Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
SIG MEETING OF VETERINARY
euRoEoNs TO Dc hELpiN
KANSAS CITY.
PROFESSIONAL MEN VERY
MUCH DIVIDED ON QUESTION
lively Discussion Over Single and
Double Trsatmsnt eehsduisd-Faets
70 30 Brought Out In Connection
With Battle Against Swine Plague
Iowa 20 be Represented.
Tines Republican.

SpeClal TO I1moS.NepuOuc00s
Des Moines. Jan. 24.-There Is going
20 be one Of the biggest sessions on
hog cholera and how to night it ever
scheduled in Kansas City next week.
When the Missouri Valley Association
II Veterinarians hold convention
asting three or four days. That is the
very place to thresh out all about the
subject, for there are over twenty
laboratories making serum in Kansas
City.
The big discussion is likely to be over
the relative importance Of the serum
and simultaneous serum and virus
treatments. Professional veterinarians
are very much divided en- this, and
apparently they are becoming more
firm in their convictions and wider
apart in their views. Quite recently
some very high officials have come out
against the simultaneous treatment
1t will not be possible to have results
"eported at this time from the ex-
,ertments being conducted by the gov
.rnment but very likely some. infor-
nation as to what is being accom-
plished will be furnished. The govern
ment work ts being conducted in Iowa,
indiana and Missouri. It is being done
1T one county in each state. Dallas
county is the field for experiment in
his state. In Iowa both the single
Ind the simultaneous treatments are
being used. In Indiana the simultan-
eous treatment Is the one favored. In
Missouri the experiment is with the
single treatment alone, none Of the
,irus' being distributed In the county.
What is shown by these experiments
will have large bearing on the future
If the fight against the plague.
The head Of the government work,
DR.. Dorset, will be on the program at
Kansas City next week. DR.. Gibson, Of
the Iowa, department will attend and a
number Of the veterinarians including
delegation from the college at Ames
where the Iowa serum is being manu-
featured,
The conference of attorneys inter-
ested in the defense Of concrete bridge
construction as against tho monopoly
protected by patents, held here this
week. was declared to be quite satisfac-
tory. The sole question 10 whether or
not the evidence can be got together
that will show the taking out Of the
patents to have been wrong, since the
devices patented were Of common use
at y prior date. By getting into con-
sultstion all Of those who ara vitality
interested in showing this fact much
strength has been added to tho cause
rectly affected are the bridge con-
tractors, but their interest is only in
cidental to the larger interest Of the
public which always pays the bills for
the bridge.
II through the good offices Of the
s5th general assembly and the activity
Of the attorney generals department,
in cooperation with people in other
states, the concrete bridge patents can
be broken, it will mean millions OF
dollars to the Iowa people every year
for many years to come.
The fact that the tax exacted on the
bridge patents Is paid indirectly has
made it oil the easier to collect.
New "terrazi' floors will be laid In
the corridors of the basement Of the
state house. This will make q very
much better floor than the old one. and
besides, It will afford opportunity for
new crouch with the state house as the
objective.
The chance for a decision on the Ice
cream law before ice cream weather
prevails is now good. The supreme
court has ordered that Vt be made ready
for submission in April.
The state will make q hard fight on
this case, as the result may determine
whether any of the legislation looking
to protection Of the consumer from
fraud, shortage, adulteration or I'M
position, will stand the final test.