CONTAGIOUS KEIR J. E. ‘TERHUNE. - Barrister, Notary Public and Con- Yeyancer. Office in Barrister Bray's ‘old stand, Wallace street. HE. B. MORPHY, K. ©. _ Barrister, “Notary Public, Cop- ‘yeyancer, Solicitor for Bank ef Bamilton, Listowel, Milverton, At “wood. Offices Listowel dnd Milver- ‘ton. Money to loan ac. N, B. A. Barrister, Conveyancer, Solici- tor for the Imperial Bank of Can- ¢jsts. Money to loan. Office or uth side of Main street, over Miss Gibbs’ Millinery Parlors. W. G@. E. SPENCE. Dentist, Graduate of the Dentist “Department of University of Pen- sylvania, Philadelphia; also gradu- ate of The Royal College of Dents! Surgeons, Toronto. - Office over Schinbein’s Store. H. D. LIVINGSTONE, M. B. : Physician and Surgeon. Office - ever Livingstone’s Drug Store, corn- ~-> ey Main and Wallace streets. Phone Soil na Night phone 113. W. C. PRATT, M. Dz , Office entrance one door east of J. M. Schinbein & Son’s Store. Night calls attended to at residence, corner of Inkerman and Davidson streets, near hospital. Phones: Residence 227. Office 228. _ DR. JAMES MOORE (Physician and Surgeon n.) Office Main St., Listowel, up Schin- < pein’ s stairway Medical representative of Soldiers’ civil re-establishment, whereby sol- -diers get free treatment for one year after discharge. Phone 17. DR. F. J. R. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in medicine, University ef Toronto. Late assistant New York Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Moorefteld’s Bye and Golden Square Throat Hos. pitals, London, Eng. At the Arlington Hotel, Listowel, on Wednesday, May 5th., from 10 a. m, to 4 p.m. 68 Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 DR. R. F. PARKER Osteopathic Physician and Ophthal- mologist. All diseases t@@ated. Byes vested. Glasses fitted. Hours 9 a to 8 p.m. ‘Office over Johnstone's jewelry store. 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HACKING, Town Agent, Pevor Racing at Fair— Atwood Bee—At a meeting of the “> members of the Elma Agricultural Society it was unanfmously carried that the directors be instructed to purchase enough land to fulfil the growing requirements of the society and making the necessary improve- ments in keeping with the advance- ment of our exhibition. The directors are anxious to make it a success and in compliance with the general opin- ion of the members, consider a track for speeding events would: be greatly in the interests of the fair and the ‘A Too Common moa Trouble With Some Farm Mares. « Cause of the Disease Discovered— | Method of Spreading Described— Measures for. Control — Oyster~ shell Bark Louse With Its Treatment. cCostetnatog by Oritario capernaa of gricuiture, Toronto.) ONTAGIOUS abortion of mares is due to a specific bacillus (Bacillus abortivus equinus) which gets established in the uterus, fetal membranes and foetus, setting up local inflammation leading to expulsion of the foetus dead or alive at any time during pregnancy. The symptoms of approaching abortion aré not usually in evidence until just before. abortion takes place. Then the animal is seized with colicy pains, restlessness and strain- ing, and a swollen vulva with a mu- cous discharge is noticeable. After abortion, the symptoms are more specific. There is a chocolate brown fluid discharge from vulva which has a typical offensive odor, and the foe- tal membranes are inclined to remain intact, thus necessitating artificial re- moval to prevent blood poisoning. The disease has been known in Europe for many years, but it was not found on the Amenican contin- ent until 1886 when it appeared in the Mississippi valley. Since then it has spread far and wide in the Unit- ed States and Canada. Although many investigations were made both in Europe and America, it was not until 1912 that the cause of the dis- ease was discovered. In that year ood, of Kentucky, discovered the baaltinn which causes the disease. The same year Dr. Schofield, of To- ronte, discovered the same bacillus in some cases of joint ill in colts which had developed in districts in Ontario where contagious abortion of mares was prevalent and the fol- rowing year found the same bacillus in cases of — abortion of mares in On Method of orending. —The disease is spread mainly by the discharges from the vulva of aborting animals. If a mare that has aborted is served before all discharges from the vulva have ceased and the genitalia have been efficiently disinfected, then the stallion is liable to get contamjnated with the bacillus and spread the dis- ease to other mares which he sub- sequently serves. If the discharges from an aborting mare are allowed to contaminate the bedding or other materials that other mares come in contact with, then the mares are li- able to contract the disease. If the discharges are allowed to contami- nate water or food materials thateare given to other mares, the latter are liable to contract the disease. Measures for Control.—1. Three months must elapse between abor- tion and subsequent breeding. 2. Mares that have aborted must not be bred if there is evidence of Lge s catarrh, even after three month 3. —_— that have shorted must only be bred at the end of the stal- lion season. 4. Application of an efficient dis- infectant to the external genitalia of the stallion after each service in af- fested districts. Measures to Be Employed at Time of, or Subsequent to Abortion.— 1. Isolation of mare at first sign of approaching abortion 2. After abortion. the foetus and membranes should be burned, if pos- sible, or buried deeply in quick-lime. 3. Those handling the foetus and mare should disinfect hands and clothing. 4. Bedding should be burned and the stall washed with a strong dis- infectant. 6. External genitals, thighs and tail of mare should be washed daily with a good disinfectant. Two per cent. bacterol, lysol, or cresol, is sat- isfactory for this purpose Isolation of mare should be maintained for at least a month or until all ——— of pterine discharge has ceas Treating the animal with drugs, as carbolic acid, black haw and methy- lene blue, though popular in some districts, cannot be recommended as being of any value.—Dr. J. H. Reed, O. A. College, Guelph. Oyster-shell Scale. This if a very common orchard insect. It attacks not only apples but also pears, plums, currants and many ornamental and shade trees and bushes. Full grown séales are found almost exclusively on the bark and are easily recognized by their oyster- shell appearance. They are about % of an inch long, 1-24 inch wide, taper towards one end and in color resem- ble closely the bark. The injury is caused by their suck- ing the juices out of the bark and thus weakening the trees. When very abundant they almost completely cover the bark and in that case may kill either the whole tree or portions of the branches. Most infested trees, however, are not killed but only weakened. Control.—Spraying the trees just before or just after the buds burst with lime-sulphur solution, 1 gallon to 8 or 9 gallons of water, is a satis- factory remedy: The regular Codling Moth spray with one gallon of lime- sulphur to about 39 gallons of w to which two pounds of arsenate o lead paste or one pound arsenate of ‘lead powder is added will also. help greatly, because it will hit the young. scale insects just after they have hatched, while they are still unpro- teeted and easily destroyed. Dead scales may remain on the trees for Replace Whole Milk — Grass or Stable for Calves? (Contetiated by Ontario Depertment of ric ulture, Toronto.) HE calZ .that cémes in the spring, comes just at a time when everybody is so busy getting the spring work done that he is very liable to be reg- lected to a certain extent. Young calves are very susceptible to disease com- on to young cattle and a little lack of attention to spring calves !s |- liable to cause serious trouble to them. . There are two menaces to calves in spring and summer, and those are extreme heat and flies, and one is on a par with the other. Arrangements should be made whereby the calves are kept in during the day and _al- |. lowed to run out in a paddock at night. By this means they are afforded a liberal amount of exercise and good pure fresh air, and also they are allowed to get some of the nice juicy green grass, which is the nearest thing to a complete and bal- anced ration that can be found out- side of milk. When the calf is-dropped it may be weil to leave it with the dam for a few hours in order that it may get the first milk (or colostrum) which is so necessary on account of its ac-_ tions on the digestive tract. When the calf has réceived sufficient colo- strum to set up the necessary action it should be removed from its mother into a separate stall, or it may be put into a stall with other calves of the same age or nearly so. If, by any chance, the cow’s udder 1s inflamed, the calf may be left for a few days, because of the beneficial effect that the calf’s punching has upon it. For a few days the calf should be fed whole milk, but when it is two to four weeks old a change should be made, skimmilk gradually replacing the whole milk, from eight to ten days taken for the change. When the whole milk is totally replaced the milk may be increased to eighteen or twenty pounds per day for a calf six weeks old. The best kind of skimmilk for calves is warm, just when it leaves the farm separator. However, everybody may not have a separator, and then this is not pos- sible: In any event the system start- ed with the calf should be followed as nearly as possible at all times, because radical changes in diet are sure to cause severe digestive trou- bles, Pails and all feeding utensils should be kept very clean to elim- inate any danger of disease from bacteria that might be lurking with- in. Skimmilk feeding may be contin- ued on as Jong as it is thought ad- visable, up to eight or ten months old. Good thrifty calves may be weaned as early as three months old, providing good substitutes for the milk are used. most frequent trouble in rnis- ing calves is indigestion or common scours. This trouble is usually caus- ed by overfeeding, feeding milk too cold, feeding milk heavily laden with the disease germs, or by keeping the calves in a dark, dirty, poorly ven- tilated quarter. The calves should be watched carefully, and if they show signs of scours immediate steps should be taken to effect a cure. The ration should be reduced and a little lime water put into the milk. af immediate action is needed, about one-half cupful of strong black tea or some castor oil should be given. As for meal for the calves, rolled oats are good, and if they are getting no whole milk a little linseed oil cake should be added. The oil cake has a laxative property as well as supplying a little fat to the ration. A good m hay is essential at all times, giving enough to allow the calves to pick out the nice succulent parts, and still not be wastefyl.— J. C. McBeath, O. A. College, Guelph. Should Calves Go Out to Grass or Remain in the Stable? Generally speaking, calves are bet- ter kept in the stable during the first summer, except where stable conditions are not good, and where there is not enough labor.to look af- | ter them and keep them dry and clean. The only other exception is in the case of calves dropped in the early winter and which have had three to six months of milk and more or less dry feed. Such calves may be all right, if turned out to grass as soon as the pasture is good and the weather warm.and pleasant. Par- ticularly’ is.-this the case where milk and other feed : scarce on the farm. The chief a tages of keeping — in the bs le, the first summer a They can be fed milk and other feed as required, which is often neg- lected when calves run with the cows, or are pasturing some distance from the barn. 2. Calves in a clean, well-ventilat- ed stable are protected from the hot sun, storms and flies, Which often prevent that good growth which is oe ga fora rpadi-aseratons thrifty 3. If allowed to run with the herd, to“ the older pl are likely “boss” the may injure them, pd deprive chem of their proper re 0 4. Cases of sickness, such as indi- gestion or “scours” are more likely to be noticed, and properly treated, if the calves are inside wheré they are seen frequen Telephone 14 ¢ _ | have secured a limited quantity of No. | guaranteed’ Ontario grown Red Clover Seed. The price is $52.50 per bushel SWEET CLOVER SEED (WHITE OR YELLOW) 1, $30.00 per bushel No. 2, $25.00 per bushel Cash orders filled in rotation until the supply is exhausted. SQBEaB J. W. SANGSTER LISTOWEL | Over 75,000 Patisted Users—that's a big point in favor of DELCO-LIGHT—tke complete electric light and power Diant. Deico- ory users are enthusiastic because this is, the t that gives them maximum service with hited attention and minimum cost. A gt.on of kerosene will give four times as much light (electric light), when used for fuel in a Delco-Light plant, as it gave with the in- efficient coal oil lamp. More er 4,000 ae ok plants were de- livered to th e U. S. Government for war work. 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As a oir ar this better care ES SS es the crowded condition so often ex-| Pruning the trees early makes it eas- jand feed, better cows are more likely-|~.““How is it, Sandy,"". asked @ visito | yet you can make money3” “knock off 2 shiglin's @ ton because a _ perienced on on bar grounds ant sth%6 jer and cheaper to spray them well. jte be reared, means iarger |0f @ Scotch eoal merchant, “that YOU! wwoor it's this way,” a freen o’ mine, and then — - the efficiency of the program now in!--Prof. L. Caesar, O:~A. College, yetarnn (6 ba weaeenion wee cows.—Prof. | quote the ed sepa oe Ps town and ta ton because pegetempiaGye: 8 Guelph. ~ make red triends and Brae aneeh. PA # EH. pee. 0. A. oe ‘Sandy in an undertone. “Ye see, I