Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — MIXED LOT. [ARTICLE]

MIXED LOT.

A new government tax of one mark on all cats kept as house pets has been imposed at Dresden, Germany. Thousands of the animals have been destroyed,by owners desirous of avoiding the “cat tax.” The fungus which is used by Chancellor Snow of the Kansas University, for exterminating chinch bugs is being utilized by Professor Forbes of the University of Illinois for killing cabbage worms. When the projectors of the improvements at the Sault Ste. Marie have all their machinery in place they expect to obtain 230,000 norso power from the waters of Lake Superior, all of which is now running to waste.

Mrs. Logan has left the general’s library just as it was when he last occupied it, untouched, except by the dust-brush, and unchanged. His arm-chair still retains its customary position, and hardly a paper has been moved from his desk. Good feeding and good care of an animal or a tree is the best safeguard against inseels. I t helps both greatly to do their own fighting. It is the the ill-fed calf that has the hardest time with lice. The time of giving water should be carefully studied. At rest the horse should receive water at least three times a day; when at work more frequently. The rule here should be to in small quantities and often. There is a popular fallacy that if a horse is warm he should not be allow ed to drink, many claiming that the first swallow of water founders the animal or produces colic. This is erroneous. No matter how warm a horse may be it is always entirely safe to allow; him six to ten swallow:of water. If this is given cn goiuc into the stable he should be given at once a pound or two of haj r and al lowed to rest about an hour before feeding. If water be now offered him it will in many cases be refused, or at least he will drink but sparingly. The danger, then, is not in the first swallow of water, but is due to the excessive quantity that the animal will take when warm if not re strained.