The log cabin Democrat., 1914-03-18

ture of alT hogn in the herd and sepa-
 rates the sick from the well. The temperature of sick hog, unless the hog is near deat tn, will run above 104 degrees, and sometimes as high as 107 or 10S degrees F.
 Some states are engaged in the manufacture Oi serum to cure this disease. This serum requires special treatment to pr ,serve it's quality and qualified man to produce it. Suffi- cient serum to treat an average 10e- pound hog costs about 30 cents at a liberal estimate The treatment is by hypodermic injection.
 The depai tment in initiating it's campaign against the devastating hog disease has only been able to con- merce in a few of the districts where the cholera was the most widespread and where the active cooperation of the state was offered in enforcing 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 campaign against this devastating sickness during 1913 was planned in the territory selected along three lines.
 1. The education and organization of the farmers in the districts select ed, to be carried out primarily by the state college.
 2. The enforcement of sanitation and restrictive regulations by the state veterinarian.
 3. Active supervision by the bu- reau of animal industry of the de- partment and the inoculation of dis eased herds and exposed herds with the anti-hog cholera serum.
 1 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 cooperation of intelligent, active farmers in each township in the county. These men were called volunteer assistants and they were to keep in close communica- tion with the department inspector stationed in that area, keeping him informed of conditions and securing statistics concerning the hog indus try. In this manner conditions were pretty we'll learned in the territory under inspection. When an outbreak of hog cholera was reported the de- partment's inspector went to that outbreak and saved all the hogs he l could by treatment with serum. AS the disease is very easily transmitted, he then protected all herds in the i'm mediate vicinity by inoculation. The animals around the infected center. Hog cholera is caused by a germ that exists in the blood. It is an or ganism apparently so small that the most powerful microscopes do not show it. However, it is easy to dem- onstrate it's presence by inoculating a small part of the blood from sick hog into well one, which produces the hog cholera.
 Hog cholera is a disease which seems to be stopped to a degree by the frosts of winter, although frost cannot 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 springtime the affection is, as a rule, at the lowest ebb, but increases rapidly from that time until fall.
 Hog cholera does not seem to affect | any particular breed of hogs more than another, and while generally the | careless farmer is more apt to have the disease among his hogs than the careful one, the disease sometimes oc- CUTS where the conditions are sani- tary. It is hoped that the work may be extended gradually until the dis ease is completely controlled or elimi l mated. The fact that hog cholera is carried not only by the hogs them selves, but by birds, dogs, streams and even on the feet of men going from one farm to another, shows how necessary it is that the campaign be thorough and that farmers exert their best efforts to assist in the work.