The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-01-30
5M HOG CHOLERA is
sElNS coMHATED.

ASt14NO4 IN, u ", jan. 1J--
Department OF Agriculture, dur
.ne pas year, has been conduct
campaigns in Indiana, Missouri,
-. mi Nebraska TO control the con
3us Il sease OF hogs known as
los cholera" by means of anti-hos
s.cra serum and farm guarantees
one county (Pettis County, Mis-
III Where here IS loss of Is
cent in 1911, and 25.6 per cent.
1912 of all hogs raised, there was
" a loss of AT per cent. up to No
asber, 1913. This decrease was due
the use of the serum, which, al
,ugh not used there by the Depart
snt's agents until August, 1913, ma
rally reduced the loss About co.
hc:,s were raised during the past
ar and of the 10000 that died of
hog cholera only about 1000 were
st after the active use of serum and
Yarantine measures were inaugural
In every county where these meas
res were employed, even though be-
IN after the disease had continued
s ravages for some time, there was
ess loss from hog cholera than in
Il
In addition to it's great function as
l preventative, it has been found that
he anti-hog cholera serum would cure
: large portion of hogs in the early
stages of the disease and render them
immune after recovery. However, If
hogs are not treated by this serum,
| rom Is to 100 per cent. Of all affected
heds die This serum, so far as is
nown, is the only thing that will pre-
vent the disease.
Of hogs actually sick when treated,
he Departments inspectors lost but
?5 per cent during the past summer.
| Of well hogs in diseased herds, 2.S per
cent. died after being treated and of
hogs in exposed lands less than l per
cent died after being inoculated with
the serum. In an infected herd there
| is always a certain proportion Of hogs
that are well.
The inspector examines the hogs
when he arrives, takes the tenlpera-
ture of all hogs in the herd and sep
arates the sick from the well. The
| temperature is an indication of the
sickness. The temperature OF a sick
| hog, unless the hog is near death,
win run above 140 degrees and some
times as high as 1O7 or 10S degrees
| F.
Some States are engaged in the
manufacture of serum to cure this dis
ease. This serum requires speclai
| treatment 20 preserve it's quality and
a qualified man to produce it. Suffi-
cient serum to treat an average hun
dred.pound hog costs about thirty
cents at liberal estimate. The treat
! ment is be hypodermic injection.
The Department In initiating it's
campaign against the devastating hog
disease has only been able to COM
mence in a few of the districts where
the cholera was the most widespread
and where the active cooperation VI
the State was offered in enforcing
ordinary quarantine measures. etc
The object of the Department mas
been to endeavor to control the us-
ease and if possible, to eliminate IL
| from the country. To secure TINS enc
the best efforts of the farmer himself
are necessary. The campaign agalnsf
this devastating sickness during 1915
was planned in the territory selected
along three lines.
/ The education and organization
of the farmers in the districts Sc
Iected, to be carried out primarily by
the State College.
| 2. The enforcement of sanitation
and restrictive regulations by the
State veterinarian.
8. Active supervision by the Bu-
reau of Animal Industry OF the De
! partment and the incubation OF dis
eased herds and exposed herds with
the anti-hog cholera serum
A county in each State was select
ed as a unit and she method OF
work in that county was, briefly, for
the State College to secure the coop
Grafton of intelligent, active farmers
in each township in the county. These
men were called volunteer assistants
and they were to keep in close COM
munication with the Departments In
spector stationed in that area, keep
ing him informed Of conditions and
securing statistics concerning the nog
industry, In thos manner conditions
were pretty well learned in the terri
tory under inspection. When an out
| break of hog cholera was reported the
DEPARTMENTS inspector went TO that
outbreak and saved all the hogs he
could by treatment with serum. AS
the disease is very easily transmitted,
he then protected all herds in the inn
mediate vicinity by incubation. The
! idea was to form zone OF immune
animals around the infected center
Hog cholera is caused by a germ
that exists in the blood. 1t is an or
ganism apparently SO small that the
most powerful microscopes do not
show it. However, it is easy to DEM
onstrate its presence by inoculating
| small part of the blood from a sick
hog into a well one, which produces
the hog cholera.
Hog cholera is disease which
seems to be stopped to degree by
| the frosts of winter altOugh frost cam
| not be said to stop case after it
| has, taken hold of its victim. How
ever, it seems to prevent the rapid
spread of the disease. The result is
that in spring time the affection is
as rule, at the lowest ebb, but in
creases rapidly from that time until
| fall.