Willamette farmer., November 09, 1872, Page 6, Image 6

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WILLA-METTE FAEMEE.
THE HOKHK D18KA8K.
Tho Hoehcster (X. Y.) Democrat
litis ft letter from n well-known ami
successful veterinary Surgeon, tiKn
tho nntiiru jiihI H.vintoniH of the ills
caso now raging among the horses
ut tlio East. Vic copy ns follow:
I think It cannot he properly re
garded as a now disease. It Is clear
ly a form of influenza that lias occur
red frequently In the United States,
as it lias often has in different por
tions of Europe. Three forms of in
fluenza are spoken of by veterinary
authors: The catarrhal, rheumatic,
and thu gaslro-ervIpciatniis form.
The disease which is now seizing
o generally the horse of this city is
plainly of a calarrhul character. The
llrst notlceahle symptom will he a
How of tears from the eyes, a watery
discharge from the noe and general
languor. Next a cough, which, be
coming more frequent, will soon oc
cur in paroxysms. In the commence
ment tlio luemhraneHofthe nose will
ho found pale or of a leaden color,
and thoso of the eyes presenting u
yellowish or reddened appearance.
.Many cie-cs are ushered on with a
chill. All this is soon succeeded hy
n general feverish condition, mani
fested hy heat of mouth, membranes
of the eyes and nose reddened, pulse
frequent, though soft and easllycom
pressed, resplratloii'iituckcueil and
nmo times laborious. At this stage
thu bowels may be sluggish, urinary
organs Inactive and the discharge
from the nose often assuming a yel
lowish or greenish appearance.
Tho dlseasi) usually runs Its course
within ten days, and with proper
treatment few if any eases ought to
prove fatal. Those those that do so
aro usually complicated with other
diseases, as bronchitis or pneumonia.
Treatment -The patient should he
excused from all labor and allowed
complete rest. The stables should
ho cleanly and well ventilated. Dis
infectants tun y lie useful and In some
iiewsary. hither of the following
will answer: Carlmlle acid, sulphate
of Iron, or Imnn-chlornlum. The pa
tient should ho properly groomed,
and tlio noe and eyes frequently
sponged with water, and the limb-,
it cold, bandaged. Tho drink should
have the chill slightly removed, hut
not enough to make it warm anil un
palatable. The diet should be light
ami of a laxative nature; say sxut
feed or hr.iu, wetted or scalded, w itli
a little salt added. Hay in limited
quantities may Ik- allowed.
Tn regard in remedies' I wMi to
say that heroic treatment should not
bo tolerated. lllondlcltiiig, cathartic
uau-eants, and arterial sedative, are
all of them either injurious or uncal
led for. Next, whatever medicines
are administered, should not be given
in the form of draughts or drenches,
as the animal Is sure to bo thrown
into a paroxysm of coughing, the mo
ment a drench Is attempted, and
some of the medicine will in such
event be almost Mire to llud Its way
Into the wind-pipe and brouchal .
,tulM!s, thus Inducing fatal bronchitis
or pneumonia. Halls mIhiuM not be
given as they will he coughed luck
nrout and theirrltabilltyofthe throat
Mill be Increased in alleiiipllug to
pass them over with the baud or
lingers. Powders arc well nigh use
less as when mixed with the food
the patient will Usually refuse both
food and powders. Electuaries,
syrups, or pastes are the only forms
In which medicine, may Ik safelv
administered in cases whole the
throat is tender and irritable and
coughing easily induced.
Saline medicines I regard as the
most Useful In this disease. Either
of tho following w III uiisw en Chlorate J
of Hitah, niurato of amoiiia or hyixi
sulphite of soda. As an anodyne to
relieve (he cough, tluld extract of
belladonna may be added, The prop
or dose of either of these medicines
may be rubbed up with two or three
ounces oriioueyoriuolas.se.saudthe.se
poured In the mouth from a small
isittlo or placed on the tongue with a
loou. liivon in this way, the med
icines w be readily lapped up and
easily wallowed. Hut little trouble
I required to give It, and no danger
of getting any medicine In the Irn
chea will bo incurred by this method.
AlKiut tho throat and over tho wind
pipe a sharp, cumulating liniment
should bo well rubbed in. In cases
that prove severe or aro complicated
wlthotheraud more serious diseases,
a competent veterinarian should be
i-ed. E. .Mink.
The llulliilo h'.unr.'s gives the fol
lowing in relation to the disease as
explained by William Soinervllle,
authority on such subjects;
"The symptoms are, in the earlv
stage, a starilngcoat, dry or hacking
cough, moving with rcliictaucy, and
general dullness; nasil membrane at
llrst Kilej watery discharge from one
or Isilh nostrils; earn and legs. cold.
As the dlscaso advances tlio mem
branes Im'coiiio highly colored; tliOi
discharge from the nostrils changes'
to a mucous of jrrcenlsh or vol low '
color: the pulse, which At tlrst was(
lOWV.l iiulckciictl: the hrcathinir Is
also quickened, and In some cases'
i obstructed and labored. Should the
animal be kept at work, the disease,
which in its early stages is local, with
light catarrhal fever, nnd confined
principally to the bronchal tubes, will
lie extended to tho chest; the cover
ing of the lungs (pleura) will be In
volved, and the symptoms of pleurisy
iii disease of a more formidable ehnr
lacter to contend with, immediately
iollows.
i "Thetreatinentisasfollows: J'lrt,
stop working the animal ; when In the
stable keep the body warm by cloth
ing; give warm bran mashes and
chilled water; apply an exciting em
brocation on the windpipe from the
throat to the breast; In the early
stages give stimulants, hut when the
disease advances and the pulse be
comes quickened, sedative medicine
i will have to lie given to arrest the In
flammatory symptom-.
"Cathartics and nauseating medi
cines should not be administered.
Weeding Is dangerous and should not
be practiced."
The source of the disease was in
Canada, where It has raged with pe
culiar virulence, and its ravages have
by no means abated. In Toronto,
while tlie epidemic wasat its height,
it was almost Impossible to secure a
horse for any purjioso. The street
railroads were obliged to suspend op
erations, and carriages, both public
and private, cab, trucks, and In fact
all vehicles moved by horse power
were ill the same predicament. The
.dlseaso first made its appearance on
I this side of the river on Friday, Oc
tober llth, at Niagara Kails.
' Anthji'itv ok Fkhmi:nti:i) Li
iji ins. -It Is highly creditable to tho
1 ingenuity of our ancestors that the
I peculiar property of fermented li
quors, In virtue of which they
J "make glad the heart of man,"
, seems to haye been known in the re
motest period of which we have
any record. All savages take to al
coholic fluids as if they wero to the
manor horn. Our Verdict forefath
ers intoxicated themselves with the
juice of the "Mima"; Noah, by a not
iiiinatur.il reaction against a super
Unity of water, appears to have tak
en the caillcst practicable opportuni
ty of qualifying that which he was
obliged to drink; and the ghosts of
1 the ancient Egyptians wero solaced
by pictures of banquets in which the
wine-cup passes around, graven on
the walls of their tomb. A know
ledge of the process of fermentation,
therefore, was in all probability pos
sessed by the pre-hlstorie population
of the globe; and it must have be
come u matter of great interest even
to primeval ulue-bibbei-s to study
the methods by which fermented
liquids could la' surely manufactur
ed. No doubt, therefore, It was soon
discovered that the most certain, as
well a the most expeditious, way of
making a sweet Juice ferment was
to add to it a little of the scum or
lees of another fermenting Juice. -And
It can hardly be questioned that
this singular excitation of fermenta
tion in one tluld by a sort of Infection
or Inoculation of a little ferment tak
en from .some other tluld, together
with the strange swelling, foaming,
and hissing of the fermented sub
stance, must have always attracted
attention from the more thoughtful.
Nevertheless, the commencement of
tho sclontlllc unalysls of the phe
nomena dates from a period not ear
lier than the Hist half of the seven
teenth century. Iimlitr Scinive
Uoiltihi.
Vi:hmot Mntl.so. One of the
largest and most lnisirtant transac
tions in Spanish Merinos ha been
lately effected In Vermont by Messrs
Itipley A Sous of Itutlaud, through
Mr. S. l Kelly, a well-known breed
.ir of sheep, ttight hundred bucks,
selected Irom among the richest
blooded Hocks in Itutlaud and Addl
miii counties, have been purchased
for shipment to .Ninth Colorado.
Three hundred go to the lion Tho.
O. Hoggs, of lleul county, to re
place the loug-woolod bucks from
Canada, carefully tested by him for
the past two year. Having tried
Cotswohl, Leicester, South-Downs
and Spanish .Merino side by side, he
pronounces unqualifiedly for the
Vermont Merino as thonost sheep
to crovs iiKiu the Mexican. An
other throe hundred are for Messrs,
Itipley v Thomas of limit county
Colorado, and the remainder for the
general market. With these sheep
will go several Short-1 lorns to re
inforce their herd, some tine fowl,
Scsoich collies ntiil lihuul nlir,. Tim
stock left Vermont about tho tint or;
tX'tolior. .u (Hilton In-. J fontr
Jour,
Coal Formations.
A gentleman of our city sends us
a letter In which ho desire, our opln-,
i Ion in regard to the various coal for- j
matlono. He aW wishes to know If i
we believe in the vegetable origin
of coal.
In the llrst place, wo know that1
tiie formation took on the carbon and '
became coal, in association with wa
ter, as the plant1- of the coal meas
ures are all of them marine and
wamp plant ; unit the complete
preservation from decay of all wood
form found In them the .sandstones
and days are nil deposited by the ac
tion of water, a In the coal' bed
they are stratified. We do not be-
' Move in the peat theory alone, that
the coal formation was made up
alone of the growing bog plants. At
times tills growth may have resulted
In the formation of a seam or seams
of coal, but when we come to con
sider that ttrft timber is often found,
and also occurs In the clays and
rocks or sandstones above the coal
we are led to regard the drift as oc
cupying an important agency in the
coal formation of the West. We
take It for granted that our corres
pondent Is asking our opinion upon
the formation of the coal beds of the ;
great 'West, as there Is a vast dlMer
once between the formation in Illi-;
nol, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and
the Indian Territory, and those far-,
ther eastward, westward, and at the
south. We believe the great cen
tral western coul fields to have boon
I the .shores of a swamp, more than
L',000 miles in extent around It; and I
'In the measure the marine plants!
I predominating. ,
The lluding or very tine, delicate!
plants, In u state of preservation, in I
I n finitrilti uinihiiii or n mnl !! lu '
i Vl4lt ntltlllllK J tt Will 11,111) in
evidence that it was not formed by
I any drift agency, while immediately
above It Is sure evidence of drift
matter having produced the forma-
1 tlou of coal.
From the most careful estimates
made by Prof, lloussingault and '
Prof, he Conic, it lias required more I
than one half million years to pro
duce the coal formation of the Mis-1
siippi valley alone.
Near tlio Canadian river, lu the
Indian Territory, wo collected many .
specimens showing the beds of coal
to ne entirely lormeii oi lorest trees. '
, In the specimens there are recognlz-'
ed forms of J'imis iioiitteniMij-wowl, .
bark, cone, and foliage, all very per-1
feet and complete.- -.V. t.twh 1'nrttl '
H'orltt.
1 Tin: Way to Ki:i:i Si'.vd.vv.
The hold's day is a good day lu
which to learn to love your neigh
bor a.s yourself. I do not think it is
a great sin if your nclghlior has his
side door open on the Sabbath day
I for you to walk across tho lawn and
sit on his porch, and talk with him
of things rccmly. I think the
herd likes that. 1 do not think that
If your household is more radiant,
and your children wake up and say
(as 1 never did), " Thank (!od, It is
Sunday!" I don't think that If you
make it the best day of tho week,
and your children are good natured,
and Joyful, that they are any the
worse. I believe in making the
hole for the buckle a little lower
down, hut our Lord's day be a
church day In the morning, and a
family day the rest of tho time. I
think that we preach too much. I
think that wo overteach and over
tax in the Sabbath-school. I think
we are making the Lord's day labor
ious. 1 do not think that we use
Sunday enough to make the family
tluer, sweeter, more honiogeneou,
more social and m more religious.
I see many, many men who come
to church .stern and .still. They
would not for all the world ride lu a
street car on a Sunday no; nor go
over tlie ferrvon Sunday no; nor do
anything at homo that made them
agreeable - no! I do not hold up
their way of keeping the Sabbath
as a model. Sunday I a day of
household love, it is a day in which
the children ought to feel that their
father and mother never were so
handsome before, and never so good.
It is a day in which every part of
the household should, at the going
down of the sun, be able to say,
"Thank Hod for Ibis open door of
heaven which has poured out s()
many happy hours on us! " -ltwi
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their plowing. The breadth of
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