The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-08
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

been arranged to carry on the business
for the year. The Grain Growers own
a lot of elevators, many of which are
in districts where the crops turned out
badly this year.
The Importance of being able to OBJ
tain high quality and potent cholera
serum wilIbe conceded 1t will also
be admitted that quality is much more
| important than the price, and further,
that the state should see to it that all
serums offered are up to standard and
exactly as described.
With references to these facts the
editor of Wallaces' Farmer very truly
says: "a serum company should real
! ly be a public service agency. The de-
sire for profit, which leads to in
creased efficiency in some lines, can
not stimulate the serum companies to
better work. The more efficient their
| services to the farmers and veterinari-
ans, the less hog cholera there will be
ans, the smaller will their profits be
A condition of this sort points to state
ownership as the best method of get
/ ting first class results. In Iowa, how
ever, we have left this entirely to pri'
Vate capital. What are the results?"
The editor then states that ques-
tionable practices are found among
! the old line serum companies, those
who sell only to veterinarians, and also
among the OUTLAW" concerns which
sell direct to the farmers. Some
years ago Iowa had serum plant at
Ames and the editor now says that
the farmers of the state will do well
to insist on the state reopening the
plant at the state college. Iowa far.
mers have taken out hundreds of vac
cination permits and the number is
constantly increasing. 1t is most i'm
portant that they may be able to get
serums upon which they can rely.
Conditions in Indiana are much the
I same as in Iowa. Private capital an6
enterprise control the entire output o.
. serums at this time, and just how re
, liable and efficient the various makes
; are depends on the experience am
: honesty of the manufacturers.
: The Indiana Law
$ A case testing the right of farmer.
+ to vaccinate their own animals in thi:
r state was tried in the circuit court O
: Warren county, early in October 4
local veterinarian filed the case
4 making Roy Byers, young farmer, de
D PENDENT. The defendent demanded :
t jury and in his instructions the court
j held: In the statute governing thi:
: prosecution, and under which it Is in
n stituted, among other things it is pro
q vided that: Nothing in this act, how
r ever, shall prevent persons from prac
:. ticing medicine or surgery upon ami
r mails belonging to themselves
y II therefore instruct you that if tn
t, owner of domestic animals believe
that they need treatment, and unabl
y to treat them properly unaided, h.
= may lawfully employ others to assis
n him
e IF you find that in vaccinating hog
n the owner desires to have assistance
t, and calls in one or more of his neigh
bors to assist him in such work, the
t and in that event neither the owne
# nor any of such neighbors, or assist
a ants, are guilty of practicing veter
nary medicine within the meaning o
g the law if they were merely assistin
L the owner at his request In vaccinatin
n the hogs"
S Hard Coal and Coke
Il Adamson and Harmon, of the mi
and elevator at Hagerstown, hav
written US to say that they are wei
supplied with both coal and coke, an
have so far received two cars of chest
n nut anthracite, regular and No. 2.
q car of fine coke also came in lately
= Our readers in the Hagerstown sectio
:. Will be glad to know that can obtai
= No. 2 chestnut anthracite, plenty @
u good Kentucy block coal that wi
g burn, at the elevator bins, in quantitie
n to suit their needs. A party answe
E. ing the mill phone last Thursday wa
v understood to say that no anthracit
er had been received up to that time, an
r we so stated. This, however, seem
to have been a mistake. Mr.. Adam