Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-12-18

relation 10 the threatened shortage OIL
cattle was made the subject of an ad-
dress of w. Fl. Pew, professor of ami
NAL husbandry at the Iowa agricultural
college before the Iowa Corn Belt Meat
Producers held at Des Moines last
Wednesday. Mr.. Pew said:
This is the season Of the year when
every farmer should ascertain whether
or not his hogs are troubled with
worms. If your hogs are unthrifty,
not making good gains. the chances
are that they are troubled with worms.
If there are some little ones, kill one
and examine the intestinal tract for
worms.
A very successful remedy has been
worked out by the Iowa experiment
station and has been used successfully
by hundreds of farmers. 1t Is as fol-
lows:
Santonin. grains.
Aveo nut, 3 drains.
Calomel, grains.
Sodium bicarbonate, ! dram,
The above is for a 100-pound pig.
Use twice as much for 200-pound hog
and two and one-ha1f times as much
for 3O0-pound hog. Before using all
feed should be withheld at least IL
hours. The dose should be repeated
in eight or ten days to make sure that
all worms are expelled.
Another formula recommended by
the same station is
Santonin, 7 grains.
Calomel, grains.
Follow same instructions in using as
for first formula.
The following formula is recon-
n.ended to be used as preventive of
worms and general conditioner In pigs
and hogs. This Is kept before the
pigs at all times and must be kept un.
der cover to prevent waste:
Glauber salts, 3 parts.
salsoda, 3 parts.
Copperas, 3 parts.
Common salt, 3 parts.
Sulphur, l part.
Wherever possible the drugs should
be purchased in the granular form.
Remember that to insure hog profits
care and attention must be given to
every little detail.
Much has been said aSd written con-
corning the shortage Of beef and we are
compelled to believe that there is an
actual beef shortage, the solution OF
which is one of the most important
problems before our American people
The rapid increase in population, max
ing a larger demand for beef, has caus-
ed higher prices.
On this account many farmers have
sold their breeding herds as well as the
nominal increase Of female stock with
the result that we are now facing more
or less of a beef famine.
From as accurate data as is possible
to secure this shortage of beef Is not
limited to the United States and to our
corn belt states but it is the case IN
most of the worlds beef producing
countries. In none of the ten beef pro-
ducing countries of the world, except
France and Australia, has the beef pro-
duction kept pace with the increase IN
the population during the past ten
years. Neither one of these countries
need be considered to a great extent in
the worlds beef supply. In the ten beef
producing countries referred to there
has been. during the last ten or twelve
years, an average increase in population
Of 1913 per cent and of cattle only 2.1S
per cent.
Shortage in the United States.
Statistics show decrease Of nearly
60 per cent in the number Of breeding
beef cattle in the past twelve years In
the cattle producing states west Of the
Missouri river, total beef cattle in the
United States numbering in 1900 nearly
so. 500 900, have decreased to less than
&c. 10000 in 1913, compared with the
population Of the country which has
Increased nearly 20,000,00O in the same
time. In other words, the population OF
the country has increased % per cent
while the number Of beef cattle has de-
creased 30 per cent.
Shortage in Iowa.
Our own state has suffered proper
tional loss in the number Of beef cattle
In 1900 the-beef cattle in the state
numbered 100000 and the population
$50, 900. In 1912 the population was