Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-13
HIVE FAITH N SERUM
WRIGHT COUNTY PARMER0 WHO
Lost MANY Aoos in EF.
oEMIc NOT DISCOURAGED.
sELlGvE POOR VACCINE
RESPONSIBLE FOR JNRoAps
gxssoiss Of Nsrds Found e b valu-
able ntivs-old oays and New
in Rural Edusatien lilustratsd-
splendid Farmsrs' Creamery a clar-
ion-vvilson's Rural Observations.

| Splendid Farmers Creamery ~ CseT.
ien-Wilsen's Rural Observations.
apecial to Tlmes-Republ!can.
Clarion, Jan. 13.-Of the 400 or 30
fasuneru living ON the SIX rural mall
routes from this town the names OF
those who escaped q visitation OF hog
cholera. hast summer and fall might be
enumerated on the fingers Of two
hands. Practically every hog raiser
had his experience with the disease.
one man we'll posted on the matter
estimates that one-fourth the usual
supply at this time Of year Is LETT
az the result Of disease and close SELL
ing brought about because OF 1t. In
| the neighboring town Of Woolstock, IL
is said, q buyer collected carload for
shipment but instead of going to
packing plant every animal Of the load
found II, way into thepork barrel OF
local farmer. Nearly every one who
was able to get serum vaccinated his
hogs. Nearly every one who vaccinated
believes in the efficacy Of the remedy
even tho he lost most or all OF his hogs,
and II is a fact that the losses Of hogs
thus treated in the early part Of the
season were heavy. Failure OF the
| treatment to gave the animals is gen.
orally attributed to inexpertence in the
| work and to untested serum Late sea-
son work done by q trained man and
with tested serum produced almost
universally favorable results and many
who lost large numbers Of their ami
! mails this year declare they will admin
lister the double treatment to the next
crop at weaving time confident that
Immunity will result.
| 1t will not do, however, to state posi-
lively that it was vaccination that
saved the hogs in every case. Several
who did employ the method at all were
able to save a greater or smaller part
of their herds. One Of these who found
sickness in his yard ''vaccinated" the
! three or four afflicted porkers with an
ak and proceeded to doctor the remain
ing ones with a remery that he had
heard was good, viz: red pepper. lie
fed up an even dollars worth of the
fiery stun and up to last week he
| hadn't sick hog on his place, a car
load Of the thriftiest kind of fellows
being in his feed yards. Another man
lost only one hog Of a. herd numbering
about ninety. A breeder Of pure bred
| hogs in another locality adopted a plan
Of his own. He made 1t part OF his
chores to get out in the morning and
exercise" his hogs; ran them all over
the pasture. At the same time he
fenced of part of his corn field and
turned the hogs into it, He has just
held hog sale on his farm. Said one
man, Il believe hog cholera might be
prevented by keeping the stock in fresh
yards and pastures, changing them
| every year or So" One thing is GER
tain, there has been a lot Of thinking
on this subject Of hog disease this year
| in this part Of the country and il next
years crop is lost 1t will not be be-
cause of carelessness or out-of date
methods on the part of the farmer.
Somebody with a good camera ought
| to go out and take picture of the two
school houses at what is known as
I"Lincoln Center" What is probably one
of the finest little structures Of the
kind in the state has just been finished
there and the old building has not yet
been moved away nor torn down. They
represent extremes in architecture,
that of the past and present or more
properly, perhaps, future. for the new
one is ahead Of the times. It Is about
thirty-two feet square, one story and
basement. the latter of concrete and
with handsome porch and belfry in
front. Each STORY" IS divided into
three rooms, a large one and two small
ones in front. The latter are equipped
with water supply. The windows are
in the west and south. The building
cost $500, and $500 of this. it is said.
was donated by farmer resident of
the DISTRICT who sees in the rural
school something additional to what
has heretofore been found there. He
wanted building suitable for the
rural school that is to come.
The farmers of this section have in
the town of Clarion the last word in
creamery buildings. 1t is built Of con-
crete below and brick above, Is fire
proof. even the window sashes being of
steel with a network of wire running
thru the glass. Sixty tons Of ice may
be put over the mammoth refrigerator
at one time and the icing need be
done but twice in year. Provision
has been made for an ice cream fac
tory and artificial ice plant to be run
in connection with the creamery.
Committees from creamery organiza-
lions in different parts Of the state
have been coming to look over the
building which will cost, with COM
plete equipment nearly $4,000.
SO
w. T. Richards went into his
orchard last fall and built common
cave. Into it he stored his apples. fall
and winter varieties. At this date
Weahthys and other fall varieties
supposed to be at the end Of their Pc
Rod Of usefulness about Thanksgiving
are still in perfect state Of preserva-
ton, while the winter varieties are as
solid apparently as on the day they
were picked.
II. p. Ketchum has employed an idea
which saves good many steps, both
in the house and around the barn. His
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