Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-10
LOSSES THRU HOG CHOLERA
PARTIALLY OVERCOME ~
HIGH PRICES OF GRAIN.
BREEDER OF FINE STOCK
MAN WHO 10 WORRYING
his Losses Count and He Has No Grain
to Ssll-Notiesahis Change Of Ssnti.
mont Towards Vaccination - Bel.
n,onTs Metropolitan Appsaranee-C.
e. Wilson's Rural Observations.
pec,al to rimes-Republican.

Belmond, Feb. 1o.-The average
farmer has had plenty of trouble in the
last six months with the merciless
enemy that has persisted in the in
vasion Of his hog yards and forced him
much against his will to become again
for a time a temporary grain farmer
instead of a farmer and stockman.
as his check blanks indicate. The good
prices that his grain commands have
stood between him and calamity. how
ever. and if this is the end of the cpl
de1nic for a while hardly a farmer in
this part Of the world will be forced
out of business because Of this year
loss of his hogs. There is another man
in this line. the professional breeder
of pure-bred stock. who lost $50 to
500 every time an animal dleu, ana
who from the nature Of his business
could not turn SO easily from selling
hogs to marketing grain. He is the man
who has lain awake nights studying the
hog cholera question and he ought to
be qualified to advise in the matter at
this time if anyone is. This is what
one Of these men said on the subject the
other day and it sounds reasonable ex-
cept to the man who does not believe in
vaccination This breeder, it might oe
told, is a most successful and intelli-
gent one and one who lost only three or
four hogs out of large herd. He says:
II am sure that vaccination has made
my sows cholera immune. My spring
pigs will therefore be immune to some
extent. II this immunity preserves
them to within week of weaving time.
as it doubtless viii. I shall vacciHate
them with the single treatment which.
if done under proper conditions. ought
to insure them another six weeks o.
health and growth. BY this time with
good care they ought TO be old enough
and vigorous enough to stand the
double treatment which I intend to give
them about Ave weeks from the date
OF the first vaccination. l fully believe
that this plan will save my hogs and
that there is no need Of any one fear
ing to start in again this spring as
usual II he will do the same way"
There is a noticeable change Of be-
lief lately on the part Of many breed
ers in another matter. Last season one
of these said: II dislike to appear
'grouchy' or inhospitable but really I
dread to see any man come up my
lane for fear that he has come from a
disease infected yard Last fall the
same man said: Walk right in. have
concluded that hog cholera is not car
ried from one yard to another by men.
dogs, rabbits or Crows"
A rural mail carrier of Hampton re-
ports that two young farmers on his
route have each shipped car of hogs
to market and that he counted twelve
teams lined up at another mans place
ready to haul off some hogs that did
not die History does not record wheth-
er luck, care or vaccination saved these
animals from the late common fate Of
hogs.
The town Of Belmond. as all men
who have been there ought to know. is
surrounded by three separate railroad
lines. From a depot on the east SIDE
to the river bridge toward the west ex-
tends the long business street Of the
town. Electroliers line both sides OF
the street most of the way along and
a half circle of electric lights is hung
in the overhead work Of the big bridge.
A travelling man unacquainted with the
place looked out thru the bus window
and down the street ahead one evening
and simply remarked, metropolitan"
There are only about thousand people
living within that railroad line enclos-
ure but they nevertheless receive their
mail twice a day from the hands Of
Uncle Sans city mail carriers. Bel
mond IS modern Iowa town. mile
or so outside, however, there lives a
man yet bale and able for a good days
work at physical labor who remembers
when things were different around Bel
mond. or rather where Belmond is now.
NJ H. Luck lives on the farm he de-
Veloped when he was young man,
where his children and grandchildren
were born. In those earliest days his
base of supplies was the city Of Du-
buque and the motive power that eff
fected his transporta ton was yoke
Of oxen. The scheduled time for
round trip was two weeks and he sell
dom ran ahead of the schedule. After
awhile a railroad was built into Cedar
Falls and then there was a handy"
market point, one that required but
week to reach and return home. Still
later the farmer of Belmond vicinity
could haul loads of wheat to Britt using
horses instead of oxen but if he put
up at hotel and stabbed and fed his
horses at livery barn the trip was
hardly profitable one for the wheat
was worth, sometimes. only % cents a
bushel. A twelve-t team outfit has just
finished five weeks Of road graveli,s
work in the Bemond vicinity and Mr..
Luck has been doing work Of this kind
along with the others. If his grandson
ives to see so marked a change during
an ordinary life time as has his pioneer
ancestor what kind of place will the
Belmond community be, say in the year
1865?
c. E. WILSON.