Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1916 — Page 3

The Spanish Specialist Chronic Diseases . WILL BE AT % Rensselaer, Indiana i , ■ - * At Makeever Hotel / • Two Days Only Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 4 and 5 No Patients Consulted Until Tuesday Morning

SPEAKS GERMAN AND ENGLISH I treat Special Chronic and Female Diseases. Examinations Free. Office hours from 9:00 a. m. to 9:00 p. m. ■.’* • i,. r " /

/ The Battle Against Death From Microbes In this country alone the Great White Plague—Consumption—has in its death grip one-half million people, - 3000 deaths every week In the United States alone explain the magnitude, suffering and death caused alone by tubercle bacillus. This, my reader, concerns you. You may think yourself in good health, but few, if any, escape the occasional inhalation or inhibition of' the germs of tuberculosis. If you have two children there is more than an even chance that at least one of them is infected with these germs at thd present moment. * But until my readers, and people in general are much more intelligently alive to their own interests than they are at the present, the funeral car will continue to call at the door hung with crepe. You or one of the family may be the next to pay the penalty. Don’t be governed by what you can’t understand, or by the advice of your friends who think they know. It requires years of study, together with’actual experience, to establish facts. This can pnly be accomplished by Specializing. N It is perhaps not superflous, then, to remind the reader that the vast majority of all deaths are due to the invasion of the human body by definite and tangible foes, which are no less real because they are of microscopic dimensions. r l he chief aim of medical science in our day is to combat these microbes, either by preventing their access to the body, or by making the body proof against them if they do find entrance. Does It Pay To Keep Your Blood^Right? So it is'S’hbsolutely essential that the leucocytes, which constitute a standing army numbering more than fifty billion, in the blood system of every human being, should at all times be posted in numbers behind every inch of the fortifying, but not quite impregnable walls. It is essential also that they constitute a mobile army, capable of being concentrated at any given point where an attack of unusual virulence is sustained. The position of the leucocytes as normally distributed throughout the blood-stream enables them to fulfill these conditions ideally. They are always present as srdefending garrison about every cell of the entire body; and when a localized attack of microbes is reported, there is an instant reinforcement at that point from neighboring blood channels. A. MICROBES THAT KILL Leucocytes (white corpuscles) is your floating navy always ready to attack the disease-produc-ing germ. Will it pay you to take care of this fighting multitude? Through the discovery of Dr. Emil Von Behring 75,000 lives have been saved every year. It pays to understand and use modem medicines. Anti-Rabic treatment has saved thousands. The old methods of medicine as adhered* to by many physicians and patients have killed more people than diseaseand war combined. There arc fifty different species that death fronl Consumption, Catarrh, Pneumonia, Diphtheria, Syphillis, Asthma, Hay Fever, Erysipelas, Typhoid, Epilepsy, Goitre, Infantile Paralysis, Malaria, Yellow Fever, Cholera, Leprosy, Cancer, ancLthat terrible malady 6f tropical Africa, Sleeping sickness. REMEMBER I use no Mineral or Poison Medicine; use only the Juices and Extracts from pure Roots afftl Herbs. We have over 1000 Medicine Preparations made from the Vegetable Kingdom. luse -medicines imported from all over the world —Japan, India, China, Russia, Africa, Malabar, Guinea r , Brazil, Asia, Peru, Australia,. Sicily, Red Sea. Ignorance, Superstition and Skepticism are relics of the dark ages. Business men of today have nj time for pre-historic ideas. Be a man of today—use your own judgment. It’s you that are sick. It’s your money that pays the bills. Reserve the right to spend yuur money as you think be3t. The man who has nothing to do but “butt in” with his advice is usually ignorant the subject discussed. > , “ Don’t Be Suspicious The little seeds of doubt, when once rooted in the mind, are the cause of many heartaches—opportunities are lost. Social, Civic ansl # Mora’ respect neglected. Drop a few bombs on your prejudice! - Come in and hare a social visit. You are wise enough to detect right from wrong, and will be under no obligations. I Cure My Patients Ask Mr. Freeman Wood of Rensselaer, what I did for his friend John Garvin, of Monon, after the Lafayette and Chicago physicians said there was no help for him. I cured this gentleman and Mr. Wood will substantiate this statement. fill AI irirn * have Diplomas and State Certificates. lam registered in Jasper County - QUALIrItU as a Physician.

THE EVENING BEPUBLIOAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

INTESTINAL WORMS IN PIGS

Insufficiently Fed and Neglected Pig* Soon Become Infested Intestinal worms are common In hogs and are particularly injurious to growing pigs., Insufficiently fed, neglected pigs living in dirty pens and yards, fed from filthy troughs, drinking contaminated water, bathing in old hog wallows, and rooting and sleeping in manure piles and stack bottoms soon become infested with worms; consequently they do not thrive, but develop into pot-bellied, rickety, profitless runts. Pens should [ be kept clean and dry and the manure frequently removed. It has been asserted- by various experienced feeders of hogs that a mix ture of charcoal, ashes, lime, salt, sulphur and copperas kept where the hogs can eat it will tend to prevent

worm Infestation. There Is not as yet positive experimental evidence in support of thp idea that such a mixture will prevent worm infestation, but the mixture does appear to satisfy the hog’s desire for mineral substances and probably is of value as a tonic and appetizer. It may be made up in the following proportions: Charcoal, 1 bushel. t Hardwood ashes, 1 bushel.

I — 1 Salt, 8 pounds. Air-slaked lime, 4 pounds. Pulverized copperas, 2 pounds. Mix the lime, salt and sulphur thoroughly and then mix with the charcoal and ashes. Dissolve the copperas L in two parts of hot water and sprinkle | over the whole mass, mixing it thoroughly. Keep some of this mixture in a box before the hogs at all times, or place in a self feede/-. Santonin, which was formerly wideI jy used as a remedy for worms in hogs is practically unobtainable at the present time owing to foreign trade conditions. The following treatment has been found to be very effective against intestinal worms in experiments conducted by the Zoological Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry: Withhold all feed and water for 24 hours, then give each pig from 1 to 4 ounces of castor oil to which has been-added oil of American wormseed as follows: Small pigs, 2 to 3 months old, 35 drops, pigs weighing 50 to 100 pounds, 50 to 100 drops, larger pigs one teaspoonful. Each pig should be dosed separately if the best results are to be obtained. Drenching hogs is dangerous, as they are liable to get the remedy into the lungs. With sufficient assistance pigs’ may be held, the mouth kept open by means of a couple of loops of wipe or rope, and the medicine given directly in a tablespoon. By this method, though it is troublesome, one may be certain that each pig gets his proper dose. After dosing, the pigs may be fed and watered. Repeat the treatment in 10 days. Further information on swine husbandry will be found in Farmers’ Bulletins issued by the department, a list of which may be obtained upon application to the division of publications.

Grapes for the Home Garden

Grapes require rather a long hot season and well drained soil for their best development. There seem to be only a few places where they grow to perfection and where they are commercially profitable. By taking a little - care, however, and by selecting early maturihg varieties and planting them in sunny locations they may be made to grow for home use in almost all sections where apples do well. In regions of short cool summers it is necessary to give them the advantage of as much sunlight as possible. This c’an best be done by planting them on the south side of a building or wall and training them against it, first seeing that the soil is well drained and fairly though not excessively fertile. In such regions also ’t is necessary to prune the vines heavily so that they will not set too much fruit. Grapes, like tomatoes, will ripen a few bunches of fruit quickly, but if they are allowed to set too much none will ripen unless the summer is long and hot. 1 In unfavorable climates full grown vines should not be allowed to set more than 15 or 20 bunches and even then dt is better if the leaves which shade the bunches are picked off -or tied back so that the sun can shine directly on the fruit. This should not be done, however, until the berries are nearly full grown. There are hundreds of varieties of grapes but only a few that are grown commercially and but few more that have any special qualities to recommend them for the home garden. The following are some of the old standard sorts: Moore’s Early, a large black grape of good quality and one of the earliest. Campbell’s Early, a variety similar to the above which will do well on heavier soils than will Moore’s. Worden, a black graph of medium

sizs and excellent quality ripening a week or ten days after Moore’s. Delaware, a small pink grape of excellent quality. The vine is not as vigorous as some but is hardy. Concord, the standard commercial black grape. It is a mid summer variety which will ripen In most sections where grapes can be grown. Niagara; the standard commercial white grape. It Is a seedling of the Concord and ripens about the same time. Salem, a medium, sized red grape of good quality. Catawba, the principle commercial red grape, but so late In maturing that it cannot be ripened successfully except under the most' favorable conditions. i

The above is a picture show worth while. A crop can be no better than the land on which it grows, which is another way of saying that fertilizing pays.

THE HESSIAN FLY DOOMED

If Every Member of the Community Aids in Fighting This Pest. Two years ago a farmer In central Missouri lost his wheat by the ravages of the Hessian fly. It set him thinking, and if losing a wheat crop won’t make a man think, you and I are wondering what will. And his thoughts run along this line: “If I give the wheat a good start to make it vigorous and strong, it may out-1 grow the fly, for it Is mostly the weaker stalks which the fly' attacks. | Hence I’ll feed my crop and keep 'lt i healthy, just as I would my hogs to! help them ward off Infection from 1 cholera.” So this man set to work and plowed deep and early. He harrowed every few weeks to conserve the moisture' and kill the weeds and planted about J the usual time for that locality. At' this place he decided to make an experiment, fertilizing one-half of his field and letting the other go as he 1 had before. The following spring there was a sight to make the most skeptical a be-j liever that feeding the crop pays. We' examined both the unfertilized and 1 the fertilized, In the former the stalks' being filled with “flaxseed,” while in ’ the latter few flies were found, and the damage was so slight that it was scarcely noticeable. This does not mean that fertilizer will beep the fly out or kill it, but it does mean that the plants made strong, vigorous and early maturing will resist the ravages to such an extent that the loss will be comparatively small. The result? —more wheat, better prices and a prosperous and contented grower.

LIEBIG’S FOUR LAWS

Announced by the Noted German Chemist Fifty Years Ago. 1. A soil can be termed fertile only when It contains all the materials necessary for the nutrition of plants, in the required quantity, in the proper form. 2. With every crop, a portion of these ingredients is removed. A part of this is again added from the inexhaustible store of the atmosphere; another part, however, is lost If not replaced by man. 3. The fertility of the soil remains unchanged if all the Ingredients of the crop are given back to the soil. Such a restitution is effected by manure and fertilizers. 4. The manure produced In the course of farming is not sufficient to maintain permanently the fertility of a farm; it lacks the constituents which are annually sold In the shape of grain, hay, milk, and live stock.

SOW MORE SEED

The quantity of seed wheat to sow to the acre should be varied according to size of kernel, condition and fer tiilty of seedbed and time of seeding. From six to eight pecks per acre gave the best results In experiments totaling 33 years at the Ohio, Kentucky. Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma experiment stations. The tendency among most growers is to use too little rather than too much seed. The Ohio Experiment Station says: "We have commonly found the better qualify" oif grain where the amount of seed required tojproduce |he maximum crop had been used; and where land was not occupied with wheat to its full capacity of production, the product has been of inferior quality. Similar results were reached, whether the wheat was grown upon rich, gravelly, alluvial soil or upon a clay soil inferior in natural productiveness.”

POOR SEED WHEAT EXPENSIVE

Poor seed wheat cannot produce a good crop. If but four seeds out of five grow, it means, four heads of wheat _ where there might have been five. Poor seed wheat Is so dear in the long run that no one can afford to drill it The biggest profits come from a wheat that yields well, grades high, and sells well on the market.

THE PROOF IS IN THE SACK '

Should Be the Condition of th§ Wheat Seedbed to Insure - Maximum Yields. A fine, firm, fertile, early prepared ' seedbed insures the largest crop of best quality wheat. When wheat follows oats, barley or other early harvested crop, plow the land from 4 to 6 Inches deep as soon as the preceding crop is removed and work down each half day’s plowing before leaving the field. Harrow or disk the field after every rain or as often as crust forms, until seeding timdto kill weeds and to retain the soil moisture. Ideal seedbeed preparation consists In disking, plowing, again disking and harrowing. Up-to-date fanners are following this system especially when there is considerable organic matter to be plowed under. Always cut up coarse material before turning It In the furrow, otherwise it interrupts the movement of moisture upward, 'making an air space whieh allows frying out. By plowing early and maintaining a soil mulch, moisture Is retained which favors quick germination. From one to several weeks will be gained In the sprouting and growth by a thorough- soil preparation. The Kansas experiment station found a gain of as much as 21 bushels of wheat when grown on land plowed seven inches deep July 15 and then kept well worked until seeding time, over land that was plowed the same depth September 15. Perhaps there would not be such a great difference In favor of early plowing in the more humid climate of the eastern states, yet even there Is pays to prepare the seed bed thoroughly and early.

The live stock man uses his strongest and best animals for breeding purposes and sends the weak, inferior and off-type individuals to the block. First-class, prize-winners of approved type are secured only by breeding to the very best animals the farmer can secure. This same principle applies to seed wheat. You cannot harvest No. 1 or 2 wheat by sowing No. 6 or No. 7 seed. Ude only plump, sound berries of one variety and discard all off-type seed just as you do with the poor, weak, delicate and offtype live stock. A pure variety of wheat can be secured and kept most easily by maintaining a seed wheat plot, since it offers an ideal way of testing and keeping the seed pure. The seed plot should be just large enough to furnish seed for tbe main crop. It is best on account of diseases to have the plot removed some distance from tbe main field, and treat the wheat on the seed plot for smut, have it free from disease, and thus save treating the seed for the main crop. Rye, cockle, aqd other weeds are more easily kept out of the sedd plot than out of the main field. Just a little extra care in handling the seed ‘ plot will give you pure wheat that yields more bushels per acre, grades high on the market, and sells at a premium when marketed for seed.

Every pound of wheat requires an average of 450 to 500 pounds of water to carry it from planting to maturity. Early plowing and frequent working of the seedbed helps to retain soli moisture. A light harrowing or disking early in the spring cultivates the wheat and forms a soil mulch that prevents the escape of winter rains so needed by the wheat when filling and ripening. Experiment stations have found that wheat, well supplied with available plant food or growing on rich soils, can produce a bigger crop with less moisture than it can on a poor soil or oh one not well supplied with available plant food. <J Wheat on rich soils contihues to grow even If the supply of moisture is scanty. Supplying available plantfood to wheat enables it to produce larger yields on the same amount* of water. This is especially important when the rainfall is below normal. Organic matter holds water like a sponge and releases it to the wheat for germination. In the spring it holds the winter’s rains Until the wheat needs them for final growth and ripening. A supply of sufficient moisture at filling time often makes a crop. The farmer cannot make it rain at this critical stage, but he can keep up the organic matter that will bold the season’s rain until needed.

FINE, ROM, AND FERTILE

A WHEAT SEED PLOT

WHEAT A HARD DRINKER