The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-25
Expert
Says Conditions Here
Favorable to Disease
SESSION A SUCCESS
City Hall Packed To Doors
to Hear Discussion On
Fighting Disease.

due largely TO the non-eXiStence OF
the disease in previous years. declar-
ed DR.. w. b, Niles. speaking yester-
ing in the city hall, at which We're
gathered farmers TO the humber of
over 1000.
From the fact that heretofore
the disease has only existed moder-
ately in certain sections of the state.
and that practically NJ hogs have
been immune, is responsible for the
excessive losses. In other states the
cholera has ragged many times. said
the government expert, and the
animals that have w%eathered the dis
ease have brought about a general
harder stock.
Meeting Successful.
Every indication yesterday pointed
to the fact that the meeting was
easily n of the most successful
every attempted in Mitchell. The
crowds in attendance far exceeded
expectations. and the general sue
cess of the meeting in presenting
facts of untold value in fighting the
disease, practically laid the founda-
tion for similar meetings to be Held
in the future.
In his talk which opene d the
meeting, DIR. Niles sounded the key
note of the afternoon that cholera
is the only disease that kills hogs in
large numbers and that the serum
treatment is the only known preven-
alive. He emphasized throughout
that the disease results from a speci-
tic virus, which is communicated
from one hog to another and--from
one herd to another. and hat all
other factors are merely incidental.
? Hog cholera said DIR. Niles, lis
distlnctively contagious. 1t can't be
started up by bad feeding, filthy
yards or anything else. The virus
has got TO be brought to the hog
before he can come down with the
disease and there is no other way
known by which he can get the
cholera.
Quarantine Herds.
"A virtua. quarantine of a herd of
hogs is the best method to protect
them from disease. The virus can be
carried by hog buyers. who bring
the litter on their feet from a diseas-
ed herd to a healthy one, by dogs
carrying bones from n farm TO an
other. by pigeons and crows and
even by driving Il team and wagon
from one hog yard to another"
Emphasis was laid by the speaker
upon he necessity of burning every
animal that dies of the cholera, az
the partially burned or buried car.
cases are always a source of dis-
ease. He also went into detail on
the first symptoms of sickness shown
by hogs. DIR. Niles said that frs
the animals refused TO eat and acted
lazy, then commenced to drag their
hlnd legs and their ears grew pink.
a sure test, he declared was he
fact that their temperature invar-
iably increased.
Method of Treatment.
DR.. Niles explained the methods nv
which the SERUM treatment was orig
mated by himself and others at the
governemnt farm at Ames, Ia, in
1905. An immune hog was first
vaccinated with the blood of a dis
eased animal, when its blood was
used for the purpose of inoculating
other animals.
The most effective method OF us
ing the serum treatment, he explain
ed, was by the simultaneous method.
In this, the serum is injected in the
proper dosage in one thigh and the
blood from a diseased animal i'm the
other. With the single treatment.
the hog is rendered immune only
for a period of three months, but in
the double method the immunity be-
comes permanent.
Give Serum Early.
In the question boX at the close,
DR.. Niles recommended that the best
time for %innoculating hogs with the
serum was at weaving time, at sbout
the age of six to eight weeks. No
breed of animals is immune from the
disease and hog born from immune
parents are immune from the dis
ease only for a short period.
The second speaker was DR.. c. C..
Lipp, of the State college at Brook
lngs. DIR. Lipp urged that all farm
lers should bear in mind the advice
Offered by DR.. Niles, as it was a
complete resume of the question. He
also described the act of the South
Dakota legislature in allowing ONLY
$4,000 for the production of serum
in the state for the period of two
years.
Lisbon Farmers Quartet.
one of the pleasing features of the
afternoons program was two num-
bers by the mixed quartette of the
Lisbon Farmers club.
At the conclusion of the program.
the best method of determining the
presence of disease in an autopsy
was shown by a carcass on the stage.
The carcass shown was that of AMI
animal whose temperature had reach
ed a dangerous stage and was Just
coming down with the disease.
Most of the farmers at the meeting
Yesterday took advantage of the OPP
portunity to sign the petitions callingI
upon the board of county commission
ers to appoint an agricultural expert.
PETITIONS were. signed for both Davi-
son and Hanson counties.