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Doctor Hammer said he could cure from sixty-five to seventy 

 per cent of hogs affected with cholera and outlined his treat- 

 ment. He said : 



Confine the hogs where there is a good circulation of air and where an 

 even temperature may be maintained. Keep them on some sort of floor so 

 that they can not absorb moisture from the ground. Give pure water. 

 Give some soft laxitive and get the bowels open quick. Keep away all solid 

 food. Make a liberal use of antiseptics and cathartics. 



Henry Wallace said that when the disease appeared in his 

 herd he would kill one that showed symptoms, and if it proved 

 to be cholera he would kill and burn everything under three 

 months old, stop all food except grass and water, keep his aged 

 sows and sell everything else that the shipper would take. In 

 defense of the latter violation of State law, he said the law was a 

 dead letter and that the stock yards inspector would be respon- 

 sible anyway. He saved most of the brood sows and considered 

 them as having additional value as immunes. His advice as to 

 shipping was not well received. 



THE FUTURE CORN PRODUCER. 



"The Future Corn Producer" was the theme discussed by 

 Henry Wallace, who said : 



The days of the cheap corn, as we knew it in the past, are over. I do 

 not say that there will not be some cheap corn, but it will not last as it has 

 lasted in the past. I do not know of any three years m my life in which in 

 one of the years corn was not worth thirty cents a bushel in the crib, though 

 it might be twenty or twenty-five cents some other years. The corn pro- 

 ducing territory is limited on the west by altitude. Twenty- five hundred 

 feet above the sea level the nights are too cold and corn can not be grown 

 successfully, unless you get a very high price. On the north it is limited by 

 temperature, and while the corn growing country will go north gradually, 

 when you get north of Iowa fifty miles you are out of the corn producing 

 country. They will have it there as a part of a rotation The rotation will 

 maintain the fertility, and they need the corn, but it will be for home con- 

 sumption. I might say that it is limited on the south by temperature and 

 by the com root worms and various other evils that attend the crop. It is 

 limited partly by the wearing out of the land, partly by the superior adapt- 

 ability to pasture on the east. 



Take down the map of the United States and mark around the territory 

 where corn is relatively cheaper and you will be surprised to see how small 

 it is, including the northwestern and possibly the western portion of Ohio, 

 Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, eastern Kansas and eastern Nebraska. 

 We must grow just as much corn as before, not by extension of territory, 

 but by the increased production per acre. I do not believe our acres will 



