The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-09-17
HELP
TO FIGHT CHOLERA
THEIR ASSISTANCE NECESSARY
IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS
CAMPAIGN, SAYS DIR. $. Nj.
SMITH.

Here is the bargain, we give you
free services and free serum and
better protection against hog cholera.
In return all we ask is your coopera-
ton and a little better observance of
the state sanitary regulations"
Briefly thus DR.. S. M. Smith, in
spector in charge. outlined the plan
under which the federal government
will spend $4,000 in Dawson county
to combat the ravages of hog cholera
at the mass meeting at the city hall
auditorium yesterday afternoon. A
representative. gathering OF swine
breeders from all over the county
was present.
The purpose of the campaign, stat
ed DR.. Smith, was to demonstrate the
possibility of controlling and eradi-
eating hog cholera in q. restricted
area by means of a limited amount
OF serum used in conjunction with
proper sanitary control measures and
educational work. He expressed re-
greet that the work was started late
in the season, after the disease al
ready had become so prevalent in
the county. #.
Six men will be on the working
force at the start. There will be
three inspectors from the federal
bureau and a clerk, paid by the gov
eminent. One man from the State
college. to have charge of the organi-
cation and survey work, and a state
deputy veterinarian. whose expenses
will be borne by the state. The fed
eral government will bear the ex-
pense Of the equipment and serum
for vaccination.
The first step, declared DR.. Smith,
would be the organization of the
county under the plans Of the gov
eminent. by which reliable informa-
ton could be gathered as to the num-
Der OF hogs and extent of the disease
In the county. Nine men were nam
ed yesterday from each township in
the county, one to act as leader or
chairman. Each man will have an
area of two square miles and keen
the officials informed as to condi-
tions.
The chairmen named yesterday
are as follows: Perry, Robert Nc
Cue; Badger, John Morgan; Blen-
don. w. II. Cooley; Mitchell, T. S.
WEIGH; Beulah, d. H. Strother;
Prosper. Charles Hen%drickson; Lis
bon, Ernest Dahl; Mt. Vernon, Grant
Williams. No chairman was named
In Baker township.
AS soon as the inspectors are
ready to commence vaccinating, the
township leaders will be notified, and
they In turn will inform the owners
of hogs. Aat first, operations will
be limited only to the treatment of
infected herds and securing of sani-
tary conditions. DR.. Smith stated
that that when one pig in a herd
became SICK, the animal should be
Isolated Immediately In a small pen
andsthe officials notified. He RECON-
mended that all farmers inspect their
herds every morning.
A far as it has gone,'' said DR..
Smith. 1.-The results of this work in
other counties have been very en-
couraging. If W. are able to show
that hog cholera can be controlled
and eradicated in one county, then
there is no reason eradicated, in
others and finally from the whole
state. This cannot be done by vac
cination alone, but by the use of
proper sanitary measures and the
prevention of the disease.
Other speakers yesterday after
non were DR.. o. c. Selby, Of Pierre,
state veterinarian, Vey Valentine, of
Bookings, who will have charge of
the organization of the county. and
DR.. Raleigh M. Ward, federal in
spector.