Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-05
DIR. PORTER REPLIES TO MR.. AIKEN
And Thinks The Hygenic Measures the
| Latter prescribes Very Beneficial.

Latter Prescribes Very Beneficial,
VIRoouA. WISCONSIN, March 81.
EDITOR CENSOR: II wish TO thank
Mr.. Aiken for his good article on hog
cholera. / claim that what the govern.
ment scientists say is true, that hog
cholera kills 80 per cent of the hogs
afflicted with it, no matter how much
cholera medicine or charcoal or sulphur
they are given. Mr.. Aiken's treatment
of hogs is excellent and shows he is
master of the art of hog raising, and by
the way, one OF the fine arts. But I
am sorry he takes the view he does
about stamping out the disease. because
so many men will tamper with so called
cures for cholera and neglect to prevent
it's spread. The government experts
say they can save 80 per cent of a herd
by inoculsting that herd with new
virus they have discovered, whereas 80
per cent would die of cholera il not so
inoculated, provided cholera got into
the herd. Mr.. Aiken's treatment of the
hog, no doubt, would lessen it's chances
OF dying with the disease, but can not
believe his good hygenic treatment will
''bsnish cholera from any farm and
keep it away" L would sooner think
his free use of lime had destroyed the
germs or else cold weather had done
the same. There are still few days
left of cold weather in which to clean
out the pens where cholera infected hogs
have been, and liz III to remove old
straw stacks SO til sround will freeze
around the pens and destroy the cholera
germs. A thick coating of fine lime, as
Mr.. Aiken says, will destroy the poison
I am losing pigs with the thumps, just
now = cause. high living and want of
exercise. 1t is too cold to turn them
out and Tier quarters are to small. By
the way, good many men and women
die with what is analogous TO the
thumps in little pigs. Thumps, they
tell us, IS fatty degeneration of the
heart and liver. High livers among our
kind haye the same disease. They eat
too mnch rich food and drink beer aud
other bad decoctions and shorten their
lives by high living and laziness. Brother
Aiken says, at is no honor to man to
take lot of hogs to market so fat they
can not see out OF their eyes" He is
right. [ consider it no honor to a
human being to lay on large amount
of fat on his OVID frame. There is dan
ger of fatty degeneration of some organ
and an early death. The remedy for
obesity in man and thumps in pigs is less
fat producing food and more exercise.
If cholera spreads, as it almost surely
will, hope owners of sick hogs will
use all the preventive measures 1 have
named and all the hygienic measures
M. Aiken has enumerated, and that
they will not be backward in writing
him for further information, for he
''speaks IS one having authority, and
not as one of the scrlbes."
@. V. PORTER
P. S.-My work today has been a
little varied The forenoon I spent
going from De Solo to Liberty Pole,
working for camp meeting 1T Battle
Island; later, copied the Articles Of
Association of Viroqua camp meeting;
MIXED COWS and turned separator crank !;
answered Brother Aiken's able produc-
ton; went to bed; arose Immediately
and went to hired mans house and Off
ciated at the introduction of young
lady into this cold world. Can Lorin
beat this for a variety of work in one
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