Bandon recorder., February 18, 1909, Image 5

Whole ear coru fed to the milk cow
makes an excellent ration when sup­
plemented with clover hay, corn fod­
der and a moderate ration of bran and
allmeal. The digestive apparatus of
tbe cow will extract about all the nu­
triment that the whole coru contains
except the starch or fat former, and If
hogs follow not even this element Is
lost
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FOOT AND MOUTH
DI8EASE.
Not in recent years has there been
ao serious an outbreak of the dreaded
foot and mouth disease as that which
has lately broken out tn New York
and Pennsylvania and has more re­
cently made Its appearance In Michi­
gan, a fact that would point to the
likelihood of Its spread to other west­
ern states. The three states mention­
ed have been placed under strict quar­
antine, and everything possible Is be­
ing done by the federal and respec­
tive state veterinary authorities to
keep the plague in check. While the
actual mortality from the disease in
this country has been quite low, ow­
ing to the rigid quarantine regula­
tions which have been enforced, It
has nevertheless caused great losses
to dairy and live stock Interests In
various states. The malady is espe­
cially Infectious, attacking nearly all
species of domestic and wild animals
and even human beings, being con­
tracted by them through handling the
effected animuls and by children
through drinking quantities of the un­
boiled milk. In both animals and hu­
man beings the symptoms of the dis­
ease are similar. There are fever and
difficulty In swallowing, followed by
the appearance of blisters In the
mouth. In the case of cattle there is
a feverish, painful and swollen con­
dition of the feet, followed In from
twenty-four to forty-eight hours by
the appearance of numerous vesicles
or water blisters, varying In size from
a pea to a hazelnut, on the feet and
in the mouth. The internal organs
may be attacked before there Is any
appearance of the disease externally.
In mild cases recovery usually takes
place In from ten to twenty days,
while in the more severe it may re­
quire from three months to a year.
The mortality from the disease Is not
great, rnnning from 1 to 3 per cent
In mild and as high as 6 per cent In
severe outbreaks.
•1LAQE A8 A RATION FOR SHEEP.
I
The Right Hon. Sir Horace Curzon
Plunkett, who recently paid a visit
to President Elect Taft at Augusta,
Ga„ is head of the Irish department of
agriculture and was knighted by King
Edward VII. in 1903 for his services in
educational and agricultural matters,
The object of his visit to Mr. Taft,
as explained by the latter, was to as-
certain to what extent the next presi-
dent is Interested in the question in­
volved in the conservation of the nat­
ural resources of the country and to
While silage as a fermented form
vegetable food seems to date back to
antiquity, tbe utilization of It In re­
cent times dates from the year 1870.
when a Maryland feeder by the name
of Francis Morris put a quantity of
whole corn in a trench and covered it
with earth. On removing it he found
It in a fair state of preservation
observed that stock ate It with a
-sb. From such crude beginning
present widespread silage interest
developed.
Christening the Baby.
A contributor In a leading engineer­
ing magazine, who has made a study
of water power in this country,
places the amount which is at present
utilized for Industrial purposes at
2,050,000 horsepower. According to
his estimate, 10,000,000 horsepower is
going to waste in the waterfalls and
running streams of the country, equal
to an annual consumption of steam
fuel amounting to 150,000,000 tons. So
long as this situation exists the ques-
tion of the conservation of our nat- TUB KIGHT HON. SIR HORACE CUliZON PLUN­
KETT.
ural resources may be justly viewed
az a very live topic.
learn what has been accomplished by
the Roosevelt commission charged
The kind of cows the dairyman should with the duty of reporting on how the
aim to secure for his herd—this on the comforts of rural life may be in­
idea that lie has a definite financial creased. Sir Horace has been making
object In view and does not plan to a close personal study of the work of
maintain a sort of bovine charitable Chief Forester Pinchbt and expressed
establishment—are not those that may himself as both highly pleased and
be bought at a bargain counter price, greatly benefited by what had been
but those rather whose owners want demonstrated to him in this country.
to keep them and will only part with
The distinguished subject of King
at a stiff price. While there is an old Edward was born in 1854 and is a son
saw that one should not look a gift of tlie sixteenth Baron of Dunsauy.
horse in the mouth, this should not He is a graduate of Oxford, from
prevent a fellow from Inquiring pretty which be lias received the honorary
closely Into the milking record—quan­ degree of D. C. L., and is a fellow of
tity and quality—of the cow which the Royal society. He founded the
may be had for a song.
Irish Agricultural Organization society
in 1894, has been a member of parlia­
In attending the farmers’ institutes ment and lias served on vurlous boards
during the coming months it would be in the Interest of Irish affairs, besides
a wise plan for those who would de­ having published works relating to
rive the most benefit from the discus- Ireland.
slons in whlch they are especially In­
(created to have a notebook and pen­
HOLDS IMPORTANT POST.
ell and jot down the most valuable
data presented and the best points Rear Admiral Newton E. Mason ard
the Bureau of Ordnance.
brought out. For one who Is not used
When Secretary Newberry took up
to it this may seem a little difficult at
first, but in any event enough data the work of making needed changes in
will be got to make It well worth the organization of the navy depart­
while. If points brought out by any ment he brought into special promi­
speaker are not made sufficiently nence tbe bureau of ordnance, of
plain a hearer Is always justified in which Rear Admiral Newton E. Mason
asking for a repetition so that tbe full is tbe head, The secretary’s order dis­
force and meaning of a statement may solving the old board of const ruction
be obtained. Institute speakers would and constituting a complete reorgan­
appreciate this sort of attention and ization of this branch of the service,
would do all they could to help the including many innovations in the
working plans of the board, put excep­
good work along.
tional responsibility on Admiral Ma­
Ono of the chief drawbacks connect­ son’s office. The admiral Is peculiarly
ed with taking up the extensive cul­ fitted for the position he occupies and
indeed has rare aptitude for tbe par­
ture of sugar beets in what is usually
ticular line of naval work in which he
understood as the corn belt grows out
Is engaged. Ills experience while sta­
of inability In most sections to secure tioned at the Indian Head proving
the amount of help needed during the
grounds and again at the torpedo sta­
critical period of thinning and cultiva­
tion at Newport resulted in his acquir­
tion, a season when the other farm
ing invaluable practical knowledge
crops make their most insistent de­ bearing on tbe very kind of work of
mands. Exactly the same problem
which he is now in charge.
would arise were the raising of onions
Born in Monroeton, Pa., Admiral Ma­
to be taken up on a corresponding son entered the Naval academy July
scale. Both require an Intensive type 24, 1885, and graduated in 18B1) After
of culture In which a degree of hard serving on several of the men-of-war
work Is Required that Is simply out of of the old navv on regular duty and
the question on the average farm
where the staple cereal products and
live stock Interests are given a pri­
mary attention. This statement is not
Intended to discourage any from em­
barking In the culture of sugar beets,
but simply for the purpose of calling
attention to the most serious and real­
ly the only drawback connected with
the agricultural phase of tbe sugar
beet industry.
We are In receipt of a query from a
reader of these notes owning a stock
farm In Sangamon county, III., asking
for some data relative to the feeding
or fattening of sheep partly or largely
on ensilage. Not having had experi­
ence along this line, the.writer refer­
red the question to the animal hus­
bandry department of the Iowa State
college at Ames and received a reply
from the assistant In the department,
B. T. Robbins, containing a summary
of the station's sheep feeding experi­
ments. He says that very little has
been done along the line of feeding
silage to sheep in this or any other
country. Experiments in sheep feed­
ing carried on by the Iowa station, the
results of which are as yet unpub­
lished, show that a larger gain results
when the silage Is fed than with dry
feed alone and that the gain Is cheap­
er when the silage Is fed In combina­
tion. It baa been found that sheep will
eat but limited quantities of silage,
from one to three pounds per day,
and that they will eat as much bay
when provided a ration of U as they
will when fed hay alone. The same
grain ration should be given the sheep
having a silage ration as when they
are getting dry feed. At the station
corn is fed alone if clover or alfalfa Is
Not the least of the obstacles tend-
the roughage, while If prairie bay or Ing to prevent the adoption of effec-
• mixed hay containing a large per tlve measures for stamping out the
cent of timothy is fed cottonseed meal plague of tuberculosis in cattle Is
or oilmeal is fed with the corn at the found In the financial loss which many
ratio of one part to three of corn to fear they would be subjected to were
supply the needed protein, In which a widespread campaign of eradication
both wild and timothy hay are largely I to be inaugurated. While this may be
lacking. Should any reader of these a perfectly natural attitude for those
notes have had more extensive expe­ to take who would suffer greatest
rience than that given above in the financial loss as a result. It typifies a
matter of feeding silage to sheep we I class of influences which almost al­
would be pleased to give the results of ways He at the bottom of serious oppo­
their experience.
sition to needed reform tnovements,
whether affecting the moral, political
or physical well lieing of the people. It
THE BOY PAID.
Not long since, in the course of a is an attitude that Is dictated by self­
conversation with a warm hearted ish rather than humane or patriotic
sensible mother, reference was made motives, nowever, the attitude which
to her sixteen-year-old son, who stood Is taken by a number of high minded
a bead taller than herself and In whom agricultural writers Is that If tubercu­
she clearly evinced a justifiable pride. losis exists In a herd it will be cheap­
Bhe replied by saying that some folks er In the long run to adopt strict
raised the question whether boys and measures to eradicate It root and
girls paid, but that In her own case branch than to temporize for the sake
she found the boy bad paid well from of expediency and let matters go from
the start and was giving a good return i bad to worse, which from the very na­
•very day on the Investment made in ture of things Is the only course they
him. While we bad no way of know­ can take. In cases like this, where
ing except from superficial observa­ the public health is so vitally Involved,
tion, it is more than likely that boy tbery would seem to be but one course
paid because a thoughtful, sympathetic for reasonable and fair minded dairy­
mother felt a kindly and companion­ men to pursue. They can easily de­
able interest In him, making him feel cide what this course Is by putting
that he amounted to something and themselves in the consumers’ place.
was really worth while. It is fair to
assume, too, that a father who feels a
real Interest 1» the alms and ambi­
tions of bls boy and who la one of his
beat Mends has bad a good deal to do
fa making him a paying proposition lu
the beat meaning of tbe term.
A north country parson thought it
absurd that a working class woman
should wish to christen her child
“Laura Winifred Gwendolyn Gene-
vieve.”
"My good Woman, what a ridicu­
lously long and fanciful name!” he pro­
tested. "Why not choose something
simpler Sarah, for Instance? That
Is my own wife's name.”
"Ah, yes, Sarah’s all very well for a
parson's wife, but I hope my little gal
will look a bit higher than that,” an­
swered the woman readily.
The astonished parson thereupon
performed the ceremony without fur­
ther comment.—London Telegraph.
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The Retort Courteous.
Professor Bates was quizzing a stu­
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morning?” lie exclaimed at length.
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1896 commissioned lieutenant com­
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Rince the close of the war the ad­
miral has been chiefly occupied with
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navy yard, Baa Francisco, Newport,
R. I., and tbe bureau of ordnance in
Washington.
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Imitation.
“Ha is learning to play golf.”
"I thought he didn’t care for th»
game.”
"Nor does be. but he Is a candidate
for a poatmastershlp."
Ha Wat O r .
“Looking for work’"
“Taz.”
“Where you looking?"
I
’’Where I know it isn’t
me for a chump?“
o
Do you take
frt"? Ÿ t ?
flistinguiched Visiter F.om Abroad
Who Is an Authority on Agriculture.
Could Do It.
It was a mean trick, but, then, that
is tbe kiud that's usually successful.
i “That dog,” said the owner, “will
brlftg me anything I send him for,
and I am willing to bet on it.”
Straightway a bet was arranged,
' and then the manager of the billiard
hall suggested that he would like to
have the pool table brought to him.
“Certainly," answered the owner of
the dog. and he pointed to the table
and said, “Fetch it!”
The dog raced around It once or
twice and theu grabbed a pocket and
tore It off.
“Hold on!" cried the billiard man.
“He’ll ruin the table.”
"Of course," answered the owner of
the dog, “but If you give him time
he’ll get It all over here. You didn’t
suppose he could bring it In one trip,
did you?”
But the billiard man paid the bet.
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SIR HORACE PLUNKETT.
Jnst at present tbe removal of the
tariff on hides is of slight concern to
the farmer who is feeding sixty cent
corn to forty cent steers a ud throwing
in tbe hide as a sort of bonus to tickle
the packers.