The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-20
rom RAISING II rnI EAST.
ID l. snrr te be Profitable The Drrsd
Of thslera Renewed.

II IL very evident that the continued
F high price OF market hogs and the
corresponding high price of bacon.
pork aud hams Will cause swine
growing in the east to be more en-
gagged In next season than this In
i fact more meat and chicken will be
raised throughout the whole L. 4.
within the next two years than ever
/ before In the history of this country.
! In the New England and other east
ern states there never have been any
serious outbreaks of hog cholera. or
anthrax, among swine. and there
! probably never will be such sweeping
destruction OF these animals as has
been In the middle west. where swine
growing has been one OF the great
est OF animal Industries. But these
facts furnish no security for the flu
ture of swine growing in the east. The
fact of there never having been any
serious outbreak furnishes one of the
chief sources of future danger.
Our federal government. under the
Animal Husbandry Department, has
now in print a bulletin on the subject
of hog cholera, written by DR.. NJ.
Dorset, which | consider one of the
most comprehensive, plain, common
sense bulletins that has ever been
] IL I'D hx. tho 10, ptf mt of
culture. 1t is free from scientific
terms; not a word in the whole TWEEN
ty-four pages that any school boy ten
years old cannot we'll understand the
meaning of. Furthermore, DR.. Dorset
evidently knows in a practical way
whole lot about swine and swine
mi nagement. 1t should be in the
hands of every farmer from Maine to
Texas and from Oregon to Florida, as.
if it's teachings are followed, in my
Judgment this dread disease (Which
/ has caused more loss to farmers in
one year than bovine tuberculosis ev-
er has caused) can now practically
+ be eXtefmlndteQ.
More especially should the farmers
of the east who are proposing to en-
scale, by keeping from one to three
or four brood sows with their annual
crop of pigs, he interested in starting
right. What do you mean by right?
you may ask. | mean right" First.
don't buy a brood SOW from outside
your own state, or county even, I'M
less she has been rendered immune
by the serum DR.. Dorset mentions and
tells you in the bulletin how to get.
| In short, allow no swine to come on
your premises that have not been
rendered immune, as no man knows
how soon a person may come to your
premises with the germs of hog chol-
era On his garments or shoes, carried
perhaps from an infected farm in the
middle west, or perhaps brought to
the farm on the feet of cattle or other
animals.
1t is easy for any farmer to keep
practically free from hog cholera but
far from easy to get rid of it after
he has his pens and yards infected
with it. Dr. Dorset we'll makes his
knowledge of the disease known in
his bulletin, and the Department of
Animal Husbandry will willingly, for
the outlay of one cent invested in a
postal card and a request written up
on it and directed to the Hon. A. d.
Melvin, chief of the Bureau Of Ami
nal Husbandry. Washington, send in
return a copy of the bulletin men
toned. | will close by saying, send
for it; word to the wise is always
sufficient. 1t is the fellow who knows
but little that requires a multitude of
words to convince. G. d. Smead, V.
s., in Tribune Farmer.