The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-09
DISCUSS THE HOG PLAGUE
Farmers and Stock RaiSers Attend
Meeting to Deal With
the Situation

There was a fair attendance at the
mass meeting called by the county COM
missioners, held at the county building
yesterday, for the purpose of discussing
the swine plague in this county. A gen
eral discussion was had and at the con-
cluSion II was stated that the commits
sioners would take immediate steps to
quarantine diseased hogs and take other
proper sanitary measures. The commits
siOners will also cooperate with the var
ious health officers to exterminate the
plague. Among those in attendance at
the meeting were DR.. H. j. ErederickS,
veterinarian of the Agricultural college,
and d. NJ. Wooden, government inspector
of the Ogden packing house.
DR.. FrederickS addressed the meeting
at length and told of the first case that
was called to his attention and of having
made a post norton examination of a
number of hogs which had died and of
finding that they showed all the symp-
toms of swine plague He said the lungs
of these animals were infiltrated with
blood and that symptoms similar to those
of hog cholera existed. He then described
the symptoms of the disease and showed
diagram of the lungs of the animals
that were infected with hog cholera, and
said that in some of the hogs he had ex-
amined these symptoms were present
DR.. Fredericks stated that he had taken
germs from the infected hogs TO the ex-
pertinent station at Logan, but that they
had not yet had time to develop.
DR.. Wooden, the government inspector
in an address stated that he had no idea
where the plague originated. He said that
some time ago a shipment of hogs had
been received from the east and that
three of them were affected. Also that
later $50 hogs were shipped from Kan
sas and fifteen of this lot were con-
demned for swine plague and one for
cholera. He said that no animals infect
ed which HAD been shipped to the local
stock yards had been turned out, and
those badly affected had been tanked for
soap.
II was brought out during the discus
sion which followed that four or five
years ago some such disease had broken
out in some parts of the county and one
instance was pointed out where seventy
five hogs belonging to one man had died
at that time. In the opinion of the ex-
perts at yesterdays meeting swine
plague is contagious, and in some alti-
animals on farms infected by the dis
ease, other than hogs can carry the dis
ease from one farm to another, further
that owners often carry it from one farm
TO another and that chickens and rabbits
are the only other animals susceptible to
the disease.
DR. Fredericks said that as far as he
could learn the disease was at present
prevalent only in the north and west
portions of Weber county and in some
parts of Davis county. He also brought
out the fact that the experiment station
at Washington had taken serum from in
fected hogs and that this had been used
in a similar way to the vaccine for small
pox and antitoxin for diphtheria, and
ly in the east by hog raisers. He gave as
his opinion that the feeding of beet pulp
was not injurious to the hogs and would
in no way tend to cause plague.