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TTOME AND FARM MAGAZTNF SECTION
Easier to Ship Live Stock Now
New Quarantine Begulations Facilitate Interstate Transporta
tion of Cattle and Hogs.
nKW regulations governing the in
terstate movement of live stock
tecame effective July 1, 1914.
Tkese changes are designed by the De
partment of Agriculture to facilitate
tia movement of live stock from quar
antined areas or from public stockyards.
The new regulations, which are known
as B. A. L (Bureau of Animal Indus
try) Order 210, superseding B. A. I. Or
der 143, deal with the shipment of
cattle from tiek-infested areas, with the
movement of swine from public stock
yards and with the dipping of cattle
aad sheep for scabies.
Hereafter cattle that have been
dipped once under state or federal
supervision may be dipped from an
area quarantined for ticks to a market
center where there are proper dipping
facilities and the Department of Agri
enltare maintains an inspector. After a
eeond dipping there under his super
vision the cattle may be sold for any
purpose. Hitherto it has been neces
sary in times of drought for cattle own
am in quarantined areas to slaughter
their stock or sell it for slaughter for
whatever it would bring. The result
ing loss will, it is hoped, be done away
with under the new regulation.
The provision permitting, under cer
tain strict conditions, the transporta
tion of hogs from public stockyards into
interstate commerce has been made pos
sible by the discovery by government
seiontists of a scrum which renders
swine immune to hog cholera. Hitherto
all stockyards have been considered as
infected with this disease. Now, how
ever, it is considered safe to permit the
shipment of hogs which have been
treated with the serum and which show
no Bymptoms of suffering from any
form of disease. As a result of tliw it
is expected that thousands of light
weignt nogs will be sent from tho stock
yards to tho eountry for feeding and
fattening and that the country's total
production of pork will be greatly in
creased thereby.
The new regulations also withdraw
all permission or tho use of nieotine
solutions, eoal-tar creosote and crescl
preparations ia the official dipping cf
cattle and sheep for scabies. Thi step
has been made necessary by the diffi
culty experienced in keening baths of
this nature at a strength sufficient to
eliminate all danger of disease without
having them so strong as to be injuri
ous to the animals themselves. The de
partment, therefore, decided to insist
upon a field test of the strength of all
solutions used for dipping. A practical
field test for this purpose ia available
in tho ease of the sulphid sulphnr used
m lime in sulphur baths for scabies,
and for arsenious oxide in arsenical
dips for cattle tick. Official dipping,
therefore, will hereafter bo eonfined to
the lime-and-sulphur and orsetileal
baths.
Helpful Hints
New Menace to Stock on Range
Menaesia a Poisonous Plant Which May Kill Sheep and Cattle
Unless Precautions Are Taken.
QTOCKMEN in the Northwest are
being warned by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture that the
plant Menziesia ia poisonous and may
km sheep and cattle. Menziesia is a
straggling, branching shrub which
grows to be from 3 to 7 feet in height
In this eountry it is found in the
Southern Alleghanies and in the moun
tains of Northern California, Wyoming,
Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Tho
Rocky Mountain Bpecies, which is the
one known to be poisonous, usually
occurs at altitudes of from 3,500 to
6,000 feet on moist northern slopes in
open woods and aboc. the "balds."
In some places it grows abundantly
ard on the other hand thore are long
stretches in which so specimens at all
are to be found.
Stoek poisoned by Menziesia exhibit
symptoms much like those caused by
a number of other plants. There is a
noticeable frothing at the mouth and
weakness which causes staggering in
the gait and ends in more or lens com
plete paralysis. There is usually pro
nounced nausea and sometimes diffi
culty in breathing. It is believed, how
ever, that a considerable quantity of
the plant must be eaten before its
effects become uangerous.
Where there is abundance of other
fodder sheep will not eat Menziesia.
The trouble occurs when there is no
other food readily available. Thus
when sheep arc driven rapidly along
narrow trails where the plant is most
likely to abound they are apt to seize
upon it and this is also true when
bedding grounds are used repeatedly
and the healthy forage in the neigh
borhood consequently exhausted.
The remedy is for herdsmen to learn
to recognize the plant A further inves
tigation into the subject is now being
carried on but the department has al
ready published a preliminary pamph
let, "Menziesia, a New Stock-Poisoning
Plant of the Northwestern States,"
which contains a description aud pic
tures of the plant. The thin leaves of
tin shrub are 1 to 2 inches long, and
one-half to one inch wide. The flowers
grow from terminal buds, expanding
with the leaves. They are bell shaped
or cylindrical, about one-quarter inch
broad and pink U greenish white is
color.
IT IS an easy matter to provido a
narrow trough filled three or four
inches doep with solution through
which the sheep ean pass from the pen
to the pasture every morning. This will
not cure bad easts of foot rot, but it
will proveut new cases.
The Tcason why so many men fail in
the sheep business is because they do
not study it before they begin. Sheep
raising means something more than
buying a flock of sheep and turning
them into a bare pasture without she!
ter.
The young heifer that is not kept
growing, tliat is not kept in good con
dition durinff the earlv months of hrr
life, will never make up for it later.
Never feed sheep heavily on one grain
alone.. Give them a variety and don't
forget the roots.
English shenherds believe that neo-
jple who cat mutton and leave prk
alone will never have indigestion.
Ararnge your fields so that the sheep
will have good shade during the com
ing summer.
One of the necessary things in the
eare of sheep is the paring of their
hoofs at least twice a year. Nature
provided a rapid growth of hoof to
stand the wear and tear of stony ground
but soft pastures will not wear down
the hoofs fast enough and the broken
hoof often results in disease.
If yon have any old sheep, they
should be separated from the rest of
the flock, and if they are to be fat
tened, corn should be cracked for them.
Do not make the mistake of Btartine
the sheep business with a large flock.
You will lave your hands full for the
first year or two with a dozen.
The most profit to he made in sheep
is on the farm where small flocks can
be handled to better advantage than by
wholesale.
Ever try smoked mutton hamsf They
ire eured just as easily as pig hams and
ire good eating.
If sheep and lambs are fed grain to
gether, the lambs will fare pretty slim.
Have a hole in tho fenee near the barn
through which the lambs can slip and
get away from the old sheep. Have a
good trough out there for tho grain you
feed the little fellows and they will get
their share and grow like weeds.
Make it a rulo to see the sheen and
lambs every day. Count to see that
nothing has happened to them. If one
L sick or otherwise in trouble, iret it out
of the flock where you can give it a
little extra care.
Clover, pea, soy bean and alfalfa
hays ore milk and flesh producers.
When possible they should form a large
part of the farm cow's ration.
Selection of a Breed
FAEMEES who contemplate the rais
ing of sheep on their farms are
urged by the department to give
considerable thought to the selection, of
a breed. In all, there are 30 breeds of
improved sheep that have been brought
to fixed types. Of these,' 12 are already
well established in the United States
and others are gaining in popularity.
Each has its own points of superiority
and the farmer must be guided in his
choice by the individual conditions,
bearing in mind, however, tho fact that
any breed is superior to no breed.
Although it is hardly to be expected
that every farmer in a neighborhood
will select tho same breed of sheep,
there are several advantages to be de
rived from a number doing so. For ex
ample, new rams can be purchased for
the common benefit when any indi
vidual owner might wel' hesitate at the
expense, and if the lambs are ready in
large numbers for market at the same
time they may bo shipped cheaply by
tha ear load or the buyers may find it
Verth their whilo to come after them.
In selecting a breed it should be re
mcinbcTcd that no system of sheep farm
ing is likely to be loug successful which
leaves out cf account either wool oi
jnuttou, One or the other, however.
may well be emphasized according to
local conditions. Thus if pasturage is
sparse, feed expensive, and marketing
arrangements poor, wool will naturally
be the first consideration. On the other
hand, where conditions are more favor
able, a breed will be selected for its
mutton qualities. Even then, however,
there is a wide latitude of choice.
In order to asist the farmer in this
choiee, the department has just pub
lished in Farmers' Bulletin 57fl,
"Breeds of Sheep for the Farm,' de
scriptions and photographs of tho prin
cipal breeds, together with the ad
dresses of the secretaries of various
breeding associations, from whom addi
tional information can be obtained.
These breeds may be divided into three
main groups the Middle Wool, the
Long Wool, and the Fine Wool. All the
Middle Wool breeds have been de
veloped primarily for mutton. The Long
Wools also are bred chiefly for mut
ton. They are the largest of all sheep
and thrive best where food ean be ob
tained withotu much travel They do
well also in regions of excessive rain
fall. The Fine Wools, including the
American Merinos and the Rambouilett,
ave been bred almost entirely for their
wool alone.
Some of these many breeds, says the
bulletin, should be selected and main
tained, for it is rarely good policy to
cross sheep.
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