The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-13
Waiting tor Better Prices.

The loss to farmers in holding on
TO their stored crops for better prices
may be estimated at millions every
year. We do not say but that some
times they gain by it, but, on the
whole, the risk is great, and three
times out of four is losing one.
The waste from shrinkag: and vermin
alone is considerable, but our exper-
ience is that, besides this, it is bet
ter to sell when there is demand,
and the crop is ready for the market.
The grower, at least, has in his pocket
the going price Of his products, and
if he ha, a surplus to put out on in
terest, or interest to pay, he hiss the
of the time between quick
and delayed sales, and is, at least,
tree ofall risk, as above stated. 1t is
true that when there is no doubt of a
s ,arcity, say Of wheat, the chances
might be in favor of holding over;
but when this fact is reco ognized
one, and should be pursued as nat
ural course by holders in general,
surplus market must be the result,
and a decline in prices must follow.
The truth 10, that whatever course
we take should be grounded on our
best Judgement, aud then if we fail in
our expectations we are
bound to submit to the consequences
the best we can. Our own faith, we
repeat, would rest in disposing OF the
crop while it is intact, sound, unin-
jured, and the product added safely
to our bank account t-Germanto,un
Telegraph.
Prevention of Hydrophobia.
French science may indeed claim a
new title to the gratitude of human
ity. While granting this, we do not
wish to rush to the hasty conclusion
that hytlrophobia is to be bAnished
from our midst; only, it we can be-
lieve our eyes and cars, it seems that
we are within measurable distance of
this glad state. What has Pasteur
done? He has-if our information
be accurate, and we have no reason
to doubt it-done something to twen.
ty-three dogs, thereby rendering
them. at any rate for time, incapa.
bic of suffering from rabies. Side by
sitle with the free animals he has
placed others which may be regard
ed as servile to the yoke of hydrop-
hobia. OF the latter series, six were
bitten by mad dogs, three OF them
becoming mad; eight were subjected
to intravenous inoculation, all becom-
ing mad; and five to incubation by
;rcpanning. all likewise becoming mad.
On this showing, sixteen out ofnine-
;een dogs died when a dose OF the
virus of rabies was sown in them
of twenty-t three protected
logs, none succumbed, although the
virus was brought in the most effect
1al manner into the tissues of each |
.nimal. It is a we'll known fact that
many more persons are bitten by |
'abid animals than suffer from hy-
lrophobia. What the exact proper
ion may be is not satisfactorily |
known, but in dogs it would appear
hat about half the number bitten |
become rabid. There arc two ex-|
olanations OF the escape. The first
IS expressed by saying that no virus
sets into the tissues of the body. |
The second suggestion, though possi-
bic, is less plain. It is to the effect
That some organisms are unsuitable for
the Development Of the rabid poison
There is analogy for this contention.
Some individuals are believed to be
insusceptible to the poison Of scarlet
lever, and this statement also applies
10 other acute specific diseases. The
1uestioner OF nature may ask how
these k.cts.are to be explained2 And