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cattle and horses on our acres if they can do it there. There is not 

 a single animals, unless it is the sheep, (which has dropped ])retty 

 low lately) that can't be raised in Pennsylvania. We have simply 

 gotten out of the habit of doing things. A few years ago you could 

 buy horses at almost any price out West. Several years ago a fellow 

 went out to Kansas (Mty and bought four horses when he thought he 

 vras buying one; he didn't know it until he came to take his horse 

 away, and the dealer asked him where to send the other three. You 

 can't do that today. There is not a state where a good horse, today 

 will not sell for more 1han it cost to produce him. It is the same 

 with cattle. T know when the price of cattle was so low that it didn't 

 pay to raise them. It isn't so today; look at the prices and see. We 

 can do things. The thing for us to do is to stop looking with longing 

 ej'es to Canada and the South and boost our own state. Let us go 

 home and ''Boost Pennsvlvania." 



HYDROPHOBIA 



By DR. W. FRANK BECK, Altoona, Pa. 



I have been prompted to write a paper on this subject on account 

 of the many mad dog scares that has occurred the past summer, 

 Then, again, I believe in educating the people on such subjects as 

 vaccination, tuberculosis, diphtheria and hydrophobia. 



If such a course was carried out as it should be, there would be 

 less trouble and many lives would be saved. I am reminded that 

 we are from the same people that over one hundred years were burn- 

 ing witches at the stake. There are thousands of people die every 

 year of typhoid, when every case could be prevented, if we were 

 properly educated to care for our bodies. 



It is terrible to think that one-third of all the children die before 

 they reach the age of six, for the same reason that I have just stated. 

 Every year, over 500,00(1 American people die needlessly. There is 

 no really proper energetic National, State or local effort to fight many 

 of these diseases that kill so many people. 



DESCRIPTION 



Hydrophobia is a specific and infectious disease, common to all 

 forms of animals, which may be communicated to many by direct 

 inoculation. It is characterized by high fever, spasms, with paralysis, 

 and always ends in death. 



Pasteur has found poison abundantly present in all the nerve cen- 

 ters of the body, and has transferred the disease by taking bits of 

 brain substance derived from an infected animal and inoculating them 

 into healthy subjects. The usual mode of infection in man is through 



