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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 (Continued on page 15,) " p M