Industrial Brevities

A California farmer saya that after trying ncarly all tho "sure cures" for lice on slock lio has gone back to tho tobáceo remedy. Tobíicoo can be bougtat choap, and ateraa can be got froni tho cigartnakers for nothing. Stccp until yovkhave a strong docoction and apply to ewry part. Apply tho second or third timo. To extermínate the liee onn nmut not only kill all tho lico on thc stock, but burn all the bedding, fumígate or whitewash all atables rr sheds, being careful to have the whitowash penétrate every crack and córner. lí once rid of thein, examine every now animal brought on tho place, and if necessary dootor hnruediately. An English writer m'gests to Hereford breoderá to try to iiuprove the hinder parts of their cattle. As a rule, he says, they are sadlv deficiënt in weight where beef is choicest and worth tho higho'st price, and, if anythiug, are overabundant in their brisket, which is only worth half to the parts where many of their animáis are deboient. Thfg is not the case with shorthorns; their loin and quarters, containing the ühoicest and ijiost valuablo pieces in tho cavcass, are in considerably greater proportion than tho llerefords. It has been found that milk set for cream forty-eight hours at ö3 degrees in an atmosphere of pure ox.rgen, and another sample set for the same time and samo temperature, in an atmosphere of no oxygen, both soured aliko and produced sanie quantity of butter, but that set in pure oxygen gas rcquirecl but fewo-thirds the time for churning the othcr, which was enveloped in carbonic acid gas. The butter of the first was of line flavor, and kept wcll; that f rom tho other was of poorer quality and spoiled quickly. The gtidy of tho dry rot in the twigs of fruit trees lias discloáed tho fact that it is caused by a contagious and transmissible diseaso, in which, as the dry necrosis of leprosy in man, the celïs of the affeclod tissues suffer a degeneration into minute bacteria, wlioso germs aro'afterward disseminated by the rupturo of tho cell membrane. One diseased tree is capable of infecting a whole nurserj-, and old and young aro alike hable to the ravages of the parasitic orgauism. Thore are great diflerences in thc average growth of some of the more commou trees. In twelve yoars whito maple increases 1 foot in diameter and 80 feet in htight; ash-leaf maple, or box eider, 1 foot and 20 feet; white willow, IJ fcot and 50 feet; y ello w willow IJ feet and 35 feet; blue and white ash, ten iuches in diameter and 25 feet in height; Lombardy poplar, 10 iiiches and 40 feet; black walnut and butterriut, 10 iuclies and 20 feet. A fatal disease is devastating tlje herds of line catlle in Cameron county, West Virginia. ïhe name of thc disease is uuknown. A swelling appears ncar the hoof, gradually extonding to the body. The svvcllinjr ia cnormous, and causes death in tiiirty-six hours. A thick, black fluid escapes if the part be lanced. The loss is estiiliated at $10.000, and tho disease is rapkly spreading. loo uiany. in broaking their horses, pnt them iimiiudia'.ci y to work. Tíiis custora, whilo cffcctive, dcstroya somewliat the te'mper nntl :u-liou of a horse. Tho most humano vnd prolitable course to uuf-iic is tu ni&ke the work light at first, gradual ly iuereasing it until tlio fuü capuoity of Üie korse is reached. A good word forDevou cattle comes from Texas. II. Johnson, of Kinney county, has recently mndo n sale of stock at $20 per head. He declares the Dcvons "tho boss cattle on tho range, as they keep fat wlicre other cattle íail to et a living, matureearly, and make splendid beef.'' Bella, the famotis Ue re ford eow, has just dropped a mile calí', for wliich iU ownev refused 250 guineas when tho orea turo was three daya oíd. A foiiuer calf of Bella sold for 1,000 guineas. The sire of these calves is the famotis buil Lord Wilton, which is valued at 4,000 guineas. Tho governor of Arizona savs tiut tbmtory has grass enough for live million head of cattle, but fnlly fotirlifths of it is not available because oí "no water." He thinks, bowevcr, that most of the country may be iuado productive in the interests by mean? of artesiau Wells, A lady in Indiarwpolis has had morning-glories blossoiuiñj; her parlor all winter. She placed, by accident, a smali plant in : pot witlt some other plants and ií eontintiod to grow in the house. It ioon hloasonicd and has been in ilower evory morniug during the winter. , Tho Wolf question is troabling the western grazers. One compauy is now oil'ering provisions autl poison to a!l persons who will go ont to txterminato the wolves. They Uso offer $1 for each coyote, and -?5 for eaeh largo wolf killed, the owners to keep tho pelts. One of the strangesl usos for snails has been disoovored by tho London adulterator. Bruised in milk, and boiled, they are imich usod in the manufacture oí creain. anda retired milkman pronouuces theni to bc the most successful imitation fcnown. The cultivation of tuaddor was imdortaken by a farmer in Eriu eounty, Ohio, in 1812, and was reportad a.s very prolitable. No one seems ablo to give i reason why its cultivation has been abandonad. The price of garden and flower seeds, as well as of all kinds of nursery stock, is much hlger in England and Franco than in this counlry. The patent on drivon wells that has given farmers so much trouble expired by liruitation on the 14th of last January.