Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 199, 1 July 1914 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1914

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Agricultural Service Department Page

HYGIENIC

MEASURES

PREVENT SPREAD OF AFFLICTIONS IN HOGS

Presence of Cholera Prevent

able if Farmers Adopt Sanitary Measures in Hog Houses.

Swine Prefer Clean Quarters to Dirty and Thrive if Surroundings are Kept Clean

by Farmers.

Hog cholera is again becoming prevalent in Wayne county, and aa in years past, the outbreak probably will continue until cold weather sets in. Laying aside the virtues of the anti-hog-chorea serum as a means of preventing the disease, for future discussion, there are certain hygienic preventative measures that can be carried out, that

will often prove valuable protection against an outbreak of the disease. Strong, healthy hogs possess a normal slight degree of resistance to cholera, and proper methods of feeding and housing the animals go far towards fostering this natural resistance. Filthy, crowded quarters, poor feeding.

and exposure are regarded as secondary factors in the spread of cholera. Hog he uses should have good ventilation, plenty of light, and should be kept dry and clean. Filth and mud should not be allowed to accumulate. Hocjs Prefer Cleanliness. It is a mistaken idea that hogs need a filthy mud hole to lie In. Hogs lie in mud and water to keep cool and to keep away flies. If shade and a clean wallow are provided hogs will appreciate it. Free use should be made of disinfectants, both in the house and in the yards. Whitewash, lime, chloride of lime and the various stock dips are all good. Hog lots should be frequently plowed up and sowed .in some forage crop. Good drainage should be provided, and all feed and water receptacles should be kept clean and every precaution against contamination taken.

One of the most common means of bringing cholera into a herd is by introducing new stock from infected herds or premises. Such animals unless they are known to be absolutely tfree from the disease, should be quar-

lantined in yards set off for this pur

pose. This quarantine snouiu lasi from two to three weeks, and the hogs should be cleaned or dipped in a reliable disinfectant dip before being transferred to the regular quarters. When hog cholera is present in the

neighborhood great care should be taken to prevent the spread of the disease by birds, stray dogs, or persons passing from an infected field to the quarters of other animals. One Wayne county farmer experienced an almost total loss of his herd of hogs this spring due to infection brought about by his dog carrying the carcass of a young pig that had died from the cholera, into his pasture where the herd ran. Pigeons, sparrows and crows of ten carry the disease from one farm to another. An unsuspecting neighbor may stop for a friendly ( hat and carry the germs home on his ehoes. Germs Longlived. It is a known fact that the germs of the disease will live for several years in the ground, or in dark, damp sheds, old straw piles, or dark woods. After an outbreak of the disease, all such places should be thoroughly cleaned tip and disinfected. Sunshine is one of the best-known germicides. When cholera breaks out in a herd, the sick hogs should be separated from

the well ones. However, it is not desirable to divide them into small j bunches in different part of the farm, as this increases the danger of increasing the infection over larger areas, and increases the labor of caring for the animals. Fatally sick hogs should be killed at once. All dead hogs should be burned immediately. Rick hogs should be fed only a very light ration of a thin slop of shorts or other ground feeds. The entire herd Bhould be dieted and made to clean up the feed quickly. The troughs should be disinfected and turned bottom side up as soon as the hogs have finished feeding and drinking. During the warm months of the year the hogs should be given plenty of range on a recently mowed meadow of bluegvass pasture, and low open sheds should be provided for shade. What Law Says. An act concerning the prevention, spread and control of infectious diseases among swine, defining the duties of persons and corporations in relation therewith and providing a penalty (H. 19:'.), was approved March 7. 1913. The following sections from this law relate to the disposition of dead animals, and the penalty for violations of the same: Section 8. It shall be unlawful for any person caring for or owning swine thnt have died to allow the carcasses to lie about the fields, yards, pens and

hog houses. Such carcasses shall be disposed of immediately by cremating, or by burying four feet deep and covering with quicklime, or by disposing of them to a state licensed person, firm or corporation licensed to render such carcasses under the rules and regulations of the state veterinarian. Section 12. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall upon conviction

be fined in any sum not less than

twentyJive dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for a first offense, and for a second or subsequet violation a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or to be Imprisoned in the county jail for a period of thirty days or both.

WHEN CLOVER FAILS SOW CROP OF BEANS

The hot, dry weather of the late spring and early summer has been very hard on the young clover, and some farmers are face to face with

the proposition of finding some substitute for this crop which is counted on to supply nitrogen and humus in the crop rotation. On the clay and loam soils of this section of the country, either cow peas or soy beans can be sowed after the wheat is taken off, and under ordinary weather conditions can be counted on making a good growth before frost. Both of these crops are especially

valuable to plow under, as they have the power of gathering nitrogen from the air, and also provide a great deal of organic matter when plowed under. Disk the Ground. Where the young clover has failed, the wheat should be removed from the field as soon as possible, and the ground disked thoroughly with a double disk, or plowed not too deep, and a good firm seed bed prepared. Soy

beans will do best on the loams and clay loam soils, while the cowpeas may be best on the heavier clays. The seed may be drilled in a large wheat drill at the rate of one bushel to the acre. It is not likely that either crop will take much nitrogen from the air unless inoculated with soil from a field where they have been previously grown, but if plowed under in the fall they will greatly enrich the soil

in organic matter. Both crops are good to hog down in the fall, especially if some peas or beans are formed. After peas or beans have been plowed under a good crop of corn can be expected the following year.

Cobb Explains Work as Farm Editor of Pal

In taking charge of the agricultural service department of the Palladium, I feel that the work of the county agent will be broadened and greater opportunity will be given me to reach the farming community. Once a week I will have an agricultural page devoted exclusively to information which will be of interest to farmers in general. I will also write daily articles as the work developes from day to day. It will probably be impossible for me to see each farmer in the county, but I will so far as possible, answer any calls which are made to the Palladium office for my services. I will also endeavor to answer any question pertaining to farm development which are sent to the agricultural editor. In all my work I will have the full co-operation of Purdue university and any questions which I am unable to answer will be submitted to the head of the agricultural department of the university. In taking up the work with the Palladium it is with the sincere desire of being of some actual service to the farming community in this territory. All of my services to the farmers will be absolutely free and no charge whatsoever will be made for any calls for my services. Address all communications to the Agricultural Service Department of the Palladium.

Question Box The editor of the agricultural page will answer questions of farmers, truck gardeners and persons having gardens, through this column. Address Agricultural Editor, The Palladium.

DISEASED GRAPES. We have some grapevines in our backyard and each year many of the grapes fall off? Will you tell me what stings the grapes? Should the grapes be bagged and when? F. S. R. It seems fairly clear that what your grapevines need is a general going over and the adoption of improved methods of management all along the line. Probably they need careful annual pruning, which should be given in January or not later than the first week in February. The specific cause

of the falling of the fruit Is probably the fungous, disease know as mildew. There may be other fungi active on your grapes as, for instance, black rot and posibly bird's-eye rot or anttaracnose. All these fungous diseases can bo controlled pretty effectively by the

timely use of Bordeaux mixture.

It will be too late to secure best results from the use of Bordeaux mixture this year, as the first spraying ehnillrl Ho mnria whan tho first leaves

put out and before the grapes havej

blossomed. It would be worth wnile, however, to give one spraying with this mixture at once, provided the machinery and materials are conveniently at hand. FACTORS ON FARM MAKING PROFITS 1. Low real estate prices. 2. Farm products of classes deficient in supply. 3. Magnitude of the farm business,

(measured either by land farmed or amount of labor required.

4. High quality in products. 5. Reputation of the producer: Applies especially to the production of pure-bred breeding stock. 6. Advantageous marketing. 7. Productiveness of animals kept. 8. Large yield with relatively little labor and fertilizer. 9. Low cost of production. (Involves good farm organization.) 10. Stability of profit depends on the staple character of the products.

ENTERS NUNNERY Miss Mary Berheide, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Edward Berheide. South f ourth street, has left for Evansville to enter the nunnery of St. Clare. Miss Berheide is a graduate of the Immaculate Conception college. She was accompanied by her brother, Rer. Ldward Berheide.

Germany supports nle-tenths of ItM population by products of the soiL

HANDLING OF WHEAT AFTER HARVESTING

ALFALFAJEATS CORN One Acre of Former Equals Four of Corn.

Wayne county farmers are rushing

wheat harvest to its close this week.

The rains of the past week delayed

this work and much of the grain is

now overripe. Unless the crop is carefully handled there will be danger of loss from shattering of the grain, and should there be a period of rainy weather before threshing time, a good deal of grain may sprout in the shock. The average loss of wheat due to exposure in the shock will usually amount to at least five cents per bushel in the flour making value of the wheat. Through exposure to rain and sun the grain loses its bright

color, and the bran becomes brittle on which I am growing alfalfa would

ALFALFA AND CORN. In a recent address Hon. A. P. Grout, the President of the National Alfalfa Growers' Association, stated that one

acre of alfalfa is equal to four acres j of average corn, iie said: j "This season I put at least five tons i of alfalfa to the acre into my barns and it is worth $20 a ton. After this i hay was carefully put into the barn, some of my neighbors began to haul j

corn to the elevator at 50 cents per bushel, and then, for the first time, it. occurred to me that if I had sold my alfalfa for $100 and put that

amount, $11. into corn, it would have given me 200 bushels. Now this land

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so that in the milling process much of

it crumbles and passes through the seives, producing an inferior grade of flour. It used to be customary to stack the wheat, or house it in barns or sheds until threshing time, but a wellbuilt wheat stack is almost a curiosity in Wayne county now-a-days. It will undoubtedly pay to stack wheat and in nearly every case the expense involved will be saved at threshing time, since the market value of the grain will be enough higher to pay for the extra trouble.

be able under the best conditions to

grow 90 or 100 bushels, but I am not : growing any such amount. If I get i 75 bushels per acre, I am doing very i well. That would mean that one acre ; of alfalfa is worth two and one-half acres of -corn, and if I didn't get more j than fifty bushels (and the average ' is not fifty bushels in our county) then ; one acre of alfalfa is equal to four ! acres of corn. There is an incentive j in growing alfalfa.

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Farmers are busy in this vicinity with their wheat and hay making. Clarence Robinson, of Indianapolis, was the guest of Miss Marie Brattain Monday evening. Miss Elvira Piper has returned home after visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Kennedy, of Peru. Ind. Miss Helen Anderson is visiting friends in Cincinnati

The Miller-Kemper Co. GOOD SIGNS WHEN farmers bring their teams to town, and then drive home again, their heavy wagons loaded down with boards and joists, why, then, it is a sign that things are well, the goose is hanging high; and you may safely dance and yell, for better times are nigh. All farmers who are safe and sane like handsome cribs and barns, and for old shacks that let in rain they do not give three darns; but when the hogs are dying off, of cholera or mumps, the farmer, with affliction filled, looks on the old shacks near, and says, "I can't afford to build until some other year." But when the hogs are feeling gay, and everything serene, and all the oats and corn and hay present a healthy green, he hitches up old Kate and Dick and journeys off to town, and then comes homeward pretty quick, with lumber loaded down. And when I see the wagons drill along the country road, each one a-creaking, loud and shrill, beneath its lumber load, I know the country's on the boom, and things will hum once more; and any man who talks of gloom is just a misfit bore. Some people read the Wall Street news to see which way we head, and some keep tab on Henry Clews, to see if we are dead; some follow up what congress does, and think therein they'll find the signs that business will buzz, or maybe fall behind. And some are making frequent notes upon the tariff law, to see if it will get our goats, and dislocate our jaw. But when I want to know the truth, about our future fate, I pass up all such things, forsooth, and sit on my front gate, and watch the farmers going by, upon their way from town, and if with lumber piled up high, their carts are loaded down, I know prosperity's on top, good times are here, you bet; and I go forth and whip a cop and chase a suffragette. Oh, when the farmers spend their hoards for lumber, we enthuse; the granger's wagonload of boards tells more than Henry Clews. Walt Mason. By permission Curtis Sash and Door Co. THE MILLER KEMPER COMPANY Sell the Best Lumber and Building Material at Lowest Prices. We specialize in good Barn Siding, Shingles, Posts, Cement and all Farmers' Needs. N. W 2nd and Center Sts. 3 Phones 3247, 4447, 4347

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