The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-29
OF NIGH VALUE TO FARMERS.

important events in the history o
stock raising is promised for th'
meeting of the Standard Polanc
China Record Association at ST
Joseph, Mo-, on February 9. Dr.
w. ]. Cennaway of the veterinary
experiment station of the Missouri
agricultural college, will deliver an
address before the association on
the cholera serum for hogs which he
claims to have perfected, and he
will also demonstrate the efficacy OF
the cure, provided subject can be
found. 1t is claimed that this serum
will not only cure fully developed
case of cholera, but it will also act
as perfect preventive of the
disease. The Importance of this
discovery, assuming that it will
verify the claims made for it, is
almost beyond computation in
figures. Although great pains are
taken by the animal bureau atWash-
ington to obtain correct data con
cerning the ravages of hog cholera,
the statistics on the subject are
necessarily incomplete and to some
extent fragmentary. However,
enough is known to justify the state
ment that hundreds of millions of
dollars are lost every year in this
country by reason of the dreaded
disease. 1t is not only perennial in
all parts of the country, but often
becomes epidemic, destroying entire
herds waen ence 1t gains feethold.
One of its most prominent features
consists in the fact that Its origin In
any particular locality is nearly
always a mystery. Although
virulently contagious as we'll as in
fectious, it is Ike the wind in the
respect that it comes and goes at
will, and, so far as human knowledge
is concerned, without any tangible
cause in either event except the one
dreadful certainty that it almost in
variably continues its fatal ravages
until there is no more living material
for it to work ON. Cholera has been
known to break out in herd of hogs
where apparently the sanitary and
hygienic conditions were perfect,
and where no other cases could be
found withsa radius of fifty miles.
1t has been the one great bar to the
full development of the industry.
Hogs are very prolific, some breeds,
especially those having a strain of
Guinea blood, averaging two and
even three litters year of as high
as ten pigs each. The young ones
are hardy and but fer the fatal
scourge of cholera the increase
from one SOW would be enormous
within a few years. SO far, how
ever, excepting DR.. Connaway's
discovery, no cure has been fouad
for the cholera, and the disease has
proved effective not only in decimal
ing the living production, but in
deterrlng many farmers and stock
raisers from engaging ia the
industry on account of the high
percentage of losses and the
dangerous character of the risk.
II DR.. Connaway's cure proves his
claims It will rsvolutionize the
industry and will deserve to take
rank with DR.. Venner's discovery of
yaccination as a cure for smallpox
as one of the greatest boons which
medical science has vouchsafed to
the human race. 1t will, or should,
cheaper the cost of living, especially
to the poor-bacon has been called
"the poor mans chicken"-and
oheap living is almost as desirable
as life itself to the great majority of
the human race. No other kind of
neat is susceptible of SO many diff
ferent uses and forms of preserva-
tion as the products of the hog, and
No other enters SO largely into the