The Greeley tribune., 1906-03-08

one animal, and likely as not on the
next one the needle would stick and
that animal would get nothing.
Thus they would hurry from one
animal to another without cleaning
the instrument, and in a great many
cases inoculate the different animals
with the disease but not with the
vaccine. The utmost cleanliness and
care in the operation must be exer-
cised to make it successful.
The doctor stated that there was
practically no such thing as cure
for disease. About the only thing
that could be done was to make con-
ditons as favorable as possible for
the recovery Of the animal and then
let nature do the rest. He told
about being called out in the country
recently to treat sick mule. He
found the animal lying in a mud
hole in the barnyard, with the ther-
mometer registering close to zero.
Then the farmer expected him TO
furnish some magic cure that would
cause the mule to jump up and frisk
about the yard. According to his
idea diseases in domestic animals
could in most cases be traced to i'm
proper care and ignorance.
Forestry Talk.
F. w. Besley of the U. S. forest
service gave little talk on tree
planting and urged the farmers to
consider this most important ques-
tion as part of the regular farm
work. He showed by statistics the
actual benefit of hedge row of trees
around a field. Taking calm as
the standard, a wind blowing twelve
miles an hour would evaporate just
four times as much water from the
soil as would calm. "A row of trees
around field would break this wind
and greatly conserve the moisture.
He also pointed out the conven-
ience for the farmer of having a
little grove of trees on the place,
from which he could cut needed tim
ber, for posts and other uses. Among
the trees recommended for various
reasons was the black locust, black
walnut, honey locust, white elm and
a few others. These would all do
fairly we'll in this climate.
Senator Ammons Talks.
At the afternoon session Senator
E. II. Ammons of Castle Rock was
the first speaker and live stock and
hog feeding was his topic. Mr.. Am
mons is especially live stock man.
He urged the farmers in this section
to try a car load or two of stock each
year, in connection with their fam
ing. "Take young stock, - he said,
land force the feeding from the
start. II possible take calves from
their mothers in the fall, feed we'll
until about the middle of next win
ter and they will make money for
the owner.'' January and February
are always good marketing months,
he says, and the prices are high.
The assurance that Denver would
hereafter be market capable of TAX
ing care of tie entire production of
the state, meant a much better
chance for the stockman to make
money. Feeding on the farm and
feeding we'll had one great adsan-
tage over Ranging, in that it put the
stock in condition to demand the
highest price, as the meat would be
of much better qaulity. He men,
j toned carload of prize winning
stock at the recent live stock show
; in Denver which brought 10 cents a
pound, and the buyer, who was from
!, New York, had come prepared to
j pay $2O to S25 the hundred be-
; cause he wanted the very best beef
that could be grown.
) The advantage of taking real
young stock and forcing it into con-
dition for market as early as posi-
, BILE, lay chiefly in disposing of the
dead weight of carrying stock over
two or three years, and then finding
it harder to prepare it for market,
and even then producing an inferior
} class of meat. with the live stock
market right here at home all
, shrinkage from shipment would also
be obviated.
On hog feeding he said he believed
we had the conditions in this state
, for making the finest and best pay
, ing pork in the world. Although
} we could not raise corn here to ad-
, vantage, we could raise barley and
other feed grains, that not alone
! made better quality of meat, but
more of it, and cheaper than corn
If we wanted to raise lard hogs, corn
! was the best feed, but for meat the