THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
321 
1914. 
WORK WITH HOG CHOLERA IN IOWA. 
Noting in a recent issue the lament 
of an ()hio farmer over losses from hog 
cholera, I offer the brief statement of 
facts to show what has been done in this, 
Dallas County, Iowa, toward stamping 
out the disease. About one year ago this 
county was selected by the United States 
Department of Agriculture as one of the 
three counties in the United States 
wherein the Federal Government, in co¬ 
operation with our State Agricultural 
College and State Veterinarian, would 
attempt to eradicate the dread disease, 
and arrangements were made to begin 
work on July 1. At that time many 
herds were infected with cholera, and 
some farmers had lost heavily from its 
ravages. 
During the first six months Dr. O. B. 
Hess and his two assistants treated a 
total of 15,650 hogs, with a loss of only 
14 per cent. Some idea of the magni¬ 
tude of this work will bo gained when 
we state that each hog is caught sepa¬ 
rately and held while its temperature is 
taken, and then serum is administered by 
the temperature, weight and condition. 
The total number of hogs treated dur¬ 
ing the first six months is subdivided as 
follows: Those with high temperature, 
5,773, ioss 37 per cent. Well hogs in 
infected herds, 6,815, loes 3 per cent. Ex¬ 
posed hogs in clean herds, 3,140, with no 
loss. Total loss in *rx months, 2,222. 
On January 1, 1012 there were 84,618 
hogs in Dallas County. Loss from chol¬ 
era that year, 10.821, or 23 per cent. On 
January 1, 1013. there were 118,550 hogs 
in the county. Loss during 1013, not to 
exceed 11,000, or about 11 per cent. 
In view of the fact that no herds were 
treated during the first six months of 
1913, and that the supply of serum was 
inadequate during the m-st two months 
after treatment was begun, the results 
are most gratifying. In counties adjoin¬ 
ing Dallas losses during 1913 range from 
26 to 43 per cent., and in some counties 
as high as 70 per cent., thus showing 
that systematic effort will bring the dis¬ 
ease under control. In all cases where 
Government serum is used the treatment 
is absolutely free to the farmer. The 
county furnishes the United States In¬ 
spectors with office rooms in our court 
house, with telephone connections with 
practically every farmhouse in the county, 
while Uncle Sam has provided an auto¬ 
mobile whereby the doctors can respond 
quickly to the C. Q. D. messages as they 
come in. 
If a probable loss of a half mllion dol¬ 
lars per year in a single county can be 
averted by the expenditure of $25,000, or 
possibly much less than this sum, it 
would appear to be a good business pro¬ 
position. These free demonstrations have 
also been conducted during the past year 
in Montgomery County, Indiana, and 
Pettis County, Missouri, with equally 
satisfactory results, and some preliminary 
work has been carried on in Nebraska. 
The recent liberal appropriation by Con¬ 
gress of $500,000, for the control of hog 
cholera, will enable the Department to 
carry the good work into other hog pro¬ 
ducing States. M. J. GRAHAM. 
Loud Hired Man and Cows. 
A loud boisterous hired man is the most 
expensive man about a dairy herd. 
Should he give his services free, then he 
would be expensive about half a dozen 
cows. Better hire a good quiet man, 
even if he is a little slow. See that his 
disposition is kind toward a cow. If he 
has children and is good to them, and is 
kind to his wife, the dairyman can feel 
sure that he will treat his cows kindly. 
A good dairy cow is a nervous creature. 
She is intelligent, and a prominent dairy¬ 
man declares that she is as susceptible 
as a person of fine sentimentality. A 
rude, uncouth bumpkin is out of place 
in a parlor, and he should be equally so 
in a dairy barn. One dairyman who 
occasionally uses an oath, told me that 
he would not have a mau about who 
swore. When a cow is worried, she loses 
her appetite as a person does. It stops 
the functions which maintain the cow, 
digest her food, and convert it into milk. 
An abused cow is a hard keeper, and a 
little kindness will return the owner 
dollars and cents. w. «t. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Milk prices remain practically the 
same as last week—$1.81 for B and 10 
cents less for C. The “surplus,” purposely 
manipulated to all appearances, is heavy, 
making a strong argument against the 
producers. 
The higher grades of creamery and 
dairy butter advanced two cents during 
the week. Under grades and packing 
stock remain practically the same. A 
very wide range is noted in storage— 
from 20 to 29 cents. 
* 
The bad weather and snowed-in streets 
have unsettled the market for eggs, as 
well as fruits and vegetables. Good eggs, 
more or less frosted, have been working 
out at 28 cents and under. Some fancy 
white sell at 38, and brown, 30 to 31. 
Trade in European eggs is very dull. 25 
to 26 cents being the top for fresh and 
19 to 20 for preserved. 
* 
We imported 52,783,675 pounds of 
wool in 1913, valued at $12,589,862, and 
wool manufactured goods worth $13,783,- 
S00. 
* 
The popularity of the five and ten cent 
idea is shown by the years profits of the 
leading corporation handling this line of 
goods, $6,461,118, providing a dividend 
of 10.82 per cent on the $50,000,000 of 
common stock. 
* 
Our imports of raw silk during 1013 
were 27,978,805 pounds, valued at $89,- 
770,070; in manufactured goods $31.776,- 
210. Japan sent the largest quantity of 
raw silk, $63,316,257; China, $15,523,- 
856; France, $9,535,326. In manu¬ 
factured goods, France led all others, $5,- 
450,372; Japan, $5,450,372. 
* 
Fig culture in Texas is increasing. 
Parts of the State appear well adapted to 
this fruit. Plantings this Spring will 
make a block of 500 acres of trees in one 
section. The fruit sells fairly well raw, 
but is hard to ship and mainly handled 
preserved or dried. 
* 
In a case regarding the grading of 
fruit, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court 
has ruled that “fancy” and “strictly 
fancy” are synonomous, and that a buyer 
who specifies that goods shall be “strict¬ 
ly fancy” can demand no better quality 
than what by common consent in the 
trade passes as “fancy.” “Extra fancy” 
is considered to have a different mean¬ 
ing, carrying a higher quality idea. 
* 
The port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, han¬ 
dled a total shipping tonnage last year of 
3,182,923. Customs receipts were $2,- 
198,464. Imports wore valued at $12,- 
404,055, and exports, $15,173,230. The 
Dominion is planning extensive harbor 
improvements to cost $30,000,000. 
* 
Can you give the name and address of 
a reliable commission man in New York 
who will handle my eggs and make the 
honest returns at market prices? I will 
give a guarantee on every egg being 
strictly fresh gathered from my own 
nests. Nothing over one week down to 
one day old. I have from two to three 
crates a week. w. 
New Jersey. 
If by market prices is meant the quota¬ 
tions appearing in newspapers and price 
currents we know of no honest dealer 
who will make such a guarantee. All 
he can do is to sell at the best price 
he can get, and the quoted figures are not 
always representative of a large volume 
of the day’s business. 
Buyers may be divided into two gen¬ 
eral classes, those who want certain 
grades of goods and are not limited as to 
price, and those who must consider price 
every time. The latter class is far in the 
majority. There may be, for instance, on 
a certain day, 25 customers who will pay 
45 cents per dozen for choice white eggs 
by the case, and perhaps 100 whose limit 
is 40 cents, because their retail trade will 
not stand a higher price. It is evident 
that when the 45 cent buyers are sup¬ 
plied, those eggs must sell at the lower 
price if sales are to be made. Thus two 
neighbors may send eggs of the same 
grade to New York at the same time, 
one getting 45 cents and the other 40 
and yet both lots handled honestly by dif¬ 
ferent dealers, or the same dealer, for 
that matter, because he may have had 
only one high-priced egg customer that 
day. We are glad to give the names of 
commission men who are considered hon¬ 
est and capable in their special lines, but 
cannot guarantee the price the goods will 
bring. w. w. ii. 
Visitor : “How does the land lie out 
this way?” Native: “It isn’t the land— 
it’s the land agent.” — Philadelphia 
Record. 
“A WIFE gets a third of her husband’s 
property, doesn’t she?” “No.” “Why, I 
thought the law gave that to a man’s 
wife.” “No; only to his widow.”— 
Baltimore American. 
Mrs. Nkwriciie: “I believe our uext- 
d'oor neighbors on the right are as poor 
as church mice, Hiram.” Mr. Newriche: 
"What makes you think so?” Mrs. New¬ 
riche : “Why, they can’t afford one of 
them mechanical piano-players; the 
daughter is taking lessons by baud.”— 
Puck. 
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AMERICAN ICE COMPANY 
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20 HORSES IN ALL. These were young, green horses, NOT IN 
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January 5, 1914. Supt. of Stables. 
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