Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-28
RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH
sENEToL ARE SUBMIT
| TED FOR TEST.
NEW REMEDY CHEAP
Cost Of Makinos and Doctorlng With
Preventative Within Reach Of All
Doing Away With Present n
System.

Washington, D. c., May 22.-The
high cost of meats has received body
blow, in report received from Min
nesota by the United States depart
ment of agriculture here.
One of the greatest contributing
causes to the high cost of all meats
is admitted to be the great ravages OF
hog cholera which have swept the
country during the past few years
until last season over $1O0.000,OOO IN
pork was lost, of which $33, 100000
was in Iowa alone. With such great
scarcity of pork, there was no balance
wheel to depress values of beef, and
hence the mounting prices of steaks.
Hog cholera has come to be so dread
ed that farmers are beginning to re-
fuse to raise any hogs, and even those
who stick to the game raise only a
few, not caring to take the long
chances. It Is admitted that with hog
cholera eliminated from the farmers
calculation, millions more would De
raised, as they are easy to handle, and
the returns are quick. But strange to
say, science has never found cure
for this dread disease.
The nearest approach was what Is
called the serum treatment, Wnlcn
will not cure cholera but which vac
cinates hogs against it. This vaccina-
ton is achieved by injecting acute hog
cholera blood from a badly infected
pig into well one, and simultaneous
" injecting several ounces of the
blood of pig which has survived hog
cholera, thus minimizing the victim
from an attack. But veterinarians are
now claiming that one reason for the
rapid spread of cholera Is this same
treatment, which, while it immunizes
the patient, does not prevent that pa.
tient from communicating the most
violent form of the disease to other
pigs not so treated.
Chemist Experiments.
The report from Minnesota gives
credit to Prof. H. G. Carel of the Ma.
tional hotel, Minneapolis, Mimi, for
merly chief of the department OF chem
istry and toxicology Of the state uni
versity, for the chemical which mas
been used in extensive experiments
which have shown that q cure mas at
last been found for hog cholera. Prof.
Carols chemical is benetol, which has
been in use quite extensively by scien-
tific men in Minnesota for about nVe
wears. and was last year tried by GER
tain farmers for prevention OF hog
cholera.
The report Just received by the de-
partment of agriculture contains
chart showing the treatment OF up
wards Of a thousand hogs sick with
chronic hog cholera. With a special
veterinary benetol cures were enected
in 1915 per cent of the cases tested,
The tests have been going on In the
field in various parts of Minnesota
since last September. State veter1nar.
ians, sent out by the Minnesota Live
Stock and Sanitary board to admins
ter serum, were instructed to have the
benetol administered.
It seems that serum must be given
to sick hogs, that is, hogs with tenn
peratures over los degrees. So IN ey-
ery herd where serum was given, all
hogs too sick for serum were treated
with the benetol. The report states
that every hog was counted against
the benetol treatment If the breath OF
life was held in his body when treated.
Cases are cited where hogs paralyzed
in all four legs, weak and emaciated,
were cured by the benetol treatment.
Another point in favor OF the new
treatment is that 1t fattens the hogs
very rapidly, gains as high as three
pounds a day being recorded on hogs
starting recovery.
Treatment Not Costly.
A strong point in favor of the new
treatment is the cost. Serum is very
expensive, according to the, report,
costing about So per hog, or 81 an
ounce. The cost to the farmer for the