm rl opera operas this department of I 1 th ho litrin lorm 1 few tow blinks a to tir the lare are a ot t ll 11 ua block and ail I 1 unite boltry I 1 ie sto stark k dlee la in lilt la the twell twelfth th annual r report of thip th state stale board ot at live stock ers of illinois Is just ott oft the in point of 0 volume it Is the largest rf port issued by the boti and contains cout alna much interesting covering vering to a wide range ot at contagious a in domestic animals the first of at the report deals with the jcurd B ex ler clerence enco with texas fever durins the year and also ith the experiments that are being conducted conduct el for to the purpose ot of demonstrating hew texas texa a fever reier is con conveyed eyed from southern to northern nor thein cattle and with the process 1 of 0 dipping southern cattle to destroy the tic tick k hoping thug thus to render euch such cattle incapable ot of tile disease ahe I 1 he report unequivocally in borses the opinion expressed by the experimenters of the bureau of animal industry that the eo so called fever lick tick boim la Is a carrier of at the disease from southern cattle on munich which it groves grow a to northern cattle that mat come in contact ith the ground where the mature ticks drop ott art lay jay their eggs and hatch their young but t the h 0 board lj is not yet et entirely satisfied that the eap exp experiments tridents in this abl direct direction loa have been sufficient in number and ot of NUM dent cleat magnitude to conclusively demonstrate demon on strate that this Is the only method ot of transmitting the th the ro report stated that during the coming car exposure tests are in contemplation by the tn board in tola this state with dipped southern cattle tor for the at 0 demonstrating whether they ati ai i capable ot of communicating the biseau utter after the ticks upon them have been destroyed and for this purpose the tort lort worth stock yards ya have volunteered to furnish the dipped catti cattle tor for such experiments the experiment experiments will be conducted on premises from which the fexas cattle un can be unloaded direct from the care cars owing to the great demand for stock catti cattle during the past year the report states cattle from dangerous territory were im ported into the state and gave gae rise to ten separate outbreak outbreaks ot of the disease among illinois native cattle some ot of these outbreak outbreaks proved quite serious in point ot of loss to the owners A large section of at the report Is U devoted to the discussion of tuberculosis among the dairy cattle of the state and its relation to the public health the board states that there Is to no question in the minds mirda of scientists aa as to the idea city ot of the disease in animal and in man and that the disease Is I 1 contagious and readily communicated to man through the milk ot of affected animals and undoubtedly to some extent through moat meat when the beat heat used in cooking la Is not sufficient to destroy the germ the and infallibility of 0 koch a tuberculin as a diagnostic agent in determining the presence ot of in an n kni roal mal bag has been thoroughly proved prove by bt its use in seven hund redhead of dairy cattle during the poet past year of 0 thia this number tested seventy seven head showed a rise in temperature indicating the presence of tuberculosis and were slaughtered on post poat mortem examination each of the seyed disclosed the presence prence ot of tuberculosis in the animal the board stated states its inability to announce the extent to which thia this disease prevails among the dairy herds of the state owing t to a lack ot of information that could only be secured through conducting tuberculin teate teats or through supervision ot of slaughter houses that while many herds are ea tree free from the dis dl ease others contain cantata affected animals ranging from one in a herd to as many as twenty five fifty and tr it cases seventy aire per centi one ot of the most extreme case cases pd P d in the report Is a herd tested cf lenry county containing thirty t C ill mals of which twenty five to the test were slaughtered and found to be ilacas d the history ot of thi this hard also RISO clearly indicates tha the spread ot of the disease by contagion the board strongly urges urge legislation to properly deal with shift thia disease among dairy lind and breeding cattle pro viding that all dairy and breeding herds in the state shall lo ile 10 tested with tuberculin and that sufficient clent fund 11 shall be appropriated not only to pay the expenses ot of this thi work but to in part the owners for lossa incurred in the eradication L aton ot of thy the disease it la is ot of the opinion that it is a only a question of a brief apace of time when the legislature will find it necessary to enat such legislation legli latton as many eastern elates states have done no so and are by law prohibiting biting the shipment ot of cattle within their bordera borders without a at certificate bowing showing that th tuberculin test has been made during the year there were tined on account of the existence of glanders in horses seventy seven animals diseased and two hundred and twentythree twenty three exposed the diseased an a imala male were destroyed and all fill premises disinfected glanders existed d iring r the year in fifteen counties ot of the a ite the records of the past twelve vear show a general decrease dt crease in the prevalence ot at this disease by counties count lei ranging from forty four counties in 1887 to the number stated last year in dealing with gi ander andern the hoard has used very effectively the mallela teet test being tho the lymph used in elamin exa minim mining exposed horats horses to it the disease has been contracted and 1 Is la it incipient form of development the let test ie Is made in a similar manner to the tuberculin teet test in cattle tor tr da Is A ollan trader udder I 1 want to talk to II 11 C W a little who ons o 0 ns a cow abal ana will not go dry IT milsted her once a day and an ox 1 fined tined her to dry eted and arid on this treat ment her udder becomes much swollen truth la Is the cow 1 Is about spelled epol leil ed to for the next year at least she Is too near calving to her teed feed much or stop milking her A cow cannot be safely dried after ehe she begins to spring udder she should be entirely dry two or three weeks before her udder enlarges in the least which would make eight or nine weeks necessary before I 1 learned this tor for certain I 1 injured some ot of my best cows 11 II C W could feed his cow just poor straw and milk her times a day and her udder would bo be likely to swell eft ell for or a few eka eks before ehe she drops har he 1 calf many of our dairy writers and some ot our professors declara declare there are cows that in giving milk from calf to calf that to stop milking them Is 1 to spoil them prof Ila hancker ecker I 1 believe says go so but bow how does it come they are made not born like kicking cows they arc are from good and they are tire stuffed with good fed fe d and so near calving the first before an attempt 1 is made to dry them that they are ure not dried at all 11 and go so no attempt Is made to dry them the next year or the next and ever after that cow should be milked if it she is in milked 13 12 years ahe she li is milked 2 years of th time for or nothing ills average cow will give as mu h milk when milked ten months of the year as the whole year she will have lei leva a affliction ions and bring better calves eighty per cent of 0 the bright dairymen of at this country practice what I 1 have told you the advisor a ot f the orange judd farmer isaas in case a cow won t dry to milk her regular but a few da a before ehe she cornea comes in give the milk to the pigs poor pool pigs rub her udder with aap soap hat ment meat and teed ber tier train grain as a usual EPSOM salts in la pound doses will be necessary to keep her bowel bowels loose and cool ber her system r c I 1 have asked near a core score of the best dairymen dalry men of this county lately if they practice giving epsom salt or other physic to their cowe cows about the time JIM ot of calving or any other time not one in twenty does thil this question waa was discussed at our farm institute the other da discussed I 1 cay say the practice was con deemed ain ost unanimously dro C P go goodrich dalch told us that the dairymen of 0 sheboygan fan county were vere too intelligent to crati nue epsom salts milking tubes dmd a rubber plugs louisiana teas and georgia were the places to advocate such much things nearly all ot of iowa a great men agree with me that all cows can and should have a good rest between calves professor saor wilson and furtis curtis brothers othere Dr uennett bennett and Gabril gea and the th wallace all advocate about the method this writer does I 1 wish hoard hecker home and others would try the iowa air tor for a few years and then try writing about bow how cows should be treated I 1 believe my ray few tow visits to iowa did me good I 1 know I 1 learned from curtis some valuable thing about feeding calves I 1 ought to write this over and boll it down but I 1 cant very well A X Selli nir poultry we seldom pass through nh bouth south water in chicago that we do not 0 e m ay iny cates c ates ut mixed fowls frequently most of these are of the scrub variety and very scrubby at that dut but here bere and there will be seen a pure bred plymouth rock or a brown leghorn or somo some equally valuable bird some of them too have haye bright red combs and seem to be b on the point ot at beginning the seasons operation operations la in laying corat tines there will be a number of such birds in a crate of twenty were weri they by themselves they would find I 1 a ready sale at an advanced price I 1 it t is not always convenient conat alent for a farmer to ship two small crates instead of one large on one but he might la in such cases partition ot off a part of the cragg for the birds of a feather feath cr and not mix them up with the arruba it sometimes happens that a south water street man takes advantage of thia this tact fact and goes up and down the street gathering up at pound rates certain kinda of birds he ile puts them by themselves in a crate and sets them up at a fancy arico which he often get gets As with apples and other fruit so with ith chickens mixed lota lots are fold sold at a disadvantage improvement in irish butter Dutter irish butter since the introduction of dairy instruction into ireland Is beginning to recover the position it bad had lost because of inferiority interiority it Is now finding a good sale in england but owing to ita its bad reputation it Is in sold aa as I 1 danish butter how ilow well this act fact illustrates two economic truths 1 that in st if it practical doe does really help the prodoc ar 2 that a reputation tor or the production ot at good products I 1 Is an easy thing to lose a hard bard thing to get back and a good thing when it la Is got back in some districts of ireland the average price of butter made in the districts has improved 34 a because of dairy instruction alx lx scale and pruning the appearance of the ban san jose scale may make pruning more popular since the fewer limbs of a tree and the tener fewer branches the easier will it be to inspect it and to fe that no scales 1 are on it it will make it easier to treat with spray or wash and when the leaves coma come bill make it easier to inspect for all kinds of enemies and jince ance an equal amount ot of fruit may be grown on lea less wood than Is usually the custom the farmers review believe believes that thriftiness may result from the dreaded invasion of the scale an association exists in englana known aa as the society for relict relief or of persecuted jens jews which maintains main a kind of industrial at abraham Is I V Ine yard jerusalem where fifty four jews tre re steadily employed and where many come hungry anil and ill III clad din jn t ask your dealer to supply you wita with bitter of the first rank |