The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-10
HOG CHOlERAAND
HOW TO PREVENT n
Vast Sum S of M oney
Spent to Secure Good
and Sure Preventive
CURES ARE RARE;
SPREAD STOPPED
Serum Used in Time Saves
Herds That Have Been Expos
ed-Disease Very contag-
ious, but Spreads Slowly.
Agricultural Department
Supplies Medicine.
ny FRANK S. wOoDsoN,
Industrial Editor.

ny FRANK S. WOODSON,
Industrial Editor.
A week or two ago / spoke of ceh
tain people who We're classed "moss{
backs, farmers, for instance, Wild
think because man was not born onl
farm, was never allowed to leave
the plantation and never allowed to
give thought to anything except
grubbing stumps. blowing and plant
ing, hoeing and wedding, and reapins
and housing, he necessarily must be
absolutely ignorant of the science of
agriculture. or carpenters, for in
stance. who think because man has
not spent his whole life saving boards
and driving nails he does not know q
good house when he sees 1T; or
blockheaded newspaper editor, for in
stance. who may solemnly declare
that because man has not always
had his hands and his face smeared
with printers ink can't in the nature
OF the case be much OF a judge of a
newspaper or the theoretical way to
make one, or any other people who
turn up their noses at twentieth CEN
fury development and changes it has
made.
There are many such "mossbacks''
IN Virginia, and they are not confined
to any one calling. but the statistics
show that they are more numerous on
the farms than anywhere else. 1t is
to be admitted that anything. farming
as Well as carpenterlng and house
building and newspapering, requires
experienced men at the helm or sue
cess will be lacking, but man with
limited or no experience can find out
something from experts that may be
new to any old rnossback in the land,
~ ~sA. H@.rr &
the latter's ploddinG experience. and
having found 1T out he can tell 1t to
said mossbacks TO their advantage it
they will take heed.
Not In the Majority.
However. all farmers are not moss
backs. in fact, the mossoacks are in
the minority. largely so, for since +
have been writing about successful
farmers in various parts OF Virginia
and their modern methods the Indus
trial Section is getting many letters
from aSriculturists asking for infor-
nation on various subjects pertaining
to their business. In every case in
formation is obtained from reliable
sources and furnished them either by
private letter or through this column;
for the Industrial Section Is in sense
farm section also. because industrial
development and agricultural develop
ment are so closely allied the two
can hardly be separated
This is season when the agricu-
tural feature of the Industrial Section
may we'll take the lead, and indeed 1t
does to-day, anyhow.
During the past week several letters
have reached my desk saying in effect
that Just now a treatise on hog
cholera, how to- cure 1t and how to
prevent it would be very timely L
| have been to a splendid source OF in
| formation--the Virginia Department of
Agriculture--to get posted. and Com
missioner Koiner and Chief Clerk Mil
| Ter have given me access to literature
! on the subject.
A Preventive Discovered.
When the cholera gets good hold
on a hog there is no cure. but II the
animal is taken in hand when the
disease first makes Its appearance a
cure may sometimes be affected by
the use OF the proper remedies, but
even then, so most Of the authorities
say. very few cures are to be looked
| for.
Therefore the Departments of Agri-
culture of the States and OF the ma
tional government have spent their
energy and vast sums of money to
find medicine and a method to pre-
vent the spread of the fatal disease
when once 1t breaks out in a herd, on
| a farm. or in a neighborhood; for
hog cholera is terribly contagious
The biochemic division OF the Ma
| tional Bureau Of Animal Industry
claims to have found such a proven
| tive. and experience of several years
has proven 1t to be tho thing to stop
| the spread of the dreaded cholera 1T
| Is a serum with which the hog is in
occulated. II a hog in a given herd
Is found to have the cholera it should
be taken out. and IL the disease has
| gotten good hold upon the animal
the hog should be killed and buried
! deep In the ground. and then all the
other hogs in the herd should be In
oculated with the serum. This, it is
claimed, will save the balance OF the
| herd. for when the animals are thus
once inoculated they are choiarA
| proof to the end
AZ the last session of the Virginia
Legislature an act was passed which
made an appropriation of $4,000 to
the Agricultural Department for the
specific purpose of buying this serum
to sell at cost to Virginia farmers
How to Obtain the Serum.
| The department. has received a
supply OF 1000 doses. and Commits
sioner Koiner is now issuing bull
letin. Just printed, giving the farmers
| information as to how to obtain the
s9t o.s' anu "oW 70 use ~ quote from
| the bulletins:
THE cost Of the serum is 35 cents
4 per dose Of Ave teaspoonfuls The
serum is put up in bottles which con-
4 tain twenty-five doses each; also In
i bottles of five doses each. All OF tho
i serum should he used at one time, as
It will not keep after the bottle has
! been opened. The unopened bottles
i should be kept in a cool place
THE cost price must slccompanY
\ each order for serum. DO not failat08
i give the nearest express office. N
ITO serve our farmers as much "a
4 possible, aud owing to the incon-5
venience 10 farmers to get suitable
II syringe, which Is necessary 70 iniecr
Il this serum, the department has arr