The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-25
READY TOFURN|SH
CHOLERA SER UNI
Preventive of Hog Disease to Be
Sold at Cost to Farm
ers.
CAUSES BIG LOSS
Believed That New Treatment
Will Save Much Money in
Virginia.

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It was announced yesterday by Com
missioner Koiner, Of the Department OF
Agriculture. that he is now ready to
| furnish hog cholera serum TO the farm
ers of Virginia. This, Is done under an
act of the last Legislature, which re-
| quires the department to furnish the
serum to Virginians at cost, upon ap-
plication. Mr.. Koiner has been at
much trouble to secure a satisfactory
supply. The appropriation was TOO
small to permit OF the establishment OF
buy the supply. Other States which
have plants OF their own were unwill-
| Ing to sell. A; last arrangements were
| made with a manufacturer who has
| the indosement Of the National Depart
ment OF Agriculture.
| The serum Is made as recommended
| by the Biochemic Division OF the Bu-
reau OF Animal Industry. The cost is
s5 cents for each dose OF twenty CEN
timetres. The serum Is put up in bot
ties of two sizes-fve doses and TWEEN
ty-five doses. 1t is Intended that all
of the serum should be used at one
time. as 1t will not keep after tho bot
tie has been opened.
Also Furnish Syringe.
The department has also arranged
to furnish suitable syringe, beltev-
ing that 1t would be inconvenient for
many farmers to purchase one The
syringe Is made for this work and will
cost the wholesale price of 50. Its
purchase Is OF course optional.
a short treatise on the disease and
Its treatment has been prepared. It
Is stated that at the beginning OF an
M u ~ nv IL, I%
difficult matter to be sure that II is
actually present. for the outward symp-
toms are not characteristic, but only
such as might be expected in any acute
disease. The important features are
contagtousness. symptoms of severe
illness. such as fever. weakness. loss
OF appetite and diarrhoea, hemorrhagic
spots in the internal organs or button
like ulcers in the intestines, kidneys
specked like turkey eggs in small,
dark red spots from the size of pin
point to larger.
Talk on Prevention.
Keeping the germ of the disease
away from the herd Is the only neoes-
sary preventive. But it ia realized tina,
the enforcement of a quarantine is not
practicable under average farm condi- |
tons. and the best that can be hoped
for is lessening OF the opportunity TO
contract the disease by placing the
nerd on part of the farm which will |
be the least accessible to men or anil |
mails from other farms. Hog lots, 1t Is |
urged, should never be located near |
public roads IL it can be prevented |
All newly purchased stock should be |
Kept separate from the main herd fori
at least thirty days. Hogs should be
provided with clean. dry sleeping
places, and the lots and feeding troughs
should be kept clean
it is well occasionally to scatter
slaked lime about the lots and to |
wash and disinfect the troughs. Prob
ably the best disinfectant for the pur-
pose is compound solution of cresol.
which can be prepared at any drug
store. One part of it should be mixed
with thirty parts of water. and the
troughs scrubbed with 1t. The disln-
fectant is then washed out with water
Commissioner Koiner estimates that
not less than 100000 every year is
lost to the farmers Of the State be-
cause OF hog cholera In additions,
millions more are probably lost be-
cause OF the fear of the disease, which
prevents embarkation in the industry.
Some more enterprising farmers are
feeding and fattening their hogs with
out corn. with the products of crops
sown for the purpose of improving
land
The New Treatment.
In injecting the serum the syringe
should be inserted nearly straight into
the fieshy part r. the thigh on the in
side, going thrslgh the fat into the
of II b hog. This injection
VIII serve to "a rect hogs from cholera
Tor several weeks, and in some cases
Tor longer time.
II the hog is not exposed to the dis
ease within a few weeks after the
treatment, the immunity conferred by
ne serum Will gradually lessen in de-
gree and the hog may again become
susceptible. However, a popularity In
he result of the use $of the serum Is
hat If the hog is exposed to cholera
within short time after the injection
he immunity becomes, so far as ex-
'eriments have shown, of permanent
md lifelong duration
II Will be seen, therefore, that the
Injection is of especial value in cases
where there is immediate danger CT
exposure, especially when hogs are to
'e taken to fairs, and where the dis
ase has already broken out, but has
lot progressed to a great extent. In
ierds OF this character all of the we'll
!nlmals should be treated, while even
n the case of those slightly i'll much
ROOD may be accomplished by the in.
ection.
It is not expected however, that
nuch success can attend the use OF
erum in herds badly affected.
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