Smyrna times., 1911-07-12
FOUR BLACKBIRD FARMERS
RECEIVE $2115 DAMAGES
STATE MAKES GOODFOR CATTLE
THAT DIED FROM INOCULATION
Horace VanDyke Paid $3.50; Henry
Hoffocker $3.50; Samuel Fortner
S6I5; Joseph Hutchinson 500

Hoffocker $3.50; Samuel Fortner
$6I5; Joseph Hutchinson 500
Horace T. VanDyke, Henry Hoffec-
ker, Samuel Fortner and Joseph
Hutchinson, four farmers of
Thoroughfare Neck, Blackbird Hun
dred. near Smyrna, have just been
paid So, lis by the Delaware State
Live Stock Sanitary Board for the
deaths of a number of horses and
cattle, resulting from inOculations
for anthrax last year. The fatalities
were due to the fact that the vac
cine, which was made by DR.. Charles
F. Dawson, veterinarian at the State
Experiment Station in connection
with Delaware College, was too
strong. The vaccine was manufac-
ured from anthrax culture secured by
him from the University of Pennsyl-
/ vania. DR.. Dawson having failed
to test the culture, its strength was
not known. The inoculations were
made from June 18 to JuGe 20 by DR..
Mcdowell, of Middletown, a veter-
marian connected with the Sanitary
Board. A total of 102 animals were
treated before the fatalities began
to appear. Then the vaccine was
called in.
Amounts Paid Farmers Considerable
Horace VanDyke, a farmer near
Walkers schoolhOuse, lost three
valuable horses and four cows. The
State authorities paid him $3.50.
Henry Hoffecker, tenant on the
farm of ex-Judge Spruance, in the
same neighborhood, lost half dozer
D COWS. He was paid $3.50. Samuel
t Fortner, a farmer at Eagles Nest,
I lost a half dozen cows and horses
was allowed $615. Joseph Hutchinson
I tenant on the farm of James W
: Price, nearby, was paid $100 for TIN
!, injurious effects the vaccine hat
:. upon his cattle. None of them died
T but they will probably never regal
y their former strength. The Sanitat
e Board has held a number of meeting
on the subject, several visits hav
IA ing been made to the unfortunat
farmers. On one of the recer
. trips, Governor Pennewill, himsel
y a large agriculturist. accompanie
AZ the visitors. In addition to payin
ol the farmers a total of 81, lis for th
u loss of their stock, the State officia
nc bought a number of horses and sel
al them to the victims for use durir
'lS their wheat harvest. The none
l. paid the farmers was taken from I
70 annual appropriation of SIS, 900 mat
nu to the Live Stock Sanitary Board
al the last Legislature when the bot
II, was created. The members are Il
u same as those composing the Sta
II ~ Board of Agriculture with t
ny addition of Dr.J. R. Kuhns, of Dove
nu as State Veterinarian. Oliver
ne Newton, Bridgeville, is presider
;ne Newton L. Grub, Brandywine hu
10 lo' dred, vice.president, and E.
- Jenkins, secretary.
re; Death of Animals do to Strong VirI
o.
DIS, None of the animals killed by
C. strong virus were afflicted W
ice anthrax when the inoculations ",
raj made. The treatment was given
esi- a preventive, as has been done
lel- several years in Blackbird hundr
ter. They were at first inoculated wit
W. weak solution known as No. l V
hill cine. Then the stronger solut
day was injected. 1t was too stro
Mr.. however, as the results proved.
.ker Sanitary Board is in communicat
with DR.. Myers, bacteriologist
the University of Pennsylvania, '
prepared the culture from which
in fatal vaccine was made. While
ling strength of the vaccine would h
oper been discovered by DR.. Dawson,
)mi- he made the customary tests,
ased State Board has accepted the sf
only as a mistake. 1t is amount
nder however, that such thing will
lock occur again.
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