The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-31

a COW having tue disease does not
transmit IL TO her calf at birth. This
makes il possible 10 keep her offspring
from contracting IL 10y feeding il ster-
ilized milk or putting IL with . COW
which is free from the disease. BY do
ing this the calves Of valuable fun
blooded dams have been saved for
useful careers.
While the brown Swiss breed Of cat
tie do not equal any Of the four lead
ing dairy breeds In milk and butter
production. they still are making "A
very satisfactory showing for dairy
purposes They are not only dccile
and easily handled. but possess large
frames and beefy quarters. Four of
these cows owned by the Michigan
Agricultural college showed n milk
yield for the past year ranging from
S.12O pounds OF milk producing Aps
pounds Of butter To lo.l pounds OF
milk giving I51 pounds OF butter.
In view OF the killing freeze in the
fore part Of October the corn belt
farmer in sections where the freeze
was heavy has no more important task
in hand during the next few weeks
than that OF looking up and testing his
supply OF seed corn for next year.
Maybe enough corn can be secured
from shocks in fields which were cut
before the freeze. yet there are many
who will have to send to distance fot
seed which will germinate. In any
event the job OF securing seed Of good
vitality should not be postponed until
next March or April. when the scram-
BILE for seed will De fierce and when Q
lot Of tail enders are going To set left.
Perhaps the largest authenticated
yield OF corn ever recorded was that
produced by John Sundberg. president
Of the Iowa Corn Growers association
the past season. the amount being 153
bushels and 81 pounds from q single
acre. or just five times the average an.
nual yield. A justice Of the peace
made affidavit that he personally meas
ured the acre OF ground and weighed
the corn. The patch from which the
corn was taken WAS an acre and Q half
in extent aud produced in all PA bush
els. The owner says II took seven
years to get such a yield. the result
being in part due to proper care Of the
soil and thick planting and as largely
to continual selection and breeding up
Of the seed corn. There Is something
in this record for corn growers To think
about
There are many towns In the more
recently settled portions OF the west
and some in sections not 30 recently
settled which pride themselves much
on their push and enterprise that act
all too literally upon that Scripturai
injunction. Let the dead past bury Its
dead" and allow their burial grounds
to remain in a shabby. unkempt con-
dition that is a positive disgrace not
only to the dead. but the living chiefly.
There is mighty little excuse for such
neglect. for the matter could be RENE
died easily were the care of the Gene
terry placed in the hands OF an associa-
ton Of wide awake. sympathetic wom-
en-, who. in addition to annual dues.
could pull on the community in one
way and another for financial aid suf-
fcient to give the cemetery the care it
ought to have.
The Illinois state board Of health
has lately issued an order which pro-
vides that all cows in the state must
be subjected to the tubesculin test
and those found affected branded
with u letter IT, upon the right ear.
The enforcement Of this regulation. II
Is thought. will put a stop to the traf-
&c in tuberculous cows and the sale
OF milk from them an o6ense which
is punishable with q heavy hne. Only
those animals which are provided with
an inspection aud health certificate
countersigned by the state vetefina-
rian may be kept to furnish q milk
supply. In the past the diseased cows
have been sold to interruptions dairy
men aud the polluted. germ laden milk
pesidled for the consumption OF little
children. Other states should follow
the lead Of Illinois In this most com
mendabIe plan for conserving the pub
lie health.
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