Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1883 — Agricultural Notes [ARTICLE]

Agricultural Notes

Some one pertinently asks "Why should dogs and cats be permitted to run at large to trespass upon and to destroy property, when horses, cattle, swine, and she ep are not allowed to roam at 1 ibsrtv ?” A hog may break into a garden or a lawn and uproot flowers, vegetables, or sward; so do dogs scratch up flowers and destroy gardens. Oats kill and destroy far more birds and eggs than they do mice, and no one needs to be told how great are the damages inflicted by vagrant dogs. If one mania oom - polled to confine his mischievous pigs there is no good reason why his neighbors should not be compelled to confine his mischief working animals, be they horses, cattle, sheep, or only cats and dogs. Not long ago a cow died suddenly one night in Salmen, N. J. An examination of her blood showed that it was literally swarming with bacillus anthrax, which were actually more numerous than the b lood corpuscles. Yet her milk was sent to market only a few hours before her death, and no doubt contained bacilli capable of conveying the contagion. At the March meeting of the Montgomery County (O.) HorticulturalSociety.it was stated that,the prospect for a good apple and pear crop this year was excellent but that sweet c berry and peach buds have been much injured, although several members expressed the belief that there may be a fair crop of peaches. Strawberries which were properly mulched are uninjured; the Cluster raspberry had suffered somewhat Those who have been pestered to d<ath by the irrepressible dandelion on their lawns may take heart. The pestwilltrouble them no more. Eastern markets have begun,to utilize them for greens so that garden? will cultivate them for sale. The plant having thus become useful, the bu gs will eat it off above the ground, the grubs will saw its roots in two, the sun will parch it to death, the rains will drown it out the wind will thrash it to Strips, and boys will dig it out and steal it Thus the dandel ion, which has been the first of weeds to coax its way into human favor in the spring by throwing out its golden blossoms as a sort of flag of truce and peace offering combined, will retire from the field and lawn to the seclusion of the guarded greenhouse