The log cabin Democrat., 1911-08-05
STATE FURNISHES
 CHOLERA SERUM
PREVENT DISEASE IN HOGS
GOOD MONEY IN HOG RAISING, IF CHOLERA EPIDEMIC CAN
 BE AVERTED.

Frank LachOWsky, a prosperous young farmer who lives one mile
 south of Conway, told the Log Cabin l Democrat this morning of the success
 he is having in raising hogs. So far
 he has attempted hog-raising only on
 a small scale, but the other day he
 sold a litter of eight pigs 10 weeks old for $40. The pigs were from reg istered stock, but had not been reg
 istered. He has only two breeding sows, but they are of a pure strain, and he says two filters of pigs a year from each of them will net him from $100 to $160 He keeps his hogs in a pasture, never allowing them to run on outside range.
 MT. Lachowsky said, however, the danger of trying to raise too many hogs is that they are very liable to become infected with cholera and the entire herd be destroyed within a few weeks AS it happened the Log Cabin Democrat had received a day or two ago a circular letter from Prof. J. F.. Stanford, veterinarian of the college of agriculture in the University of Arkansas, stating that serum may now be obtained from him at actual cost, the recent legislature having made provision for it's supply to farm CTS. This serum properly administer ed, it is declared, will render hogs absolutely immune to the disease. The promise was made Mr. Lachowsky that the substance of the circular let tel would be published in the Log Cab in Democrat, and from it the follow ing is quoted:
 Since the veterinary department of the state agriculture college now has the serum to sell at cost, at 60 cents per hundred pounds live weight, it is desired that all provide them selves with this serum and all neces- sary instruments for its administra- tion in time to save their hogs. When hog cholera is raging in your neigh borhood you should lose no time in sending in your order and be prepar- ed to deal with the disease before it has gained foot-hold on your herd. In the last three weeks We have sent out serum to farmers, who, after re- ceiving the serum, have notified us that their hogs were all dead or sick on the arrival of the serum and re- quested the department to refund. In all of these cases the orders were promptly filled on the receipt of the order and the arrival of the serum af- ter all their hogs were dead or sick was due to delay in placing the order. When serum is thus returned We ex- pect the one ordering to pay the ex- press charges both ways, otherwise the express charges will have to be added to the cost of the material and thus make the price higher. The proper dose of serum is 20 cubic centi- meters for every hundred pounds live weight, but 75 cubic is the maximum dose for any size hog. We furnish syringes of 80 cubic centimeters size for $5.50 and 30 cubic centimeters for $4.50. When vaccinating in a diseased herd the dose should be increased
 from one-half to double the dose or dinarily used. All that is necessary ] before vaccination is to see that the hogs are in clean, comfortable pens, and corn should be eliminated from the ration. After vaccination the hogs should be in clean sheds or lots with clean bedding supplied and absolutely
 no mud of any kind. The serum should
 be injected deep on the inside of the
 thighs, into the muscular tissue, thus
 preventing the escape of the serum on
 the withdrawal of the syringe needle
 This intramuscular injection will
 cause temporary lameness that will disappear in few days. The site of
 making the injections should be thor
 oughly cleansed before making the in- | jections by washing with soap and
 water and then applying a five per
 cent creolin solution. For further in-
 formation of the use of the Anti-Hog
 Cholera Serum, apply to the dean and
 director of the Arkansas College of
 Agriculture and Experiment Station
 at Fayetteville, for circular No. 12.'