Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-16
Final SESSION
. OF INSTITUTE IS
NOW BEING HELD
Address By r. K. Bliss al
Barn Marks Close Of
Weeks Meetings

SCHOOL CHILDREN
/ VISIT LIVE STOCK
Youngsters and Elders Ar,
Given Opportunity to
See County's Work
A program BY the students of the
rural schools being given In the Com
mercial college building and an ad
dress at Darnor's barn BY Prof. r. K
Bliss of Ames, are closing the four
days session of the Wapello county
farmers institute and live stock show
here this afternoon
Exhibits viii begin to be removed
this evening and by Saturday noon thu
session will be thing Of the past az
.ar AZ material appearances are con.
cerned. This morning the rural
i scholars, their teachers, parents and
friends were the guests of the 1.-Two
stock show officers and they visited
the various exhibit pens and stalls
being shown what Wapello county
does In the stock raising industry. A
big parade through the streets at 4:15
Thursday afternoon and another about
the show barns in the evening showed
the people OF Ottumwa and vicinity
the same thing. An extensive pro
gram Of readings, musical numbers
Qnd otvnv, hVy Ho
Of the county Thursday afternoon. DR..
Shoulders lecture on hog cholers
Thursday evening at the barn interest.
cd many. His talk followed the judg
Ing Of dairy cattle. The awarding oi
prizes for swine and sheep was made
this morning and tho spelling contest
BY the rural students was held at the
same time.
Urges Science on Farm.
M. l. Bowman of Waterloo, talked
on, Better Farming" He outlined
the plans OF the modern farming and
urged fer.hzing of soil, the building OF
silos, the business management OF
farms and rotation of crops. He was
sent here upon the recommendation
of Galloway L Son, prominent farm
managers in the vicinity Of Waterloo.
and they paid his expenses for which
the farmers are grateful to the Water
loo people. J. b. Sax addressed the
meeting and music was given by the
orchestra and readings by NJ r. Leah
man.
DR.. Stouder in discussing the hog
cholera proposition stated at the out
set that this matter is one Of great
interest to farmers in the first place.
but of interest to everyone indirectly.
Based upon figures turned in by the
assessors, DR.. Stouder said that hog
losses in Iowa have reached 330,O00,000
year. This depends Of course on tho
hog population and how readily the in
lection spreads. He assigned the rea-
son for the great inflow OF the cpl
Aerdc In 1918 as being the crisis which !
usually followed such a period; that
it was simply history repeating it.
self He says 1t is now on the decline
but that no one in particular should
be given credit for It's decline since
that year. history repeating itself.
The greatest amount Of discourage
ment comes, the veterinarian says. bo-
cause a man does not know what TO
do or how to do it, he Is apparently not
appreciative of the dangers wh1ch boz
set his stock.
Cholera is Prevalent.
DR.. Stouder says that in nine cases
out Of ten hog cholera Is the trouble
when the animals are sick, although
occasionally other diseases may be
there: remarking that tuberculosis had
increased two per cent from 1907 to
1914 in Iowa. The symptoms OF hog
cholera he described as follows:
temperature up to 108.05, eyes dis
charging a gunlmy substance, skin
purple spotted, falling in OF hank, lying
on uppers instead Of on side and
sleepy.
The post mortem symptoms he nam
ed as redness of the lymph glands. |,
giving a hemorrhagic appearance, red |
spots covering bladder, lining OF stom- !
ach dark red spots and Inflammation,
yery heavy red disclorations In the in
testines where larger and smaller
ones Join. The speaker said that he
thought disease was often carried by
crows or pigeons from the hog lot OF
animals suffering from cholera to that
OF well ones. The reason the law was
never enforced on driving cholera
hogs through the streets and selling
them was because public opinion was
not back of it, the doctor declared.
eve know that the anti-bodtes are
living because they can be transferred
from one body to another" said DR..
stouder That Is no great discovery,
it is simply working the thing out on
g. practical basis along the same
lines as tetanus with horses and
diphtheria in persons. That antttoxin
| is made from the blood of an animal
which has met and defeated millions
of the same microbes which are at
tacking the child. The blood which is
taken from the hog to make cholera
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