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market a hog with cholera. We would not want to eat it our- 

 selves, and to put such stuff on the market, unload it on the pub- 

 lic, in my opinion, is a crime; but we saved enough of the sick 

 ones at any rate to pay for the vaccination. Now, every hog is 

 immune and I am going to keep them so from now on. As soon 

 as my pigs are weaned I am going to have them immuned. 



Q: What do you use, serum alone? 



A : Double treatment ; serum alone is a waste of money in 

 my opinion. We lost 40 that had high fever at the time, but we 

 lost none that were well. In a herd of 800 we lost about 50 head, 

 but it upset my plans a great deal because I marketed some stock 

 that I had really intended to have kept for brood stock. This 

 trouble coming in as it did makes a man a little bit nervous. I 

 think you will all agree with me on that point. 



There is one thing that we will all have to pay a whole lot 

 more attention to than any foodstuffs, and that is that we will 

 have to pay particular attention to the wants of the consuming 

 public in putting our wares before them. We farmers and but- 

 ter men must pay more attention to what the consumers' wants 

 are. In England, w^hich has always been considered a market, 

 they have to buy their food products from producing countries. 

 The present time, of course, is not a criterion, but prior to the 

 war we were not able to put any commodities, butter, porlc or 

 eggs, on the English market to any great extent, and one of the 

 main reasons is this : we did not put up our goods in accordance 

 with their wants. We felt that we knew how to run our busi- 

 ness and we put up our goods to suit ourselves. The farmer is 

 the only independent business man in the world, but he cannot 

 afford to be independent in the light in which he looks at it. All 

 other concerns in the country cater to the wants of their clients, 

 why not the farmers? It is our duty, if we want to put our 

 goods on foreign markets, to cater to the consumers' require- 

 ments. 



In England they are paying a premium for other butter over 

 our butter in America of from 2 to 3 cents. The countries that 

 we compete with have catered to the wants of that market and 

 they put up their butter in accordance with the wants of these 



