The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-07

the authority of the government crushes
out pleuro-pneumonia, CHAMBERS or other
diseases of animals. 1t is doubtless prop
er TO enforce regulations as to the disin-
tecting of railway cars but beyond this
20 not believe that measures of quar-
antine will ever prove valuable except in
the shifting of exposed hogs to fresh lots
within the confines of any one farm. If
all the swine in the United States were
killed tomorrow, and If we made an en-
trely new, fresh start, / believe we should
in ten years have cholera Just exactly as
we have it to day, even if the entire sur
face OF the country were disnfected.
have tried, think, every kind of medi-
cine that was invented up to the time
when l discontinued the use of any hog
remedies, about six years, and l made
two experiments Of incubation under the
direction of DR.. Billings. I think that
every medicine we ever tried did some
good and believe there is truth in the doc
trine of incubation and treatment by pro-
ducts of cultures of incubation. Doubt
less the scientists have discovered much
in the last ten years, and l distinctly wish
to make nc comment whatever as to the
limit of the possibilities in real scientific
treatment.
Since 1 became interested in the culture
of sugar beets and the use of sugar beets
and forage beets for feeding cattle, and
consequently for feeding hogs, l have had
no trouble whatever with hog cholera
during the entire autumn season when
feeding beets. While 1 formerly dreaded
the approach of Indian summer as almost
certain to produce an outbreak of cholera,
l now feel perfectly safe at this time of
the year, believing that we are secure
from an outbreak, because 1 have never
had suspicion of one since l began to
grow and feed beets. Hogs should have
plenty of range, and 1 suppose on most
thnxr GOT of,I1 her
they should have an abundance of bed
ding, and probably on most farms they
get this also. I do not believe that they
get an abundance of roots on most farms
and when it becomes the universal habit
in our northern states to feed roots, es-
pecially in the autumn season, 1 expect
to see the ravages from hog cholera great
ly abated,
If the manufacture of beet sugar and
the planting of sugar beets becomes es-
tablished in the corn states where most of
the hogs are grown, l confidently expect
to see hog cholera very greatly diminish
in the territory adjacent to a sugar fac
tory, and do not believe there will be any
serious outbreaks on farms where beets
or pulp are fed to hogs, while in other ter
ritory not producing beets, it will continue
as before. 1t is of no use to try to get
hogs from mountain or forest districts as
they will more quickly succumb to dis
ease on our injected farms than hogs that
are native to the corn country. l do not
think it necessary to take particular pains
to disinfect the premises where an out
break has taken place, more than to give
them a reasonable and proper cleaning.
In my own experience it has been quite
impossible to disinfect premises complete
ly. and I believe this is true of most lots
where hogs run. Hogs that are native
to a farm or the survivors of an outbreak,
appear to be constantly exposed to infec-
ton from bacteria present in their lots,
but such hogs appear to be able to stand
such exposure without harm, unless VIC
lent outbreak takes place from the bring
ing in of foreign hogs.
AS yet there is not enough experience of
the results of feeding roots to state with
positiveness that it's effects will be as val
liable as l suggest, and 1 do not believe
it is the only thing that is necessary to
abate the ravages of hog cholera; but
since few of us have had a little expert
ence and testify as to its results in our
own cases, why should not the practice be
urged upon the attention of farmers in the
corn states?-R. NJ. Allen, in American
Agriculturist.