The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-07
HOG RAISING MADE SAFE.

DicSt Dy PfOVlQSnCe tnlS year. la
addition to the splendid crops, two
boons have been bestowed upon the
fsrmcrs-and through their labor'
Ultimately upon the whole humaa
race-each OF incalcuiable value.
Oas of these is the probable
extinction of the boil weevil which
has played havsc with the cotton
crops OF Oklahoma and Texas
especially the latter state, which WIS
making tremendous progress in the
prOduc ton of cotton until the bat.
weevil came like one of Egypfs
plaques of old as a visitation of the
wrath If the Almighty. The other
ine:timable benefit is the discovery
and practical application of the
serum for hog cholera, which the
Uaited States agricultural depart
ment declare is sovereign remSdy
fer the disease as well as a prophy-
lactic which will render well swine
immune for life. This serum, CT
course, will be equally available to
the farmers generally the county
over, but it has peculiar value for
those of Kansas, the GRASSY quad.
rangle" in which alfalfa first found
a foothold in this country and where
1t iourshes and is priced wore,
perhaps, than anywhere else on the
American continent. In the short
grass region of Western Kansas it
grows as luxuriantly as anywhere
and, coMbined with the new
medicine which renders hog raising
a safe and immensely profitable
business, it will insure abundant
prosperity to Kansas even though
every other crop should fail.
The urgent necessity for the
remedy is exemplifed by the fact
that the Kansas farmers alone have
lost over s., 600, 600 in the last year
from hog cholera. In fact, tniS
dreaded disease has hitherto been
the one supreme obstacle to prof
table hog raising. 1t dehld the skill
of science and experience alike. Il
ofteH swept away an entire drove ef
hegs. in a single week. Once its
deadly infection reached drove,
there was no hope and no remedy
except to kill every hog. THIS fact
acted as a fatal bar to buying hogs
as feeders, as cattle are bought,
The farmer might have ever so
much surplus hog feed going to
waste, but he dared not run the
risk of buying strange hogs at the
stock yards and take them home to
fatten. Armed with this hog serum
farmer can in future make fatten-
ing hog feeders for market a legiti.'
mate business, fully as safe and
much more profitable than fattening
cattle feeders. The vista which
this discovery opens to the pro-
gressive farmer is practically illimi
table. Aside from the cholera the
hog has no enemies worthy OF
mentor, and he will fatten and
multiply-foraging for himself
where other ANIMALS would starve.
With this serum the poor mans
chicken-breakfast bacon-will be
abun dant and cheaper.
The only serious factor in the
problem is to make the serum at
small cost and to render its
administration practical and easy
to the farmer. The first feature,
cheapness, has already been
achieved. According to the fig
nres of the United States authorities,
the serum can be produced for ~
cents per cubic centimeter. The
dose for an average hog is about
tweaty cubic centineters or ten
Tea spOonfuls; for pig, ten cent?
meters are ample TO render him
mmsne for life. The veterinary |
of the Kansas agri-
college has already perfect
ed arrangements to supply enough
serum for 100, 900 hogs next
season and more will be ready when
needed. At present IL is said that