The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
ANTI-TONNE SERUM FOR HOGS
FEDERAL EXPERIMENTS FOE
TREATMENT OF SWINE.
Horses and Cattle Furnish the Ser
um-only 80 Died Out of 244 An
imals Treated.

Washington. Jan. 16.-The chief of the
bureau of animal industry. DR.. d. E.
Salmon. has submitted 20 Secretary VIII
son a report upon the experiments made
/ in the treatment of hogs for hog cholera
with anti-tcXine serum. This serum Is
made up on the same principle as the an
ti-toxine of diphtheria. Good serum has
been obtained from both horses and cattle,
a horse or COW being lnoculated with the
/ hog cholera virus, in small quantities at
/ first. and with larger doses AFTER suitable
| intervals of time The resistance OF lhe
animal IS thus raised 10 the highest prac-
ticable point. The blood of Sucn an am
mai. wnen injected under the SKIN OF
swine, has been found to possess both a
/ preventive and curative action. rms Sc
rum was first tested upon small animals
} in the laboratory, and, being found ell
cacious was last rail- tested IN Page cOun-
~ Ia on seVeraI herds of swine contain
ing altogether rs animals. Leaving out
one head. from which definite returns as
TO cause of death could not De OBTAINED
only 80 died out of the IA animals treated,
of which Sc were sick. consequently, Szo
rler cent OF the animals of these herds
were saved. OF untreated hogs Kept I'M
der observation during the period referred
to about SIS per cent of the animals died.
DR.. Salmon believes that with experience
a better quality of serum can be prepared
and he has no doubt that this percentage
can be maintained hereafter
son remarked that undoubtedly the re-
suits reported by DR.. Salmon were most
encouraging to hog raisers. The cost or
the serum now, said the secretary, a Dut
10 cents per head of animals treated. only
one dose being required. and doubtless, in
course of time. this light cost may still
be further reduced.
1T is in my opinion, said the secre-
tary. .of the utmost Importance that this
serum for the next year at least be made
by the bureau. under our own supervision
and distributed in large quantities, in or
der to demonstrate its efficiency upon d
more extended scale. 1t is absolutely eS-
sential that during the experimental stage
serum OF undoubted quantity be used
Unless the hog growers can obtain IL
from this department they viii be forced
to depend upon what can be obtained from
private sources. and, owing TO the novelty
of this production, not only VIII diScOur-
aginglv high prices be charged for II,
but in many cases, inferior products may
he offered. This would preclude the pos
sibil.ty of making satisfactory test on
a widely extended scale. propose TO ask
congress to provide an appropriation nee
essarr to enable this department 10 fur
nish 900 doses Of serum during the
next year, and to make a considerable
portion of the appropriation Immediately
available. 1t seems from DR.. Salmon re-
port that IL takes three or four months to
put a horse or COW in condition TO supply
the serum. consequently the work upon
an extended scale must be undertook ct
once.
THE losses from chOlera are so enOr-
nous and have weighed SO heavily for
years upon our farmers that l cannot
imagine that congress will for moment
hesitate to make the appropriations nee
essary to carry on this work thoroughly.
Indeed. apart from the great stake the
farmers have IN this matter. TO refuse to
provide for a thorough test of this rem
edy now would indeed be penny wise and
pound foolish for the discovery of this
serum has involved already many years
of work and very large sum of money.
1t would be a great mistake now that so
great a discovery seems TO have been
made. not to finish the work by giving 1t
a thorough and extensive test"
No quarter viii do as much good as
the one that buys DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets. This is what you get with
them: An absolute and permanent
cure for Constipation, Indigestion,
Bilious Attacks, Sick and Bilious
Headaches, and all arrangements of
the liver, stomach and bowels Not
just temporary relief. and then a worse
condition afterward-but help that
lasts.