Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-12
Tuberculosis Among Hogs.

TOauS is SucTl d IOTIuludDlS
as is sometimes believed.
Tuberculosis Among Hogs.
In packing circles there is consiier-
able heard on the subject of tubeicu-
losis among hogs. That more car
casses are being cut down than recent
~ is evident, but 1t is attributed to a
more rigid inspection. j. w. Martin,
a. Kansas City hog buyer, talking to
the Star said:
More hogs are tanked, to be true, but
the reason is a more rigid inspection
on the part Of the government officials.
Only few years ago l remember
when there was no inspection of pork,
and before the hogs were sent to the
killing thutes those that seemed in
fected or in any way not healthy we
put in a. pen by themselves. and later
tanked the whole lot. Now there is a
post mortem examination Of the en-
tire carcass. The government inspector
comes around with his magnif,ing
glass, hook and lance, and not sa It's
fed with examining the meat ex:lm-
ines the intestines also. If germ Of
any kind is found, away goes the en-
bought top load Of hogs at this m ar
ket one day in January. They weighed
800 pounds, were even in size and
perfectly healthy so far as could ell
At the killing chutes thirty-six Of the
eighty We're ordered to the tank by the
government inspectors. The meat rvas
perfectly sound in every way. but
germs were discovered on the intes-
tines. For some time our house has
been making a very close investiga-
ton of the causes of tuberculosis lnd
we find without exception tuberculosis
among swine has its origin in skim1aed
milk. Ninety nine per cent of tut,er-
cular hogs come from tho dairies.
IF the government and any firm. in
the United States Can discover me ans
whereby the loss occasioned by tank
ing apparently sound hogs can be lis
posed of millions will be saved for the
packers and the price of pork will be
reduced to the consumer II shipper
has to abide a post mortem he will be
forced out Of business or else havs to
buy on a margin $1.50 to $1.75 be low
market quotations. II feeder has to
fatten hogs on 40 per cent corn and
| out of a bunch of eighty loses six, his
profit would be nothing at present
market quotations. The only thing I
can see to do Is to keep on in the
same way and quit feeding SKINNED
milk"
Canada ThistIes-How to Kill Thorn.
Thirty years ago l got patch from
! buying seed oats of a seedman, writes
Fl. l.. Davis, to the Prairie Farmer.
kept them cut, cutting every two
! weeks. Then l run my knife down,
cutting them about two inches below
the surface of the ground filling the
hole with coal oil. But never knew
of it's killing thistle. Then plowed
the ground Gas it was in timothy and
! planted to corn, cultivating with d
surface cu1tivator pulling out every
one the cultivator did not take. In
two years they were all gone. never
have seen one since on that ground.
There is a patch less than a mile
west Of me in Lee county that has
been growing II think over thirty
years, and the last few years has been
somewhat neglected; the result is, four
years ago my son Wyman found a
patch in our pasture that had never
been plowed: the grass was a foot
high. We moved 1t close to the ground,
burned it over and sailed the ca tile
and horses there, sowing the salt
broadcast on the whole patch. I fol-
lowed this up, not feeding them salt.
anywhere else, in spring, summer or
fall, and have not seen thistle in
two years, as a result of sailing.
Last June I was repairing fence and
discovered a patch Of Canada thistles
(Which had apparently washed down
from the old patch above mentioned:
as the old patch is on the bank of the
creek that runs thru my farm). I once
began the sailing and now there is not
a thistle to be seen there. Then ags in,
August 81, my son found another
patch and the next morning dug them
all out, putting them in a steel basket.
carrying them to the stove and burn
ing them, for fear there might be seed
in them Then gave the ground thor
ough sailing, which will be kept UP till
they are dead, as we believe. I saw
the man who owns the land where the
old patch is and he told me he kr ew
nothing about them till this summer
when they had ripened, he hav .ng
recently bought the farm. He told m.
he did not know what to do with than.
SO 1 think there may be others who
would like to read my experience.
therefore give 1t to the public who
read this paper.
also think the horse nettle can be
Ljllad in rho same waV