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VOL XIX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DEO. 20,1884. NO. 51 IMPORMT IOWA .COJTESTIOI. A Move in the Right Direction. The Iowa State Imported Stock Breeders' Association—Eleventh Annual Session. Special Report for the Indiana Palmer. The convention, consisting of about 100 members, held sessions two days at Ot- tumwa. A vast amount of Important business was crowded Into the five sessions. Hon. C. F. Clarkson, presided. The address of welcome was delivered by Hon. D. C. Beaman. The cordiality of this speech could only be exceeded by its wit. Among a hundred other good things Mr. Beaman said: "In perusing your proceedings of last year in order to gain some Insight into your business, I notice that one of your member's whets his sword for a war of extermination against dogs. As I am the friend of the dog—the good dog I mean- pardon me if I enter a plea in his defense. Blot out the dog, and you destroy, the only infallible indicator of the rising of the moon. Break np this asylum and you turn out upon a defenseless people myriads of homeless, ravenous fleas, and break up the district school system, the summer camp meeting and the pionio. You make more miserable the lot ot that class of citizens who have never aspired to the luxury of a cow, being perfectly satisfied, if, with the aid of three large dogs and litter of pups they can keep the gaunt wolf of starvation from the door. The susceptible maiden, deprived of the privilege of kissing the cold nose of her terrier, might be compelled to resort to the dude, mueh to the disadvantage of the girl. Response by Col. John Scott. He said that careful breeding-had in some States increased the aggregate amount of stock to the extent of 40 per cent. A moderate average is 33 per cent for all the States. In the cattle interest alone the value of Improvements alone amounts to $400,000,000. In sheep, swine and horses the improvement amounts to ?800,000,000. There are in Iowa 2,800,000 cattle. Forty years improvement in cattle has, in Iowa alone, amounted to $15,000,000. You are the m6n who are doing all this; there is not a more important organization in the State. Father Clarkson, the president, recommended in his address that every effort be made to induce Congress and the State legislatures to adopt measures of stamping outand suppressing contagious diseases of live stock and especially pleuro-pneumonia, from which, although it has but a limited foothold in our country, our Btock breeders are suffering an immense damage every year, not only on account of Jhe actual loss, but because of the embargo whioh Oreat Britain has placed on American meats. The means should be had of effectually quarantining every locality where any contagious disease exists. We, as members of this association, should pledge ourselves to support no candidate who is not in favor of supporting such a law. The transportation question is one of vital interest to the Iowa producer, and it ls our right and interest to secure reasonable ratss and withstand im positions of corporations which charge as much for carrying a dressed beef as for the animal before it is slaughtered which weighs nearly twice as much. It is not our interest, nor do we believe it is to the interest of the country, to establish a government cattle trail, which would be an infringement on the rights of some of the States, and a means as well of spreading the Texas fever. - Papers were read and discussed as follows: Can the Shorthorn be relied upon as a dairy cow? Dr. J. C. Hlnsey, Ottum- wa. The Doctor said that Shorthorns had been improved more with a view to the slaughter than as dairy animals. Their milking qualities, however, were equal to any other breed, and this has been demonstrated in many cases where special attention had been given to this matter. Robert Marshall, of Chariton, discussed Creamery and the Dairy. He told how butter was commonly made for the market, and the disgusting particulars of which process showed the necessity and value of the modern creamery, which, he said, had "come to stay," although it was capable of a good deal of improvement. Ii. S. Coffin read an able paper on How to make stock raising pay on a 100 acre farm. Mr. Coffin said: "There ought to be no Buch personage asthecommon farmer." Farming has grown to be a profession, and Improved stock raising ls indispensable to every one who would make the business pay. Raising stock is a flue art, and it is no wonder that the idle, loafing, shiftless, grain raising farmer is unable to realize good profits from hts labors. Hon. J. B. Grinnell gave an address on Cattle Diseases in which he emphasized the necessity of rigid quarantine laws with power to enforce them. It would pay the American people to shoot every infected or diseased animal, If thereby we could secure the one result of raising the British embargo. J. H. Sanders gave a detailed account of his work in England as commissioner to investigate the disease of pleuro-pnemonia and its effect on our foreign market. He said that if the English market could be opened to the American stock growers it would increase the value of every marketable animal to the amount of $10. The following resolutions were passed: Your committee in pursuance of the suggestion of President Clarkson and the undeniable and well known fact that pleuro-pneumonia, a disease more contagious and fatal to the bovine race than all others, exists in many localities in the United States, especially in the eastern part thereof, and more recently ln an ad- Joining State. Therefore, be it Resolved, That above all other questions this interest requires our most careful investigation, agitation and protection, and that we regard it Imperatively necessary that our State government shall provide ample means and methods for the detection and stamping out of this disease on its first appearance in any part of our favored State, and further, that it ls the imperative duty of our National legislature, regardless of any technical ideas as to State lines, to provide such ample and practicable police regulations as will guarantee the complete suppression of this disease in every and all locations in this government. Rtsolvsd, That Congress should empower the President of the United States to d»- elare localities ia States and Territories in quarantine, so as to effectually suppress contagious diseases and prevent their extension and show a clear-ill of health to the world, not only for our safety, but to increase the foreign demand for our animal products. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves individually and collectively, not to vote ln convention or at the polls for any party as a law maker, who Is not In sympathy with our interest in this respect and who will not exert himslef to protect the same. liesolvcd, That the public lands of the United States should be held as a trust for tbe pioneer and actual settler, and under no pretense to be surrendered to speculators or mammoth land companies, home or foreign. Resolved, That the transportation question will not down, and representing the great producing classes of Iowa, assert it our right and our duty to the interests we represent and tho interests of that large class who are the consumers of our products, to demend for the transportation of our products to the consumer reasonable ratos. Resolved, That whenever the inventive genius of man has devised methods by which the products of the West can be sent to the great Eastern markets for less than half the cost of the old methods, that the producer and consumer have the first claim to the advantages of those inventions, and we would instance as an illus- teation, the new methods of sending preserved dressed meats, a method which meets the approbation of all Intelligent men. Resolved. That we must constantly and determinedly hold to this truth, that all transportation companies that assume the position of a common carrier are the servants of the people, and whenever they step out of their place and assume to be masters we demand that both State and National legislation shall step In and regulate them to their legitimate sphere. Resolved,' That in view of the perils to Northern cattle by Toxas fever, and the losses sustained by a contact with Texas stock driven or shipped northward, (saying nothing of cognate questions) that we look upon the proposed national trail as impracticable,and if adopted would be unjust to the cattle districts where it Is proposed to establish it. Resolved, That we believe In one and only one national cattle organization, that it should be strictly in the interest of our great bovine industry to insure more efficient National legislation than that granted in the Bureau of Animal Industry, a long step in the right direction, for which the committee in charge of the bill and our legislators sustaining it have our hearty thanks, looking to more efficient laws involving the interests of twelve hundred millions of property. ■, On Thursday evening a sumptuous banquet was tendered the association by the citizens of Ottumwa. This took place at the Baker Hotel where the feast and merriment continued until 12 o'clock. The toasts were responded to in a happy manner by the best speakers present. Mr. D. M. Moninger, of Marshall county, was chosen as president for the ensuing year, and Wayerly selected as the place of meeting, when the association ln conjunction with that of the Improved Shorthorn Breeders will meet in December, 1885. The full report of the proceedings will fill a volume of 800 pages, of whioh 6,000 copies will be issued from the office of the State printer at an early day. The report of the secretary, Fitoh B. Staoy, showed that tbe organization was fast growing in importance, and although organized but 10 years ago has done wonders in the way of educating the farmers of I«wa. -.■••".;'■ . 160 Acres Enough. Editors Indiana Farmer: •I have been reading with some interest the articles in your paper entitled, "One Hundred and Sixty Acres not Enough," by John M. Stahl. My interest, however, has not been aroused because his ideas of the subject agree with mine, nor because I think he is unfolding an ideal adjustment of the size of farms, and the methods of conducting them. On the contrary, it seems to me that the plan which he advocates, if it were generally adopted, would tend toward a general system of landlords and tenants and laborers; a system of nobles and serfs. The latter would be made the mere instruments for carrying into execution the will of the former. This would be true in social and political matters, as well as in matters pertaining to the farm. It would divide the people ofthe country into distinctly, marked classes,whose interests would continually be in conflict. Tlie lower classes would be dependent to a great extent upon the higher for their means of support. In fact, it seems to me that to advocate such a principle is to attempt to foster a disregard for that glorious cardinal prln- ; clple of the Declaration of Independence. "All men are created equal." Fellow farmers I Would you silently consent to see such a condition of afl'airs brought about? I am not very badly frightened about the Influence of Bro. Stahl. (Now I- say this respectfully). But itis our duty to resist Jast such influences as this. Indeed I cau no longer resist the temptation to protest. I believe lt would be best if- each farmer owned just so much land aa he could thoroughly till without tbe aid of employes, except dnring a busy season, such as harvesting the crops, threshing, etc. And I think he should have time to bestow due attention upon his family, and cultivate himself socially and intellectually. Thus each man is himself an inde-. pendent, sovereignruleroverthatin which no one except the members of his family are interested. All those engaged in farming being placed on au equality, their sympathies would be extended towards one another; and their interests being like, they would work in unison for the advancement of their interests and themselves. Now, I do not wish to enter into a discussion of this subject further. I do not make a business ol writing lor papers, am but a youth, and therefore may hope to see a great deal of development in this country. By the grace of God, I expect to use my influenoe, however limited it may be, for development in the right direction.' Walton, Cass Co., Ind. C. F. E. » m si California at the "World's Fair. Another carload of exhibits for the New Orleans Exposition, left this city yesterday. The greatest part of this shipment consisted of perishable fruits, which will go to their destination by the express trains without delay. The way bill reads as follows: Sixty boxes of exhibits, eleven oases, three kegs, four barrels, thirteen bundles, thirteen bales of corn stalks, 20 to 25 feet long, one gum. tree stump, three boxes of oranges, lemon and lime trees, one case of plants, 6x15 feet, and one bundle of trees, which together amounted to 29,000 pounds.—Los Angeles Herald. .
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1884, v. 19, no. 51 (Dec. 20) |
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Transcript | VOL XIX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DEO. 20,1884. NO. 51 IMPORMT IOWA .COJTESTIOI. A Move in the Right Direction. The Iowa State Imported Stock Breeders' Association—Eleventh Annual Session. Special Report for the Indiana Palmer. The convention, consisting of about 100 members, held sessions two days at Ot- tumwa. A vast amount of Important business was crowded Into the five sessions. Hon. C. F. Clarkson, presided. The address of welcome was delivered by Hon. D. C. Beaman. The cordiality of this speech could only be exceeded by its wit. Among a hundred other good things Mr. Beaman said: "In perusing your proceedings of last year in order to gain some Insight into your business, I notice that one of your member's whets his sword for a war of extermination against dogs. As I am the friend of the dog—the good dog I mean- pardon me if I enter a plea in his defense. Blot out the dog, and you destroy, the only infallible indicator of the rising of the moon. Break np this asylum and you turn out upon a defenseless people myriads of homeless, ravenous fleas, and break up the district school system, the summer camp meeting and the pionio. You make more miserable the lot ot that class of citizens who have never aspired to the luxury of a cow, being perfectly satisfied, if, with the aid of three large dogs and litter of pups they can keep the gaunt wolf of starvation from the door. The susceptible maiden, deprived of the privilege of kissing the cold nose of her terrier, might be compelled to resort to the dude, mueh to the disadvantage of the girl. Response by Col. John Scott. He said that careful breeding-had in some States increased the aggregate amount of stock to the extent of 40 per cent. A moderate average is 33 per cent for all the States. In the cattle interest alone the value of Improvements alone amounts to $400,000,000. In sheep, swine and horses the improvement amounts to ?800,000,000. There are in Iowa 2,800,000 cattle. Forty years improvement in cattle has, in Iowa alone, amounted to $15,000,000. You are the m6n who are doing all this; there is not a more important organization in the State. Father Clarkson, the president, recommended in his address that every effort be made to induce Congress and the State legislatures to adopt measures of stamping outand suppressing contagious diseases of live stock and especially pleuro-pneumonia, from which, although it has but a limited foothold in our country, our Btock breeders are suffering an immense damage every year, not only on account of Jhe actual loss, but because of the embargo whioh Oreat Britain has placed on American meats. The means should be had of effectually quarantining every locality where any contagious disease exists. We, as members of this association, should pledge ourselves to support no candidate who is not in favor of supporting such a law. The transportation question is one of vital interest to the Iowa producer, and it ls our right and interest to secure reasonable ratss and withstand im positions of corporations which charge as much for carrying a dressed beef as for the animal before it is slaughtered which weighs nearly twice as much. It is not our interest, nor do we believe it is to the interest of the country, to establish a government cattle trail, which would be an infringement on the rights of some of the States, and a means as well of spreading the Texas fever. - Papers were read and discussed as follows: Can the Shorthorn be relied upon as a dairy cow? Dr. J. C. Hlnsey, Ottum- wa. The Doctor said that Shorthorns had been improved more with a view to the slaughter than as dairy animals. Their milking qualities, however, were equal to any other breed, and this has been demonstrated in many cases where special attention had been given to this matter. Robert Marshall, of Chariton, discussed Creamery and the Dairy. He told how butter was commonly made for the market, and the disgusting particulars of which process showed the necessity and value of the modern creamery, which, he said, had "come to stay," although it was capable of a good deal of improvement. Ii. S. Coffin read an able paper on How to make stock raising pay on a 100 acre farm. Mr. Coffin said: "There ought to be no Buch personage asthecommon farmer." Farming has grown to be a profession, and Improved stock raising ls indispensable to every one who would make the business pay. Raising stock is a flue art, and it is no wonder that the idle, loafing, shiftless, grain raising farmer is unable to realize good profits from hts labors. Hon. J. B. Grinnell gave an address on Cattle Diseases in which he emphasized the necessity of rigid quarantine laws with power to enforce them. It would pay the American people to shoot every infected or diseased animal, If thereby we could secure the one result of raising the British embargo. J. H. Sanders gave a detailed account of his work in England as commissioner to investigate the disease of pleuro-pnemonia and its effect on our foreign market. He said that if the English market could be opened to the American stock growers it would increase the value of every marketable animal to the amount of $10. The following resolutions were passed: Your committee in pursuance of the suggestion of President Clarkson and the undeniable and well known fact that pleuro-pneumonia, a disease more contagious and fatal to the bovine race than all others, exists in many localities in the United States, especially in the eastern part thereof, and more recently ln an ad- Joining State. Therefore, be it Resolved, That above all other questions this interest requires our most careful investigation, agitation and protection, and that we regard it Imperatively necessary that our State government shall provide ample means and methods for the detection and stamping out of this disease on its first appearance in any part of our favored State, and further, that it ls the imperative duty of our National legislature, regardless of any technical ideas as to State lines, to provide such ample and practicable police regulations as will guarantee the complete suppression of this disease in every and all locations in this government. Rtsolvsd, That Congress should empower the President of the United States to d»- elare localities ia States and Territories in quarantine, so as to effectually suppress contagious diseases and prevent their extension and show a clear-ill of health to the world, not only for our safety, but to increase the foreign demand for our animal products. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves individually and collectively, not to vote ln convention or at the polls for any party as a law maker, who Is not In sympathy with our interest in this respect and who will not exert himslef to protect the same. liesolvcd, That the public lands of the United States should be held as a trust for tbe pioneer and actual settler, and under no pretense to be surrendered to speculators or mammoth land companies, home or foreign. Resolved, That the transportation question will not down, and representing the great producing classes of Iowa, assert it our right and our duty to the interests we represent and tho interests of that large class who are the consumers of our products, to demend for the transportation of our products to the consumer reasonable ratos. Resolved, That whenever the inventive genius of man has devised methods by which the products of the West can be sent to the great Eastern markets for less than half the cost of the old methods, that the producer and consumer have the first claim to the advantages of those inventions, and we would instance as an illus- teation, the new methods of sending preserved dressed meats, a method which meets the approbation of all Intelligent men. Resolved. That we must constantly and determinedly hold to this truth, that all transportation companies that assume the position of a common carrier are the servants of the people, and whenever they step out of their place and assume to be masters we demand that both State and National legislation shall step In and regulate them to their legitimate sphere. Resolved,' That in view of the perils to Northern cattle by Toxas fever, and the losses sustained by a contact with Texas stock driven or shipped northward, (saying nothing of cognate questions) that we look upon the proposed national trail as impracticable,and if adopted would be unjust to the cattle districts where it Is proposed to establish it. Resolved, That we believe In one and only one national cattle organization, that it should be strictly in the interest of our great bovine industry to insure more efficient National legislation than that granted in the Bureau of Animal Industry, a long step in the right direction, for which the committee in charge of the bill and our legislators sustaining it have our hearty thanks, looking to more efficient laws involving the interests of twelve hundred millions of property. ■, On Thursday evening a sumptuous banquet was tendered the association by the citizens of Ottumwa. This took place at the Baker Hotel where the feast and merriment continued until 12 o'clock. The toasts were responded to in a happy manner by the best speakers present. Mr. D. M. Moninger, of Marshall county, was chosen as president for the ensuing year, and Wayerly selected as the place of meeting, when the association ln conjunction with that of the Improved Shorthorn Breeders will meet in December, 1885. The full report of the proceedings will fill a volume of 800 pages, of whioh 6,000 copies will be issued from the office of the State printer at an early day. The report of the secretary, Fitoh B. Staoy, showed that tbe organization was fast growing in importance, and although organized but 10 years ago has done wonders in the way of educating the farmers of I«wa. -.■••".;'■ . 160 Acres Enough. Editors Indiana Farmer: •I have been reading with some interest the articles in your paper entitled, "One Hundred and Sixty Acres not Enough," by John M. Stahl. My interest, however, has not been aroused because his ideas of the subject agree with mine, nor because I think he is unfolding an ideal adjustment of the size of farms, and the methods of conducting them. On the contrary, it seems to me that the plan which he advocates, if it were generally adopted, would tend toward a general system of landlords and tenants and laborers; a system of nobles and serfs. The latter would be made the mere instruments for carrying into execution the will of the former. This would be true in social and political matters, as well as in matters pertaining to the farm. It would divide the people ofthe country into distinctly, marked classes,whose interests would continually be in conflict. Tlie lower classes would be dependent to a great extent upon the higher for their means of support. In fact, it seems to me that to advocate such a principle is to attempt to foster a disregard for that glorious cardinal prln- ; clple of the Declaration of Independence. "All men are created equal." Fellow farmers I Would you silently consent to see such a condition of afl'airs brought about? I am not very badly frightened about the Influence of Bro. Stahl. (Now I- say this respectfully). But itis our duty to resist Jast such influences as this. Indeed I cau no longer resist the temptation to protest. I believe lt would be best if- each farmer owned just so much land aa he could thoroughly till without tbe aid of employes, except dnring a busy season, such as harvesting the crops, threshing, etc. And I think he should have time to bestow due attention upon his family, and cultivate himself socially and intellectually. Thus each man is himself an inde-. pendent, sovereignruleroverthatin which no one except the members of his family are interested. All those engaged in farming being placed on au equality, their sympathies would be extended towards one another; and their interests being like, they would work in unison for the advancement of their interests and themselves. Now, I do not wish to enter into a discussion of this subject further. I do not make a business ol writing lor papers, am but a youth, and therefore may hope to see a great deal of development in this country. By the grace of God, I expect to use my influenoe, however limited it may be, for development in the right direction.' Walton, Cass Co., Ind. C. F. E. » m si California at the "World's Fair. Another carload of exhibits for the New Orleans Exposition, left this city yesterday. The greatest part of this shipment consisted of perishable fruits, which will go to their destination by the express trains without delay. The way bill reads as follows: Sixty boxes of exhibits, eleven oases, three kegs, four barrels, thirteen bundles, thirteen bales of corn stalks, 20 to 25 feet long, one gum. tree stump, three boxes of oranges, lemon and lime trees, one case of plants, 6x15 feet, and one bundle of trees, which together amounted to 29,000 pounds.—Los Angeles Herald. . |
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