The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-12
FARMER BROWNA
PRACTICAL MAN
Knows He Must Keep in Touch
With Agricultural Publications
to Be Up-to-Date.
DOES NOT NEGLECT ANIMALS
Takes Advantage of Advice and Help
Offered by Federal and State Rg-
rleulturai Agencies--lnstruc-
tons to His Son.

Old man Brown is known as man
Of ripe experience and sound judg-
ment. He is a successful farmer of
the practical rather than the book"
type. yet he knows the value of books
in his business and that TO be up 10
date he must keep in touch with agri-.
cultural publications.. He is also wide
awake enough to know that the Uni.
ted States department of agriculture
and the state and county agricultural
agencies are not mere academic insti-
tutions, but are in the business prl-
marily TO help the practical farmer.
Hence he keeps himself informed of
what they are doing and frequently
takes advantage of the advice and
help they offer.
AT this particular time the old
mans thoughts had been running on
the health of his live stock, and none
knows better than he the Importance
of having such matters strictly attend
ed TO. So it happened that one morn
ing after breakfast he gave the fol-
lowing instructions 10 his son who was
about to motor into town TO do a batch
Of errands. The incident is here men
toned because there may be others
who might get profitable hint or two
/ from Farmer Browns directions. His
directions were
ID First Of all, fix that leaky car
buretor in the machine so you WONT
! lose more gasoline before you start
than ii takes TO carry you to town and
back. You might get stalled on tbs
way, and that would put you in nice
I fix.
~ Don't forget TO stop at the posi-
office for my department of agricul
ture Farmers Bulletin 957, as | an
anxious TO learn what causes thos,
little warts on the heads of our pull
lets; they are not just right and, be
sides. the bulletin contains much otheI
information about chicken diseases.
90 stop at the drug store and sc
new needles and washers for you
old blackleg vaccine syringe, or bu.
Il new syringe, and don't wait for tn,
county agent to do your yacclnatinl
enough to offer TO do the job: yol
know how to do the injecting as wei
as ne. and, besides, that is not hi
work, he is only supposed to demon
strate how the work should be done
And while you are at the druggists
wouldn't be q bad idea to get tina
prescription filled for our collck
stock, as Veterinarian Spath told 70
to do, then you wouldn't be obliged {
call him away out here iu the middl
of the night TO treat a simple case c
bellyache. A
az IF you should happen to nice
I Will Simmons In town and he say
anything to you about your shootin
: at his sheep-kining dog, tell him, 'Ye
: / shot at 1t and If the act is II
Il peated twill be done again.
90 by the way, you might sto
TO see Doctor Spath and find o,
II whether the microscopic examinatic
II of the muscle sample which he toe
II from the dead Hereford calf proved
II TO be just blackleg or that anthra
II disease, as he said ii was impossib
II 20 say definitely which disease il WI
ii and | guess, our naked eyes are no be
II Ter than his own: moreover, he Dug
II &c know better than we
II (6) Just one more thing. il Doct
III Spath says the disease is anthrax
u anything other than s-tfackleg. "
better tell him TO come out here al
take charge of the doetoring.. as \