The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-05

And sausage meat,
Rise up before Us"
. Several of my Carolina friends have
written me about their troubles with
hog cholera. The hog and hominy
of the South are famous wherever the
ex, blue coats revel in tales of warlike
days. The hog is a vital question in
food economics, though I don't eat ten
pounds of swine in a year. Personally
| don't think it fit to eat and only do
so as a matter Of custom, habit and
imitation. This making a cemetery
of ones stomach isn't consistent with
progress away from savagery and can.
nibalism toward a higher civilization.
In history all great peoples have re-
sembled in character very largely the
characteristics of the national food
supply. This may account for the
present avalanch of trusts, monopolies,
corporate and political greed. Too
much hog in our national diet has de-
veloped human hoggishness in nation.
al morals.
Again, the most persistent and ex-
elusive flesh diet nations have persisted
easiest at the hand of civilization,
witness our Indians. Very likely we
will die, as died ancient Rome, of
national gluttony-hoggishness
Now these r only my opinions
and you have a right to yours and to
aid the hosts of readers of The PRo
aREssIvE FARMER, some of whom may
not have access to the last researches
in hog diseases, | have looked my
book over and here is a little of what
I find. You must know I never saw
a case of hog cholera or swine plague;
never heard of a case in this county.
So I must rely on looks.
In 1879 Congress ordered 100, 600
copies of a Report on Diseases of
Swine printed for distribution. Now
Congressman have a certain number
of copies each to give their constitu-
ents. Some never draw them; some
draw and sell them to the old junk
dealers for paper mill stock; some
send out a few when asked; some
send out a few to friends. If you
want things of that kind, write to your
Congressman and stick to him for it.
They cost him nothing, rel postage
is free.
Now this report has reports by
Detmars, Law, Salmon and many
other of our most eminent ~investiga,
tors, men who devote their lives to a
study of these things solely to benefit
practical farmers like you. Investiga-
ton in swine diseases was in its in
fancy ten years ago, yet this report
has we 200 pages of experiments,
examinations of sick and dead hogs,
symptoms of disease, scientific descrip-
tons of the diseased organs, theory
after theory of cause and cure. Pic.
lures, too, fine Autographs of diseased
lungs, enlarged engravings of micro
scopic germs, bacillus, and pictures
of sore intestines enough to make you
sick at sight of a sausage.
Department of Agriculture, Report
of Bureau of Animal Industry of 1885,
contains a long and valuable report
on swine plague by DR.. Salmon, Chief
of the Bureau, $4,000 copies were
printed for free distribution. Get one.
1t is valuable to every producer of
domestic animals.
Page after page of carefully con-
Quoted experiments by trained ex-
perts with the best scientific apparatus
are given in sick herds, their interiors
carefully examined with knife and
microscope. Portions of lung and
liver and intestine, spleen and blood
were examined and microscopic or
ganisms, bacteria, microbe, bacillus
and microccus found in variety and
abundance. Beef and chicken broth,
gelatine and other prepared "~cultures "
YER treated with diseased portions
of the dead pig and the micro organ
isms grew, increased and had a good
time. Other healthy pigs were in
occulated with from two to ten drops
of this preparation and died in from a
day to four wholesome were sick
longer. Guinea pigs, mice, rabbits
and pigeons were inocculated, sickened
and died. Other pigs inocculated
from dead mice, etc. also sickened and
died. A potato with a colony of
bacillus planted on it proved a grand
place for them to grow and animals
poisoned with the juice sickened with
the disease. In all cases the microbe
was found in great numbers. He is
little but oh! By the way don't handle
sick and dead hogs with sore or cut
hands. You may get inocculated with
this horribly virulent specific poison.
Not TO weary you with unpleasant de-
tails, l give DR.. Salmon's
CONCLUSIONS"
l. Swine plague is caused by a
specific microbe multiplying in the
body of the diseased animal. The
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