The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-26
AGRICULTURAL TRAIN HERE
Commissioner Peck and His Ad-
vent in Union City.


time last Thursday afternoon Quite a
number of people were in town to take
a look through the cars.
There were health and educational
exhibits, directing attention to causes OF
disease and prevention.
A department of fruits and vegetables
was seen in one car, showing the equip
ment of growers who are making money
in this line of business, together with
the improved methods of the industry.
In the dairying line there was an
interesting department, complete ex-
liibit of everything required in the farm
dairy for producing the best butter and
dairy experts who brought out many
new ideas and useful suggestions in the
field of dairy work, one of the leading
industries on the farm.
Another department consisted of soils
and crops, developing the adaptability
of particular branches of farming to
suitable soils. The growing of profitable
crops has concerned the farmers of this
county for many years. The wheat
crop has been more or less disappoint-
ment, and if ever it is to be success
there will have to be some changes made
in the treatment of the soil or the culti-
vation of the crop. The chances are
that some other crop or crops would be
more valuable.
There was an interesting department
of live stock with animals most profit
able and useful in connection with our
rural industries. For dairying there
were the Jersey and Holstein. For
beef there were the Herefords, Short
horns, Aberdeen, Angus. There were
Berkshire, Hampshire, and Duroc Jer-
sey hogs. In sheep the best breeds. Theer
were typical birds in poultry, and pos
sibiities were shown in all of these lines.
Every department was presided over
by competent lecturer.
The train was stationed here and the
exhibits were open for two or three
hours. There was larger attendance
than usual at this kind of enterpris.
Quite a number of our neighbors,
men and women, passed through the
cars and took an interest in the work.
At the park in the evening quite
number of our people assembled to hear
the lectures of DR.. White, food inspect
or, and DR.. West, of the State Health
Department, with lantern slides illustra-
ting these subjects. DR.. White told of
the fact that food inspection began with
the export of meats to foreign countries.
This trade demanded the inspection of
meat Or refused to buy. The inspection
was made, and from that point started
domestic inspection. If impure meats
were Objectionable to European countries
they were certainly detrimental to our
own people, and Uncle Sam opened the
inspection industry, but this inspection
had not reached systematic or thorough |
stage until the year 1906. From that
time the bureau had perfected its work
and extended it to all the States and
larger concerns handling meats. Slides
were seen exhibiting ante and post
mortem inspection, and in series of
pictures were shown the different stages
Of diseased carcasses. Cows shown fat
and in apparently good condition were
literally lined with tuberculin, while
other cows very lean were not diseased
1t all. Hogs, the m 0st dangerous of all
meats, were infected with tuberculin,
,holera germs and tri china. Trichina
s shown in the cells of infected meat in
he shape of looped and knotted worms,
which transmit to the consumers of the
neat the disease known rs trichinosis,
-ery tortuous and often tai H. The tape
vorm is shown in both hogs and cattle
nd is capable of transmission. One of
hese species is developed with head
which, if taken into human body, is
eldom discharged. The cholera in hogs
somewhat similar to typhoid fever in
he human body The diseased parts
re spotted with the infection, which is
cry harmful to the human race.
Infection is not only transmitted in
be consumption OF meat foods. but in
airying products. DIR. White opened
is lecture with some views of unsanitary
laughter houses, and stated that one
lould not have to go far from Union
'ity to find them Other scenes repre-
ented unsanitary dairy houses and
arms and the transmissie \ disease
rom cows to hogs. I
When DR.. White closed Br. West,