Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1916 — Page 2

flog Cholera Causes Huge Loss

Here is a sound talk to our farmer readers about eradicating the diseasethe government is making a noteworthy effort to help persons who use scientific methods.

H ENATOK Kenyon of lowa, has been waging a great tight in behalf of the American hog, which it seems passing M T strange, in view of the amazing array of facts y —. which the senator has , presented, has not been undertaken by anybody before. The American investment in the hog business represents some $700,000,000, the number of hogs on the farms last year being 61,000,000; yet there is no other animal which suffers such tremendous loss from disease —through hog cholera. It Is estimated that the loss of pork last year through this disease reached the enormous total of 95,000,000 pounds, or ten pounds of meat for every man, woman, and child in the United States —a net loss of some $60,000,000. Moreover, this great loss is by no means exceptional. The loss for the year following the one thus estimated will be greater, it is believed, by. perhaps $20,000,000 or $25,000,000, while as far back as 1897 the loss was stated by the federal bureau of animal industry to be not far from $100,000,000 for that year. The strange thing is that the cause of hog cholera has been definitely determined and a specific, an almost infallible remedy, has been discovered, but that little has been done toward applying it. When hog cholera strikes a drove of hogs It usually sweeps through it like a whirlwind, killing in a period of 15 or 20 days from 85 to 95 per cent of the drove. When the remedy, or rather preventive treatment is applied, the loss is reduced to less than 1 per cent. In presenting these facts, Senator Kenyon was principally quoting our own department of agriculture, which, If it has done anything, has studied the American hog; so that his authority may be considered exceptionally good. The lowa senator won out handsomely, for congress passed his ‘bill appropriating $500,000 to enable the secretary of agriculture to proceed with the stamping out of the disease, and the work has been begun with enthusiasm by the department of agriculture. An absolute preventive has been found for the universal hog cholera, a serum developed by Dr. M. Dorset, fe practical scientist in the department of agriculture, which as surely prevents cholera in hogs as the better known serum in typhoid or the vaccine of smallpox, or antitoxin of diphtheria prevents those diseases in the human family. Doctor Dorset has patented his priceless process and has presented it to the people of the United States. It has been tried out with the most gratifying results. Control of hog cholera by the use of Hie Dorset serum, as practiced by the department of agriculture, and the more progressive of the hog-raising states, presents one of the most interesting examples of the results of scientific research. The hog cholera germ is so small as to be invisible under the most powerful microscope. That it is a germ has been determined only by actual experiments in innoculating healthy hogs with the

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Adders are most irritable just after recovering from hibernation, and their bites then are perilous. Twelve field parties will continue this year the government survey of the mineral resources of Alaska. Nigeria has been added to the lands in which valuable deposits of coal have been discovered in reeent years. Philadelphia schoolchildren, by contributing pennies, have endowed a bed in a hospital for consumptive l *. mm&i ."7 ■ ■ ~

blood of cholera-diseased animals. The anticholera serum which is injected into healthy hogs to render them Immune is obtained by taking a naturally immune hog, or one which has recovered from cholera, and injecting into its circulation some blood from a hog suffering from a bad case of cholera. Outwardly this treatment affects the immune hog only slightly; it does not give it cholera, but it makes the animal still more highly immune—hyper-immune. This hyperimmune hog is then bled several times from its tail and finally from the carotid artery which results In the death of the animal. From the large amount of blood thus obtained the anticholera serum is made, and when this is injected into an ordinary hog it renders it cholera proof without, however, affecting the animal. The immunity lasts only a few weeks, but an interesting and highly important, phase’ of the work whereby the hog is made immune against cholera for the rest of its life consists in the injection of some blood from a cholerasick hog. This double injection, then, keeps the animal from having hog cholera and at the same time makes him permanently immune. The same results are affected, if the hog immediately after being innoculated with the serum, is exposed to other hogs suffering from hog cholera. All of which indicates the fact that a large amount of careful experimentation has been undertaken by the bureau of animal industry of the department of agriculture. With such a devastating disease as hog cholera prevalent throughout the 'entire country it follows that many remedies and of late many hog cholera serums have appeared upon the market. The frauds and grafters have reaped a golden harvest through the sale of their worthless and even dangerous concoctions. In order to prevent the manufacture and sale of these fake remedies, a bill has been introduced prohibiting the interstate shipment of any hog cholera serums which are not approved by the department of agriculture. Where the government serum has been used, however, the records show that the percentage of loss is almost nothing—less than 1 per cent. Even in badly afflicted droves the treatment has saved a large proportion of the hogs and has many times paid for itself. ._ . Not only does hog cholera cause the direct loss of a billion pounds of pork, but beef production is tremendously and directly affected thereby. In many states the cattle industry and the re-

The first class of Chinese students trained to read their own language by means of the newly-invented alphabet was graduated in March. Although situated in the heart of the Midland coal field, Nottingham, England, is experiencing a serious coal famine, chiefly due to a scarcity of mine laborers. Experiments In the Philippines In crossing native tobacco with, a Connecticut,, variety Ijave produced a tobacco selling sos more than twice the price Of the native.

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sulting profits largely depend upon successful hog raising. In lowa, Missouri, Illinois and other great hograising states, the hogs follow the cattle; they eat after the cattle. Combined they bring the farmer a good revenue. With hog raising left out, the cattle in these states can be grown only at a loss. Probably no blight or disease with which the farmer has to contend, and he has many, is so absolutely discouraging as hog cholera. Its devastation is almost complete. With a drove of 106 or perhaps 1,000 prime hogs just ready for the market, he has almost the feel of the money—sl,ooo or $lO,000—within his hand. They , are healthy and fat, a sight good to look upon. Then a hog on an adjoining farm rubs snouts with one of them, through the fence, and before the week is out half the hogs of the drove are infected, and the chances are that in another week, instead of 100 hogs, there will be less than a dozen stragglers. Even with a good bank account, it takes some nerve for this particular farmer to stirt all over again; the chances are that he will quit the hog business. All the precautions of sanitation and cleanliness may be of little avail in combating cholera. An entire drove of a thousand hogs may be swept away from the germs carried on the boots of a farmhand who lias visited some distant farm, while dogs, turkey buzzards, crows, etc., may transmit the disease. There are just two things to be done; first, stop the sale of fake and dangerous anticholera serums, and second to supply hog raisers with the Dorset serum. Hog raisers are willing to pay the cost of inoculation. The trouble has been that there is not enough serum to supply the demand, and the farmers have used dangerous substitutes. To insure a sls hog by inoculating him at a cost of 25 cents is good business, and when the government manufactures serum on a liberal scale, this cost will be considerably reduced. With hog cholera under control, nos only would we have more pork, but more beef. If hog cholera can be abolished, as it should be by means of the Dorset serum, the United States in two years can be restored to its old place as the greatest meat exporting nation in the world. The appropriation of half a million dollars in the Kenyon law for the stamping out of cholera is an authorization to do the most practical work possible toward increasing the national meat supply.

Indorsement Guaranteed.

“Of course you have an echo somewhere around the place,” said Miss Cayenne. “A number of them,” replied the hotel man. “Shall I direct you to them?” “I don’t want one for myself. There is a man in the party who insists on being absolutely agreed with every time he says a word.”

Interviews That Never Happened.

““Haven’t you ever found yonrself quoted in print as saying something that had never entered your mind?” “Frequent! v.” replied Senator Sots ghum. “I couldn’t possibly think up all the timely and amusing anecdotes which the writers have so lavishly attributed to me.”

Impalpability.

“No fancy equipment these day* I" remarked the observing bystander. “No,” replied the recruit; “not fan cy. Merely imaginary/* -

FOR HOT WEATHER

SIMPLICITY IN CLOTHES IS NOW MUCH IN DEMAND. And Here It Where the One-Piece Frock Justifies Its Continued Pop-ularity-May Be Made at Home at Small Cost The woman who searches anxiously for clothes that can be slipped into easily in summer weather, avoiding the tedious accessories that are demanded by the usual method of midsummer dressing, finds the one-piece gown a joy, for it Is built on one lining, and that of coarse white net which not only washes but is cool. She can slip the thing over the shoulders, adjust the girdle, and life is simplified. Only the inordinately vain or fastidious woman would imperil her nervous system by exhausting herself in the trifles of dress when the thermometer is making things unpleasant in the morning. Life may demand otherwise for certain hours and occasion, but in the house and before the afternoon, surely then, if at any time, woman should be free from the fret of adjusting a multitude of clothes on her person. Another choice of hot weather frocks which is to be commended as it shows a normal attitude of mind as to what fabrics go with what temperatures, is for two-piece frocks of wash silk in narrow stripes. Blue, yellow, green and lavender against a white background are the selected colors. The smart dressmakers are asking $75 for these costumes, including a belt of the matefial elaborated with pearl buttons, which seem to have suddenly found favor with those wh<Hb fashion clothes because France sent over a black satin coat with a cream lace skirt, the sides outlined with two row's of these white ornaments ; but it is not even necessary for a w’oman to have an especially good seamstress to accomplish one of the “seventy-fives” at a third the price. The blouse is cut like a mannish skirt with plaits in front and back, the sleeves ending in broad turnover cuffs of white silk; the shirt is slight-

TAKE PROPER CARE OF EYES

No Woman Can Be Really Beautiful Who Neglects This Most Important of Duties. Most of us neglect our eyes until they are in such a dangerous state that we must care for them. How many read in poor light, sleep with the light streaming In on the eyes

PETER PAN HAT

The model is a charming one In a combination of straw and velvet. The lower part of the high crown is of velvet. The upper part is of finewoven straw. Two ribbon feathers are jauntily slipped into slits on either side of the hat.

STYLES CALL FOR SIMPLICITY

Elaborate Hair Ornaments Have Passed Completely From the Ken of the Modern Woman. Very elaborate hair ornaments are no longer in vogue. Simplicity rules, a fact which Is appreciated by the woman who has really pretty hair. Fillets or tiaras or sets of jeweled pins and combs are not needed when the coiffure is beautiful in itself. A simple hair ornament which is in vogue at the moment is a poignard of jet. Jet is very 1 effective in the hair, especially of blond or red-brown locks. One poignard seen recently was of jet and rhinestones combined and set in alternate lines. Boudoir jackets and caps are daintier than ever just now, but all fliev* fluffy prettinesses for the bed-

ly foil at the waist, and laid in broad horizontal tucks around the figure; the hem clears the floor by so many inches that one wonders if we are to

White Voile With Embroidered Serge Vest.

wait until autumn is established by the calendar before we see the return of the heralded long even skirt The collar is a sweeping affair of white silk that rolls well down over the chest. These gowns have taken the place of the ever popular jersey cloth in the wardrobe of several women who have monotony in the wearying repetition of the same fabric, usually made up in the same manner. ADd an excellent quality of wash silk Is one of the materials which never leave regrets. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

or strain them in the sunlight when bathing at the seashore or motoring! How many of you bathe the eyes daily? •The daily eye bath is one of the most important and essential parts of every person’s life. None would live in a house with unwashed windows. But we will go year after year without washing the windows of the Soul. When one considers how a clear, sparkling eye adds to the attractiveness of a face, one realizes that the best of care should be given this sensitive organ. I am told by physicians that indigestion, nervousness, headache and other ailments are often the result of weak, strained or tired eyes. Many women do not know their eyes are not normal; many are too vain to wear glasses. They prefer to disrupt and upset the entire system rather than wear a pair of glasses because they look better without them. If the trouble Is taken in time the glasses need never be worn in public. The eye bath should be taken in the morning and before retiring. The eye cup fits over the open eye and the water will wash it out. Soft or distilled water should be used. A pinch of salt thoroughly diluted strengthens the eye and rests it. Or boric acid is also a good eye wash. The cup must be well cleansed before using on either eye. Sometimes one eye will be infected while the other is quite well and the eye cup will carry the infection. Under no conditions should more than one person use the cup. If one can spare the time after washing the eyes it is wise to lay a dhmp cloth over them and lie down for ten minutes. When reading one should always sit so that the light comes from the back or over the left shoulder. The book or paper should be held about two feel away. If one, must hold the book nearer or farther away to read with comfort an eye specialist should be visited. I want to remind you of the danger for those who rub the eye with the hands or fingers or handkerchief. Many causes of eye trouble can be traced to them.;— Chicago News.

room must be washable to be practical. Cleaning is costly, and the laundry must suffice for the woman of average mdans, so that Is the reason one well-dressed girl has chosen Neptune satin for her boudoir. “Not only can it be washed,” she says; “but it may even be boiled.” Hers is of bird’segg bine and is trimmed with lace and tassels and work over a petticoat of flounces of lace.

For Young Girls.

In the evening the more diaphanous the dresses of, the young girls, the more becoming they are. and scarves of tulle of every color are twisted round the figure and neck, Just as-g pretty woman knows so well how to adjust them with the most satisfactory results. e

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As the Years Roll On.

You remarked fatuously the other day, “I’m just as young as I ever was.” Oh, no, you’re not! If young people weren’t too polite they’d soon undeceive you. You have been so busy leading a successful life that you have forgotten to notice that your successful life has been led. Youth is flouting you every day. Youth is through with you. You appeal to it for recognition, and it laughs at you. You still young? You? No, indeed I Look at real youth pursuing its fantastic preferences; at Reginald Warneford, engaging a Zeppelin single-hand-ed, in regions near the sun; at Ottp von Weddigen leaving his bride to carry on a desperate w'arfare under seas. Do you honestly sympathize with them? —Atlantic Monthly.

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The Artful Dodger.

There was an air of proud distinction about the tall, erect, raw-boned southern cracker as he stood before Judge Broyles, felt hat in hand and generous quid tucked away in one corner of his capacious mouth. “This man, your honor,” explained the officer who made the arrest, “is a suspicious character. We found him hiding along Decatur street, first in one alley and then in another. Why, would you believe it, your honor, when I finally got him he was hiding under a stack of dirty clothes in a hand laundry.” “What have you to say for yourself, Peter Cooper Haggs?” demanded the judge. “What were you hiding from—the court must know I” Everybody in the big room leaned forward to catch the stern-faced cracker’s answer. They were prepared for some sort of fiendish plot. “Ma wisp wuz after me ter pay fer th* rent,” was the prisoner’s calm response.—Case and Comment,

Wee Bit Sane.

fahile a certain Scotch minister was conducting religious services In an asylum for the insane one of the Inmates cried out wildly: “I say, have we got to listen to this?” The minister, surprised and confused, turned to the keeper and asked: ■ “Shnll I stop speaking?” The keeper replied: “No, no; gang along, gang along; that will not happen again. The man only has one lucid moment every seven years.’’— The Christian Herald.

Very Likely.

Bill —It is said the English channel is nowhere more than 900 feet deep. Jill —I suppose it seems a lot deeper than that if a fellow can’t swim.

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