The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-18

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eight of his neighbors had lost
over $1,000. worth of stock hogs,
counting aheir market value at the
time they died. Although with
out a single exception, those who
lost all their hogs and those who
are now losing them, have burned
all that died, q very difficult thing
to do in a community whore fuel
IL scarce. There is no telling how
far the disease will spread from
this point of Infection, nor how
great the loss will be. Hog cholera
spreads in 30 many different ways
that are beyond the control Of man
that when it is once introduced in
to a neighborhood its control is
practically out of question. There
fore, l want to strongly recon-
mend the following course to the
farmers in all of the corn raising
communities:
In shipping hogs into a COM
munity, place them in the smallest
lot or pasture that will accommo-
date them and keep them there
entirely separate and away from
all other hogs for thirty days. If
during that time one or more of
them dies from any disease keep
them isolated for thirty days more
before mixing them with other
hogs. If disease, which appears
to be rapidly fatal, starts among
them, Immediately load up all of
the hogs which are still apparent
ly we'll, into wagons and haul
them to the station and ship for
immediate slaughter. On return
ing disinfect the wagon, the driv-
er's feet and hands by saturating
with a solution made by dissolving
one ounce of corrosive sublimate
to each eight gallons of water.
After thus d~isinfectipg wagons
used in hauling the hogs may be
returned to any neighbours place
who helped move the hogs to the
station without any danger of
the disease. The owner
of the diseased hogs should i'm
mediately kill and burn all the
balance of the lot and leave the
vacant until after very
rains or until as much as
two weeks of clear sunshine, the
longer the better.
This course may raise several
serious questions, but do not adj
wise it without considering all of
the details carefully and being
prepared, if space would permit
to answer them.
I firmly believe that if the farm
ers will take the right view of the
subject and 60 at it in earnest,
that hog cholera can be prevented
almost entirely. OF ourse it will
take q few years even with the
best directed efforts, to get it COM
stamped out Of the Stat q.
It will doubtless require some
legislation and in planning it we
must take into consideration that
it would be economical for the
State to pay the owner of sick and
affected hogs a reasonable amount
for such as are found necessary to
kill and to burn in order to pre-
vent the spread of hog cholera.
During the years 1900, 1901 and
up to October, 1902, there were
only two shipments of hogs affect
cd with cholera from the State of
Missouri to all the public markets
in the country. During the fall of
1902 large numbers of stock hogs
were shipped into this State to
which to feed the bumper corn
crop OF that year. AS every care.
full observer knows, many of the sc
shipments brought hog cholera
with them and caused outbreaks
which spread over whole counties.
From October 1902 up to- the pres :
emit time there has been shipped
from this State to public markets
S6S lots of hogs affected with chol-
ora. OF my own personal know
ledge, l know of one instance In
which case of these ship
ments represented a loss of $50, 900
worth of hogs in the neiehborhood