The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-01-19
Sure Cure Found For Hog
Cholera.

Uh0l6ra.
"a Discovery That Will Prove
8 Boon TO the Farmer.
Washington, Jan. Is The chief
Sof the bureau Of animal industry, DR..
D. b Salmon, haa submitted to Sec
retary Wilson report upon the ex-
periments made IN the Treatment of
hogs fos hog chofera with anti toxine
serum This serum is made upon the
same principle as the anti-toxine of
diphtheria Good serum has been
obtained from both horses and cattle,
8 horse OF COW being treated with the
hog cholera virnssin small quantities
al fsst. with large doses after suita.
bic Intervals Of time The resist
ance Is thus raised to the highest
practicable point The blood of such
an animal when injected under the
skin Of swine has been found to pos.
sess both q preventative and . cure
for cholera.
This serum was first tested upon
small animals IN the laboratory and be
ing found effcacious. was last fail
tested IN Page county, Iowa, on sev
eral herds of swine containing alto
gether 276 animals Leaving out one
herd. from which definite returns as
20 cause Of death could not be cb-
tanned only SO died out of 244 AMI
mails tseated, Of which 86 we're sick:
Consequently 80 2 per cent. of the
animals IN these herds were saved.
OF nntreated nerds kept under OBJ
servatioD during the period referred
/ to abont S5 per cent of the animals
died. Dr. Salmon believes that with
experience q better quality Of serum
can be prepared and he has doubt that
this percentage Can be maintained
hereafter.
Referring to THE report Secretary
iIson remarked that Ddonbtely the
results reported BY Dr. Salmon were
most encouraging to hog raisers
he cost Of The serum now, said the
secretary, is but 10 cents per head 0.
aaima1s treated, only one dozen being
required, and doubtless in course Of
time this ligh. cost imay stiil be fur
ther reduced.
sIt is my opinion, :, said the secre-
tary thar Il Is of the utmost impor-
tance that this serum for the next year
az least be made BY the bureau, un-
der our own supervision, and distri.
bnted il large quantities in order to
demonstrate it's efficiency upon q
more extended scale Ills absolutely
essential that during shs experimetal
stage serum of undonbted quality
be used. Unless the hog growers
cano obtain itfrom this department they
Will be forced to~depend upon what
can be obtained from private sources,
and owing 10 the novelty of this pro
ducf. not only viii discouragingly
exorbitant prices be charged for it,
hut il many cases inferior products
may Be offered. This would pre-
cinde The possibility of making q
satisfactory test on q widely extend
ed scale.
propose TO ask congress to
provide an appropriation necessary
10 enable this department TO furnish
COO. 900 dozens Of serum during
the next year, and 10 make consid
cradle portion Of the appropriation
immediately available. It seems from
Dr. Salmonss report that it takes
three or four months to put horse
or COW in condition to supply the
sernm consequently the work upon
al extended scale must be undertaken
at once.
The losses from hog cholera are
so enormous and have weighed so
heavily for years upon our farmers
that ! cannot imagine that congress
win hesitate for moment to make
the appropriations necessary to carry
on this work thoroughly. Indeed,
apart from the great stake the farmers
have in this matter. to refuse to pro-
vide fora thorough test of this rem
edy would be, indeed, pennywise and
pound foolish for the discovery Of
shia serum has involved already
many years of work and q very large
sum Of money. It would be great
mistake, now that so great q discovery
seems TO have been made, not to fin.
ish the work By giving it a thorough
and extensive test"