The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-12
Mr.. kO|NER BACK
FROM DOWN HOME
TELLS SOUTHERN COMMISSIONERS
OF AGRICULTURE HOW TO
RAISE FINE PoRKERs.
CHOLERA CONQUERED
VIRGINIA THE PIONEER IN STAMP
ING OUT DREAD DISEASE
BUZZARDs ARCH ENEMIES
TO GOOD HAMS.
CHOLERA CONQUERED

Commissioner of Agriculture q. W.
Koiner returned yesterday from RAJ
leigh, y. c., where he attended the
annual convention of the Association
of Southern Commissioners of Agri-
culture. On the way home he stopped
Saturday. and fulfilled an engagement
to address a gathering of farmers.
The Raleigh meeting. Commissioner
Koiner says, was well attended and
successful, especially from the stand
point of the ultimate rather than the
immediate benefits to be derived from
It. The chief topics of discussion were
| the troubles OF the cotton planters,
! in which Virginia is not largely in
! terested. and nog cholera, in which
the Old Dominion is very much inter-
ested.
| Cotton Planters Troubles.
! 1t was shown at the meeting that
! the cotton farmers Of the South are
| losing about $30,000.000 annually by
| reason of the standard Of excess tare
| fixed by foreign buyers. and it was
| shown further that the cotton plant
! ers of Arkansas, who had taken the
| bull by the horns, are cooperating in
| direct expectation and cutting out the
/, middleman, are getting about So u
| bale more for the staple than the
planters of sister States who have
| been quietly submitting to the meth
DDS complained of. The convention
| passed a resolution calling on the de-
| partment Of agriculture to ask for a
| conference of foreign buyers. import
| ers, planters and hers interested to
seek remedy for existing conditions.
Virginia Pioneer.
| When the matter of hog cholera
came up Commissioner koiner was III
position to give the delegates valuable
Information, for Virginia has been the
pioneer among the Southern Stntcs
in lighting this disease which has, and
J is still menacipg this industry IN the
Southern States. Commissioner k)in-
err explained in detail to the conren-
ton how Virginia is aiding the far
mers to combat this dread disease
and promote the hog raising indus
| try. The State supplies the hog chol-
era serum at cost, and since the serum
was introduced has disposed of over
i $500 worth of 1t. 1t costs the far
mer IS cents a dose. and one dose
| immunes hog to the disease. 1t is
NOT Sukb IOT tiS iiAhiadt pth Pa
ventitive, just as vaccination is for
| smallpox. 1t has been matter of
educating the farmer from the start.
Most of them were as suspicious OF
| the cholera serum as they were OF
| Jeuners' vaccine, but common sense
prevailed, and now the Virginia de-
partment Is supplying the serum to
farmers who are raising fine hogs
where there Is no known case of chol-
1 rhn III
| Is wise to spend IS cents to insure an
animal worth anywhere from $50 to
$3.50 to him against a disease that Is
certainly fatal. Commissioner Koiner
| pointed out to the convention how the
Introduction of the serum and its sue
| cessful working has encouraged the
hog -raisir- industry in the State. in
which Virginia now leads all her
Southern sisters.
! Tells I'm How to do II.
| Over a year ago Commissioner
Koiner issued a bulletin on the sub
| ject Of hog cholera, known as Far
mers' bulletin No. T." which goes
| fully into the details of the disease,
| and the methods of using the serum.
| One point raised by big breeder OF
hogs recently was whether the serum.
used merely as precautionary meas
| ure. interferred with the marketing or
! hogs. Inc DutlctlH aHSWcfS tHAS quSS-
ton. The injection of the serum has
, no untoward effect on the animal at
all, nor does 1t affect the meat from
a marketable standpoint. When the
! slight wound caused by the injection
| has healed the hog Is as ut as II
1t had never heard of the cirrus.
| The address was worth something
| to the other commissioners for the
reason that Commissioner Koiner laid
1 hi n n ia
has tried out and proved by exper-
| fence.
| Away With the Buzzard.
Continuing the line Of thought,
| Commissioner Koiner said that he was
| certain that the buzzard was one or
! the chief enemies OF the hog-raising
| industry everywhere. In Virginia
there Is a law compelling farmers
| to bury. deceased hogs and other ami
mails and bury them deep. but through
negligence or ignorance of the law.
or because they are too busy possibly,
many farmers overlook this very
! good statute. and leave pntrefying
| carcasses in their fields for the buzz
| yards. The cholera germ Is very ma
iigant and 1t is an easy matter for these
| buzzards to carry II on their feet. or,
| for that matter, a man, walking from
| one pasture to another could carry
| it on the shoes of his feet
Mr.. Koiner said yesterday that he
would make an effort to persuade the
next general assembly to sound the
! death knell OF the buzzard. The
| idea" said Mr. koiner. that the buzz
yartf ts blessing to any community
| in the guise of seavenger is relic OF
| ancient times and existing laws for
the protection Of this foul bird should
| be abolished. The sooner the species
| is extinct the better He didn't say
! SO. but II is presumed that the COM