Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-02
SEARSsoRo FARMER WHO HAS
WATCHED RESULTS OF vAcci.
NATION MAKES PREDICTION.
COSTLY MISTAKES TO BE
AVOIDED IN FUTURE
Thinks Disease in Future Will, Like
Smallpox, Be Shorn Of Dangers
Example Of Profit in Hog Raising
c. e. Wilson's Rural observa.
tons.
Special to Times-Repubiican.

local situation, one of the best posted
said: About one-,hird OF the 1913
hog crop in this locality has been
swept awav bv disease. The usua!
number Of cattle is here either on feed
or ready for summer feeding when the
time comes There has been about an
average crop Of corn s-own here this
year and practically the entire yield
vii. be fed up. This is the last great
epidemic OF hog cholera Tor l1wa. BY
the time the mex, one IS due to arrive
the practice Of vaccination Will have
been perfected anG hog Cholera VIII
go like the former human scourge.
smallpox. In this community there
the the usual varied opinions in regard
to the vaccination theory. one man
who had about 400 head OF hogs vac
c!nated al of them and all except a
hundred OF them died. They were sick
when he began treatment. Another man
who owned $50 head made 2 trip 10 4
serum manufacturing plant bought a
supply of the stuff, learned how 10 use
it. brought it home and treated his hogs
himself and every hog is alive and well
at this time. Another man reports taat
punches appeared on his animals soon
after treatment and practically the
while herd died. Now il is probable
that his medicine was not kept al the
proper temperature from the time it
left the factory until it was used,
hence the result. Sometimes a herd is
vaccinated and few weeks later pneu-
mon!a appears and the animals 6sap-
pear. Treatment for cholera can not De
expected TO cure pneumonia. The les
sons have been expensive this year but
they are being learned for all time to
come
Here is an example of profit in hog
raising under favorable circumstances:
At a local public sale two men were
leading bidders for bunch of sows,
eleven in number. One man got them
for $500 and was driving them home
past the other mans place. Mr.. "Other
Man" offered $40 as they approached
and they were turned thru his gate.
Forty dollars for the first purchasers
days work. The next buyer sold the
hogs for 1925 after they had presented
him with los pigs. and six weeks ago
buyer offered $1,000 for the pigs.
which was refused. They are worth
good deal more now Of course. No
wonder the farmer sees calamity in the
loss of his hogs by disease.
This part of the country Is being
dotted with siios. One man. Charles
Hasley, has four OF these structures on
his farms, three of them in single
yard They are feeding steers as we'll
as other kinds of cattle from them and
finding the results gratifying. None of
the lately erected ones are of wood,
cement being the kind generally built.
Property rights seem to be pretty
we'll respected in this community. a
young farmer living on a rented place
also owns and cultivates a forty" sew
eral miles distant from where ne lives.
Last year and the year before ne raised
corn on the smaller farm and stored 1t
in an open temporary crib that stands
by the roadside. 1t is a considerable
distance from the nearest house and
nobody would see II a raid were made
on the grain, but SO far as known not
an ear of it ever was taken unlawtully
during either year.
It is a long reach from the straw
covered shed that "Old Man" Stone
housed his cattle in forty years ago 10
the new cow barn that Farmer w. F.
NcCord, of Iowa Falls, has built on his
place north of town. The latter has
provision for about everything in the
way of comfort and convenience the
ventilation scheme being especially
conspicuous. The lower walls Of the
building are Of hollow brick and these
are turned at intervals in such man
ner that cold outside air is admitted
thru an elbow-shaped opening While
foul air from the inside escapes thru
similar device above. Cribs at the
sides. a NOV above, cement feed
troughs and swinging stanchions are
some OF the equipments of the build
ing. a considerable amount Of rural
building has been done in this section
in the past year. Some Of the struc-
lures lately erected are the fine resi-
dence on the Weyrauch farm, one built
by ]. c. Anderson, and another on the
Meyers farm northeast Of town. Doubts
cribs have been put up by c. F. Jack
son. J. c. Hansen, J. Fl. Dar-ah, VII!
liam Hamilton, Joseph Zacharias ard
George Manly: big modern hog houses
by George Manly and a. D. Sisson AMI
the latter has paved small hillside
for feed floor for his hogs. Aaron
johnson has put up a splendid set OF
out5uiidings as has c. H. Smith. ia
cob England has built fine barn on
his farm.
The automobile and the telephone
are generally considered important
factors in the much complained of cost
Of high living. however. most rules
have their exceptions and here is one:
A Grundy county farmer Owns a car.
also phone. Thru the instrumental
ity Of the latter he learned where a
winters supply Of apples might be OBJ
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