Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-21

the Pasteur treatment in time. not one
case in dozen proves fatal.
Typhoid fever may be contracted b!
drinking water containing the germs.
also by bathing in streams ut II low
stage of water which have been con
taminated by sewage.
The enormous total Of 76.934G75 bar
rels Of cement was the output of mills
in this country last year, being an III
crease of 100000 barrels over the
production of the year before.
Records are usually interesting:
hence the performance Of Jumbo. a
frog in charge of the Lincoln park 700
in Chicago. is worth giving. Not long
ago tab was kept on the frog. and it
was found that in q period of one hour
1t devoured 2G6 flies
In baking test made lately in
Hutchinson. Kan. 1t was found that
one barrel of -four made Of the best
grade Of Turkey hard wheat made
324 one pound loaves, while barrel
of average good wheat made 302
loaves of similar weight.
1t is questionable which sort of neg
ect is the more cruel. leaving horse
for hours without blanket on the
village street on cold winter day or
hitched to the same post without fly
net in July or August when the mer-
curry is crowding the 100 mark.
Through the middle west, where on
July early potatoes were retailing for
10 cents q peck, it will be entirely
proper to serve murphies in cut glass
dishes with the best silver in the
house. Here's hoping that taters will
get down to Queensware basis before
snow flies, but at the present writing
the prospect isn't particularly tlatter
ing
Good horse sense and just a fair re
gard for sanitary considerations would
seem to suggest to all retailers of
| fruits, as we'll as to the housewife who
gathers fruit from her own garden.
the wisdom of covering fruit when
thus exposed with mosquito netting to
keep off flies that may have come to it
direct from barnyard, cesspool or dead
animals in the neighbOrhood.
The proposition that thousands OF
those living in the drought belt from the
ninetieth meridian west have been up
against has been a soil SO dry that field
and garden seeds sowed in April have
not yet gerlninated. In some of these
sections there seems to be sufficient
moisture beneath six inch dust
mulch. but unfortunately the seeds
were put in above this level.
Some poultry specialists in the EN-
pOy Of the Connecticut experiment
station have proved quite conclusively
that germs of white darrhea. which
is most destructive poultry disease,
trace their origin to the mother hen
being transmitted by her to the eggs
which she lays; hence at Matching
time the little chick has the germs in
its own system This announcement
does not offer much along the line of
possible prevention. but is welcome
because it is definite and gives a basis
on which to make further progress
Within the last year or two the al
-
menace TO the growers of this leSume
in Utah and some other mountain
states In making search for some
means for Keeping the pest in check
the department of agriculture learned
that in Italy there was natural para
site of this particular weevil. Accord
ngy agents of the department We're
sent to Italy and a supply of the para
sites shipped under cold storage to this
country. and they are now being dis
tributed in the sections infested with
the weevil Naturally. results will be
watched with great interest.
AS showing the great need that eS
lists Of keeping sources of milk supply
and the conditions under which it is
handled as nearly germ free as pos
sible. may be cited an instance which
has come TO light recently in Engle
wood. n Chicago suburb, where thirty
four cases of typhoiC fever have been
traced to the milk OF flairyman who
supplied their want g this line
Going further back y tn authori
ties traced the typh ms TO the
dairyman'S daughter So duty II
was to wash the milk rs. and who
was found to he Il tyI hold carrier. rs
4 result Of IN attack Of the disease
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