The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-05-30
NEGOTIATING HOGS.
Cholera Can be Cured as Shown by
Experiments.


Science is doing for the animal
kingdom what it is doing for the hui
man family 1t has made some won
derful strides In late years in cop
ing with dangerous, infectious and
contagious diseases, but rather along
preventative lines than cures. And
mune against fatal diptheria by the
administration of anti-toxin, which
physicians assert Is proving quite
success.
But hogs haze been at the mercy OF
cholera, which has carried them
away In droves, entailing a loss up.
on the farmers of the state In years
past amounting to hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars in value. DR.. Lamb
of the sanitary department of the
state board of agricultural, says the
Ohio farmers during the past year
have sustained heavy losses as a re-
suit of this plague, and that dairy
men and cattle raisers generally have
sustained even greater losses by tu-
berculosis, which has infected and
reduced their herds by one-third at
least.
He severely critics the legislature
for its failure to appropriate money
to enable the department to cope with
sthis disease. as well as cholera, which
plays havoc with the hogs, especial
ly after the attention of the legisla-
ture was called to existing alarming
conditions, and asked for adequate
funds to put the department In a POI
sition to cope with these diseases.
But the legislature continued the
appropriation at $4,000 for two years
while In Pennsylvania the Legislature
appropriated the large sum of $4,000
with the natural result that there Is
a good deal smaller percentage Of
mortality among the cattle and swine
of that state than there is in Ohio
But the department Is doing the
| best it can with the funds at Its COM
mand, and is now taking up the new
| method which has been experiment.
ed with on farm in Iowa for sew
| eral years, demonstrating to the
Iowa state officials and the federal
| authorities that method has been
I discovered by which hogs can be
| made immune from cholera. These
experiments have been going on for
several years under the direction of
noted scientists, though but little in
formation was given out until the
experiments proved and established
certain scientific facts.
Ohio, through its progressive live
stock commission, Is to take up the
work. II Is really process OF vac
cination, which, it is asserted. makes
the hog immune against cholera, the
same as vaccination on a child rend-
ers It less susceptible to deadly
smallpox
| The process OF immunizing hogs lie
| to inject into sound animals the blood
! OF those which have recovered from
! the cholera. the process to be con.
| tinued by injecting into the recover
ed animal the blood of others which
have fallen victims to the disease,
and then injecting again the blood OF
this particular animal into sound ami
mails II Will take time and money
to work this process out, but the
claim is made that the experiments
made ON the Iowa farm, always OF
course, under the most favorable con-
| ditions, have established certain
scientific facts which warrant the
more extensive application that is to
be undertaken, the states and federal
| government to work in conjunction.