Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1892-12-29

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to defend the rights and Just honors OF
manual training, I hurled back its un-
gracious assailants. Allow me to give
one OF the most powerful arguments
against Mr.. q gentleman of high
standing, who is principal of a ST. Louis
school, stated that elf the making of
bread and butter were the only objects
OF an education, he wished he were
dead Thousand times rather,n where
upon he went off in strain repeating
some poetical quotations, which requir-
ed no higher grade of ofintelligenee than
q parrot has. Do you suppose this oen-
/ tleman ever thought for moment how
many people had to toll with their
hands IN order that he could hold his
present position. For sure we, as Q
people, would not exist without the
honest toilers.
Another gentleman of equal stand
ing stated that there was no educa-
uonal value in manual training and
proceeded to compare them to trade
school. Taking these men, who took
the Held against me, educated as they
! were, possessing the intelligence that
Ills customary to accord them on ac-
count of their position, have never
before seen class of men get up to
debate question upon which, to my
mind, they displayed such total igno-
rance, and Ifeel free to say that doubt
II ever any of them ever was i'm the
building of manual training school TO
witness the work done or has ever
studied q curriculum as laid down In
such an institution.
"a manual training school Is no
trade school. We do NJ make it our
object to teach a trade. The trade Ia
one of the things that follow for the
studies taught. We teach the boys
how to do thing successfully, explain
ing the principles involved, giving
showing them how not to do it."
The last thing on the program
for Thursday evening was the talk
OF StateVeterinarian Tom ]. Turner,
illustrated with stereopticon views.
He discussed parasites as famiIiarly
as if they We're Irish potatoes and
did not seem bit disconnected at
the big and tangling questions that
were asked him by the farmers in
the audience. He handled trichane
and all the other PARASITES, talked
OF spawn and big jaw and all the
other ills that stock suffer from.
DR.. Turner presented first a pic
ture of the fungus causing big jaw
in cattle. They are red and club
shaped, larger at one end than the
other. They appear on food stuffs
and gain entrance to the animal
economy by means of abrasions to
skin or mucous membrane of
cafious tooth. They also affect the
human family, causing tumors. 1t
is then not a local but a systemic
disease. All diseased animals should
be condemned as food.
The liver fluke undergoes many
metamorphic changes, from sheep
to ground, larval form which enters
molusk and undergoes two changes
from molusk to water, then attaches
itself to swamp grasses upon which
sheep feed, thus entering the sys-
tenn of the animal.
Triehane spiralis in pork causes
the same tn the human. All pork
should be well cooked as thereby
the germ, if there be any, is killed.
The period of invasion is the pain
full stage. When in great numbers
these parasites cause improper as
similation and death. Germany is
very prone to it because the people
eat SO much raw meat, hence the
objection to American hogs.
"Gid' in sheep is the hydatid
form of Tenia Canurus of dog. II
is gotten from the eggs in the grass.
"Gid" is another name for Turn
side"
Grub in the head in sheep is simi-
lar to the bot fly of the horse. 1t
causes no serious damage.
The Oestris Equus or Knit fly of
horse causes the bot of the horse.
The eggs are deposited on the limbs
of the animals, hatch and the larvae
gains entrance to the horses stom-
ach and remain there six months,
pass out, enter the ground and lay
in dormant state until spring, when
they come out as a full fiedged fly
again. They do not often cause
serious trouble.
FRIDAY MORNING.
| The session was held in the
County Court House. The first
discussion was that of ]. L. Erwin
upon "Dairing in Missouri. Many
dairies have failed in Missouri and
he gave some of the reasons for this
and their remedies. He said: "By
feedings the grain and grasses on
the land we are enabled to return
the fertility and add to it and thus
keep it all good as it was primarily.
l would not advise large dairies, but
la larger number of small ones.
Make the size of the dairy depend
on the size of the family that can do
the work.. Success depends on the
strict attention given to the work of
keeping the COWS in good condition
and making their product go as far
as possible. You must be minute
man 365 days in each year. The
labor is not hard but ii must be
prompt as the blows of the black
smith or the work of the successful
baker Of bread.
i "Mexico is noted for its fast
horses. But the COW bears closer