The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-09-11


and a pulling contest between two
much-boasted teams. The hitching
and driving contest was between Ole
ii. Roberts, an elderly man of Lake
Crystal, and a young man by the
name of Addleman from Garden .ity.
Mr.. Addleman got his horse hitched
to his buggy first and obtained
lead Of about quarter of q mile by
the time Mr.. Roberts started of, but
Mr. Roberts had the better horse
and not only caught up with his
rival but beat him decisively. Six
riders, most of them with rather
wild steeds, entered the horseback
race. One was thrown from his
steed and another found his charger
manageable and quit. The other
four raced.
The pulling contest was between
two teams of Garden City, one a pair
Of grays and the other a span of
Belgians. Each i'm turn was hitched
TO a heavily loaded wagon. the
wheels being logged with chains.
each successive trial the number of
men on top was increased by two.
The little grays pulled it all with
sixteen men, but the driver of the
Belgians decided to quit before it
got to that.
DR.. ]. w. Andrews delivered the
address of the day.
Address by Or. Andrews.
DR.. j. w. Andrews spoke on SAM
tation on the Farm" and told some
interesting facts about carriers of
disease, especially mentioning mes.
There are three things always pres
ent on the farm that might be I'M
sanitary or with care might be made
perfectly sanitary" he said. They
are the clubhouse, flies and milk. II
is an unusual farm which is without
one or more cows. The husband or
dinarily milks the cows and the
wife cares for it, or that part of
1t which is used by the family. 1t
was formerly thought that flies were
a necessity, but it is known now
that they can be entirely extermi-
mated.
Files always breed in filth, for
example the manure pile beside the
barn. II care is taken to keep the
premises clean, II the manure is
removed every two or three days.
and II lime is thrown on it often it
will effectually prevent the breeding
of flies on the premises. II all the
county will do this next spring there
will be no flies next year.
Flies Breed Rapidly.
| Files breed rapidly. The mother
lays 120 to $50 eggs at a time and
the flies hatch in eight hours. They
pass through the maggot stage in
from three to five days and through
the inactive period in three to five
days Thus from one mother fly a
family Of at least 100 flies results
in ten days time. They are re-
pulsed by fragrant odors, and a fly
never lights on a rose, a geranium
or other sweet perfumed flower
"They seek offensive odors and
carry filth from the barnyards, privy
vaults and dead animals. They carry
this to the house, crawl over the
lump OF sugar which the baby eats,
over the butter and the frosted cake,
or drop into the coffee or muk.
The filth which they have gathered
is left behind.
Purity Of Milk Essential.
THE purity Of milk is the first
essential in sanitation of the farm
home. In the cows udder the milk
is pure, sweet and clean, unless
there be disease germs there. If
the mixer and those who handle the
milk use the proper precautions the
milk will get to the table in that
condition. The milk pail should be
thoroughly cleansed and scalded.
The mixer should wash his hands
in soap and water and clean his fin
ger nails, and throw over his person
clean loose garment.
| "The cows udder and tits Shoul3
be washed and the COW should be
curried or otherwise cleaned. This
may seem like a great deal OF
trouble to get clean milk, but IL is
the only way, and when 1t is recog-
nized that one-third of all the people
| born die before the age of five years.
and that at least thirty per cent OF
this one-third is due to impure milk,
we recognize the necessity or being
clean. A drop of milk may contain
million or more germs. Some OF
these are harmless, but many are
disease carriers.
Brave Boys Died.
Five thousand OF our brave boys
who enlisted in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war to defend the flag, died in
southern camps from typhoid fever.
the whole cause of which was flies
carrying typhoid bacillus from the
open privy vaults to victuals which
the soldiers ate. All this should
be prevented. Milk is a common
carrier of tubercle vacillus, and too
often our children contract this
dreadful disease and pine and die
without our realizing that they have
been drinking milk from tubereu.
lous COW. One million nine hundred
thousand people die annually