The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-01-09
In the Interest of Hog Farming.

In the Interest of Hog Farming.
A resident Of Shreveport well known
to many of the Banners readers writes
as follows under date of the Sd:
Editor Bossier Banner, Benton, La.
Gentlemen: | find great pleasure in
reading your paper and when you reach
the point that you make your columns
bound for agricultural suggestions, l
will sleep with it under my pillow.
I note what you ask in your last issue
about how to prevent cholera among
hogs. Did you know that there is no
use for man ever losing hog in Bos-
sier Parish from cholera? There is a
serum which can be acquired at New
Orleans, and which has been success
fully used in Bossier Parish, that abso-
lutely cures and prevents cholera. l
would suggest that you write to my
good friend O. w. Matthews, manager
of the Fort Worth stock yards, and ask
him to give you two-hundred word
letter on the prevention and cure of
cholera among hogs, where and how to
obtain this serum, and that you publish
his letter. Bossier Parish lost last year
$4,000 worth of hogs thorough absolute
ignorance.
With compliments of the season, beg
to be Yours very truly,
w. A. JONES.
We shall attempt to consider the sub
stance of the above in it's consecutive
order.
We are pleased that the Banner should
merit the attention Of our friend, who
has never even been a resident of the
parish, and he should always keep a
copy of it on his desk even if it is not of
sufficient agricultural trend to win a
place under his pillow. We wish to
assure him, and all its readers, that ar
ticles on agricultural and kindred sub
iects-anything that tells how to make
money on the farm, or in any wise i'm
prove conditions on tho farm-are in
vited for publication, and such has
always been the case. We have more
than once thought Of offering purses and
prizes for the best s'farm" articles sub
mitted within year, but those who
could themselves best prepare such ar
ticles offer the less encouragement to the
publisher. As soon as one or two good
articles appear in print all others quit,
saying they have been outclassed. This
is the unfailing result when competitive
compositions are asked for and thus is
publisher defeated in accomplishing
the desired end-a chain of instructive
articles running throughout the twelve
months sand quits to try no more.
AS for the prevention Of cholera
among hogs, the writer wanted the read
ers of the Banner to suggest simple,
common home remedies that are un-
failing, or practically Soft any such
are known. One was submitted, and
published. There will no doubt be Other
contributions on the subject to come il
later.
i AS to the use of hog cholera serum
the practice was first resorted to in thu
parish some twelve months past, if the
writer is correctly informed, but has no
as yet become general. With what de-
gree of success its patrons have met, O.
: as to whether it has been found an .un
} failing remedy and preventive of thu
!: disease, we are not prepared to say. Al
} article on this subject, clipped some tw'
weeks since, appears elsewhere.
, We would be pleased to have for pub
LEGATION contribution from Mr.. Mat
thews, if he will so favor US.
We do not deny the accuracy of gu
, friends figures, but as $4,000 woul
I represent much more than third o
tie hogs of the entire parish, surely h
must have been misinformed. Farmer
here and there lost many hogs fror
cholera-some losing nearly all of thei
herd-but this has not been general an
many breeders each season lose none.