The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 11, 1891, Page 10

Mexico, Mo., September 17, 1891. To the State Board of Agriculture. GENTLEMEN.— We, your committee on working of road machines, in trials held September 15, 16 and 17, beg leave to submit the following report. Your committee are of opinion that it is not practicableto test the draft under the working conditions at hand, hence score all the machines the same in draft. Your committee feel constrained to express great praise for all the machines on the ground for their superior excellence. We nad but one course to pursue, and that was to mark the scores of points as in our judg- ment the work was performed. Your committee are not prepared to say but that each of the machines might be handled so as to produce the most perfect work under the varying conditions under which they were trie Special commendation is due the exhibitors for the good liumor, ki feeling and uniform courtesy shown us by them. Respectfully submitted, W. T. Hearne, J. L. Erwiy, ALFRED Davart, ON SCALE OF 10. = 1, Ability of machine to do its own plowing.... « F 10 Ss x s Tt 10 2. Borrowing from banks outside of wheel 8 Si s ; x 0 3. Making ditches : : : lu Sh 9 Ww 7 Ww 4. Filling ditches........ ae : 10 10 ov Ww Ww WwW 5. Moving earth either to right or left: ordinary work..... ... sailesiln ewes 10 8 rive s 8 Ww 6. Moving earth either to right or left up steep slope........- 7. mee Ti 8 a %3 ve x 7. Moving earth straight forward down Oe ccns ieee OS 1 ee: Si 8h 8: 8. Working side hill, borrowing from one side and filling other 94 s . 3 s 98 9, Behavior when wor stony hills, hard clay, gumbo, or hard packed roads.......... .....-..--.5- 10 7 Hh 7 6 9 10. Freedom from choking in high grass, weeds, heavy sod or wet ground ... 95 1 &) x 8 9% 11. Freedom from sliding sidewa: Nt ? Ww %% qt 8 12, Widening narrow turnpiked or graded roads.......- Wee aes A oiinie 10 8 gy 83 8} 10 1124 975 103 oo 96; 133 SUMMARY. Variety of work on scale of 10. 9% 93 %% ere 10 Quality of work of scale of 14 134 12 11g 12 14 Quantity of work on scale of 16... ...... 16 13 143 14 15 Total 40. 3y 343) 84 344 39 Draft on scale of 20 .. 20 20 20 20 20 Signed. W. T. HEARNE, J. L. ERwin, ALFRED DAVAULT, Mexico, Mo., September 17, [8#1. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION, ON SCALE OF 10. = 1. General construction . eyeene 9 8 7b 8 6 K 2. Quality and class of material... ft) 9 ) 9 9 ¢ 8, Mechanical proportion of parts. . 9 iz 7 9 5 9.5 4, Durability .. 9 8.5) 8:6 & Ss 8.5 5. Ease of man for various kinds of work seo ee 8 s 4 6 9 @. Acute working angles of blade. ......) 9 s 7 i) 7 9 7. Position of blade to ground and ability | to scour .......... as ae 10 10 10 10 Ww 10 8. Average distance earth is moved, each successive round, from bottom of ditch to center of road , 10 10 10 Ww 10 10 9. Capacity of machine to build a given amount of road in a given length of OE rE ire idea nes toes 96 94 OS 10 92 9 10. Quickness of action and power applied to blade by lever... ..... ....----. 065 9 7 2S 2b 6 9 11. Ease of transportation and housing..... 10 10 10 10 10 10 12, Best ition for operator to view work of bladeand team ....... 1) 7 7.5 8.5 9.5 9.7 SPOOR 5 2s oso 3s 00's 111.6) 101.9 101.8, 110.0) 95.7 1hi.4 SUMMARY. Durability on the scale of 16. iW.4 0 18.6 13 12.3) 13.6 ‘Adjustabllity on scale of 14 . cited 13.0 10.6 11.2 10.11 13.8 Simplicity on the scale of 10......... SS 98 OF 90 94 Oe Creer eee 2| 34.0 367 31.9) 36.8 Signed. H1kaM PHILLIPS, Geo. BURNETT, M. L. Hotmay. Mexico, Mo., September 17, 1891. Combining the scores of the two committees on the 24 points gradin ig } g & on scale of 10, thus giving to each point equal value, the standing of the, machines are as follows on a possible score of 240 : Western, 223.93. Light Champion, 199,56 King, 204.8. Ft. Wayne, 209. Mt. Pleasant, 192.36, Austin, 224.4. As will be seen by examining the score cards, the two sets of 12 points were combined in three each and different values, based on their relative importance, given to each. The combined score on these six points, placing draft in each case at 20, is as follows on a pessible score of 100 : Western, 96.2. Light Champion, 88.66. King, 87.9. Ft. Wayne, 91.03. Mt, Pleasant, 84.56. Austin, 95.3. It is to be regretted that the draft of the different graders could not have been accurately determined. The Board of Agriculture went to an expense of $30 for the purchase of a dynamometer to be used for the test, but the committees decided that it was impracticable to make it. Only two of the graders, the “ Light Champion” and the ‘* King, ’’ came pre- pared to have the dynamometer applied, thus showing the confidence of their manufacturers on this point. Working independently as the committees did, the close agreement of their scores must be taken as proof of the correctness of the findings. It is apparent that good work of a machine is dependent on proper mechani- cal construction, and that there should be at least substantial agreement as to the relative standing of the grad This will be seen to be the case. At a meeting of the road grader men held at the Ringo Hotel after the conclusion of the trial the following action was taken : VOTE OF THANKS. Ata meeting of the representatives of the various road machine companies assembled at Mexico, Mo., September 17, in response to a call from the State Board of Agriculture, with a view to testing the superior merits of the various road machines now manufactured, it was voted on behalf of all sented, that av \evieulture, and especially to its effi the road machi To the State Boa ssor rd of viz.: | products in the life of parasitic germs. Hence, we find that germs pro. + secretary, | duce disease not only by their presence, their secretion of diastase to digest, ee Levi Chubbuck ; the committees appointed to pass upon the merits of the | but also by their waste products whicl are sometimes in themselves poison- nd impartial teous respective machines ; to the press for its c treatment ; and, lastly,to the Mayor sitizens of Mexico and vicinity for the interest manifested and hospital y extended. Signed. Tue WesTERN WHEELER ScRaPer Co., THe American Roap Macurine Co., F. C. AUSTIN MANUFACTURING Co., ¥ <G¢ MANUFACTURING Co., Mr. PLeasantT Roap Macuine Co., . B. SHARP, T. W. Smirn, FP. C. AUSTIN, Committee. The Board nat which time resolutions were adopted com tives of the road grader compa- nies fort Mayor Fe the Mexico zens of Mexico for their kindly re nd efforts to make it successful ; thanking -d to the Board and visitors ; istance ; the citi- ate for the many eir kindness in granting the members of ir Interest In the tr r the liberal r valuable as of thes erences to the t reduced rates ; the deleg all parts of the State ; the committees for their most valuat and especially to Presi- dent J. A. Potts for his | The Board hope better roads, which will not cease until the highw wealth of such character that civilization and progress may traverse them unimpeded. Levi CuUbBUCK, Secretary. stance ; ion with the trial rinning of a movement for that this will be of our grand Common- are THE GOSPEL OF GOOD ROADS, Is the title of a very interesting work of about sixty pages. written by Isaac B, Potter, of New York City, chairman of committee on improve- ment of roads, League of American Wheelmen, which is being very widely distributed by the league. It is a book which, if it could be generally read by county judges, ers, would do much to open the eyes of our people to the fact that Ameri- can roads are a dark blot on our Mr. Potter has handsomely illustrated his work with views of good and bad sections of roads, all from photographs,—the former from European views, the latter, invariably, from American. These pictures are very suggestive, and tell the story of our bad roads better than does the well-written text. Mr. Potter will be one of the speakers at our Fulton ( Missouri) Farm- ers’ Institute, at which time road improvement will be fully discussed. We hope his presence in Missouri will be a means of adding still more to the interest that is being taken in the subject. The following is from the introduction to ‘*The Gospel of Good Roads”: «T have heard of a very clever woman whose otherwise excellent hus- road commissioners and overseers, legislators and farm- civilization. band disturbed the felicity of the household about twice in each year by making himself very druuk. The good wife, despairing of the common and commonly hopeless remedy of moral suasion, applied her wits to the discovery of a newer and more effective means of appealing from Philip drunk to Philip sober. brought home in acondition of maudlin helplessness, with clothing smeared and torn, eyes bleared and face inflamed by drink, she sent for the photog- rapher, and cansed a life-size picture of her limp lord to be taken, which was duly finished in appropriate colors, framed and hung in a place of On the occasion of his next debauch, when he was honor in the family reception room, where she insisted upon keeping it for a period of three months, and made known her vow to double the term whenever the offense should be repeated. That picture was a silent and successful preacher, “It has seemed to me that, if national errors could be reflected in the same forcible way; if some power could and would “<< the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us,” The dirt roads of Amer- They lead a staggering and uncertain course from town to town: smear themselves with thick mire; for four months in the year are unfit for the company of respectable people, and less than eighteen months ago got themselves regularly indicted by the grand jury.* The pictures of roads shown in this pamphlet are made from photographs, Like all truth- ful pictures, they are better than words, and, if they shall supply force to the imperfect work which | have put together in the odd moments picked from the hours of an exacting profession, I shall feel that I am doubly paid for my trouble; that the pictures themselves are a suflicient reason for their existence, and shall owe an abundant gratitude to the friends by whose aid they have been obtained.” we should get to the end of many of our difficulties. ica are heavy drinkers. *On January 14, 1889, the grand jury of Union county, New Jersey, came into court with a formal presentment against the old roads, declaring that “ public inter- ests demand that these roads be repaired and put in good condition at once.” PREVALENT ANIMAL Secretary State Board of Agriculture: In compliance with your request to furnish an article for the BULLE- tin, | submit the following in an endeavor to remove some erroneous ideas in regard to big head (osteo porosis) in horses; big jaw (actinomy- cosis) in cattle, and diseased teeth. Also to advise with reference to mad itch (so-called ) or Billings & Burrill’s corn-stalk disease which thus early appeared, and is likely to do much harm to cattle. DISEAS has Inasmuch as these troubles most common to our domestic animals are often by the public confounded, I have deemed it not out of place to try and point out the differences of the two diseases which are in no manner connected, except by similar external manifestations. Not that as such they are often connected, but they are often given the name one for the other, thus ‘‘I have a steer that has the big head—no, I guess not, I expect he has the big jaw. Well, it’s all the same.” No, it is not all the same; the diseases are as separate and distinct as night and day. Again, *‘I have acolt that has the big head” when he has possibly only a carious tooth. general way In doing this I shall endeavor to give in a a description of the troubles so that one may plainly under- stand the error in which many fall, and why they are often gulled and become the prey of empyrics and impostors. It is my purpose, not to instruct how to diagnose acase, but simply to point out the differences in the diseases; for tod ose correctly takes a practiced and experienced man, and he may at times be inerror, It is more to make known these things are different that loffer this, Suffice it to say that osteo porosis which ez injack and horse stock mon in cattle uses seldom attacks cattle, and that ac seldem, if ever, attac so much trouble inomycosis, com- though people have not an immunity against it, while any toothed animal may have a carious tooth. T. J. TcurNer, State Veterinarian. ( To be continued.) ks horses, POPULAR FALLACIES CONCERNING DISEASE. BY PAUL PAQUIN, M. D., V. M. (Concluded from the September 1 Bulletin.) Now in that contest the parasites may destroy the body in various parts—the blood perhaps—digest and appropriate what they need to nourish i themselves. But as in all forms of life there is waste, there results waste ous, and the sum total of chemical alterations and combinations among which may be found again some poisonous matters. T} nmonly known of germ products is termed Many parasitic micro-organs e most ¢§ tomaine. isms are capable of produc us ptomaines or other products akin to it in degree of poisoning power. It will be apparent then that in s imal bodies (and plant, too) the h a contlict between germ and *h ch ease depends on many The conditions of sueeess tepend, first, on the inherent property of ting living bodies wit? | respect to the opy mn of the latter in their unprotected natural con dition, For instance, the germ of small-pox, charbon, hog cholera usually cause much devastation in spite of natural resistance n the animal bodies, which present the most natural and fruitful habit the ites respect of the food in their success depends on the suital Third, it depends on the constitutional strength or ively. Second, the body attacked. ss of the animal invaded—the weaker succumbing more quickly if weak r numbers because the cells composing it are unable to tight long ang their redoubtable tions which I need not explain. powerfully for their e istence, against foes. There are other conc On the part of the unprotected animal body the resistance against germ invasion, and the success of fighting them, depends, first, on the degree of suitableness which their structure as a whole or in part offers ag food. Second, on the degree of vital chemico-biological resistance of the blood and individual living compo ent parts of the tissues to the digestive diastases (secretions) of the particular germs with which they may be Third, on the general vigor of the constitution as a whole, and the remaining strength of special organs as may have been under baneful influences to health. pepsia, or constitutional weaknesses brought about by improper care and brought in contlict, and the resistance to their poisonous products. For instance, in man, indispositions, such as intoxication, dyg. diet, inheritance and a thousand other ways, are so many conditions lower- ing the degree of vital resistance to disease germs. From what precedes—none of it is theoretical, but every word ean bes proven—it is clear that there are specific dis 8s which the majority of: animals exposed may reject entirely under certain favorable conditions and again become ajected and often succumd under others. On the other hand, there exist other maladies which constitutional strength, no matter how great, cannot, It seems, master, which will cause serious devastations in the system in the most of the cases exposed to it, and death in a great majority of those affected. These preliminary observations on physiology being fixed in our minds, let ws consider in a general sense the best thing to doin case of outbreaks of specitic (contagious, or infectious or spreading) diseases, and what to do to hmit the outbreaks in acommumity. rst. Remove the still healthy from the place (pasture, barn, etc.) where the disease vriginated and place them on a higher and dryer ground, if possible, where germs grow poorly if at all, and leave the diseased ones behind. Second, Change water and food if practicable. Third. Feed them well, but not superfluously, any good substantial food, the kind they are used to, and give them pure water from a running stream not contaminated by the ground, where the disease originated on your place or your neighbor's places, or give them water from a deep well or a spring, or a clean pond drained and cleansed spring and fall at least. /ovurth. It the size of the infected grounds admit, cover it with lime, plough under and cover with lime again after ploughing. Fifth. If there is stagnant water, sull, dirty pools or marshes where the disease began or exist, drain them out and cleanse them as well as practicable. Seth. In of buildings being infected remove and burn ail litter, manure, ete., and lime the walls, mangers, stalls, etc., thiekly two or three coats ; one ounce of bichloride of mercury may be mixed thoroughly with great advantage to each bucket of lime. It destroys germs effectively. AS PREVENTIVE MEASURES OF SPREADING DISEASES, First. Remember that cleanliness is absolutely necessary for health- fulness in animals, as in man. Therefore, do not allow rubbish, carcasses, ete., to rot in your fields; but burn them all and destroy thereby the best food for parasitic germs. . 7 Second. Vo not allow your animals to drink in water coming from places where disease of a specific kind exists. Hog cholera and other dis are often thus carried from farm to farm. Putiie troughs are conveyers of horse diseases, such as glanders, distemper, ete. Third. Weep your stables and barnyards perfectly clean. the manure and pile it not in the very midst of buildings. Fourth, Feed judiciously, and not too much, the stock meant for work, In fattening animals the process of feeding is purposely overdone to produce fat, and such animals cannot be as strong to resist disease of any kind. hey are usually killed at an early age, and thus generally escape trouble that might arise bec: of this violation of physio- logical laws. iH In conclusion, remember that the cause of diseases of the kind enu- merated is a living cause, i. e., disease germs, and that one cannot build animal systems to always resist that cause. The point is to keep the cause and the animals separated by judicious feeding, watering pose 9 Psi taking, and never to expose animals where the germs exist, or on the places favoring their development greatly, such as vegetable and animal matter in decomposition, filthy ponds, low damp places where the grass grows rank indicating much decomposing matter, polluted “enteams, grounds rendered dangerous by overtlowing, ete., etc. Drain all these places, tile the low, wet, rank vegetating places, and make them healthier and better producers of good v bles. Some go so far as to preach t one can so feed an animal, that the system will be capable of resisting diseases of any kind. This is an ’s In which this can never Cart away ise absurdity, born of ignorance. There are dise be, because the germs are naturally too virulent, too strong in their digestive powers. For instance, however much you may be told that you ean build up a hog so, by proper feeding, that it can resist cholera it is nevertheless a fallacy born of ignorance of the laws of nature on the ques- tion. It cannot be done. No matter how you feed a hog the process is at some period artificial, and, being such, it is not as healthy as the natural. The object in raising hogs is for their flesh ; hence, the overfeeding to raise fat. It follows that instead of building thus a constitution capable of resisting disease germs you get just the opposite, But one can prevent se by the careful sanitarium-like methods of feeding and handling hogs and all animals, because they are thereby prevented from coming in contact with dangerous disease germs, Very respectfully, Pact Paquin, M. D., V. 8. A man to whom I was explaining the way germs do cause answered: ‘It is only a theory ; no one can see it with his own eyes.” Some of you readers may feel that way. Do you want to under- stand the question ? . If so, take a piece of meat and let it rot, putrefy, watching it daily. Gradually the meat will disappear under the process of decomposition ; after awhile none will be left. What has occurred ? Why, simply this: The germs have eaten it up, transformed it (and, if you have taken care that the flies were excluded, there occurred no maggots either). This piece of meat was destroyed and. returned to the soil and air by the action of germs without which nothing on earth would or could putrefy. _ Now, during the process of decomposition, take a piece of the rotten flesh, put it in a little water, then press the juice through a cloth and inoculate a few drops under the skin of a rabbit, say. ‘This animal, if a sufficient quantity is administered, will die in a very short time. Why 2 By the poison generated by the germs in the piece of the flesh. Now thia analogous to several germ di s in which the poison is found directly in the body I mia, black leg, ete. The resulta are the same, in the place of producing the poison. In such dis ced directly within the body instead of outside : on the other hand, in « (due to germs ) the body is bei g digested in some part or other while erms thus produce the poisons, thus bring- ing two powerful concomitant causes (not to mention others) to bear on the tissues to destroy their life. In a word in a disease produced by germs there is a form of fermentation, decomposition, alteration, transfor- mation of living tissues and blood resembling more or leas that which occurs in decomposing animal matter—meat or blood. Pf. LEVI CHUBBUCK, Secretary State Board of Agriculture. seb, seem