The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-20

Louis received 800 hogs, against 5000 the
day before and the market was quoted as
steady. Provisions were stronger and
ribs closed up ~ cents, and lard cents.
The daily comparisons were as follows:
Yesterday, tops, S3.1714; bulk. s.. 1Od3. II y:
average weight, PA; receipts, AS. For
Friday, tops. 50. Z21z; bulk. s.. 1Oa3. 20; av-
erage weight. go; receipts, 1,0oS. For the
same day lost week, tops, s3.2712; bulk,
Sc .2212q3.271s; average weight, 245; re-
ceipts, 3S2
The weekly comparisons are as follows:
For the week just passed, receipts. Asp;
average weight. 252 For the week previ-
Gus, receipts, 4,0S7; average weight, 25s;
for the week before that, receipts, $3.50;
average weight, z37.
The review of the week by days is as
follows: Monday, tops, IS. 2712; bulk, So 10
G3. 20; average weight, l95; receipts, go
Tuesday, tops, g 20; bulk, s.. lGG3. 30; aver
age weight, 81; receipts, $50. For Wednes-
day tops, s. %; bulk, s.. 1913 20; average
weight, 2S7; receipts, 1928; Thursday, tops,
50. 20; bulk, S3.O0Gl3. 20; average weight, $50;
receipts, $50. Friday, tops, s.. 271z; bulk
s.. 1043.20; average weight, go; receipts,
1,OO6.
AT Chicago the estimated receipts for
Monday are IS, 900.
Buffalo Mercantile Review: Shippers of
hogs to this market should bear i'll mind
that next week is Thanksgiving week,
when poultry, game, etc, will largely
supplant the demand for pork, mutton
and heavier meats and is likely TO be a
rather dull week in the hog trade at best.
Another thing that should be taken into
consideration is that Mondays hogs sold
here will arrive in New York Wednesday
and as the slaughterers and packers do
no killing on Wednesday night, such
shipments would have to lay over at New
York, Jersey City and other eastern points
for "A hours, and the New York demand is
therefore likely to be much lighter on next
Monday on that account, while Tuesdays
hogs would not arrive from here until
Wednesday, hence it would probably be
better for shippers to arrange to have
their hogs here Tuesday, instead of Mon
day, for this week. This will not affect
the local, Pennsylvania or outside order
demand, any more than the fact of its
being a poultry holiday week, which al
ways does to certain extent. The next
week at best, is therefore likely TO be
a dull one in the hog trade at least, es-
pecially should the supply be liberal.
Exchange: During the past two years
the department of agriculture has con-
Quoted a series of experiments in the use
Of serum as a remedy for hogs affected by
cholera or swine plague. The experiments
were conducted by DIR. D. L. Salmon, chief
OF the bureau of animal industry, and
the results were eminently satisfactory
proving that the dreaded disease can be
successfully treated easily and inexpen-
sively. The losses suffered by the farm
ers of the United States annually from
hog cholera aggregate an enormous sum.
In Iowa alone, during 1896. it is estimated
that the hog raisers lost through the raw
ages of the disease 81, 10000 Scores of
remedies have been tried. but nothing
even approxImating a specific for the dis
ease has ever been discovered until tho
department of agriculture began its ex-
periments. Summarizing the results of
the experiments DIR. Salmon said that so
per cent of the hogs treated in droves have
been saved, while in the droves affected
with cholera and not given the serum
treatment quite 50 per cent were lost. Last
year the experiments were conducted in
Page county, Ia, the results showing a
loss of only 20 per cent of the affected
droves. This year the experiments have
been extensive and far reaching. The bu-
reau treated 922 hogs. OF these ITO died,
the number saved being 81 out of every
hundred. The loss was only 10 per cent.
The animals comprised II droves, and of
these six droves lost only one hog each.
On the other hand, 1,107 hogs in other
droves were served and not subjected to
the serum treatment OF these s7g died
hundred. Speaking of the treatment, DR..
Salmon said: There is no question OF
the effectiveness of the serum treatment.
Our operations have been viewed with
spekticism, but the serum treatment for
hog cholera is no longer an experiment.
1t is a proved success and undoubtedly
will save to the farmers of the United
States millions of dollars every year"
The cholera serum is procured by keeping
apart for treatment an animal-a horse
or cow-and injecting into its blood a
small amount of the blood of a cholera
hog. This viii Sicken the sub
ject, but he will recover, when another
dose Will be administered. and so on time
after time. until finally his blood becomes
so impregnated as to render him practical
~ cholera proof. Then his blood is let
and the clot drawn off. leaving the thin,
yellOwish portion. which is the serum.
This is used to inject into the diseased
hogs and operates to render them likewise
cholera proof or even cures them of the
disease after it has developed.