The Wahpeton times., 1919-01-09
farmer BRoWNA
PRACTICAL MAN
Knows He Must Keep in Touch
With Agricultural Publications
to Be Up-to.
DOES NOT NEGLECT ANIMALS
Takes Advantage Of Advice and Help
Offered by Federal and State A.
ricultural Agencies-Instruc.
tions to His Son.

OIQ man Brown Is known as q man
OF ripe experience and sound judg-
ment. He is 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 to
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 pri-
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 tt happened that one morn
ing after breakfast he gave the fol-
lowing instructions to his son who was
about to motor into town to Go q 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:
1) "First of all, fix that leaky car.
buretor in the machine so you won't
lose more gasoline before you start
than it takes to carry you to town and
back. You might get stalled on the
way, and that would put you in nice
fix,
(2) "Don't forget to stop at the post
Office for my department of agricul-
ture Farmers Bulletin 957, as am
anxious to learn what. causes those
little warts on the heads of our pull.
let's; they are not just right and, be.
sides, the bulletin contains much other
information about chicken diseases.
(3) "Stop at the drug store and get
new needles and washers for your
old blackleg vaccine syringe, or buy
new syringe. and don't wait for the
county agent to do your vaccinating
work for you, even though he is kind
enough to offer to do the job; you
know how to TO the injecting as well
as he, and, besides, that is not his
work, he is only supposed to demon.
strate how the work should be done
And while you are at the druggists II
wouldn't be bad idea to get that
prescription filled for our cOlicky
stock, as Veterinarian Spath told yor
to do, then you wouldn't be obliged tt
call him away out here In the middle
of :he night to treat simple case o1
beltyache.
(4) 'If you should happen to NEE
Will Simmons in town and he say!
anything to you about your shootin,
Mt his sheep-killing dog. tell him, Yes
I shot at it and If the act is re
peated it will be done again.
(5) "By the way, you might stol
to see Doctor Spath and find ou
whether the microscopic examination
OF the muscle sample which he tool
from the dead Hereford calf proved /
to be just blackleg or that anthra.
disease, as he said 1t was impossible
to Say definitely which disease it wa
and guess our naked eyes are no BET
ter than his own; moreover, he ough
to know better than we.
| (6) "Just one more thing, If Docto
Spath says the disease Is anthrax o
,nything other than blackleg. 20
.etter tell kim to come out here an
| Ike charge Of the doctoring, as "