Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-27

ones lie wherever they died. And some
took pains to pile them up n lar0s piles
and then let them lie.
There are others who take care Of
them and burn them up. as should be
done. Ore man told me that Q mas
hauled his sick hogs OF and shipped
them, and they were so poor that some
Of them died in the chute before he
got them into the car. The stock buy.
ers buy those hogs with a good wide
margin and take their chances Of max
ing something out OF 1t. They are
around the hogs in the stockyards. and
then they go right out in the country
and look at hogs, as we'll az other stock.
with the same shoes and clothes on az
hogs in the yards.
Now, people will say why not have
that stopped by the law? II you go to
the officers they want to hold their
Jobs. and they do not want to hurt any
ones feelings by going after them with
the law.
The people. as general rule. do not
want men in office who want 20 en-
force the law. That makes me think OF
one time when 1 was in Chicago. An
other fellow and were standing on the
corner of Michigan avenue and Thirty
ninth street. All at once the people
started to run. didn't know what
was the matter. and I asked the other
fellow. l believe he was a good, law
obcying citizen and good business
man in the yards.
ooh, that's the policeman: he
grabbed q fellow. There can not be
wrong move made but what he sees 1t.
Well I said. II should think he
would be a good man to have on the
police force"
Well" he says, hes too strict"
Some time afterward l was in Chi
cago and 1 asked about that policeman
but he had either been removed or dis
charged, DO not know which.
We have plenty Of laws in the state
Of Iowa for the prevention Of diseases
among hogs, If they were enforced. and
If the hogs were cared for in the proper
! way.
Do you think It is the right thing to
do 10 put $50. 900 or 100000 in the hands
of the state veterinary to do with what
he plesses? ]. for my part, do not. dc
not know anything about the state vet
Urinary of Iowa, but I have heard
people say that DO know him that he
ought never to have been appointed to
that office.
OF course, it will be a mighty nice
thing for those veterinarians to get a
job of $4,000 a year for hanging around
some office smoking cigarets. If this
serum and the veterinarians together
can make all the hogs that are born
<J,,tt he. h,,y,
dredweight.
have raised from 100 to 500 head OF
hogs each year for the last twenty
years. and have sold from $500 te
$500 worth of hogs each Of those
years If / had followed the doctrine
Of those agricultural papers and the
agricultural colleges I would have beer
| broken up in business long ago.
The only reason 1 can see that those
| people take a great interest in the
farmers Is to get them to vote
for people who will help to get plenty
! Of money contributed to them.
Now. IL the report is true. there arr
more business men breaking up in. bus.
| mess than there are farmers. And
those business men certainly pay some
| taxes. too.
| Why not have special train out
| with a stock OF goods. and up-to date
business men and clerks, to show thu
| business men how TO manage Their
/, business? There would be just as much
sense to that as to show the farmer:
! how to manage their farms. Whether
/ he is business man or farmer. IL h
f, makes a financial success 1t is natural
/ ~ born III him.
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