The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-01

u duc VI uOuI Gall not Do maze OF either
Fultz or Clawson wheat this is the
universal testimony of all who have
tested them. Farmers should avoid
sowing them. A word in season to the
wise is sufficient.
Hog Cholera Commission Extended
The following is from the Cincinnati
Commercial: at is vain to extenuate. 4"
Yetthe Commissioner of Agriculture has
hopes of doing the pork raisers some
good, and indirectly benefting the
country at large. He has directed
Professor James Law, of Cornell
University, and Professor II. Detmers,
of Chicago, to continue their investiga-
tiOns of the plague among swine until
further orders. 1t is well, perhaps, to
investigate still further, yet the COM
mission of six spent the ten thousand
dollars, and we have no report yet. The
doctors do not seem able to agree. DR..
Voyles says that in examining cases of
disease from fifteen herds, he finds in
every case disease of the lungs. He
feels fully warranted in pronouncing
the disease in its milder manifestation,
bronchial catarrh, and in its most active
form, catarrhal pneumonia" He thinks
no specific remedy will be discovered,
and that measures of prevention must
be relied upon.
DR.. Salmon, of North Carolina, one
of the Commission, thinks it lis nothing
more or less than contagious pleuro-
pneumonia, identical with contagious
pleuro-pneumonia of England, propa-
gated in probably nine hundred and
ninety-nine cases out of every thousand
by contagion."
He thinks it may be exterminated, or
arrested, by promptly killing and bury
ing all infected animals, and thoroughly
disinfecting the premises.
DIR. Detmers, who is ordered to con-
tinue the investigations, entirely rejects
the theories of Drs. Voyles and Salmon.
He has thoroughly satisfied himself
that the disease is caused by the presence
of small microscopic bodies belonging
to the family bacteria, and the germs
bacillus. These bacella permeate the
blood in every part of the diseased
animal. They cluster and obstruct the
finest capillary vessels in the lungs, the
heart, the pleura, the pericardium, and
also the capillary Emphatic glands
carry exudations and blood extravasa-
lions in the lungs, the pleura, the
pericardium, the heart, and more or
less enlargement of all the Emphatic
glands.
The disease is propagated only by
contagion. The bacteria may enter the
system through the stomach or by
incubation. A hog that has been
affected may inoculate other swine two
months after ithas apparently recovered.
he has no hopes of cure. He is
satisfied that the same disease exists in
Europe under various names, and it was
undoubtedly imported to this country.
He recommends destroying all infected
hogs, and active measures for preventing
contagion. He thinks a hog once
affected never again can be entirely
healthy. DIR. Detmers has gone little
deeper into the subject than the others.
They have attempted to name the
disease. He has given the bacteria as
the cause. Our observation of the
various ways in which the animals of
the same herd are affected, can be
accounted for on the bacteria theory.
The different swine have different
symptoms, indicating in one case affec-
ton of lungs, another of heart, another
of kidneys, another of digestive organs,
according as the bacteria may have
most clustered and most INSTRUCTED the
normal functions of that organ.
But this theory of DR.. Detmers' is
not new. 1t was advanced before the
Commission was formed.
Will the Doctor tell us if the bacteria
have been discovered by the microscope +?
Seeing is believing"
Farmers, we know enough of the
plague to know that it is contagious.
Now let us use common sense and
prevent its spread from herd to herd
from farm to farm, from pen to pen.
We can check its spread by quaran-
timing our own herds, by not allowing
hogs to run at large, by not shipping
any diseased animals, and especially let
us never buy stOckers at city yards to
take to our farms to feed. Pens become
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