Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-06
NAMES OF WEEDS AND BUGS
Iowa State Agricultural College is
Instructing Farmers.
COLLECTIONS TO INSTITUTES
Health Omcers of state VIII
Gather I'm Des Moines During
Middle of october to
Confer.
(From a staff Correspondent

CFrom a Staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES. oct. 6--(Special.)-In
determination to educate the farmers Of
the state as we'll as their sons the Iowa
state Agricultural college has prepared
and has ready to send out cases giving
samples Of all the weeds, weed seeds
economic plants and their seeds and the
bugs and insects of the state that are in.
furious to crops together with Information
concerning them so that the farmers may
inform themselves.
Prof. Holden of the state college. who
has taken a leading part in the plan tc
have agriculture taught in the country
schools, has lectured much to teachers in
~stitutes at which he outlines the work OF
teaching agriculture, and he has always
at such times pointed out that the founda.
ton ON which to teach agriculture is a
knowledge of all the plants and insects
Of the-state.
Along this line, and knowing that many
farmers are totally unable to identify
much of the seeds and insects of the
state the college has prepared these cases.
There are about SEQ complete collections,
each collection giving one specimen Of each
plant and weed mounted on cardboard and
sprayed to keep off insects, and a small
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Of bugs, worms, beetles and the like are
preserved in formalin ard the moths and
butterflies are mounted on cotton. All are
labeled with both the common and the
scientific name.
1t is the purpose Of the college to sell
these at cost, which will be about S. for
each collection, to farmers Institutes, farm
ers' clubs, schools and other institutions
over the state so that they will be accessi-
BILE to the farmers Of the state for study
and comparison. There will also be dis
tributed with them a pamphlet giving full
descriptions of each with methods for
eradicating the weeds and insects. The cost
cannot be accurately estimated yet for the
work will not be completed for a few
weeks. but It will be about IS for each set.
It is proposed to use them much at the
short courses.
Health Men Next Week.
Health officers of the state, sanitary ex-
perts and city officials will gather in Des
Moines along with the members of the
State Board of Health for the annual con-
ference on October 10 to Is. The meetings
of the State Board of Health will be held
the first two days and the conference the
last two days. The headquarters will be at
the Wellington and the meetings held at
the Young Mems Christian association au-
ditorium and it is expected that the gath
ering will be one of the most important
of the year.
Health officers, doctors, city officials and
municipal experts generally will read papers
and discuss problems of health and city
government at these meetings. The differ
ence in the duties OF health officers and
city physicians will be discussed the fore
noon of October 10 by City Physician
Losh of Des Moines and Mrs. Baird, Sec
rotary of the Iowa Humane society, will
discuss social problems.
In the afternoon there will be the pres
dents address by DR.. e. Warren Doc
little OF Garden Grove; a paper on "A
Clean City" by Mayor Ingledue of Mar
shalltown; "Venereal Diseases" by DR..
e. L. Eiker of Leon. a member of the
State Board of Health; Carriers of Con-
tagious and Infectious Diseases" by DR..
j. NJ. Jordan of Grand Mound.
On the evening of that day there Will
be an address on tuberculosis by A. L.
Kepford, the agent of the State Board
Of Control, with stereopticon illustra-
lions, and the general public as well as
the member of the conference are in
vited.
The forenoon of October 16 will be de-
voted to the discussion Of public health
problems and the duties of Officers, by
DR.. Henry Albert, the bacteriologist of
the State Board Of Health, DR.. A. p.
Hanch EFT of the State Board Of Health
and DIR. George f.. Decker, also of the
State Board of Health.
In the afternoon there will be a feature
Of considerable interest in that DIR. G. A.
Johnston, a United States inspector of
the bureau of animal Industry, will nave
fresh samples Of meats Of all kinds, both
of that affected with tuberculosis and
other diseases and that of perfectly
healthy. In view of the agitation of
the subject of tuberculosis this is ex-
pected to be of special interest. George
Cosson, assistant attorney general, will
discuss the problem of aymen of quar-
antine expenses of local boards of health
from the legal standpoint. and DR.. B. l..
Eiker, a member Of the State Board of
Health, will discuss sanitary legislation.
Move Bodies to Iowa.
keokuk is expecting 10 witness the unus-
ual ceremony OF the removal Of the bodies
of eighty persons to the national cemetery
at keokuk. The eighty bodies are now
buried at Fort Yates. North Dakota, and
must be removed from there because of the
government opening the lands there to set
tIenlent. Inc undertakers of Keokuk have
been asked to bid on the work of removing
The bodies from the railroad depot to the
national cemetery. 1t is expected that the
bones Of old Sitting Bull will be among
the number. The others are officers and
soldiers who died in the service Of the
government.
suit Against Voting Machine.
The suit against voting machines. which
is threatened to be started in this city,
has called to the attention of politicians
that under the voting machine the tail
end of the ticket will not suffer, as 1t Is
feared It will when the paper ballot is
used with the circle off the ballot. For
the first time in Iowa at a presidential
election the circle will be off the ballot
in Iowa. 1t was taken off at the session
of the legislature in 1896 and it was
shown then that man would not vote
beyond the important offices.
When the circle was left at the head
of the Australian ballot the voter could
make a cross in nat circle and his vote
counted for the entire ticket from top
to bottom. Under the law now II is
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