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Repot i of state Veterinarian.
Tho eighth biennial report of Dr. 8.
B. Nelson. iitato veterinarian of
Washington, contains much valuable
information to stockmen of the
northwest. In the discussion of dis
eases of animals the report shows
that vigilant steps havo been taken to
stamp out animal diseases in the
state aud to prevent their spread.
Much credit is due Dr. Nelson and
his staff for their careful attention
to the live stock Interests of the
state. The salient points in the re
port follows:
"Sheep are free from scab, tho gov
ernment has lifted the quarantine
and the sheep aro now ou tho freo
list. ... is also practically
free from hog cholera and swine
plague. Two hundred and sixteen
days wero given to police work and
169 7 days were given to the control
of contagious diseases. Wo exam
ined 169 X horses for glanders, of
which 2fiG wero ordered destroyed.
"In Seattle, out of 37 head of
horses used in railway construction
work, wero diseased and ordered
killed. This disease continue- to be
a most important one, affecting the
livestock industry of tho .state.
"The loss by tuberculosis is great.
With I ii, condition existing in our
herds, it is only a question of time
until the dairy industry will be a
heavy loser from the inroads of this
disease, and 1 can not, in my official
position, allow this opportunity to go
by without calling attention to the
seriousness of this problem which tin;
dairy Interests and the cattle inter
ests of this state are facing.
"Until two years ago there was La
constattt-^crT^F'tiriT dairy interests
against I lie state veterinarian testing
their herds During the last two
years this position of the dairymen
lias heen practically reversed, and
the position now taken is that the
state veterinarian is not sufficiently
stringent In his action In this matter.
For instance, J 317 reaj^ii__u_t
9310 tested, and only 2,3 destroyed.
Yet if the 1317 had been ordered de
stroyed in several cases it would
have been financial ruin to tlie owner
of the herds.
"Still, it is not to be wondered tit
thai the dairy interests are demand
ing oioi stringent, action in his mat
ter since wo have about 180 clean
herds in tho state. These 180 own
ers of ..... herds are demanding
protection for their property, and
Justly so, and yet the protection of
their porperty must be given without
Involving the confiscation of the
propel of other dairymen.
"Anemia is an apparently new dis
ease in the state of Washington. I
called attention to it two years ago
and since that time there have been
a number of small outbreaks of the
disease at Greenacres, Spokane
Cheney and Lhnl, and a very serious
outbreak at Walla Walla. This out
break occurred in a band of horses
belonging to ex-Senator Reeser, who,
during the months of September,
October, November and December,
1909, and January, February and
March, 1910, lost about 140 lead of
horses from this disease. Early in
del,.her 1 visited the farm of Mr,
Reeser and made the diaguosis as
pernicious anemia, telling him the
cause of the disease was not known
and that up to the present time there
was no remedy for It.
"1 took the matter up with Gover
nor Hay, and trough his otlices ob
tained the assistance of tho bureau of
animal industry at Washington, 1).
('. Dr. _. N. Hutchinson of Port
land, Ore., was detailed to work in
this matter, and 1 also sent Dr. J. \V.
Kalkus down to the Reeser ranch to
carry on such investigations which
might, be carried on there in trying
to determine the cause of the dis
ease and to find a remedy if possible.
The disease is serious, for the reason
that tho cause is not known, and that
it will not yield to any of the reme
dies used up to the present time.
"The disease is generally observed
with an early rise of temperature,
running to 104 and 107, carrying
with it respirations from 24 to 4 0
and a pulse rate of GO to 100.
"This office is constantly in r< -
ceipt of reports from the owners of
calves as to the very reliable results
obtained by vaccine as a preventive
against blackleg, and the office re
ceives many applications annually
for vaccine. The vaccine is furnish
ed free hy the United States govern
ment and this office simply encour
ages its use among stock raisers as
its local distributer."
Teachers' Examinations
Tile county teachers' examination
has been announced for Whitman
county to be held here on December
8. The school law provides that any
teacher holding a common school cer
tificate may take the examination in
any subject which they previously
did not havo a grade of 00 per cent,
and if he should receive 90 per cent
in the branches taken a first-grade
certificate will bo Issued In place of
i be lower class.
Male Sues to Recover School Grant
Lands.
Suit was started last week by At
torney General w. P. Bell to gain
possession of and quit title to land
in Skagit and Kittitas county, that bo
longs to the school grant, but to which
title has been given a corporation and
individual by the federal govern
ment. ihe Bull In Skagit county is
against, the Skagit Lime & Cement
company, while in Kittitas county the
state is suing John D. Walker.
Under the enabling act of Febru
ary L'J, 1889, the state was grain,
for school purposes every I 6 and 36
section in .very township in the
State, except tain lands that had
already prior to that date heen re
served by the federal government.
Prior to tlie enabling act many set
tlers had located ..n lands in these
sections, and many have since located
upon un-surveyed lands in the state
that would upon survey be included
in sections 16 and 36. The federal
government has given patent to
homesteaders and mining companies
to lands located upon prior to the
time the sections ere surveyed.
'i'he state contends that tho enabl
ing act granting certain sections to
schools Included both surveyed and
unsurveyed lands, and that the land
office of the federal government was
without authority to give patent to
any lands in sections 16 and 36 in
any township in the state,
The matter will probably be car
ried to the supreme court of the Uni
ted States before it is finally deter
mined, as the- question effects thous
ands of acres of land in the ate, In
cluding a portion of the lands which
have since been included in the fed-
eral reserves.
To Prevent Smut.
,J. (loss of Addy, Stevens county,
ast year rot., the following letter
o It. C. < !rosbey of Garfli Id:
' "Seeing in the newspapers that you
are interested in finding a smut pre
ventative, 1 offer the following, 1
1 grew wheal and other grains in the
led river valley from 883 to i 898.
Until the year I 890, there was no
trouble in that section (north of
Fargo, Minn.) from smut, but hen it
began to como In and a port of
the crop was degraded and a preven
tative became a necessity. Most of
the farmers turned to the blue stone,
which costs much in labor when 1000
or more bushels had to be prepared
tor tlie drills in the short seeding
sea -..ii and as sometimes wet days
came when seeding was Impossible
and the seed which had been treated
was a total loss. Knowing the chem
istry of the smut life and its destruc
tion, l concluded to use chlorinated
1 lime and bought 200 pounds at
wholesale iii Minneapolis at $4.50 per
hundred delivered at my nearest sta
' 1 ion. Early In March live- bins in my
granary were swept clean and while
1 the grain was being cleaned for each
bin, a shovelful of the chlorinated
lime was put In a sieve and sifted
. over the floor of the bin, enough be
ing used to cover p. Then a one-foot
layer of the cleaned grain was spread
in the bin; another sifting of the
' chlorinated lime on top of it and bo
on till the bin was full. There was
little escape of chlorine until the
weather became warm a week or ten
days before seeding, so the time for
it to act was short, but we had no
smut. The first year I used ten
pounds of the chlorinated lime to
tin- 100 bushels, treating in all about
1500 bushels of wheat, oats and bar
ley. Some of each kind of treated
seed was left over. The wheat was
again put through the fanning mill
I to blow away the dust, taken to the
mill and made Into Hour. The oats
1 fed to the horses without cleaning
them again, and the barley to hogs,
and 1 believe that both the horses
and hogs were benefitted by the lime
remaining.
"We saved our own seed and, it
being free from smut, 1 used after
the first year but five pounds of the
' lime to the 100 bushels of seed. I
kept using this method till 1898,
when i quit farming. The cost to
mo the first year, not counting la
' bor, was li cents "per hundred bush
els and for each following year 25
cents per hundred bushels.
The seed was taken from the bins
and placed iv sacks the day before
j needed nd taken to the field the next
morning. The only change notice
able was the smell of chlorine. As
there is much warmer weather before
seed time in your district and the
chlorine is engaged through at
mospheric moisture, the results
should be positive, if th.- chlorinated
lime is mixed will, the grain a month
before seeding time. But 1 have seen
clean barley grown from very smutty
seed, which ha 1 been mixed with the
lime but one day. You can easily
try this method during the coming
season and I will gladly reply to any
questions on the subject."
Farmers in the vicinity of Pull
man still have In their possession
60 per cent of this year's grain crop
Ihe Income lax
in- following argument in favor
of an income tax was prepared by
Senator Borah of Idaho;
One of the many unfortunate
things Imposed from first to last upon
this country by reason of the exist
once of slavery was the compromise
in the constitution of the United
States providing that direct taxes
should in- imposed in accordance with
population.
To levy taxes according to popula
tion upon any kind of property is
Impracticable and cumbersome even
when the tax is confined to the kind
of property contemplated by the
trainers of the constitution. It is not
too much to say that the clause with
reference to imposing a direct tax
would never have found its way into
he constitution but through tin- fear
which arose out of the belief that the
North might impose an arbitrary and
unjust tax upon slaves.
The discussion first arose over the
protection of slaves and to guard
against this the Southern delegates
insist,.,i upon an equal representation
in Congress with the North. Govern
or Morris and others declared they
would never consent to counting a
slave equal to his master. The dis
cussion finally took larger range,
owing to the existence of large tracts
of land in the South of less value per
acre than the land in the North, hence
it was believed that these lands might
be taxed unfairly.
At last therefore, it. was provided
that direct taxes should be imposed
according to population, and direct
taxes, in my opinion, referred alone
to slaves and lands and improvements
on lands.
The Supreme Court in the Pollock
case extended and broadened the
terms of this somewhat unfortunate
compromise so that it now not only
covers lands but Incomes from lands,
personal property, and income from
personal property. This decision
was made possible by Invoking a mere
technicality, that is, that the tax upon
the rents of lands is a tax upon the
land.
I am not going to discuss at this
time the decision further than to say
I am one of those who believe that
the income tax decision is as inde
fensible as a matter of law as the
Dred Scott decision, and fraught with
far more danger in its ultimate effect
if it is to become the settled law of
'be land to the Republic.
This language may seem strong,
but if so, then I Invite attention to
the following from Mr. Justice White
in his dissenting opinion:
"My inability to agree with the
court in the conclusions which lt has
just expressed causes me much regret
and as great as is my respect for any
view by it announced, I cannot resist
the conviction that Its opinion and de
cree in this case virtually annuls Its
previous decisions in regard to the
powers of congress on the subject of
taxation and is therefore fraught with
dangers to the court, to each and
every citizen of the Republic."
Mr. Justice Harland also says:
'This decision may well excite the
gravest apprehensions. It strikes
at the very foundation of national au
thority in that it denies to the gener
al government a power which Is or
may become vital to the very exist
ence and preservation of the Union in
a national emergency."
The income tax is fairest and
most equitable of all the taxes. It
is the one tax which approaches us in
the hour of prosperity and departs in
the hour of adversity. The farmer,
through ho may have lost, bis entire
crop, must meet the taxes levied upon
his property. The merchant, through
on the verge of bankrupcy, must re
spond to the taxes imposed. The
laborer who goes to the store to buy
his food, though it be his last, must
buy with whatever extra cost there
may be imposed by reason of custom
duties.
But the income tax is to be met
only after you have realized your in
come. After you have met your ex
penses, provided for your family,
paid for the education of your child
ren lor the year. then, provided you
have in. .mie left, you turn to meet
the obligations you owe to the gov
ernment. For Instance, according
to amendments recently pending rel
ative to the Income tax. a man with
an Income or ten thousand dollars
would pay the modest sum of one
hundred dollars. " Man as a human
being owes services to bis fellows and
one of these is to supjport the bkawr
one of the first of these is to support,
the government, which makes civili
zation posible."
It seems incomprehensible that
anyone would seriously contend that
property and wealth should not bear
their fair share of the burdens of the
general government. Adam Smith
■ays, "The subjects of every state
ought to contribute toward the sup
port of tin- government a; m a iy as
possible in the proportion to their
respective abilities, that is. In pro
tlon to the revenue which they re
spectively enjoy under the protec
tion of the state."
Notwithstanding our largo stand-
ing army, our largo navy, our all but
criminal exttavagance as a govern
ment, men tire found who still un
blusl.ingly argue that thin burden
must all be laid upon consumption
and nothing upon wealth, that Is,
that the man of most ordinary means
must pay practically as much to the
general government as the man with
his uncounted millions. It is strange
indeed that men can bring themsel
selves to believe in so unfair and
unjust a position.
They soothe their consciences to
some extent by saying that it Is a
just tax, a fair tax and that tho prop
erty should Indeed bear Its propor
tion of the expenses of the general
government but an income tax causes
men to commit perjury! Of course
the man who says this would resent
the Idea that he would commit per
jury but his evangelical spirit leads
him to look with particular care to
the salvation of his neighbor's soul.
There is not a state In the Union to
day but has laws just as exacting
with reference to accounting with
personal property, just as onerous as
an income tax law would be and just
as liable to encourage perjury. Yet
the tax gatherer does not stop gath
ering taxes.
They say it is inquisitorial. Do
you know of any kind of taxes which
are not Inquisitorial? For instance,
under the internal revenue system
now in existence, the whiskey of the
citizen Is taken possession of by the
government, placed In a warehouse,
locked up and a key given a United
States official. In the collection of
our customs duties, packages and the
baggage of the citizen are taken,
opened and inspected, and, male or
female though the citizen may be,
are sometimes taken into a. room and
searched. Nothing could be more in
quisitorial than this.
All these arguments are put forth
In the hope of leading us away from
the great and fundamental principle
of equity in taxation and that is that
every man should respond to the bur
dens of the government in accord
ance with his ability. It is nothing
less than a crime to put all the bur
dens of this government on con
sumption.
1 think those who advocate the in
come tax merely as a revenue pro
ducing proposition rob the proposi
tion ot its moral foundation. We
should contend for an income tax not
imply for the purpose of raising
revenue but for the purpose of fram
ing a revenue system which will dis
tribute tho burdens of government
between consumption and accumu
lated wealth, which will enable us to
call upon property and wealth not
in an unfair and burdensome way but
in a just, and equitable way to meet
their proportionate expenses of the
government, for certainly it will be
conceded by all that tho great ex
pense of the government is in the pro
tection of property and wealth.
A tax placed upon consumption Is
based upon what men want and must
have. A tax placed upon wealth falls
upon those who have enough and to
spare and therefore have more which
it is necessary for the government to
protect. "All the enjoyments which
a man can receive for his property
come from his connection with so
ciety. Cut off from all social rela
tions a man's wealth would be use
less to him. In fact, there could be
no such thing as wealth without so
ciety. Wealth is what may be ex
changed and requires for its existence
a community of persons with reci
procal wants."
The general government, as we
havo said, has Its armies and its
navies and its great burden of ex
pense for the purpose among other
things of protecting property, pro
tecting gathered and accumulated
wealth, of enabling men to make for
tunes and to preserve their fortunes
and there is no possible argument
founded in law or in morals why
these protected interests should not
bear their proportionate burden of
government.
M. W. Hunt, superintendent of the
milling department of the Portland
Flour Mills., Portland, Ore., of which
the Odessa mill is a branch, was in
Odessa last week conferring with the
manager of the local mill regarding
the electric power which has recently
been installed in place of steam. Mr.
Hunt is visiting all the mills under
(be control of the Portland company.
Approximately 150,000 bushels of
milling wheat has been purchased at
Walla Walla by Independent buyers
and exporters. The reported war
fare between the Pacific Coast Ele
vator company and the Balfour-Guth
rie company is said to have forced
the price up and caused sudden buy
ing. Among large lots purchased
was 40,000 bushels of bluestem be
longing to W. H. Babcock In Big
Bend country. Frank Richmond and
the Still brothers disposed of a por
tion of their crops, the latter selling
20,000 bushels of club at 71 1-2 cents
f. o. b. A. Colin of the Northern
drain & Warehouse company of Port
land has purchased 150,000 bushels
at as much as a cent and half less on
tho bushel.
HOLLYHURST
(Copyright 1893 by the American Humane Kd
ucatiou Society, all rights reserved.) Published
by special permission oi the American Humane
Uducatiou Society.
CHAPTER XVII.
A Visit
"1 ink I shall never go to a horse
race again," said Rose, tho next
morning, her face paling with the re
membrance of the dead horse.
"1 am sure we should none of us
go," said Mrs. Gardner, "if we
thought such a tiling as that likely
to occur." ,
"But is might occur, .Mamma," ex
claimed Rose. "No one knew that
this horse had heart disease until lie
died, and the doctors say that he
would have lived longer if he had
not over-exerted himself.
"It has been a question with me
before this as to whether we ought
to lend the encouragement of our
presence to horse racing."
"It is very interesting and excit
ing, mamma," said Reginald. "1
shouldn't like to think that 1 could
never go to a horse trot again, though
l am very sorry that such a Pile horse
should lose his life.
"Such a rate of speed as men are
demanding of horses now seems too
much to expect of any living crea
ture,' 'replied Mrs. Gardner. "Long
ago, when they were the fleetest mes
sengers men had there seemed some
excuse for it; but now 1 don't, see
hat it serves any good end."
"Sheridan's horse did good service
with 'Winchester twenty miles
ay," said Reginald.
Yes," replied bis mother, smiling,
"that horse is said to have done good
service; but I was thinking especially
of a time much farther back than that
—a time when one could not be car
ried by steam and electricity, and
when there was neither telegraph nor
telephone to carry messages over the
country. With all these contrivan
ces for speed it, would seem that the
horse might bo allowed to take things
a little easier."
On the following Saturday Regi
nald and Rose planned to call on Miss
Lydston, as the family were to leave
Ashbrook for New York early the
next week.
"Suppose we ride over," said Regi
nald, "1 should like to show Lady
Clare off a little, and probably Mr.
Ilibbard will bo there today."
"I should like it," said Rose. "Let
us go out and see if 1 can have Re
bekah."
As they were walking toward the
barn, Rose Buddely turned to Regi
nald and exclaimed:
"Why, 1 can have her! This is Re
bekah's Sunday!"
"So It is," replied Reginald, "I
hadn't thought of it."
"How strange that we should for
get," said Rose.
"Oh, Miss Roso!" said Tim,
" 'twon't do no harm to take her this
once; she ain't been doin' notbin' to
speak of this week."
Rose reflected; she thought thai
Reginald looked disappointed,
"No," she said. "I mustn't take
her. It is just this once now, but
some Saturday I might want her
again, and that would make, another
'once,' and so there might come to be
a groat many of them, and then poor
Rebekah would never be sure of her
Sundays."
"Never mind, Rose,' 'said Reginald,
in his manly, chivalrous way, "I'll
drive Lady over and you can go with
me.
"But you wanted to ride her so
much," said Rose, "Is there no other
way that I can go?"
"I don't see tiny, unless you walk;
it. doesn't matter, really."
"Then I shall be delighted to go.
You know I have seldom ridden after
Lady Clare."
Tin- day was lino and Lady was in
good condition. She seemed to en
joy the trip as well as they did.
"This doesn't seem much like rid
ing after Rebekah, does it?" said
Hose, laughing merrily. "Poor Re
bekah! she would have trotted along
as fast as she could; but she is much
happier eating grass in the meadow."
Mrs. Ilibbard and Miss Lydston
were at home, and Mr. Ilibbard, who
had gone out, soon returned. They
Inquired with interest for every one
tit llollyhursi, including the animals.
"Duke wanted very much to come
with us,' 'said Rose, "but we did not
allow him to, because we know that
you do not like dogs, Mrs. Hlbbard."
"I am afraid of them,' 'she replied,
"especially large ones like yours."
Little dogs are often more snap
pish than large ones,' 'said her hus
band.
"I dare say they are, but I could,
perhaps, beat off a small one with
my parasol; I should be quite de
fenseless with a law one."
'Indeed you would. If one should
see fit to attack you, you would be
quite in his power. I think myself
lt Is not best to have much to do with
strange dogs."
Reginald and Rose, who had been
brought up with a dog, turdTT"
yet known no unpleasant exiJt M
with them., were rather SSg!
this conversation, but they au a'
forbore to say anything }]£$&
simply remarked that "when ?'nald '
were very savage they Wer . „ dogs
trained to be so." ' * Usu%
"Well, how is my colt getting 0B ;
asked Mr, ilibbard". ngon '
"Finely," replied n oglna ,„ _
Will make a very handsome horse- l"
"I hoar they are putting the break
tag, or the 'training.- as your , a _X
prefers to call ii' largely^* '
hands. Mr
"I like to do It-and the colt _
more tractable with tne. „ se
to have taken a fancy to me" W|
"All animal* take a fancy to J
do they not?" m
"1 suppose ii is because , m.
them'" answered Reginald, m o &tj?
Mr. Hlbbard said he would like to
have one more drive with Lady Clare
so Reginald took him out, and o_S
way told of her Intelligence In report
ing the accident which happened fa
the colt. Mr Ilibbard was mm .
amused, and said "that her intelll.
gence was always factory, but
her disposition was not."
it was late when they returned
and Mrs. i mi,ha.- told Reginald that
she wished then, to stay to tea, and
that Rose would not. decide until _
came. Reginald did not object: _
they stay.-d and drove homo in'the
starlight.
"1 hope man will not think that
Lady has run away with us," said
Reginald.
"1 thought of it," said Rose.
"but 1 don't believe she will be anx
ious, for she knew where we were
going, and she will think it (nute- 1
probable that they would ask us t»
stay."
"We hay. spent a very pleasant
afternoon," said Reginald.
"Very,' 'returned Rose, "and «
are having a lovely drive now.. R.«.
gie, 5 "ii couldn't ha >. ■■■ taken Mr. H_.
bard out if wo had gone as we first
planned."
"No; it is all right," lie answered.
(Continued next week)
Dressing a Goose.
To kill a goose, make a quick,
sharp cut in the roof of the mouth
below the eyes or stun by a sharj
blow on the head aml iln 11 make the
cut for bleeding.
The feathers .--re assorted while
picking. The picker uses a box
about the height of his knees, and
holds the bird with the left hand,
clasping i he feel and wings together,
am! holding the head of the bird in
place wit in- nee.
If the bird is to bo scalded, use
the same temperature of water as for
a chicken, but dip several times, plac-
Ing the back in the water first. A
common practice is to v rap geese in
a blanket after scalding to loosen the
feathers, but the steaming must not
last long enough to cook the flesh.
Do not dry-pick geese for the f»
thers before killing, as this causes
the skin to become Inflamed; and do
not Binge to remove hairs, as the
heat gives the carcass an oily, ugh;.
appearance. For market, purposes,
leave the leathers on the bead, nert,
wings at first joint, and tail. Pick
the feathers from the body of the
bird, then moisten the hand and rub
the body to remove down. Geese are
drawn like other poultry,
Poultry of all kinds, if dressed for
the table, looks better when plumped
by putting in scalding water for
about, ten seconds and then in clean,
cold water the colder the better,
About To per cent of i la- grain pro
duced in Rosalia vicinity is still '»
the hands of th- farmers. The
market price the last, three weeks has
been about 60 cents a bushel for the
best grade. The farm are in bet-,
ter circumstances than ever before-
This year the farmers are carryinf
their grain on their own resource*
little money being borrowed of o_\
banks on warehouse receipts.
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