The Ronan pioneer., 1917-11-16
DREAM OF SWDDWT@, GREAT SCIENTIST, COMES
TRUE, wF3EM ALFALFA GETS PLACE ON WAR M@EMW

n tional Dry Farming congress and /
was largely due to his efforts tha
an annual meeting of that societ,
was held in Billings in the fall o
i 1909.
Previous to that meeting he visited
T the large manufacturers of Traction
1 engines, the use of which for farm
: ing purposes was just being started
and induced them to make display
at the exhibition held in connection
with the convention. After the con
' vention, largely through his argu
ments, they were induced to estab
lish branch houses in the state O.
Montana, the doctor pointing out thai
machinery was essential in large
farming operations and the growins
, of grain on a big scale without irri.
cation.
Father Pioneer StOckman.
1t was therefore as a farmer, ex-
ponent of dry land farming and a
champion of alfalfa that he was best
known to Montanans, yet it was by
accident that he engaged in farming
Death of his father, in the '90s, found
him heir to large tracts of land and
great herds of cattle in the coun-
try tributary to Billings, between the
Musselshell and the Yellowstone val
ley, where his father had been part
ner of the late David Fratt in the
stock business since the latter '7Os.
The first shipment of livestock
made from near Billings over the
Northern Pacific was by Morrison
Frat and Sudduth, the animals being
driven down Canyon creek and load
ed on cars at an improvised stock
yards. Morrison, however, had re-
tired from the firm years before the
death of the elder Sudduth, who was
wealthy physician of BLOOMINGTON.
Ill.
The sons desire to experiment and
introduce farming methods did not
meet with the approval Of Fratt and
soon after the younger Sudduth came
into possession of his fathers inter-
ests, the partnership was dissolved,
World Famous Scientist.
His fathers wealth had given him
opportunities for study and research
work, however, and previous to COM
ing to Montana, he had gained fame
as one of the worlds leading scien-
lists, and had made discoveries in
medical research that have proved of
lnestimable benefit to the human
family.
So instead of being the vagaries of
wild imagination, as SO many of his
Montana associates believed, his ideas
were the result of Investigations by
MIND trained in scientific research
His opinions were always given
Weighty consideration by the most
learned teachers at the leading Amer
lean medical schools, in Heidelberg,
Vienna and Berlin.
Important Medical Discoveries.
Credit for discoveries that have
aided much in developing the modern
medical theories is given to him by
such important works as the Ency-
clopedia Britianica. AS a student and
teacher at the Philadelphia Medico
Chirug college in Philadelphia from
1885 to 1890, as first dean of the
school of dentistry of the University
Of Minnesota from 1890 to 1895 and
as clinical demonstration, lecturer
and student of the universities of
Heidelberg, Berlin and Vienna, he
conducted research work into the
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oral tissue Innings of the mouth
showed the relations of diseases to
germs in food and fluids consumed
)y man.
AS a writer on medical topics and
l lecturer before the American Medi-
,al association for IA years he stood
1t the head of the medical profession.
Student of Hypnotism.
While at Minnesota he took up the
md hypnotism and became one of the
'irst to use the latter science in the
performing of surgical operations.
lie became noted hypnotist and fire.
luently demonstrated the possibilit- ..
es or using mental suggestion in !,
reatlng various kinds of ailments.
His position in the scientific world
vas such that on the organization of =
Chicago university, founded by John !,
}. Rockefeller, President Harper Sc
ected him to become the head of I
department in the new institution.
While the organization of the uni :
'erslty was under way, the death of
lis father changed his plans, and =
le gave UP his career to come to Mon '
ana and take up the management of +
he great estate, of which he was :
me of the heirs. :
Among some of his writings on
mental conditions which drew inter !.
atlonal attention are those on the !
fleet of music, color and surround Z
ngs on the human mind He gave =
considerable attention to the use of -
lectricity in medical practice and d
'as one of the first to introduce the j..
lectric cabinet. G.
Scientist Turns Farmer. :,
tie brought to his work in Mon S.
ina mind trained in scientific re- o1
sarch. Naturally therefore he was re
OF content to follow in beaten paths. p]
evotlng his time to stock raising,
10 SO he began experiments and in =,
7st1gauons to determine how the IN
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