The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-04-29
COUNTY AGENT SYSTEM WILL
RESULT IN PREVENTING EPI.
DEMIc, SAYS VET.
10 TAKE CARE OF ALL CASES
says He VIII Need the Cooperation
Of the Farmers In Reporting at Once
Any Suspicious cases-state Herds
Healthy.

sanitary commission Is now complet-
ing preparations to combat any hog
cholera which may break out this year.
While 1t is not expected that there
will be an epidemic of hog cholera, the
state authorities are making prepare
tions to take care of all cases discov-
cred as soon as possible. With the
new system of county livestock agents
and the complete organization Of coun,
ty agricultural agents, 1t is figured
that the disease cannot get much Of a
start.
I'm the past we have been. working
with such few men," said DIR. George
w. Dunphy, state veterinarian. that
we could not begin to treat all cases.
Now. however, with almost every
county in the lower part of the state,
and every county in the hog-raising
district pretty thoroughly covered, we
believe that all suspicious cases can
be attended to promptly. In this way
we expect to catch the disease before
It gets start anywhere.
I'VE will need the cooperation of
farmers to the extent that they report
at once either to the county agents or
to our Office in Lansing all suspicious
cases. Under the present system we
can have someone on the spot prompt
ly."
The state herds were found to be in
good condition.
Start Bay-orand Survey.
Several parties of engineers have
been started out by the state geologi-
cal department to make surveys to
finish up of the work of procuring
data for the proposed Grand river
canal from Saginaw and Bay City to
Grand Rapids
BY May l between As and So men
Will be in the field and by the end
of the summer State Geologist II. G.
Allen expects to have data which can
be presented to congress as basis
Tor federal appropriation.
The survey men work In what are
technically called "quadrangles." meas
ures of territory Is minutes of latitude
by 15 minutes of longitude each way
from given point. Crews are already
out working quadrangles along the
proposed route of the canal to cover
Saginaw, Elsie and Perinton. and be-
tween now and May parties will be
started in quadrangles covering Muir.
Ionia. Lowell. Fenwick and Carson
City. The work in all Of these will be
finished by the end OF the summer and
from them will be prepared an esti-
mate of the lifts necessary. the loca-
ton Of the various locks needed. and q
general estimate on the total cost.
In addition to the quadrangles con-
nected with the route OF the proposed
canal, the state geological department
Is also making Typographical maps Of
,quadrangles covering. Mt. Pleasant.
Cedar Springs, Kalamazoo. Springport.
Rives Junction. Elk Rapids and Trav-
erse City.
There will be no necessity for the
state authorities to make any survey
of the Grand river from Grand Rapids
to its mouth. The river between those
points is nayigable for canal boats.
Urges War on Scale.
The San Jose scale is present In
many orchards in the southern half OF
Michigan and unless active measures
are taken for its control It will not on..
ly kill the trees now infested but win
spread to others and make It difficult
for those who are spraying their or
chards to save their trees" according
to an announcement of State Inspector
of Orchards and Nurseries r. l.. Taft.
The state law requires all persons
having trees or shrubs infested with
this insect effectually to spray or de-
stroy them. In order that the spread
OF the insect may be checked.
The standard remedy Is lime-sui-
phur solution. and It may be used at
the rate of one part to eight parts ri
water, II II contains "a per cent OF
sulphur In solution. The amount OF
water should be reduced proportion.
ately for weaker solutions.
"The sulphide Of sodium, known 40
soluble sulphur compound. will also be
accepted II used at the rate of is to 20
pounds for 50 gallons Of solution.
These remedies may be used while
the trees are dormant, and are most
eifectual when applied Just as the leaf
buds begin to open, but before the
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