The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1893 Page: 3 of 8
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ATLANTA
he Cattla Tick and Texas tfevtr.
We have received a bulletin of the
rkansas agricultural experiment sta-
ont containing an account of experi
ments with the cattle tick as a cause
f Texas ever or southern cattle
laguc. A number of pens were
jade for the tests and all were en
losed by another fence to insure inso-
tlon. Cattle of different aces of the
lass known to be subject to the fever
ere placed in these pens. lhse
ens were polluted wim manure o
city from infected places and in
me the hay and other mods was
berally sprinkled with water thickly
ntammated with the manure In no
bsc did animals thus treated contract
ie fever.
In similar pens cattle' subject to
e disease were confirmed and ticks
ken Horn cattle south of the line of
fecrion were introduced but as the
cks did not take readily to the cattle
othing was determined. Other simi-
r experiments made on the eve 'or
uring cold Weather were equally in-
onclusive. Other tests were made
ith young ticks actually applied to
e animals. Some of these within
e supposed period of incubation of
ie disease contracted it some in mild
rm and recovered and others in a
irulent form and died. Experiments
rere also made to determine whether
icks of the second generation pro
luced north were capable of communU
ating the disease to cattle and the
vidence was conclusive that the sec-
d generation possessed equally dele-
cnous powers with the tick produced
outh of the fever line
The tendency of these tests is to
how that the prevalent opinion that
he fever was communicated by means
i the excreta of the southern Texas
aide it is erroneous and that licks
khether the sole or chief cause of
Hsmmunicating Texas fever to northern
ttle are nevertheless an important
actor in the manifestations. These
ejts apply only to the cattle tick
Ixodes bovis) There are about half
iozen other varieties Of' ticks which
ire sometimes found on cattle but of
vhich cattle are not the natural host
iut none of these have been in any
manner implicated in the spread 01
exas cattle fever. Farm c Ranch.
Feeding: Colts.
A Very important factor in the colt's
ife is the first year of its existence.
The treatment it then receives builds
the foundation for future usefulness.
A majority of farmers do not give their
colts ptoper attention; although the
ibsurd practice of allowing the colts
;o shift for themselves with the view
ot making them tough and hardy is
oing out of dale. The fact that many
olts change their form in the winter
becoming tll-shapen and lorlotn in
appearance is largely due to the fail-
ure to provide rich wholesome food in
sufficient quantities. It a well sub-
stantiated fact that more profit is de-
rived from one bushel of grain used in
building up the natural qualities of an
animal thin from twice the amount
given a irutured animal for the purpose
of laying on fat If the demand for
material for bone and muscle forma-
tion is denied when development is
taking place it naturally follows that
the powers of assimilation can never
be restored to their normal condition
no matter what the quantity or quality
ot food given. It has been proveq cy
actual tests that a young animal should
be kept on as full feed as is practica-
ble without laying on fat to such an
extent as would prove injurious to the
conslruction of bone and muscle.
The idea that generous feeding is
detrimental to the organs of vitality
and of the liability of such treatment to
the formation of weakness and defects
is without foundation. If exercise
sufficient to brinR every muscle into
vigorous action imparted no difficulty
will arise from liberal feeding. In fact
I have seen more blemishes of a con-
stitutional nature on horses of inferior
merit than on those that have been
well fed A colt during the first winter
should have at least six; quarts of oats
per day with plenty of good bay Our
method for several years has been to
feed mainly oats: a little corn is some-
times given in the coldest weather to
keep up the heat. Full feed is kept
up duting the stormy spring months
and when grass comes the colts are in
pood gonditipn to make a fine growth
during the summer. J. D. EHw 0
Breeders' Gazette.
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The Taure ef Cattle.
There are multitudes of farmers now
who are wishing they had continued in
flic swine industry or that tVcv had
gone in a year or two ago because of
the fine profit that business Is now pay.
fng It is doubtless true that in an-
other year or so there will be more
Wailing and gnashing of teelh because
the cattle industry was gone out of or
not gone into when prices were 60 low
and everything connected with the
business looked so discouraging.
Some of these fine mornings the fact
will dawn upon the whole country at
once that theie is a deficiency of beef
cattlcj prices will advance; movement
marketward will stop; first in the hope
of securing still better prices; second
by reason of the home demand for
breeding purposes from farmers who
wiH be suddenly impressed with the
belief that cattle are to again be. very
profitable. It is no doubt true that
much of the late largely decreased
movement of hogs to the slaughter
house resulting in the sudden and
large advance in their prices is due to
the demand from farmers for breeding
purposes.
The high price of pork will surely
somewhat advance the price of beef
and nn advance in the lattei will in-
evitably cause just such a stampede
for cattle as is now witnessed for hogs
and the same results upon market
prices will follow.
It needs no statistics to tell us that
there are no cattle to even supply an
increased legitimate demand and
surclynone to supply or resist a spec
ulative one. For some years past
there has been an unprecedented
apathy and indifference towards cattle;
instead of welcoming an increase of
herds as an evidence of prosperity
such increase has been regarded a ca-
lamity by many. ''The cattle upon a
thousand hills" have come to typify
poverty or misfortune rather than
wealth; and so slowly but surely herds
have grown ''small by degrees and
beautifully less."
Calves have been sacrificed in ten-
derest infancy as 'unworthy to live; and
during the late fall and present winter
the wail from the stockyards has been
"too many cows too many cows." An-
other indication of better days for cat-
tle in the market for dairy products.
Butter and cheese are and for some
time have been commanding prices
that have produced a marked effect on
the price of cows and the cows cannot
grow in market value without taking
other members of her family in the
same direction.
All these signs of the time admon-
ish the thoughtful and the provident
that a new sun is rising on the cattle
interest that a brighter day is dawn-
ing and that the time has now come
when the good cows must be kept from
the shambles and when the calves
must be preserved for future usefulness
and profit. Northwestern Breeder.
Alralfa
Alfalfa is a curious grass but a pay-
ing one it is better than a bank ac-
count ior it never fails or goes into
the hands of a receiver. It is weather-
proof for the cold doesn't injure it
and the heat makes it grow all the bet-
ter." A winter flood will not draw it
and a fire will not kill it It loves
water and it bares to reach it. As a
borer it is equal to an artesian well.
When growing there is no stopping it.
Begin cutting a twenty acre field and
when your last load of hay is handled
at one end of the field the grass is
ready to cut again at the other end of
it. For filling a milk can an alfalfa
fed cow is equal to a handy pump Cat-
tle love it hogs grow fat upon it fomls
relish it and a hungry horse will want
nothing else Bets will leave all other
bloom for alfalfa. If your land will
grow alfalfa you will have thp drop on
dry weather. Once started on your
land alfalfa will stay by you like Cana
da thistles or a firbtclss mortgage
but only to make you wealthier and
happier. Try it Velasco Times
Feed for Hoifers.
The heifer should be fed fodders
mainly to develop her alimentary canal.
A steer fed mostly On grain connot do
well on grass alone because his
stomach has been contracted; a heifer
raised on concentrated feed will never
make a profitable cow. The young
heifer need never to be fat beyond
what grass puts on; that never injures
it distends the stomach and prepares
the cow for turning cheap products in-
to milk. The cow can profitably be
fi-ft all the bar she will eat or ensilage
or com foddes or roots or straw if cut
in season this must be anticipate
when she is young. Many promising
Well bred heifers are spoiled with too
much grain while growing. It is not
necessary to develop bone in the heifer.
Symmetry is had from feeding rough
rodders to ber. and then at maturity
when she becins her dairy work flesh
will round her out and make her
beautiful while large development of
bone can never be made to look veil
Stockman & Farmer
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The Cut Worm
' . ...
The most common species of this
predaceous insect (Agrotis suffusa) is
very common in the gardens here and
doe serious injury to early vegetables
such as cabbage radishes peas etc.
'It cuts the plant off in the night near
the top of the ground and takes it a lit-
tle way into thground to feed on where
it burrows during the day to keep from
the heat of the sun. It also crawls un-
der stones pieces of plank or leaves
scattered over the surface for the same
purpose. It may easily be caught by
.turning over these things or by taking
it out of the ground with a common
garden hoe. It has been recommen-
ded to to punch holes' in the ground
around the plants to entrap this insect
but this method har. proved unsatis
factory here. The most satisfactory
method tried here for destroying this
insect is to dip a few young succulent
bunches of clover a plant the insect
likes well into a gallon of water con-
taining an ounce of Paris green or Lon
don purple and then place small
bunches of it about in the rows of the
plants After this was done among
our young cabbage plants many Of the
insects were found dead under the
bunches next day. They had gone
under there either to feed or for shelter
and in eating soipe of the clover they
had also eaten some of the deadly
poison. . Perhaps the best method of
keeping them from injuring young
melon and cucumber plants is to take
two small wires (willow branches will
do) about two feet long and bend them
over the hills in the shape of a half
circle and stick the two ends into the
ground making the wires cross in the
center. Over the wires spread some
cheap cloth putting dirt all around
over the edge to hold it down and to
prevent the insects crawling under.
This cloth will also prevent the attack
of the striped squash beetle' (U'ebrotica
vitta) and w'11 also protect from frost.
The cloth does not obstruct' the rain
nor but little of the sunlijrbt or air if
very thin This cloth may be left on
till the vines are all ready to run. R.
H Price Professor Horticulture and
Botany A. M College in Texas Farm
and Ranch:
"Intant Death."
It questionable if such a phenomena
on as imtant death is known to the
scientist and investigator. Physicians
and surgeons tell us that death by
gunshot wound is the easiest mode of
terminating life yet rapid as $uch a
mode of taking off must necessarily
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Framing Limn
Celling: Cement
Flooring Plaster Faria
Finishing Laths .
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Poplar Fire Brick
Cypress Fire Clay
Walnut Picket
Cedar Posts Fencing
Cedar Flo Flues
time to reflect and on rare occasu)us
even to act.
On the first attempt of one of the
adherents of the Spanish monarch to
assassinate William Prince of Orange
the ball passed through the bones of
his face and brought him to the ground
in the instant which preceded stupe-
faction however he was able to frame
the notion that the ceiling of a room
had fallen in and crushed him. The
cannorr ball which plunged through
the head and fore out the brain of
Charles XII did not prevent him from
seizing his sword-hilt. The idei of at-
tack and the necessity for defense was
impressed upon his mind by a blow
we would naturally suppose to have
been too tremendous and instantaneous
to leave the least interval for thought
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is that of probable pain. Although
numerous instances could be cited in
support of the view that the mind acts
in cases of so-called instant death it by
no means follows that the infliction of
a tatal blow is attended by the least
semblance of pain or a single pang of
fear or regret. Unless death results
immediately however the pain may
he as varied as the nature of the in-
juries. Philadelphia PresS.
DR. PRICE'S BAKING POWDER.
Supplying the Army Navy and In
dian Department.
The purchasing agents of the United
States government ordered nearly one
hundred thousand pounds of Dr. Price's
baking powder in the first five months
of this year 189 a.
The government exercises great care
in selecting its supplies of all kinds re-
jecting every thing that is not ot the
best and the very fact that it has adop.
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baking powders. Dr Price's is pecu-
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free from ammonia alum or other
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only baking powder prepared by a phy
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The First Ijiational Bank
Capital $l!e6000.00. - Siupplua $16600.00
DIRECTORS J.lI.Paramore G. A. Klrkland I. M. Radford Brooke Smith Otto
Stefleni T. S. Rollins E lit Slntenli.
J. G. Lowdon Pres. Win. Cameron V. Pre. E. .0. Price Cah. Geo. S. Berry AL C
The Abilene National Bank1
Capital $100000 00. Surplus $126000.00. "
DIRECTORSi Win. Cameron W. B. Uraietton Fred CncHrell Geo. P. Phillips J M.
Dauglierty E. B. Rollins J G. Lowdon.
B. B. KENVON Pres. ED. S. HUGHES V Prcs 1 1. JAMES Caili
The Farmers and Merchants National Bank
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DIRECTORS! Charles Kenyoh V V. James Ed. S. Hughes Henry James B. B.
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Sinks Etc. Etc. always on hand.
Machine Repairing a Specialty.
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ABILENE TEXAS.
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Hoeny, John, Jr. The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1893, newspaper, March 24, 1893; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330805/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.