328               T HE WISCONSIN FARMER.

  Now, brother farmers, what branch of agri-  SCOUIRS ij LAsins.-A  writer
in the Alark
culture pays better than this '  A JO5EM.  Lane Erpress thinks the great
cause of scour
                                              in lambs is their being placed
in pastures for-
  LEEDS CEsTi1, C,,turnlft Co Wis.. Auz. 4 1V,::.  merly heavily stocked
with sheep. As a pre-
  REMAKKs.-Tlie above is certainly it fine ventive, keep them off such pastures;
cure-
slhow of figures, and iwill hardly fail to inake give them a new range often,
and feed with
                                             corn and oil-c ike well salted.
more than one farmer who has no sheep wish                     _     -
he had about 2.000 of the same sort. But one  SLBR ix HessEs-Green burdock
leaves
item is omitted, to wit: the original cost of the will, it is said, cure
the slabbers in a horse in
flock. If the 100 lid not cost a very extrava. fifteen minutes, if lie will
eat them; and usu-
gant saim, the speculation was, beyond all ally a horse troubled in that
way will eat
question. a good oue.  We have received sev-
eral sam ples of the wool clipped this year by i                        
        t
                                     . IFATTE'SINCCATTLE.-In fattening your
eat,
Mr. Jones, all of a very superior quality, tIe see to it that they get their
food regularly.
Such examples are worthy of imitation-En, aid just enough to satisfy the
cravings of
                                             hunger fully, as cattle that
are overfed until
        Worms in the Head of Sheep.       they are foundered will be seriously
injured
                                             Iy h uch, over-feeding.
  Mr. B. S. Farnham, of this town, left at our  s
office one day last week the head of a sheep
that had died fromu woruis in the head IL was T  H  E  B E E - K   E E  
P E   R
a sheep eight years old, and was noticed to be    __
unwell but a few days before it died. As this
is a common disease in flocks wve will give a                  Beehives.
brief diagnosis of it.
  Cause.-The wormn is the maggot of the     The kinds of hives in use are
so numerous
sheep-fly. which deposits its eggs in the nos- that the inexperienced bee
keeper is perplexed
trils of the sheep during the month of August, to know which one to choose.
 The origina-
where they usually remain until the warm
weather of spring, when they are loosened. tors all claim some special advantages
and
and ejected through the nostrils by the action peculiarities belonging exclusively
to their
of sneezing. As soon as they fall they crawl .
into the strait ior manure and pass their chry-
salis state, until they become a fly, when they choose the best from the
nuiuerou- candidates
are ready to propagate a new progeny.    i before the public '
  Symnplrom.-Frequent sneezing and running
at the nose, with an appearance of stupidity.  We answer that it. is impossible
to do it (ex-
After sneezing the heep will frequently turn cept by accident) unless lie
first makes him-
the nose on one side, then on the other, with self nc,1uainted with the natural
habits and
the head inclined downnard.                   fa
  Treatmentl.-Prevention is better than cure. traits of the honey bee.  If
we first under-
Remedies for the former are: tar applied to stand their wants and peculiarities,
then we
the nose uulhen at pasture; plowing furrows stand a better chance of choosing
such a hive
in the pasture for them to protect. their nos-
trils from the invasion of the fly by placing as. is best adapted to their
nature and our
them in the fresh earth. Remedies lor the lat- wants. If we ' go it blind,"
we are pretty
ter: fumigating the animal with brimstone,
and applying spirits of turpentine to the nose sure to throw our money and
time away, and
and nostrils.  Young sheep are rarely troub- lose our bees. Our bees may
not run out im-
led with them.                              6 mediately, but are pretty sure
to do so sooner
  BLOODY MrLrc.-A subscriber says he has a or later. Then we come to the
conclusion that
heifer that gives bloody milk, and he wants to it is not our "luck"
to succeed in bee keep-
know what will cure the trouble. The animal
is probably affeoted with what is called gar- ing. But luck had nothing to
do with it. It
get.  Give her a tablespoonful of nitre, in was ioqmrance, followed by mismanagement.
meal or bran, every other day for a week. Or That was what was the matter.
give her a few slices of poke or garget root.
A piece as large as a man s finger may be put  Before any one engages in
bee keeping, let
between two halves of a potato and presented him peruse carefully some good
work or trea-
to the animal's mouth.  Give two such pieces   .
at once, and repeat the dose every other day tise on the honey bee.  Quinby's
Mysteries of
for a week.-Boston Cultivator.               Bee Keeping is a plain, practical,
common-sense