The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1935, Page 3

8 INFECTIOUS DISEASE KILLING N. D. HORSES Brain Disorder, Transmitted by Biting Insects, Spreads Rapidly in State An infectious brain disease is rap- ddly spreading among the horses of the state, Dr. T. O. Brandenburg, ex- ecutive officer and state veterinarian of the state livestock sanitary board warned Thursday. Brandenburg declared that in “all probability this disease will be pre- valent in every county of the state” and expressed alarm over the ad- vance of the disease, ‘The disease—encephalomyelitis — ‘spreads rapidly during the hot months of July and August, he declared. In Portrait of a cook who was ALMOST FIRED 'M GETTING TIRED OF NORAS COOKING I'LL HAVE TO LOOK FOR A NEW MAID BREAKFASTS ARE GETTING DULLER AND DULLER. I’D GIVE MY HAT FOR SOMETHING NEW and how she KEPT HER JOB THIS IS A CRISP SURPRISE! WHAT IS THIS' DELICIOUS CEREAL? THATS KELLOGG'S PEP BRAN FLAKES THE CHILDREN LIKE THEM SO MUCH 1 JUST THOUGHT: YOU WOULD, TOO. Try better bran flakes to- morrow. Kellogg’s PEP Bran Flakes are always fresh, nour- ishing and ready to eat. Plus enough extra bran tobe mildly laxative. Buy a package of PEP Bran Flakes from your grocer. Sur- prise a hungry family with a bowlful for breakfast. Deli- cious with milk or cream. Extra good with added fruit or honey. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. BRAN F; WIN OTHER pants oF BETTER BRAN FLAKES \the infected area he said about one horse out of 10 develops the disease and about 50 per cent may be saved if they are given proper care, Spread by Insects “In all probability this disease is spread by biting flies and mosquitos and for this reason infected animals should be protected from these para- sites, The disease appeared last year in Richland, Ransom, Cass and Sargent counties, coming from Minnesota and South Dakota, Dr. Brandenburg said. This year the malady has appeared in the same counties and in addition has spread into Griggs, Burleigh, Lo- gan and McIntosh counties. Bran- denburg said he looked for a 100 per cent increase in the disease. Onset of cold weather and frost will halt the disease, he declared. No reports have been received of the dis- ease obtaining a foothold in the west- ern sections of the state—the disorder being confined thus far in the east- ern portions. Appears in Two Types The disease appears in two types, he explained—the sleepy type and the walking type. In the former the horse evinces desire to sleep and leans against fences and barn walls —in the latter the animal continues to pace round and round. Recognition of the first symptoms, he said, is important in treating the disease. Unwillingness to be led, lack of spirit, wobbly gait, tightness of lips or abnormal looseness of lips are among the symptoms. He recommended as treatment iso- lation of infected animals, treatment by a veterinarian, keeping animal quiet, protection from injury and construction of a special “resting” type of stall enabling the animal to relax against a special frame without lying down which in many cases is fatal, he said. Dr. Brandenburg advised all own- ers of horses believed to be infected to contact the department immedi- ately. People’s Forum (Editor’s Note)—The Tribune wel- comes letters on subjects of inter- est. Letters dealing with contro- versial religious bjects, which attack individu: unfairly, or which offend go taste and fair play will be returned to the writ- ers. All letters MUST be signed. [f you wish to use a pseudonym, sign the pseudonym first and your own name beneath it. We reserve the right to delete such parts of letters. as may be necessary to conform to this policy and to re- quire publication of a writers mame where justice and fair play it advisable. All letters to not more than words. make must be limited 600 MANY A SLIP Bismarck, N. D., July 31, 1935, Editor, Tribune: Once again the farmers of North Dakota have been given a glimpse of the promised land, only to be disap- pointed at the last. Just a few weeks ago, the prospects for a bumper crop were better than for a decade. To- day, field after field is being aban- doned because rust has so damaged them they are no longer worth cut- ting. The big question in the farmers’ minds these days is: “What will the government do about all this? Will the farmers be foreclosed on and dis- possessed of their homes because they cannot pay taxes and interest, or will the government, understanding the situation, permit the farmers to remain?” Some tell us there will be a greater orgy of foreclosures than the state has ever before witnessed. Certainly this will be true providing farmers are forced either to pay their obli- gations or be foreclosed on, for hun- dreds of us will have no money since our wheat crops have been ruined. It is true we will have feed and hay this year but everyone knows most farmers merely planted sufficient feed for their own use and depended upon wheat for their main crop. We believe that if farmers are un- molested there will be less need for relief this year than last because the farmers will be able to live from their dairy, poultry and other farm pro- ducts. But this dots not mean they will be able to pay taxes and interest, to say nothing of the various seed and feed loans contracted. The situation is critical in the ex- treme. Farmer after farmer declares he will be fucky to get his seed -| back. Earlier planted wheat is not so bad- ly affected as later crops but we must remember the chief reason for so much late planted wheat was directly due to the dilatory methods employed in getting seed in the farmer's hands. The government is to blame for this because it fully realized last fall that seed loans would be the only methods whereby thousands of farm- ers could plant a crop. Some may say that this year proves that no matter how much rain we get North Dakota cannot raise a wheat crop. We do not believe this, but it does prove the truth of the old adage, “There is many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip.” A FARMER. FACT UPON FACT PROVES why GMC trucks out- perf out-earn Typical of what comparison with other trucks will disclose is this value fact: Few engines, instance, have full pressure lubrication by which oil is forced under pressure to all main, bearings as well as to the piston pins through rifle-drilled connecting rods. Such a complete system of lubrication is naturally more costly to install but it is the truck owner’s assurance of protection against pre! xpense. .. . That's remember! A phone cal) wil) bring many more. Fleck Motor Sales, Inc. Bismarck, N. D. upkeep e: 100 West Broadway THE « TRUCK orm and like that of the GMC T-16 for connecting rod and camshaft mature wear and costly just one GMC value fact, Phone 55 Vowing vengeance on holdup men whom he said beat his son, John Hull is shown as he wept beside the hospital bed of the critically in. jured 11-year-old boy, Corwin, in Colorado Springs, Colo. dent of the city saw this picture in a newspa man he saw beating a boy in the railroad yards and, police his son. himself confessed to the attack on ater a resi- Hull as a id, Hull Photo) recognize (Associated Pr MAY RELIEF COSTS TOTAL $1,620,000 Load Decreases 1,200 Cases; 35,000 Maximum as of Aug. 1 Anticipated by Willson Relief costs tn North Dakota to- taled approximately $1,620,000 for May according to E. A. Willson, FERA administrator. The load decreased about 1,200 cases. Expenditures increased about $80,- 000 in May because of five payroll pe- riods against four in April. The same fact explains the rise in average cost per relief case which was $28.52 com- pared to $27.42 in April, Willson said. During May 201,068 persons actually received aid or 29.6 per cent of the state’s population. The total of those cases still listed on the rolls but re- ceiving no service in May is 32.72 per cent of the population. Of this case load, 2,052 cases received nothing but drouth relief, he said. Of the total, Jocal governments con- tributed $144,590.81. Non-relief ad- ministrative expense was 10.66 per cent of the fotal in May. Personnel included 1,215 non-relief and 560 re- lief persons working on administrative payrolls in both the state and county Offices, Willson said. Arbitrary closing and reinvestiga- tion of all classes in May in addition to increased revenue from farm pro- duce, and private employment was largely responsible for the decreasing relief load, Willson pointed out. Private employment, garden pro- duce and increased COC quotas are expected to reduce the load still fur- ther until Aug. 1-it was expected only 35,000 cases would be receiving relief which is approximately 25 per cent of the population, Willson said. NATURAL GAS LINES Would Have $45,000,000 De- velopment in Northwest Fi- hanced by Government Proposal to construct a new natural gas pipeline from Montana to the Twin Cities and Duluth with a network covering North Dakota and Minne- sota with branches into Wisconsin, state railroad board Wednesday by John W. Schmidt, Anoka, Minn., chairman of a committee of independ- ent natural gas producers in Mon- tana. Under Schmidt's plan the pipeline would cost $45,000,000 and would be financed by P. W. A. funds. He con- tends it would be self-liquidating. The proposed pipeline would origin- ate at Cut Bank, Mont. and would connect with the Montana-Dakota Power company’s line from the Baker gas from the Baker field and carry it east along with its original supply, to Minot, Devils Lake, Grand Forks, Du- luth and the Iron Range cities of Min- nesota. Then it would swing south to the Twin Cities and west to Fargo and Bismarck, connecting here with the Montana-Dakota line from the Baker field and forming a complete circle. A branch line would be built from White Bear, Minn., to Chippewa Falls, Wis., serving Stillwater, Minn., and Hudson, Menominee and Eau Claire, Wis. Another connecting line would town, via New Rockford and Carring- ton, with a branch to Cooperstown. Schmidt said representations have been made to the government that the proposed line could be made a “yard- Stick” for testing the efficiency of natural gas companies as the TVA is expected to do with electric utilities and expressed the opinion that Pres- ident Roosevelt is “anxious to have this line built,” but that the “utility people and the crowd that controls the coal fields in North Dakota” are not anxious to have it bullt. | Salmon return to their inland- , Stream breeding grounds to spawn be- cause there is more oxygen there for their young. Dissolved oxygen is necessary to every inhabitant of the waters of the globe, and the young salmon requires a greater amount. than is found in the ocean. In addition to lightning flashing from the clouds to earth and from cloud to cloud, it sometimes flashes from the earth up to a cloud. was discussed with members of the. field. It would pick up the surplus of | > GME a aoe ws Row Costs Her Job i creo & Her important post on the fed- eral parole board was taken from Dr. Amy A. Stannard, not- ed sociologist shown above at her desk, in the attempted set- tlement ‘of the Virgin Islands controversy. Her forced resig- nation, at request of Attorney General Homer Cummings, opened tht way for appointing Federal Judge T. Webber Wil- son, one of the island antagon- ists, to the board. be built from Devils Lake to James-!. Rusted Grain Is Safe Feed for Farm Stock Hay or straw from rusted wheat. barley or oats is not injurious to live- stock except as the dust from the rust may possibly irritate the nasal passages and lungs. If the hay or Straw is very rusty, it should be sprinkled before it is fed to livestock, or a little may be fed along with other | bright, clean feeds.” This statement by F. W. Christen- sen, livestock feeding authority of the North Dakota Agricultural col- lege, clears up the question of what to do with grain affected by rust. Many farmers have feared that the rust might be poisonous to stock. Christensen also states that the un- developed, shrivelled grain from the} Tusted wheat makes good feed and can be used to replace one-third to one- half the corn or barley in the ration on a pound for pound basis. For cat- tle, horses and pigs the wheat should be coarsely ground, although this is not necessary for hogs. It is not necessary to grind the wheat for sheep. This poor grade wheat is likely to have a greater feeding value than market value. Pest Experts Study Army Worm Control Trials to determine an effective means of controiling the Bertha army worm which is damaging central North Dakota flax fields are being made by J. A. Munro, entomologist of the agricultural college, in cooper- ation with county agricultural agents. Various insecticidal dusts are being tried out. Tests also are being made with grasshopper bait to learn if that material can be used successfully against the pests. Reports indicate that the greatest damage is being done in Sheridan and Stutsman counties, farmers stat- ing that the worms had stripped flax fields as large as 35 acres, The worms are not the common army worms but of a different type known as the Bertha army worm, It seems to confine its activities mostly to flax and sweet clover. The ma- ture worms are of a dark color 11 to 1% inches long. Young worms are small, lighter in color and are not readily seen. RAIN DAMAGES GARDEN Watford City, N. D., Aug. 1—Heavy rains at Watford City covered ap- proximately 5000 cabbage plants set out in the FERA community garden with a heavy silt. 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