LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT.

Leland Stanford, Palo Alto Stud, Mayfield, Cal., has sold to H. J. Agner, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, seven head of young thoroughbred horses.

Col. Charles F. Mills, Springfield, Ill., informs The Prairie Farmer that his Elmwood herd of Jerseys are going through the winter in excellent condition.

H. K. Lewis, and John Cotton, Boyle county, Ky., have sold to G. L. Chrisman, Independence, Mo., a nice lot of pure-bred Southdown ewes, yearlings, at $12 per head.

T. D. Chestnut, Danville, Ky., recently sold to Simon Johnson, Garrard county, Ky., ten Cotswold ewes at $6 per head, and fifty head of Cotswold ewes to Robert Collier, Garrard county, at $5.50 per head.

Breeders of Short-horns in Scotland are to meet in Edinburgh next week for the purpose of furthering the movement in aid of centenary prizes for Short-horns at the forthcoming show of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.

Mr. Charles H. Walker, President of the Nebraska Stock Breeders’ Association, writes The Prairie Farmer that the association will meet at Lincoln, February 13-14. He adds: “This meeting is not in the interest of any one breed; but is intended to help all persons engaged in breeding, feeding or marketing cattle, horses, and swine.”

The Nebraska State Wool-Growers’ Association will hold its annual meeting on Friday, February 15, at the Senate Chamber, in Lincoln. Every sheep man in the State should be present, as matters of great importance to this large industry will come under discussion, and especially the present unsatisfactory state of the tariff. So writes the President, Mr. P. Jansen, of Fairbury, Neb.

The collective shipments of live stock and fresh meat from the United States and Canada landed at Liverpool during the first week of the present year amounted to 861 cattle, 850 sheep, 100 hogs, 7,598 quarters of beef, and 1,906 carcasses of mutton. The figures show a large falling off in the arrivals of both live stock and fresh meat when compared with the imports of later weeks of the preceding year, more particularly with regard to live stock, which arrived in very small numbers.

Chicago Evening Journal: “The prospect is that the little ring of political office-seekers who want Congress to make places for themselves as “inspectors” of cattle and hogs will succeed in defeating the proposed measure of retaliation against those European countries which, without good reason, are discriminating against imported American pork-products. The producers of and dealers in Western cattle and hogs should take instant measures to head off Sanders and his gang.”

The flock belonging to the estate of the late K. W. Gentry, of Sedalia, Mo., was disposed of at auction last week. The unregistered Merinos were disposed of in lots of fifty at from $3.25 to $4.50 per head. Grade lambs brought $2 to $3. The registered Merinos were sold by sixes and sevens at from $17.50 to $60 each. The best rams brought from $20 to $101, and a few of the ram lambs sold at from $18 to $46. Samuel Jewett bought largely. On the same occasion the Berkshire hogs sold at from $20 to $43; one pair of mules brought $205; the yearling Jersey bull Elmwood Favorite, bred by Col. C. F. Mills, Springfield, Ill., sold for $165.

The Inter-State Short-horn Breeders’ Association held a meeting at Kansas City last week to adopt rules to govern the sales of breeding Short-horns at the next Fat Stock Show in that city. After considerable discussion it was resolved that the pedigrees be submitted and cattle ready for examination on or before the first day of June, and that the committee be requested to visit and inspect, some time in June, the cattle offered for the sale. The executive committee was given plenary powers in regard to deciding what animals are to be admitted in the sale, and authorized to have the catalogues compiled and published. So far over one hundred head have been entered for sale.

The stockmen of Rush county, Kan., have organized an association to be known as the Rush County Stockmen’s Union, and adopted a constitution. The objects of the association are set forth in the following therefore of the preamble to the constitution: “In order to protect ourselves from persecution and to secure for ourselves all possible legitimate advantages, and in all proper ways to promote the interests of those in our country engaged in the production of any kind of live stock, we, a number of the stock growers of Rush county, have formed an organization known as the Rush County Stockmen’s Union.” It is said there exists in Rush county an element of society which is violently antagonistic to the stock interests.

While at Elgin last week we accompanied Dr. Pratt to his home to take a look at his herd of Holstein cattle. The sight of the long rows of stalls filled with this young breeding milk stock was a surprise. Counting a new arrival of twenty-five during our visit the Doctor now has about 130 head—certainly one of the largest as it is one of the best herds of Holsteins in the country. The Doctor breeds and buys to sell again, and his trade is large, as he does not demand fancy prices but simply a fair return for his investment, care and labor. The famous bull Cyclone heads the home herd. The females are generally from a year and a half to three years old. Duchess of York is his brag cow, though he has other strains nearly as famous for milk. The young bull, Berkhout, a prize winner in Holland, is a capital animal. Though a dull season of the year shipments from this herd are numerous. A bull and three heifers go the present week to J. J. Conklin, Valley Creek, Texas. H. H. Bissell, Navasota, Texas, takes a bull and two females. The promising bull Duke, of Oak Hill, goes to A. H. Woodruff, Lansing, Iowa. Mr. W. also takes a yearling heifer. The Duke weighs 1,650 pounds, and was but two years old the 17th of June last. The Doctor reports the demand from the South as wonderfully increasing. In 1883 he had orders from Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee. He will stock his ranch in Kansas this spring and summer with a view to supplying the West and Southwest with grades and full bloods.

A Scare in Missouri.

Information was received at the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, last week that a new and heretofore unknown cattle disease has broken out in various parts of Missouri. It was reported most prevalent in the vicinity of Mexico.

As is usual in such matters when first brought to public notice the facts have been greatly exaggerated. Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Government Veterinary Bureau, who was in Chicago this week, says that as presented to him at Washington he did not consider the outbreak a very serious one. The trouble so far as he knows exists in but a single herd, and that near Mexico. He promptly sent a veterinarian to the spot to investigate and report. He judges from the information he has received that the disease is simply the impaction of food in the stomach, something far from uncommon at this season of the year. It results generally from eating the dried fodder of the corn-fields. It is in no sense contagious.

Perhaps our veterinary editor will give us something regarding the treatment of this trouble. In the meantime we give a remedy suggested by a Missouri gentleman who called at this office last week: Keep in a trough before the cattle at all times, a mixture of slaked lime and salt, and let them have free access to good water.

Public Sales of Stock.

So far as they have come to our notice the following are the principal stock sales announced thus far to take place in 1884:

March 19—Wm. Yule, Short-horns, Somers, Kenosha Co., Wis.

Feb. 21—A. G. Epler, Jerseys, Virginia, Ill.

March 26—D. L. Emery, Galva, Ill.

April 2—D. M. Fall, Albia, Iowa.

April 3—Elbert & Fall, Albia, Iowa.

April 10-11—Leonard Bros., Kansas City, Mo.

April 22—Ex’rs of L. Palmer, Chicago.

April 24—Saline Co. (Mo.) breeders.

April 30—S. W. & W. O. Sinclair, Ashland, Ill.

May 1—Hon. Wm. M. Smith, Lexington, Ill.

May 1-2—Lafayette Co. Breeders’ Association, at Higginsville, Mo.

May 13—Thos. H. Crowder and B. Z. & T. M. Taylor, Decatur, Ill.

May 15—R. Huston & Son, Chicago.

May 27—R. F. Burke, Camp Point, Ill.

May 27—J. C. Stone, Leavenworth, Kan.

May 28—J. S. Latimer, Abingdon, Ill.

May 29—Strawther Givens, Abingdon.

June 3—J. N. Brown’s Sons, Berlin, Ill.

June 4—S. E. Prather and D. W. Smith, Springfield, Ill.

June 5—Pickrell, Thomas & Smith, Harristown, Ill.

June 6—J. H. Potts & Son, Jacksonville, Ill.

June 11—W. Cummings & Son, Buda, Ill.

June 17—T. W. Harvey, Short-horns, Chicago.

June 19—R. Huston & Son, Chicago.

June 20—T. W. Harvey, Holsteins and Jerseys, Chicago.

Hagan W. Williams (Short-horns), St. Marys, Kas., Feb. 8.

H. H. Lackey & Son (Short-horns), Peabody, Kas., Feb. 27 and 28.

A. B. Matthews (Polled-Angus and Galloways), Kansas City, March 12 and 13.

G. W. Henry (Polled-Angus and grade Short-horns), Kansas City, March 26 and 27.

John X. Giffith (Short-horns), Shenandoah, Iowa, April 1.

M. H. Cochrane (Polled cattle), Chicago, April 2 and 3.

M. H. Cochrane (Polled cattle), Kansas City, April 8 and 9.

Thos. Hughes (Short-horns), Chicago, April 9 and 10.

George Leigh (Imp. Herefords), Chicago, April 10.

Leonard Bros. (Polled cattle), Kansas City, April 15, 16, and 17.

Prather G. Bennett (Short-horns), Safford, Kas., April 18.

C. M. Gifford & Son (Short-horns), Manhattan, Kas., April 23.

R. L. McDonald (Short-horns) St. Joe, Mo., April 30.

Jackson Co. Breeders (Short-horns), Kansas City, May 6, 7, and 8.

H. D. Ayres (Short-horns), Breckenridge, Mo., May 9.

Leonard Bros. (Polled cattle), Kansas City, May 13, 14, and 15.

W. P. Young (Short-horns), Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, May 27.

J. G. Gowan & Son and Col. Thad Hickman (Short-horns), St. Joe, Mo., May 28.

J. S. Latimer & Sons (Short-horns), Abingdon, Ill., May 28.

W. T. Hearne (Short-horns), Lee’s Summit, Mo., May 29.

Clinton County, Mo., Breeders (Short-horns), Plattsburgh, June 4 and 5.

Thoroughbred Live Stock Association, Higginsville, Mo., Oct. 15 and 16.

Adams Earl (Herefords), Chicago, Nov. 20.

Remedy for Foot-and-Mouth Disease.

Rev. F. H. Brett, Carsington Rectory, writes as follows to the English agricultural papers:

Some few years ago, when the foot-and-mouth disease was prevailing, I gave a farmer in this parish, who had the disease among his cattle, some sulphurous acid, and advised him to make trial of the following treatment: To put about two ounces of the acid into a quart bottle and fill up with water, and then give about a tablespoonful of this dilution three times a day to the diseased cattle. He acted upon my advice, and the result was that his cattle were quickly cured of the disease. Again, two or three weeks ago one of my parishioners came to me to inform me that one of his cows was affected with this disease, and to ask me if I could give him anything for it. I gave him some of the same acid, to be used as above stated, and advised him also to burn a little sulphur in the shed in which the diseased cow was kept, two or three times a day. He followed my advice, and three or four days after I was informed that the cow was doing nicely, and was giving her milk again. My confidence in the remedy is therefore confirmed, and I think I am in duty bound to make it as widely known as possible. In addition to giving the acid internally, I advised the moistening of the affected feet also with the same dilution with a sponge.

The sulphurous acid acts remedially, I conclude, by being destructive of the life of the microbes, or exceedingly minute animaculæ, that gives rise to the disease; and I feel persuaded that, if the owners of cattle would take the trouble to burn a little sulphur once or twice a week in their cattle sheds, they would not only protect their cattle from attacks of foot-and-mouth disease, but have them also in a more healthy and vigorous condition, especially in the season of tying-up and confinement.

I have underlined the last syllable of sulphurous to guard against mistake. Sulphuric acid would only be productive of mischief. Sulphurous acid may be obtained through any druggist in sealed stoppered bottles at a small expense.

The simplest way of burning sulphur in the cowsheds is as follows: Take a slip of cardboard, or of extra stout brown paper, about a foot long and two inches wide, and place on one extremity about as much coarsely-powdered brimstone as would lie on a penny piece, hold it by the other end, and apply the flame of a candle till the sulphur is ignited, and then wave it about in the shed, in order to disperse the vapor among the cattle; if there be straw, or anything else inflammable about, hold a tile, or something of the sort, in the other hand, under the burning sulphur, to catch any that may drop.