Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1916 — WISE DOG OWNERS USE THERMOMETERS [ARTICLE]

WISE DOG OWNERS USE THERMOMETERS

There Is No Surer Way to Discover if Animal Is Not in Good Shape. There is only one method of determining whether a dog is feverish or not, and that is by using a clinical thermometer. Any rough and ready methods ought to be discountenanced where valuable animals are concerned because accurate information can be obtained by the use of one of these handy little instruments. If those who keep dogs only could be brought to understand what a valuable possesglon a clinical thermometer is there would be one wherever there is a valuable dog. What Is the first thing a doctor does when he is called to see a person who is ill? His first concern is tr take the temperature. He applies a clinical thermometer and It tells him immediately whether the temperature is normal or whether there are any symptoms of feverishness. Then he knows that if there are no symptoms of feverishness there Is nothing much the matter, but if the temperature is abnormal there must be inflamatory symptoms in one or other of the organs which will necessitate careful diagnosis and skilled treatment. It is precisely the same where valua ble dogs are concerned. If the dog owner as soon as he notices one of his animals to be out of sorts would take the dog’s temperature by the aid of a clinical thermometer he would know' exactly whether there is oj is not anything serious the matter and would get a general idea how to proceed with treatment. —N. Y. Sun.

FARMING BY PROXY After reading certain farm papers and articles on farming in general papers and magazines, says the Farm Journal, one cannot help wondering whether the farmer is still the hard working naan he used to be or whether he is merely a figurehead sitting in an office signing checks while waiting for his chauffeur to roll the limousine around. One of these articles in a weekly paper would have us believe that a Pennsylvania farmer who was unable to get the farm help he needed installed an electric plant and now does everything electrically except to plough and plant potatoes. An article in another of our popular journals, the writer of which evidently has never been sufficiently attracted by the lure of the land to get within close proximity to a farm, contains the statement that in Kansas alfalfa goes through five sowings a year—presumably while the farmers sit on the fences and watch the strange proceeding. However, despite these word pictures of beautiful farm Utopias, the fact still remains that in no other vocation does real hard work count for so much as in farming. We have not yet reached <the point where farming is done by proxy. It is still done by farming, and farming means work. Anyone who will do a little investigating will find that the farmer has not been altogether emancipated from work by the introduction of the au tomobile, the farm tractor and the gas engine. On the contrary, moderfi farm machiery has made the farmerts time more valuable.

Department's Position as to Dry Beans The department.of agriculture has been requested by many growers and shippers to define its position with respect to application of the Federal Food and Drugs Act to the transpor tation in the interstate commerce of dry pea or or navy, medium, and kidney beans. These requests have been prompted by the action of the department in recommending sfeizures of cull beans in sacks and of beans in cans which were found upon examination to contain considerable percentages of beans which were wholly or in part filthy, decomposed or putrid. Under the Federal Food and Drugs Act, beans in common with other articles of food are adulterated if they consist “in whole or in part of a fil thy, decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable substance.” Cull beans-, in the opinion of the department, usually contain considerable percentages of beans which are wholly or in part fil thy or decomposed and are therofore adulterated. The shipment in interstate commerce of such beans for food purposes is prohibited by the act. No objection is entertained however, to interstate shipment of cull beans for industrial purposes or for use other than as food for man if they are first treated by grinding or otherwise so as to render them unavailable for use as food for man. The department Is informed that dry pea or navy, medium, and kidney beans intended for use as food for man are sent customarily by the grow era to elevators where the bean 3 are sorted by hand picking so as to eliminate the beans which are wholly or In part filthy, decomposed, or putrid, it has been represented that in the process of hand picking nearly all moldy or musty beans are removed, bnt that It is not practicable to remove all beans which are slightly decomposed. The department has not recommended the seizure of dFy and mature pea or navy, medium, or kidney beans which have been hand picked in accordance with good commercial practice. ’