The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-07-16
Government To Make
State Demonstra-
tons Here.
FUNDS AVAILABLE
Achievement of Commercial
Club Only After Long
Struggle.

The federal governments center
of activity in the war against the
ravages of hog cholera in South Da-
kota will be located in Dawson
county. The appointment is >ex-
pected to be announced any day now
by the department Of agriculture
from Washington, ID. c.
The decision to locate the demon
stration center for the state In Davi-
son county comes as the direct re-
suit of the struggle waged for the
past four months by 7. j. Morgans,
secretary of the Commercial club.
Although Mitchell will benefit. the
advantages of the work will be
equally BENEFICIAL to every farmer and
resident of the county.
Five Counties in Race.
Five other counties were active IN
the effort to land the demonstration
center, especially Sphinx and Brown
counties. Other counties who were
after the appointment were Brook
ings, Minnehaha and Yankton.
That the appointment would be
given to Dawson county was indicat-
ed In a letter received this morning
by Secretary Morgans from DR.. G,
l.. Brown, acting-president of the
South Dakota State college at
Brookings. At first, it was thought
that the selection of the county
would be left in the hands of the
state sanitary board or the congress
sional delegation, but the depart
ment of agriculture finally indicated
that it would be made by the presi-
dent of the agricultural college.
The Federal Fight.
The demonstration work is to be
done under the recent appropriation
by Congress of $1,000 600 for the pur-
pose Of fighting hog cholera. Ac-
cording to the provisions of the ap-
preparation act, this money is to be
divided among fifteen states in which
swine raising is a chief industry.
In each of the fifteen states, one
county is to be made the center OF
the departments fight against the
ravages of the disease. Experts of
the government will make the county
their headquarters. Swine herds
will be quarantined and studied and
methods of scientifically combating
cholera Investigated.
The coming fight against hog
cholera will be the most extensive
that the federal government>has ever
undertaken. In the past, this work
has been largely confined to the
various state colleges, all working
under different conditions and with
no co-ordinated effort. With simul-
taneous experiment and study going
on in fifteen states, it is believed
that an effective check can be made
against the disease whose ravages
damaged the farmers of the country
many millions of dollars last fall.
Dawson Strategic Center.
In its efforts to land the demon
stration center in Dawson county,
the officials of the Mitchell CONNER
cial club were we'll fortified with
data. The county Is in the center OF
the chief sw%ine-raising zone of South
Dakota. Its farmers have shown
themselves anxious to adopt scienti.
tc measures to combat the disease.
That it is a good point for the work
is attested by the interest and the
crowds attending the big mass meet
ing last January, when nearly 5000
farmers gathered to hear experts OF
the state and national government
discuss hog cholera. That the three
grent associations of the farming in
dustry hold their meetings in Nit
chell every winter also Is indication
of its Strategic position for the gov
ernment's efforts. tts4
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