Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-13
MORE ATTENTION
TO HORSE RAISING
DR.. q. w. McCampben Dis
ousses Profitable Production
Before Veterinarians.
FARMERS MUST WAKE UP"

Wake up, farmers, and give as
much attention to the cost of rails
ing horse to the working age, as you
do to the cost Of raising a steer or a
hog to the marketable age"
Not exactly In these words, but in
words strong with this general senti-
ment, did DR.. c. w. McCampbell dis
cuss profitable horse production be.
fore the convention of the Missouri
Valley Veterinary association, at the
Hotel Castle. DR.. McCampbell is sec
rotary of the Kansas Live Stock
Registry board.
He declared that it costs $l04.06
by actual statistics, to raise a horse
up from colthood to the age of three
years, or the proper age to begin
working. THE average man who
raises horses does not know this. This
is deplorable situation" said the
doctor.
Continue in Haphazard Way.
I'VE still continue in a haphazard
way to raise horses, and in all the
horse breeding that is done through
out the country only very few are
bred with view to the production Of
a higher class of horses.
THE average man does not know
what size or class of horse is best
adapted to all round farm work, and
the result is that he raises all kinds OF
horses. ~
90 The best horse for all round farm
work is a sound, active, strong
healthy horse weighing 1900 pounds
OF more. The larger they are the bet
ter, if they combine size with general
efficiency. o.
THE farmer raises his hogs and
his cattle with the idea of getting
them fit for the market as soon as
possible and he usually knows just
about what it costs. With the horse
it is different; he raises the horse to
be used to work, and, since he expects
to keep him indefinitely and is not
raising him for the market, he too
often pays little attention to the cost
of producing the animal relative to
the value he is to get out of him."
Last Day of Convention
The veterinarians and their wives
attended banquet at the Hotel Castle
Tuesday evening. Music and informal
talks on the lighter subjects furnished
the entertainment of the evening.
The veterinarians do not like the
phraseology of a certain bill now
pending in congress which provides
that none but veterinarians be allowed
to conduct interstate. inspection OF
stock. The association believes this
wording is not sufficiently definite,
and they want it changed to read,
None but registered, graduate vet
erin-rians' The executive committee
has been delegated to look after this
matter.
Will Register Protest.
The veterinaries are to protest to
congress against some of the activities
of the county agricultural agents III
the various states. The veterinarian
maintain that these county agents &C
beyond their province in attempting
to treat animals on the farms and in
the administration of preventive med.
icines and remedies of-various kinds
The resolution adopted makes use Of
the following phrase: "And we pro.
test against what appears to be a
misapplication of funds appropriated
H., AZ C,,s%L, .a,,are LII
The bill referred to is the bill ere.
ating federal fund to aid in the es-
Enlistment of system of county ag-
ricultural agents in numerous counties
in the country. These agents act in
an advisory capacity to the farmers
particularly with regard to the crops
and domestic animals. In some
cases they vaccinate hogs and perform
other work of this kind, which the
veterinarians believe is properly and
peculiarly in the province of the IL
censed veterinarian.
R. c. Moore of St. Joseph was
elected president of the association
for the ensuing year. c. c. Hall Of
Omaha was elected vice president. R
F. Bourne of Kansas City was re-
elected secretary-treasurer. The fol-
lowing were elected to the board OF
trustees: D. H. Miller, Council
Bluffs; B. w. Conrad, Sabetha, Kan;
R. H. Norris, Omaha; ]. H. Scott
Princeton, Mo-; Joseph Hughes, Chi
cago.
The 1917 convention will again be
held in Omaha.