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Show are not supposed to dabble in things we don't know about; you know thoy say that anthrax can be taken by human hu-man beings as well as animals, and the more quickly we get it stopped the better for all concerned." FARMER BROW! A PRACTICAL MAfl Knows He Must Keep in Touch With Agricultural Publications to Be Up-to-Date. DOES NOT NEGLECT ANIMALS Takes Advantage of Advice and Help Offered by Federal and State Agricultural Ag-ricultural Agencies Instructions Instruc-tions to His Son. Old man Brown Is known as a man of ripe experience and sound judgment. judg-ment. He is a successful farmer of the practical rather than the "book" type, yet he knows the value of books In his business and that to be up to date he must keep in touch with agricultural agri-cultural publications. He is also wide awake enough- to know that the United Uni-ted States department of agriculture and the state and county agricultural agencies are not mere academic Institutions, Insti-tutions, but are In the business primarily pri-marily to help the practical farmer. Hence he keeps himself informed of what they are doing and frequently takes advantage of the advice and help they offer. At this particular time the old man's thoughts had been running on I ti e health of his live stock, and none baows better than he the importance of having such matters strictly attended attend-ed to. So it happened that one morning morn-ing after breakfast he gave the following fol-lowing instructions to his son who was about to motor into town to do a batch of errands. The incident is here mentioned men-tioned because there may be others who might get a profitable hint or two from Farmer Brown's directions. His directions were : (1) "First of all, fix that leaky carburetor car-buretor in the machine so you won't lose more gasoline before jrou start than it takes to carry you to town and back. You might get stalled on the way, and that would put you in a nice 6x. (2) "Don't forget to stop at the post office for my department of agriculture agricul-ture Farmers' Bulletin 957, as I am anxious to learn what causes those little warts on the heads of our pullers pul-lers ; they are not just right and, besides, be-sides, the bulletin contains much other information about chicken diseases. (3) "Stop at the drug store and get nw needles and washers for your oW blackleg vaccine syringe, or buy a l?w syringe, and don't wait for the cnuiity agent to do your vaccinating wor): for you, even though he is kind enough to offer to do the job ; you kiujtv how to do the injecting as well a he, and, besides, that is not his work, he Is only supposed to demonstrate demon-strate how the work should be done. And while you are at the druggist's it wouldn't be a bad idea to get that pi ascription filled for our colicky stock, as Veterinarian Spath told you to do, then you wouldn't be obliged to call him away out here in the middle of the night to treat a simple case of bellyache. f4) "If you should happen to meet Wri Simmons in town and he says anything to you about your shooting at ids sheep-killing dog, tell him, 'Yes, I rtot at it and if the act is repented re-pented it will -be done again.' (.') "By the way, you might stop to see Doctor Spath and find out whether the microscopic examination of the muscle sample which he took from the dead Hereford calf proved It to be just blackleg or that anthrax disease, as he said it was impossible to say definitely which disease It was srt'l I guess our naked eyes are no better bet-ter than; ids own; moreover, he ought to know better than we. (6) "Just one more thing, if Doctor Spath says the disease is anthrax or anything other than blackleg, you better tell h'.m to come out here and tr.te charge of the doctoring, as we |