Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-02-25

cholera hogs. How would it do to
vaccinate them at birth. or the
mother before they arrive?
1t may be charged that proper
care is not given at time of farrow-
ing. True, but the same may apply
to the sick herd. The improved
methods of feeding and shelter, OF
care and cleanliness is in a fair way
in good time to eliminate the chol-
era as we are eliminating smallpox.
and when the Illinois bacteriologist
admits that eve do not claim to
cure cholera should not Iowans
hesitate before adopting such
measures?
1t is estimated that Iowa could
establish research laboratory for
$4,000. Then we need building
to cost $4,000 which means twice
that, and an annual appropriation
of $4,000 to maintain the affair.
The salaries of the experts (?)
would be no inconsiderable sum, and
when we sought treatment for our
herds, would be required to pay for
La visit from several veterinarians
and helpers and hand over the sim
| oleons for the dope It would
seem that we might as well let the
herd die, SO far as expense is con-
cefned.
At one time the "serum method
alone" was declared to be the only
cure, now it is repudiated and de-
nominated "a crime" Perhaps next
year some other method will be her
aided as the cure-all and the pres
ent one "a crime" DR.. Peters also
says .The symptoms of hog cholera
are not constant and it is very diff
cult to positively diagnose it," He
| however. urges earnestly" that the
serum-yirus be used. Like the pion-
eer doctor who peeled the bark Of
the tree upward to brew an emetic,
and peeled the bark downward for
a physic. The hogs might die if not
treated, but from the standpoint of
common Judgment, one would ex-
pect them to die If they were vac
cinated with serum virus. II they
lived through the hyper-immunizing
process, they ought to furnish good
sweet sanitary meat for pork-eat-
ing public, and we should have but
a short look backward to account
for poisonings or epidemics in
community.
Is any one familiar with the
chemical process undergone after a
concotion of diseased and dead
blood mixed with the virulent
poison, carbolic acid, has been In
jected directly into the hogs circu-
lation? No, so until results are suf-
ficiently reassuring it would seem
to be the part of wisdom to confine
operations along this line to the lab
oratory, instead Of the field. rea-
lie that the majority are against
me in this, but l believe it is be-
cause they have given little consid-
GRAFTON to the subject. Once we were
inclined to accept our politics and
religion without question or pro-
test from SO called experts, hut that
time has passed and we do now and
should carry ever aloft question
mark and ask why to any and every
subject presented Science makes
no claim to infallibility and its
basis is ever shifting as the human
understanding expands and as ex-
periments prove wrong premise.
Farmers, isn't this your concern?
Is your income to be cut down either
by state appropriations or by hog
losses2 Should you not have some
assurance that II you endow public
laboratories, you may not be called
upon to sacrifice Your herd also? I'm
a multitude of council there is wis
DOM" H. M. Closz.
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