The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-13

broken and the cars were found 70
filed with coal from the mines Of Colo
RADIO and New Mexico. Refrigerator car
state on a very extensive scale for tw
or three weeks past.
MUCH CHOLERA AMONG HOGS
Indiana Pork Being wiped Out by tn
| Dread Visitation.
Anderson, Ind, Aug 11.-"Cholera ha
killed $4,000 hogs. valued at $500, 00C
during the past pear. OF course these
are but estimates, but they will be fount
| very reliable
This statement was made uast nigh
| by Prof. A. W. Getting OF Purdue uni
versity, who was appointed 10y Governor
Mount several months ago TO make a
complete investigation Of the ravages
of disease in the state and to investi-
gate methods which will be instrumental
in stamping out the disease or at least
TO limit it 70 certain extent.
Prof. Getting finished his work this
week and went to Indianapolis from this
city last night. He has covered every
section Of the state. He went direct 10
the assessors and with them went over
their districts, making a special study
of each one. The information which he
has thus gathered has been of a reliable
nature and the reports which he will
make to Governor Mount within ten
DAYS will be Of great interest to all in
the state.
my report will contain some very in
tedesting statistics and some very VAL
liable information" said Prof. Getting
last night. 81 have not my boks at
hand and I have not even struck the
totals yet, but it will be found for the
year ending July 1 that % per cent OF
the hogs bred in Indiana, not counting
pigs under 8 months old, have died Of
cholera. There are about 300 900. 900 in
Indiana today, valued at $22O00,0 900.
EiShty-seven per cent OF the cholera
outbreaks during the year We're on land
on which hogs died in the preceding
year. That portion subjected 10 the
worst OF the scourge during the last two
years are the counties Of the Wabash
and White river valleys and between
these two valleys, which takes in most
of the central section OF the state. But
hte greatest spread has been in the ex-
IRENE southern counties.
For years Steuben. Lagrange. Elk
hart, Noble, Kosciusko, DeKalb. Whit
ley and Marshall counties in the north
ern part of the state and Jefferson,
Scott, Washington, Clark, Floyd and
Orange in the southern section have mad
a remarkable small per cent Of fatali-
ties from hog cholera, but the future Is
not bright for the counties. 1t has be-
come possible for those making a study
Of the subject TO predict almost 20 a
quarter section, where the ravages in
the entire state are 70 be the worst dur
ing the coming year. or where the spread
IF the disease will be the greatest. In
the prediction for this year almost all
IF these counties are included. 1t will
De found that when the averages are |
struck next July the greatest percentage |
)f spread will be in Marshall. Kosciusko. |
Whitley, Noble, LaPorte and ST. Joseph |
counties in the north and Harrison, |
Perry, Vanderburg. Crawford and Du-
5ois counties IN the south II is proba-
BE that in only few OF these counties !
viii the percentage run as high as those
n some Of the central states. but the
Increase Will be. perhaps. double that.
I will be felt worse in the counties I /
lave named. The fatality during the
,1st year was heaviest in Davies
one township L ran as high |.
S IS per cent. There are fifteen town
hips in the state where the percentage
an over 60 II was probably the light
ST this year in Steuben county. the per
ent being 6. or Whereabouts.
The extreme varieties associated with
he great fatality and the difference in
ymp;oms and even the disease Itself
re the features OF the study. No two
wine affected with the disease die alike.
here is nothing Characteristic OF it.
ome die OF dysentery. others have lung
rouble. others have a sort OF rheuma-
ism and some die Of constipation.
The diseases Of hog are not Ear dit-
srent from those OF man. During the
xcessive hot weather many cases were
eported where hogs had died OF what
las supposed by the farmers 70 be chol-
"a It proved TO be nothing less than
something thai IS not well un-
ers:ood by the farmer.
'.I am not prepared 70 talk regarding
emeiies We have been testing patent
About sixty have been /
many OF them called sure
ures' While the tests are not COM
le;e, hardly believe there vii De one
nat viii BE found worthy Of the pur-
base. No less than dozen .; trose
when anaiyzed. have proved
, he nothing more ,han ne government f..
Jrnula, and mus; say they were about
ne 5sss- The government formula y
cry cheap when the farmer buys Il as
lca, Eleven pounds can BE 2cI 70 for
! and Il is about o. good remedy as
am able 10 suggest The formula Is
: follows,
"B.-oanbonats o. soda. , poun5s; hypo-
ilphate OF s1da. pounds; sodium SUI 9
hate. / pound: sodium chloride. Z
ounds; sulphur, / pound; charcoal,
ounis; black anthony. i pound
The oest way 70 give ]; - II me
ops. twice a day. estimating oEs table
,0ou.1l for every 20 pounds q sock
.le patent preparations composed -
lese ingredients are sold FOR exo.oitAnt
-ices-Sore as aiga - 81 pound TIE
= &C carbide acid - kerosene as q
ray or The Stops 5 aiSo ve-y good !
1e mos essential things are pure water
on wells. and 70 sssp The animals
Wy from highways Hogs saoG-4 rot
, allowed access 20 poa3s. c-eeks o.
- into I =