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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1908. THE DESERET FAR M E R f I
VETERINARY SGIEN6E
I Edited by Dr. H. J. Frederick,
State Agricultural College.
VETERINARY SCIENCE.
Edited by Dr. H. J. Frederick.
I Monticcllo, Utah.
Editor Dcscrct Farmer.
Dear Sir: We read the pages of the
Dcscrct Farmer with pleasure and in
terest, and I feel that the "Big Farm
Paper" will prove to be one of the
greatest factors in the development
of this great arid farming district of
San Juan County.
Farmers of this country will have
to be educated to this comparatively
new industry, and so .far the Farmer
has been our only instructor. Suc
cess and long life to the Farmer. We
hope, however, in the near future to
meet some of the educators personally
and receive words of encouragement
from them.
Question.
One of my best colts had a severe
" barb wire cut about two months ago,
J and as I have had such poor luck in
i doctoring cuts, etc., thought I would
let this one go and heal itself, but it
failed to heal and is now full of proud
flesh. Will you kindly tell me in your
next issue the best method of remov
ing proud flesh from a horses leg?
Thanking you in advance for this in
formation, I am
Respectfully yours,
J. H. WOOD.
Answer by Dr. H. J. Frederick.
i Proud flesh can be easily removed
I from the horse's leg by cutting it out,
cither with a sharp knife or pair of
i shears, or it can be burned out with
a hot iron. Proud flesh is nothing
j. more than cxhubcrant granulation.
' That is, overstimulation of the part
1 that has been injured and the growing
out of tissue outside of its proper
place, or outside of the skin. This
can usually be controlled by using a
bandage on the part and keeping the
wound powdered over with compound
alum powder, or a mixture of boric
acid and iodiform. If it grows large
and out of proportion extrapation is
the only method. After cutting it
out it should be powdered over with
tannic acid, cotton applied to the
wound and a bandage around the cot
ton and the wound.
If wire cuts would be kept clean
from the commencement one would
not be troubled with these bad condi
tions that usually arise. The cotton
and the bandage whenever they could
be applied after clensing the wound
and the application of a little drying
powder would right most of these
conditions.
SOIL FERTILITY.
Barnyard Manure a Source of
Wealth.
Prof. Stewart.
That there arc many leaks in .the
conduct of a farm is as true as it is
of business. These leaks arc not al
ways the waste of the principle article
in which we arc dealing, but in the bi
products that may be manufactured
from the waste.
Many farmers do not attach suf
ficient importance to the barnyard
mukhes and, what is seemingly a
waste and a nuisance to them, is when
properly handled by others, a source
of income and cover the difference of
a positive loss on a farm to one of
profit and an old age of comfort and
luxury.
Joe Wing, who is well known to
every render of Breeders' Gazette,
well illustrates this in the following
article recently appearing in that pa
per: "Several years ago it was my privi
lege to go across the water. I gucsc
I was always a pessimist. I remem
ber when I was a boy. I was born in
Ohio, and I can remember when a far
mer got eleven cents for his hogs,
which he had fed on his farm, and sold
his steers at $90 to $120 a head, and
once when I was a little boy, I was
sent with some of them to a neighbor
ing farmer and when I got them
there, the old man gave me a dollar, I
tell you T was proud. When wheat
got clown to $1.25 the farmers said
'Times arc getting poor now.' They
kept on growing poorer and poorer
and the farmer began to average only
o bushels to the acre and then four
teen. Then I bought a field next to
ours that I had been wanting for a
long time; it had got down to where
I could handle it. I have that field
now. But the average yield grew
smaller, prices lower and the paint
wearing off the houses and the mort
gage on the farm grew greater rather
than smaller, and I remember riding
along in the train and seeing the old
houses growing shabbier and the old
farmers getting white headed and I
said to myself: 'Agriculture is
doomed here; the richer west is get
ting richer and the poor farmers here
arc getting poorer and there is noth
ing left for them at all.' Soon, how
ever, times began to pick up in Ohio
and they began to pick up here and
today times arc much better than they
were then.
"But still it seemed to mc that the
soil was impoverished and then I be
gan to think of it and it struck mc
that this was new soil; it could not
be worn out; it had been in use less
than 500 years much less in most
places while in Europe the farmers
have been farming the same soil for
centuries and arc still farming it, and
just about then I had an opportunity
to go over to the old world, and I
started in England and then went
down to the Isle of Jersey and then
over into France and the one thing I
wanted to see was how they could
have lived on the land so long and
could still continue to live on it, and
it was the most marvelous thing I
ever saw.
"In France I saw the finest farms
T have ever seen; the next were in
Scotland, and I don't know whether
Scotland was not better, even on the
whole, than France. But in France,
where I stopped, there was an old
Frenchman who offered to take mc
5omc miles out of Paris to sec n fine
farm which he knew, having come
from that neighborhood. So one
beautiful morning wc started out by
train. Now the old Frenchman could
not talk any English and I knew about
three words of French, but wc talked
all the way. When wc saw anything
that did not please us, wc frowned and
shook our heads, and when something
particularly attractive came under our
notice wc smiled and shrugged our
shoulders, and we understood each
other. When wc got there wc went
directly out into the fields and I can
assure you I have never seen a finer
sight than that field presented that
morning,
There was the wheat as high a9,,thc H
backs of his oxen. One man went M
alongside three yoke of oxen, one man M
driving and an American binder doing M
the work. A little beyond this was
another field and I don't think I have H
ever seen quite so many clovers
mixed together, the crimson clover M
and the red clover and the alsikc clov- fl
cr and then the alfalfa, some fields
were alfalfa entirely.
Here were men mowing with old
fashioned scythes with a short' H
straight blade, very unlike those used H
in America in former days. I asked fl
the man to let me try it, but found 1 H
could do nothing with it, although 1 H
have- mowed many an hour with the H
long curved scythe that was used in H
this country. Then behind the mow- H
ers came the women and they raked H
the grass together in little bunches H
and tied the bunches and set them up H
in little shocks. Wonderful grass it H
was; I have never seen anything like H
it in my life and the green fields and H
the fragrant clover; it covered, may- H
be, 20 or 30 acres, and it was of mar- H
vclous growth. fl
"The farm hands lived in little H
stone houses which they owned; many M
of them had lived on this farm all H
their lives and their fathers before H
them. They did not own the land; H
that belonged to the farmer, but they H
owned their houses and did the work M
by the job. This was an unusually H
large farm, about 30,000 acres; it had H
an immense barn and I saw the cows M
were pastured and I saw where the H
2000 sheep were kept. fl
"Up you drove through a big, wide H
gateway to the castle, erected cen- '- H
turics ago, passing the big stable, H
where they had those wonderful cows
that made the milk and cream for the M
Paris markets, to the north end of it, H
which was the residence part, the rcsl- H
deuce of the man who owned the cas-
tic and the farm. He was worth prob- M
bly $13,000,000. He asked" me into H
the house and there I found a lady M
that spoke English ' I spent the H
afternoon in going through that ma- H
nificcnt old castle with its fine art gal- H
lcrics and elegant libraries, its collec- M
tions of armor a thousand years old, M
in the grand old halls, with the win- M
dows down to the floor; but there M
was one peculiarity about those win.- M
dows; every window on every side H
of the castle looked out on the same M
thing and what do y6u think that was? ifl
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