The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-06-13

listed, excepting the mare, has great
err strength than human milk, and
usually cannot be used as substi-
tute food without modification.
Cows milk is sometimes used as
substitute food for lambs, puppies,
and young pigs, but the table indi-
Gates that it is weak food for these
animals, and experience indicates that
cows milk is quite certain to produce
a stunted growth when fed to these
animals.
The fats of milk require the most
attention in the preparation of milk
for infants, for II fats are present in
quantities greater than from two to
four per cent the digestion of casein
is interfered with. Milk testing four
per cent of fat or less has almost the
same per cent of casein as OF fat that
testing more than four per cent fat
usually has from fraction to one
per cent less casein. Then a fat test,
being careful to secure a representa-
tive sample, furnishes most Of the
knowledge necessary in the prepara-
ton of milk for infant feeding.
w. R. WRIGHT,
Department of Bacterioligy.
University of Idaho.
Hog Cholera can be Eradicated.
Hog cholera can be eradicated, but
1t will need the combined work of ev-
cry hog raiser in an infected district
We used to think that yellow fever
and malaria were diseases natural to
certain regions and that as long as
time and man endured, these dis
eases in those localities would be
there to claim their victims Uncle
Sam wiped them out of the Panama
Canal zone SO effectually that that
most ill-reputed region became
health resort. 1t is not impossible to
eradicate disease when once we
know its nature, and have weapons
for its prevention. 1t becomes just a
matter OF education on the part of
those who must know about it. One
refractory individual, or one unscru-
pulous enough to shirk his share of
the duty, can prevent the end of hog
cholera.
Hog cholera serum will certainly
prevent the disease if it does not cure, |
and its constant application and
steady extension into all the infested
districts will mean the eradication of
hog cholera. OF course, disinfection
must go hand in hand with the use of
the serum, SO as to destroy the foci
for new epidemics.
In parts of the United States an
effort is on foot to obtain the hearty |
cooperation of every individual in
district, and wipe cholera out of that
district once and for all This is to
be followed by extending the work in
to other districts until eventually the |
whole state is covered-until all the
states are covered, and hog cholera
becomes a disease living only in
memory. 1t can be done. It will be
done. The experiment station will
help and offers willingly it's complete
cooperation. Hog cholera, according
to recent government report, cost |
the United States six and 0ne-half |
millions of hogs in 1912. The receipts
of hogs in the western markets are a
million less SO far this year, than they
were last
There is hog cholera in Idaho, and |
now is the time to eradicate it. Let
there be concerted action in one coun-
ty at time and let's have every hog
in that county vaccinated against hog |
cholera. From this the work will |
proceed until the state veterinarian
can say with pride that there is not
one case of cholera in this state, nor
will there be so long as our farmers
follow the system of keeping no hogs
but immunes.
J. F. NICHOLSON.
Bacteriologist.
Idaho Experiment Station.