The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

DISTINCTION, d. Cine De-
want want of Agriculture, during the
par'"e has been conducting cam
pSs' in Indiana, Missouri, Iowa
pas >-obraska to control the conta-
ana 5tsaase of hogs known as hog
slOu porao by means of anti-hog-chol-
clOi' ~,,r and farm guarantees. In
eta ~ anntv (Pettis county, Missouri
Que 49, there was a loss of Is per cent
"He+ n.1 ond 25.6 per cent in 1912 OF
u as raised there was only loss
al +I7 per cent up to November
" 9o,2 This decrease was due to the
- of the serum, which, although
u't nsod there by the departments
a aespts until August, 1913, materially
'9, ,ood the loss. About 10000 hogs
TO- .o raised during the past year and
S The 10000 that died of the cholera
W 0nlr about 1000 were lost after the
.t;,o use of serum and quarantine
,ooCurpS were IuduS III oCOu'
In every county where these meas
.os were employed, even though
sagnn after the disease had contin-
rod its ravages for some time, there
os loss loss from hog cholera than
IN either of the two preceding years.
In addition to it's great function
~. preventive it has been found that
+bo anti-hog-cholera serum would
onro q large proportion of hogs in the
oorIv STAGES of the disease and rem
dor them immune after recovery.
Eoweyer. if hogs are not treated by
+bjs sorum from rs to 100 per cent
" oil affected herds die. This serum,
~ far as is known, is the only thing
that will prevent the disease.
of those actually sick when treated
tho dnDartment's inspectors lost but
d Der cent during the past sum-
mar OF we'll hogs in diseased herds
81 nor cent died after being treated,
9nd of hogs in exposed herds less than
nor cent died after being inOculated
with the serum. In an affected nerd
thorn is always a certain proportion
of hogs that are well.
Tho inspector examines the hogs
when he arrives, takes the tempera-
trre of all hogs in the herd and sep
aratps the sick from the well. The
temperature is an indication Of the
sickness. The temperature OF SICK
hog unless the hog is near death,
will run above 104 degrees and
sometimes as high as 107 or 1O8 F.
Some states are engaged in the
manufacture of serum to cure this
disease. This serum requires special
treatment to preserve it's quality and
qualified man to produce it. Sutti-
Gent serum to treat an average 100
hound hog costs about 80 cents at a
liberal estimate. The treatment is
by hypodermic injection.
The department in initiating its
campaign against the devastating
hog disease has only been able to
commence in a few of the districts
where the cholera was the most wide
spread and where the active cooper
ton of the state was offered in en-
forcing the ordinary quarantine
measures, etc.
The object of the department has
been to endeavor to control the dis
ease and if possible to eliminate it
from the country. To secure this
end the best efforts of the farmer
himself are necessary. The cam
paign against this devastating sick
ness during 1913 was planned in the
territory selected along three lines
l. The education and organiza-
ton of the farmers in the districts
selected, to be carried out primarily
by the state college.
?. The enforcement of sanitation
and restrictive regulations by the
state veterinarian.
,. Active supervision by the Blu
reau OF Animal Industry of the de-
partment and the incubation of dis
eased herds with the anti-hOg-chOlera
serum.
A county in each state was selected
as a unit and the method of work
in that county was, briefly, for the
state college to secure the co-opera-
ton Of intelligent, active farmers in
each township in the county. These
men were called volunteer assistants
and they were to keep in close com
municatnn with the departments in
Spector stationed in that area, keep
ing him informed of conditions and
securing statistics concerning the hog
industry. In this manner cOndl-
lions were pretty well learned in the
territory under inspection. When an
outbreak of hog cholera was reported
the departments inspector went to
tnat outbreak and saved all the hogs
ne could by treatment with serum.
AS the disease is very easily trans
mitted he then protected all herds in