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Safely First I
Editorial Page of Home and Farm Magazine Section
Timely, Pertinent Comment Upon Men and Affairs, Following the Trend of World Nowa;
Suggestions of Interest to Readers; Hints Along Lines of Progressive Farm Thought.
even for the last eight months nro n foin. the season us possible in order lo enjoy tho
plete loll of the accidents. fuoHiiu' of Nccurity Hint comes from th0 con-
Be thoughtful, avoid enrelessncss, ami muu imenco mni mo nog oitoieru germs have been
onuiou imtl Hint llio corn crop is certain to
find n ready and most profitable market
through tho pigs when they have been fin.
ished and sent to their slaughter in n health,
ful condition. And while you arc going to
this trouhlo tuid expense, do. it right. Be
sure Hint the Rcrum is pure and that it is ad
ministered properly. A licensed graduate
veterinarian is tho mnn to do the job.
AMERICA TODAY AND TOMORROW,
THE United States, with only G per
cent of the world's inhabitants;, pro
duces fi8 per cent of the world's corn,
120 per cent of its wheat, 01 per cent of its
cotton, fl.r per cent of its tobacco, 15 per cent
of its cattle, -12 per cent of its iron, 63 per
cent of its petroleum, -10 per cent of its coal,
120 per cent of'its gold and 1ms J18 per cent of
its railroads, says the Polk County Itcmizer.
Tho United Stales' domestic trade in 1913,
X has been sweeping the land hns already more nearly rcnelicd maturity. Now he is. ! 0,000,000,000, far exceeded that of nuy
SAFETY ON THE FARM,
rnllE "Safety First" propaganda Unit
VACCINATION ONLY INSURANCE.
A YOUNG man writes: "1 have llU
young hogs quite well finished for
market. 1 was the only one in this
section lo vaccinate. The near neighbors
are losing all of their pigs, but mine are do
ing fine."
No other reference is made relative lo
I hose hogs. No other reference is necessary.
The whole story, a story worth thousands of
dollars to every render who raises hogs, i?
disclosed in the paragraph,
This man took time by the forelock, lie
used hog cholera vaccina ns a preventive.
Ho locked the door before the horse wns
stolen. In doing so it cost him less to have
his veterinarian vaccinate his herd than
though he had waited until the hogs had
been treated of in these columns, but
its specific message for the farmer cannot
be too greatly emphasized. It is notonly for
those who live and work among shuttling
streetcars and nutomobilcs thnffliis move
ment was organized, but also nor those who
labor on tho farm. I
Farm labor is not usually considered haz
ardous. Hccmiso accidents are. distributed
over n wide area there has been a general
lack of appreciation of their number. Hut
there have been plenty of them.
Power machinery has come into extensive
use within the past ten years and has suc
ceeded not only in revolutionizing the in
dustry of farming, but in-increasing the dan
gers of farming ns an occupation. Farm
worlc is much more hazardous today than it
was a few years ago, when practically all
operations were performed by hand. Corn
shredders, gasoline engines, feed grinders,
grain separators, cream separators and other
forms of machinery have changed agricul
tural processes until tho industry has be
come more similar, both in method and in
danger, to factory work than to earlier agri
culture. Many of us have a horror for steam
boilers because of the danger of and damago
caused by an explosion. Yet tho common
Indder, for which wo have no concern, causes
more than one hundred times ns many acci
dents ns the boiler. Among farmers the per
centage of ncoidonts due to falls is verv
large
Another source of ninny farm accident
vicious animals. One need only to sen
columns of country papers to gain an idea
of tho number of victims.
Porhons operating farms should insist that
all of their machines be equipped with every
safety device possible, oven though it ontnil
an increased expense. Life and limb is not
so ehonp on the farm as it is in the modern
factory, speaking from an inhuman stand
point. From a humanitarian viewpoint n
human life is of such infinite value that it
cannot be compared with machinery.
Sixteen fatal accidents, two likely to result
in death, cighty-fivo serious injuries and thir-
ty-two severe ones a total of 135 accidents
happy, for he has ready to market in tho
neighborhood of $2000 worth of pork, lie
need not force it onto tho market through
fear of hog cholera, even though his neigh
bors are losing pigs. lie has immunized his
hogs at small expense. With n feeling of
security, ho will now hold them until they
are completely ready for market and until
the market is satisfactory.
Everyone recognizes tho folly of not carry
ing insurance, but the annual losses on farms
of this country from fire, lightning and tor
undoes nro small compared with the losses
from hog cholera.
other nation. American factories Inst venr
produced goods valued it $20,000,000, q(
which less than 5 per cent were exported.
All the remainder of that vast quantity of
articles of use of luxury wns cousumed hero
at homo -proving beyond argument that the
overage standard of living in this country
far exceeds that of nny other.
This leadership is attributable to nature's
gifts of rich resources and n stimulating
climate, plus a system of political ideals that
attract s bore the most ambitious individuals
of other lands and makes them free to use
all their novir I'm- Krlf.iulvniirniitiit wUU
Vaccination is the best insurance against, duo regard for tho equal rights of their fel-
hog cholera and the cost is well within low citizens.
,.,, ' I n world of uncertainties, few possibili-
l lousands of farmers this year have put ties seem more likely to be renlized than the
on Having Heir hogs vaccinated, expecting increase of this country's population to
mt when cholera nu.de its appearance in 250,000,000 or more within tho next century.
v wr:! '":..!!!! ,,S",,0.,,!,,,0:- ' Porlmp8 true that opportunities to
" imiir. hip risK tney
took wns unwarranted. In tli, iw i .
' IV MI1 l',
it costs more to vaccinate older animals than
i"b', m tne second plaeo there is nlwnvs
dnnger thnt something mny happen to pre
vent securing safe, offioiont vaccine at the
tune it is needed mot.
Pow could foresee nny happening that
won ,1 cut off the supply of vaccine lst Fn,
hut breeding animals, market hogs and pigs
gam enormous private wealth will bo fewer
hereafter than heretofore, .since society tends
increasingly to frown upon such accumula
tions; but nowhere else on tho globe can the
young man of mettle find equal opportunities
for reasonable material success, for social
usefulness mid for civic honor, whatever the
level from which the nceidont of birth mny
start him.
re dying by the thousands throughout the
; "" , ,u ""'" owners, many of whom
cor
The rock thnt Closes struck in the wilder
ness out of which gushed water has been
Hut that was before
and the children of
xot frlVo mi Mm irntpr
. . . -j mi. hid, jutimuii mv "
il tonne 1. . . .. '" '" """"HUH .IBWI.
V; , . , xKrK,,II"Ml Department at
N ash.iigton eond,n,ned and ordered do
s royed much of the vaccine that was Lli.
-sis -firir itrss
i-nntho 'allowing the oiubrcnfc f fM....i n. 'y ,l10 Ur
ii it a rtr .... i
" "" "" cx"- Precaution ngniiM the
spread of disonse. Manufacture,' "
puttiuir forth fv.,M. .. i. . ,uu "ow
nu- w u .I,'-' v,,ul1 w 01 ft "ow sun.
P. tat it takes many wsl n
Z l!!' Tbo result that
in ; ""' J"'1 vaccinal ng from dav
to day are compelled to suffer J
In a singlo county in Kentucky 1200 men
have been indicted for buying and selling
votes and nro to bo put on trial. All tho
political corruption in this country is not
eonfined to Tnnimnny Hall.
It is the supremo test of loynlty for one
to get the rheumatism whilo engaged in the
defense of his country. Dying is a mere
bllL'ntclln. rtuf i. ,,.:.. f ..l.o,nnticm.
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in tins instance proerastinat
ion is the thief
i nre now profiting,
out tho
mouths
thero is no
re especially
not alone because they saVed thoi.- i,nD ,..?.' U is announced that cattle diseases do
K wnien
ho presen
hnttu i..:n
future laud on n liir,i. .i..i
nonmW i, ...., "uinci.
ito reporicti irom .Minnesota's agricnl- because of tlm .i,n.i -" ""r nogs, Du llnf. nP. . ,f ,,",.
tnro iliirJiirr i...iv ... ..n... -ii... i: . uu,mso ot 'ho shortugQ wheb k ., . not atteet poultry. This lots
them. ifli,ii .; ,.. ;..rB;; , ?r 0,i. ),c,'0t of the present .;: I " trm attacks of tho foot-and-month
' " -... .iiniiiuun. in iim iiisr. 1)1 linrf nlwl,.,. n .. . Mm;u
eight months. The reports for tho first twelve future lnn.i ' ' ' ,' ,10gs .wlU ' near
disease
r .o mi. ...at ,ta ,:o,,,s ,; rfx ,tS'i rJ:':vi"
emated ns earh
The Ohio corn boys have just concluded
a visit to "Washington. "What a harvest for
the chiropodists!
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