The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-02-05
FIGHTING HOG CHOLERA
In SOUTH DAKOTA.

Hog cholera, its nature, extent OF
its ravaSes in South Dakota the past
year and the best preventative meth
DDS, was the theme of the program
last evening at the Gale theatre,
drawing a combined membership of
the stockmen and grain growers as
sociations that packed the building.
DR.. w. B. Niles. of Washington, ID.
G.. OF the department of agriculture
and one Of the discoveries of the
preventative treatment. was
the first speaker of the program, be
ing introduced by J.. M. Erion, of
Mitchell, president of the live stock
breeders, who acted as chairman.
\ NatiOn-Wide Campaign.
That the nation vas on the verge
of a wide campaign to eradicate the
cholera among swine was the declara-
that the disease was the only one
whose ravages were wide spread and
whose financial loss was so great.
Hog cholera" said DR.. Niles, SIS
a specific communicable disease, due
to Il specific virus, Il conta2ion of
kind. 1t can be spread from one
hog to another and from one herd
to another, but IA not be started
up by feeding green corn, unsanit-
AIRY conditions or filthy yards
The speaker went into detail on
the symptoms of the disease in it's
early stages, how il may be rccog-
nized. He especially urged that on
the first suspicion, drastic treatment
be resorted to and the herd
treated with the serum. ANY disease
among hogs, he declared, which kills
many OF the animals, is practically
sure to be the cholera and delay is ia
tai.
State Plants Needed.
DIR. Niles reviewed the early his
tory of making the serum and the
necessity OF states owning plants in
the serum can be prepared.
This, he stated, would be necessary
if the nationwide campaign against
disease is to be successful.
In closing, DR.. Niles declared one
Of the essential features in the fight
would be the cooperation of the
farmers. Without their aid and loyal
~. the cholera would never be stamp
I'd out.
One OF the pleasing features of the
program was then the appearance of
Elks' double quartet, which re-
oeated its success of the past and was
Miss Marjorie Ford was the accom-
for the quartet.
Cholera in South Dakota.
South Dakota has lost several
within the past year through
,holera,' declared DIR. &. G. Lipp, of
he state college at Brookings, in OPP
ening his address on state conditions.
about 40 per cent of the swine in the
died this season from the di-
SO the Importance of the fight
nay be fully realized"
That the state should make suit
appropriation for a serum plant
vas the plea of Dr.. Lipp, who declar-
"a that South Dakota, although a big
log raising state, was one OF the few
hat had not made adequate prepara-
ions along this line. In Ohio, the
tate owns a plant worth 100000.
md in Iowa the state has expended
;35, 900.
Plant is Inadequate.
In 1909, the South Dakota legisla-
.ure voted $4,000 to equip the serum
at ~Brookings. Again in 1918
he sum of $4,000 was appropriated
o maintain the plant for a period of
wo years. This was the p%roverbial
lrop in the bucket, stated DR.. Lipp,
n view of the continual calls being
for serum and the plants in
adequacy to supply the demand.
"lf you want the state to make
if you want to eradicate chol-
IRA and make the disease a thing of
he past, it is up to you as members
If the stock breeders association and
of this state" declared DR..
4ipp in closing.
That man, and not the crow, was