Morris tribune., 1914-08-28
CHOLERA ASSAULT
BEING REPULSED
COUNTY AGENTS ON THE
JOB.
Development Association Has
Charge Of the Ammunition
Supplies and is Saving Hogs
While other Portious Of State
Are Suffering, Saving is
Enormous.

If the employment of the county
agricultural agents and the West Gem
tral Minnesota Development Associa-
tion were ever in need of justification,
it is certainly getting it in the sue
cessful way in which hog cholera is
being resisted in this portion of the
state.
Secretary Harrison of the Develop
ment Association early contracted for
commercial serum at favorable
price, we'll knowing that if cholera
broke out this season, the supply of
state serum would be but a drop
in the bucket compared to the de-
mand. Now cholera has come and all
state serum has been used that was
available, and county agents and vet
ernarians are beseiging Mr.. Har-
rison's Office for commercial serum
and already one million cubic cent?
meters have been put out Every day
and several times a day, Mr.. Harri-
son is answering calls from county
agents some where in the district, and
serum is being Immediately supplied
to every danger point. The pictures
que way in which the situation is be-
ing handled suggests nothing so
much as the successful resistance of
an army to the assaults of an enemy
encroaching upon home territory.
Commercial serum is commanding
price of two cents cubic cent?
meter but is often unobtainable at that
or any other price, but the Develop
ment Association is supplying the
serum to the farmers at a cent and
half and has already saved them
SIS, 600 on this item alone.
But the greatest saving is not in
the Price of the serum but in the
value of the 80, 600 hogs which have
been saved, worth upwards of $780,
600.
More than that, Mr.. Balmer, SUPER
visor of county agents. says that the
cholera began here last year about
this time and continued for about
eight or ten weeks, and he estimates
that there will be- twice as much
cholera as there has been already.
This means that there will be 100.
900 hogs vaccinated in the fifteen
counties this year, representing saw
ing to the district of the enormous
s,ro of o1 nn0 O0n
In this county, Mr.. Hawk, like
every other county agent in the dis
trict, is busy anwsering calls from
farmers who report cholera in their
herds. AS soon as the disease is re-
ported, Mr.. Hawk is there to take the
temperature of the hogs and If
necessary help in administering
the sernm. On account of the
scarcity of serum, none will be wasted
hereafter on herds where the disease
is too far advanced, This has been
done in the past, when the county
agent or the veterinarian advised
that the chances of saving the herd
were small. but hereafter the farmer
who wants to have his hogs saved
must report the very day that cholera
threatens.
In other portions of the state, farm
ers are not alive to the advantages Of
resisting the cholera, and find great
I difficulty in getting serum even if they
want it and the result is that their
hogs are dying by the thousand.
| In West Central Minnesota, on the
other hand. hogs are being saved thru
the organized effort of the Develop
ment Association and the county
agents, and the money value of the
hogs asyed would pay all the expenses
Of these organizations for lifetime.