The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-22
HOG CHOLERA CUREABLE.
An Account of Demonstration Made
In Iowa.

In Iowa.
The following,from the Dubuque,
Iowa, Daily Times. willObe of interest
to our farmers, and should be pre-
served:
Frank Baumgartner, of PeOtOne,
| ILL.,, has cOncluSively demonstrated
| that he has a cure for hog cholera.
His remedy will effect cure unless
the recuperatiVe powers OF the dis
eased hog are nearly exhausted.
Mr.. Baumgarter arrived in the city
last week, at the request of the Chi
capo. Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad
company. He is cousin of f. j.
ClemanS, division freight agent of the
c., M. & St. p. in this city. Some
few weeks ago Mr.. Baumbartner and
Mr.. Clemans met in Chicago. They
went up to see one of the Milwaukee
company's leading men. The result
of the conference was that the COM
pany determined to test Mr. Baum
gartner's remedy. Mr.. Clemans, on
returning home, found that Orne
Bros, lessees of the Geo B. Burch
farm, a few miles from town, had a
number of hogs infected with the dis
ease, and notified the Chicago office
| that there were cases here, and Mr..
Baumgartner was requested to come
| to Dubuque and demonstrate wheeler
or not he had what he claimed. Mr..
| Baumgartner came and Saturday last
visited the Burch farm.
| Orne Bros. had &c hogs, IS being ill.
The one undiSeased was a SOW that
subsisted on a different diet to that
received by the other hogs. Mr.. Orne
has been accustomed to feed his hogs
the refuse of the Julien house. This
consists of vegetables, etc. He fed
the hogs any quantity of this stuff and
never regulated the amount.
| Mr.. Baumbartner did not treat the
hogs Sunday, but came to the conclu-
sion that many of them would die. OF
the Is hogs infected with the disease
80 had died previous to Mr.. Baum
gartner's arrival, leaving q. Monday
he instructed Mr.. Orne to change the
diet of the hogs and feed them corn.
This was done, and Tuesday Mr.. Baum
gartner took personal charge of the
diseased animals. He instantly be-
| gan his treatment and administered
his remedy. Wednesday change for
the better was noted in the animals.
On this day he pronounced the cases
of three of the hogs hopeless and or
dered them killed. Last night one of
the diseased quadrupeds died, making
the third since Mr.. Baumgarter had
| first seen them.
The other day he separated the ami
mails, placing Is in one pen and the re-
naming 6 in another pen. He still
continued the dieting process and the
| application of his remedy.
/ r. Mr. N
j. McVann, local freight agent of the
Pennsylvania line, and reporter for
this paper went out the Burch farm
eased hogs. The fifteen in one pen Mr..
completely out of danger. This opin-
ion was Shared by Mr.. Orne, Mr..
Clemans and Mr.. McVann. The
fifteen hogs were very lively and ate
the food with relish. OF the other
seven one was nearly dead, while
another was becoming worse. The re-
naming four were rapidly recuperat-
ing, and Mr.. Baumgartner stated that
they would soon be out of danger
The result of this mode of treating is
here summarized:
Total number of hogs. .............27
Positively cured. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 5
Rapidly recovering. ............... 4
Killed .......... ............
| Oleu. ..''..'.'' +
Will probably die. .......... z
Mr.. Baumgartner Stoutly contends
that hog cholera is not contagious
and he will as conclusively prove this
point as ne did that there wa cure.
In the pen formerly occupied by the
! very sick animals he has placed six
perfectly sound hogs bought from a
neighbOring farmer. Three of these
he says will become infected with the
disease and three will remain we'll.
This experiment will controvert the
argument advanced by veterinarians
that hogs when placed in pen
formerly occupied by hogs diseased
with hog cholera will contract the lat
ter disease in from five to twenty days.
Mr.. Baumgartner will leave tine well
hogs in the pen for more than twenty
days, and he asserts that they will be
as we'll at the end of that time as thye
were yesterday when put in. The
other three will become diseased
within very short time. One of the
three diseased hogs will be permitted
to die and the other two will be cured
after they have been i'll short time.
The means used by Mr.. Baumgartner
to produce cholera is simply to give
the hogs all they want to eat, that
they may gorge themselves. He takes
no stock in the statement that hogs
can be inoculated against hog cholera
and guarantees to produce one of the
worst cases of hog cholera within
forty-eight hours. He believes in the
germ theory so strongly advocated by
DIR. Andrews of Nebraska university,
who spent a lifetime and fortune in
proving his claim. Mr.. Baumgartner
contends, however, that the germ will
not produce death of itself, or that a
healthy hog will contract the disease
from exposure where diseased hogs
are. 1t is the gorging and the too
sudden change of diet that are re-
sponsible for the ravages of the
disease.
The fact that hog cholera is so often
found along one system Of railroad
while not prevalent on parallel line
would seem to support the theory Of
germ and infection, but Mr.. Baum
gartner has another theory to account
for this fact. He says the farmer, on
hearing that the disease has appeared