Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-15
Most of Them Alive to the
Danger of Foot and Mouth
Disease
PAYING FOR ACTUAL LOSSES
Man Whose Cattle Are Killed While the
One Whose Cattle Die Get Nothing
The Early Snow Has Been Hard
ship on the Farmer-MucI1 Corn Yet
in the Fields.

Union, Dec. 15-The asking of an APP
preparation of $1,000,000 by congress tc
stamp out the foot and mouth diseases
now raging among the herds in the
New England states, is the source OF
considerable argument among the
farmers who take the dairy papers and
who have watched the course of
farmers who are kicking about the use
less waste of so much money, but the
great majority say, appropriate S1O,-
100000 il necessary to successfully
wipe out the disease. AS usual the APP
preparation goes to cover the costs and
paying for actual cattle killed-but
nothing goes to the men whose stock
have died. This is an injustice, as the
mans cattle which died were OF as
much value as those killed, and If one
should be paid for so should the other.
Another thing peculiar is that these
cattle which will be killed are like the
ones the railroads kill "only the best"
The recent and severe snow storm
has caught the farmers this year worse
than in good many years past. The
extremely wet season and severe winds
had laid the corn low and it made pick
ing slower than usual. 1t would be safe
to say that the average that one man
could pick this year would be less than
fifty bushels per day, so that when the
snow came there was lots of corn in the
field and it is there yet and there Is no
telling when 1t will be out. This has
worked hardship in more ways than
the actual loss of the corn, as the corn
can not be picked without hunting in
from four to six inches of snow. There
was very little corn cut up this year as
the ground was too wet to run ma
chine The intention was to let the cat
tie run in the stocks, but nearly every
farmer has from fifteen to fifty acres of
corn in the field. He can't feed his
stalks until he gets his corn husked
which is impossible, so there he is
without either his corn or his fodder.
AT sale few days ago stack OF hay
brought 80 per ton in the stack and the
cattle at the sale went for song, which
must go to show that the farmers are
long on cattle and short on feed.
Speaking of feed, there are many
men feeding this years corn and have
been making some inquiries as to how
the animals were taking on fat. The
opinions of good many are that cat
tile are doing nicely. I asked one man
who had two carloads in the yard, how
his were doing, and he said: You see
that blue roam Well, two weeks ago
today I weighed him and he weighed
1,460 !, pounds, today I weighed him
again and he weighed 1,555 pounds, on
95 lbs in IA days, or an average of
about Z lbs. day: my other cattle are
doing equally as well.' To the uniniti-
ated this seems wonderful and other
men to whom told this story smiled.
They do say figures don't lie.'
Different farmers have different
ways of feeding that are interesting.
One man made this statement and it
seemed reasonable so I will repeat it..
Take Sc lbs. of corn as basis and
feed in three different ways, on the
cob, shelled and ground. His state.
ment is that the corn on the cob will
produce more than the shelled corn,
and the shelled corn more than the
ground His theory is that every AMI
NAL has three stomachs. That corn
on the cob goes to No. 8, then to No.
|2 and then to No. /, and that during
this process all the good is obtained
from the d.whereas corn meal OF
corn ground goes direct to No. /, there
by missing No. 2 and No. 8, and the
good is not obtained therefrom.
Whether he had tried this and these
We're actual results or simply theories
am unable to state.
1t looks to a person driving thru the
country as tho there was a good open
ing for several members of the society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Ami
mails In field after field can be seen
cattle punched up in circle, each one
trying to get to the center so as to
get the warmth and wind protection
from his kind. Why it is that men will
go to church on Sunday and be very
devoted and will not take daily news
paper that contains an advertisement
of some particular brand of beer, but
Will tuih Tic Setlllc anu liolS oul III
the field in cold weather without even
the protection of a straw or hay stack
| is beyond the understanding of lay
man. But such are the facts. Today
was cornered by a Reohat prohibition
lists and compelled to listen to his the
cries on the suppression of the terrible
habit Of using liquor, while he pro-
ceeded to spit tobacco at the stove
three yards away. This same man
invited me to come out to meeting"
at his church tonight, and at the same
time his cattle We're out paving the
snow away trying to find something
to eat. GEO. r. THAYER
IRRGHIS DISEASES