The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-12-28
JUST HAY.
Is not King, But 1t Stacks Up Close to
the Throne.

At length hay stands vindicated and
exalted before the American people.
It is under no obligations to anybody
for the prominence it has achieved,
for it has been compelled to forge it's
way to the front against all forms of
opposition, against every species of
prejudice, against obstacles that
would have discouraged the proudest
of our cereals and wilted the most
pretentious of our vegetables.
The hay crop of the United States is
second only to the corn crop, the
market value of this years yield be-
ing no less than $605, 100000, and for
the first time within living memory it
is not only noticed on the front page,
but in the Introduction, and within
few inches of the displayed head.
For ages poets have sung of the
meadows, but they have barely men
toned hay. They have, it is true,
here and there referred to the per-
fume of the new mown article, but
with no special regard to hay itself.
They have gone a-haying, as they
have gone a-Maying, and after reach
ing the picnic ground they have talked
of the daisies and the buttercups and
the daffodils, and all that, but never
thought of devoting a stanza to hay
for it's own sake.
When the descriptive novelist has
touched upon hay at all it was only
that he might describe the haymak-
ers; the crop did not concern him,
and the historian, whose business it
should be to observe the influence of
everything upon everything, was
never known to open chapter by
saying that at the time he is now
speaking of the country he is touch
ing on was prosperous because the
hay crop was the best it had known
for several harvests
The average man, looking at load
or bale of hay, is never touched as he
is when looking at bushel of wheat
or a crate of watermelons or case of
Strawberries, and yet hay represents
the second greatest product of our
country, and failure of the hay
would be a national calamity.
We do not, of course, consume hay
in it's raw state, but we eat it in our
butter and our beef, and sometimes in
our breakfast food, but the point that
we should consider the most seriously
is that in the midst of the gasoline
fever-the automobile fever-at a
time when it sometimes looks along
our principal boulevards as if hay
had seen it's best days, the crop is
larger than ever, while the price per
ton of all prime qualities justi6es the
belief that the American horse has
not gone to stay.
Hay is not King, but it stacks up
pretty close to the corn shock.-Chi-
cago Inter-Ocean.
a New Serum for Tuberculosis.
During a series of extensive expert
ments with a quantity of bovo vaccine
sent by Professor Behring, the serum
expert, for use at a gathering of the
most eminent physicians in France at
Melun, it was demonstrated that this
serum prevents tuberculosis among
cattle.
The experiments conducted at Me-
lun, it is the general belief of the doc
tors present, constitute the greatest
step yet taken toward the discovery
of a serum for the prevention and
cure of tuberculosis among human
beings.
Doctors pronounced the experiments
at Melun absolutely conclusive. I'm
der the supervision of Professor
Vellee, of the Abort Medical college,
and Secretary Rissignol of the Society
OF Veterinary Surgeons, forty head of
cattle were procured. A number of
these were inoculated with bovo
vaccine. These, with number of
others not vaccinated, were placed
among still other cattle already
afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis.
The unvaccinated cattle contracted
the tuberculosis, while those inocu-
lated with the bovo vaccine proved to
he immune from the disease.
Then the experiments we're repeated,
but this time, to demonstrate fully the
power of the bovo vaccine by inocula-
ton instead of mere contact. A num-
Der of fresh cattle not uco6 in +bo f,.+
series of experiments had the bovo
vaccine injected into the veins and
under the hide. They and others not
treated with the bovo vaccine were
inoculated with a virulent culture of
pulmonary tuberculosis.
The effect was equally decisive.
The unvaccinated cattle took pulmon-
airy tuberculosis in it's worst form.