The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-04
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William &. sanborn

son, perhaps, will take place at Green's
Fork on Tuesday, Oct 10. at which
time the flock owned by William
Thomas Steers, the banker, will be
gone over. All who are interested in
such demonstration will be welcome
to attend.
When You Buy Feeders
The editor of a Chicago live stock
monthly gives the following pertinent
advice to buyers of feeding cattle:
Have your commission man buy
your stock and feeding cattle. He
knows how.
Getting started right is everything.
A bad start comes as close to insuring
failure as is possible.
Get the right cattle at the right
price if you expect a profit. You may
be able to do this on your own judg-
ment. Otherwise give the job to an
experienced buyer who not only knows
cattle, but is constantly posted on the
market
Usually he buys your stockers in ex-
pectancy of selling your fat cattle,
consequently he is on the alert to do
both tasks satisfactorily.
A4O A4OoL SUCCESSFUL I60u6TS, Op6T-
ators on a large scale who are good
cattle judges, invariably let their COM
mission houses do their buying. 1t
is insurance of maximum results, if not
against loss in the finality of the trans
action.
The commission mans charge is in
finitesimal compared with the skill,
knowledge and other service render
ed"
Fighting Hog Cholera
The department of agriculture has
this year extended its cooperative hog
control work to South Dakota, Wash
ington, New Mexico and West Virginia,
making a total of "a states in which
work is being done in cooperation with
state authorities. Cooperation among
the different agencies is now at its
best, and is therefore more effective
than ever.
The object of the work with the var
icus states is to prevent and control
| outbreaks of hog cholera, and to pre-
vent the spread of the infection and
to reduce losses.
During the year, hog cholera has
been kept we'll under control, but spe-
cial care must be taken in October, No
there is an increase in it's prevalence.
Farmers will save more hogs and pre-
vent disastrous losses if they do not
delay reporting Immediately to the
state veterinarian, the county agricuL
tural agent, the representative of the
bureau of animal industry, or local
| veterinary practitioner any suspicious
cases of sickness among their hogs.
| Anti-hog-cholera serum is not q cure,
but a preventive treatment, and should
be applied as soon as possible when
| the disease appears in the herd or in
the neighborhood. This preventive
treatment is a good insurance against
losses from hog cholera.
Dairy Cow Map by Counties.
| Are you proud of the cows in your
county," is the question asked by the
department of agriculture on map on
which is shown the average yearly
| production of dairy cows in practically
every county in the country. This
large map will be shown in the depart,
ment's exhibit at the National Dairy
Exhibition, at st. Paul, Oct. to IA
Dairymen may thus see at a glance
just how the cows at home compare
with those in any other part of the
United States.
The map shows that seven counties
have cows that average more than
5000 pounds of milk year Three OF
| these counties are in Washington
while Oregon, California, Nevada and
Texas have one each. The exhibit
also shows an analysis of the census
figures made by the department Of
agriculture, in which it is brought out
that the states which lead in average
production per COW are those in which
the highest percentage of dairy bull:
are purebred.
The states are marked off into foul
groups according to the production o.
the cows. Those in the first grouI
have an average production of 4,42I
pounds of milk a year and 425 per
cent of the dairy bulls are purebred
In the fourth group the average pro
duction is only 1906 pounds of mill
and only IA percent of the dairy bulls
are purebred. In the first group there
is one purebred dairy bull to every II
dairy farms, while in the other groups
: there is only one to every 80 dairy
farms.
The fS states are arranged in the
order of the percentage of dairy bulls
i purebred. Arizona, where the dairy
business has been of recent develop
ment, is at the top of the list, with 81
percent.