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Talk Of Or, j, +. Williams.

Talk Of Or. J. r. Williams.
DR.. j. F. Williams Of Highland Cen.
ter followed the first speaker and he
, said in part:
1--WE have had very good descrip-
ton Of the different diseases of hogs
and their symptoms. In my work
nave not found one man who has
vaccinated hogs who says he would
not do it again. Very few are unbe.
levers. Whenever we have had sick
hogs we have had all kinds of patent
medicine men who have guaranteed a
cure, but not one man has had results
from the patent medicine. One man
near Fremont used to be an unbeliever
but he ia not now, out Of ninety.one he
saved eight.
"You ask does vaccination spread
hog cholera, it is possible. II you
vaccinate with serum alone there will
not be one in $1,000 die of hog cholera
provided the serum is up to the U. s.
standards. There are two methods Of
vaccination. One Of serum in herds
when hogs are already sick which i'm
munes them for a period lasting from
four to eight weeks. In explaining
serum manufacture he said that
small amount of blood is taken from
the cholera hog just before 1t dies and
this gives immunity to hogs treated
for period Of year or more. The
very first thing necessary in making
anti-hog cholera serum is an animal
perfectly healthy by clinical examina-
ton. On this animal the treatment
should be doubled. In seven or eight
days give it three and one half or
four ounces of blood and then In an
other week give 1t quart OF the
blood. In about eight days after the
hog has taken the quart of blood 1t
should be slaughtered and the blood
after being drawn in a sterilized con-
tainer be set aside, while a post
norton is held on the hog. If any
thing Is found that is not as it should
be then the blood should be thrown
away. If the hog proves healthy, then
this blood which has been drawn after
the blood cells have settled is put in
sterilized bottles and sealed with red
hot wax. This is the way that 1t
comes to us and If there is anything
wrong it did not happen during
transit
"You ask why is It desirable? Be-
cause we have several different vac
cines that have proven successful and
others that have not. Any vaccine Is
slightly dangerous because If you do
not get the germ weak enough then of
course it Is dangerous. There are
many different vaccines used today.
Of course the one we all know most
of is the vaccine used for smallpox.
Then there is the black leg vaccine
and fowl vaccine.
"In 1896 DR.. Jenne- of England, dis.
covered that certain cattle had erup-
tons and that people having the dis
charge from these eruptions on them
we're entirely immune from the much
dread G., ollpox. He was convinced
that r. Guild manufacture some of
this 81, preventive. He was greatly
1idiculed but was finally given $150,000
by the British and every one knows
what the manufacture and use of virus
means today.
-Four bacteria produce a toxin to
make an anti-toxin. There Is the
diphtheritic, the tetanus and two 9TH
ers used to make the anti-toxin. Anti
typhoid bacterine has been used with
great success time and time again.
"Anti-hog cholera serum has been
tried enough that it does not need any
discussion. I know of several hog
cholera infected hogs which were sick
all winter. We lost one on one of the
coolest days of last February and the
frost did not stop the cholera either.
al disease, but l have seen them die
lungs. One Of the important diagnos-
x,. VII - ho oh {o ~ %h4
bones. 1t is true that hogs are only
affected few days, that is they are
only acute a few days. During that
acute stage most of the trouble is in
the lungs and then later on you will
find that the disease has gone down
into the lungs. 1t has been said to
have been shown that the intestines of
hog cholera hog and man who
has had typhoid fever resemble each
other very much.
1T may be that hog cholera is caus-
Cd by germs but if the hog cholera
virus is injected just so that it goes
under the skin he will die. I could
give all kinds of examples and expert
ences that have hal with treatment
of hogs for the cholera but shall only
take few.
con July 10 vaccinated a herd Of
11S hogs which we thought to be per-
ft,ctly we'll. I used the single treat
ment method and did not lose a one
Of them. This was III the time of the
warmest weather, too In another
there were forty-fve hogs, some of
them were sick and some had died.
These were all vaccinated by the Sim
gle treatment and out of this herd ten
died. In another of twenty-five not
Very we'll, eight died. At another place
there were one hundred and forty in
the herd and all of them uneXposed,
not a one died: the same antiseptic
ard sheep dip was used on all of these.
Now to go back to the first man.
heard nothing from him during the
time between July 10 and November
IL. On the latter date I was called to
his place and found nine very sick
hogs, all of them having temperatures
ranging from LOG to 10S degrees. The
next day three were dead and by post
mortem we found nog cholera synnp-
toms pure and simple. l re-vaccinated
the pigs of which he had about sixty
in ona nen already for the market