Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-05-16
ALLOTMENT OF j
$4,000 FOR IDAHO
Experts Will Come to Idaho to Take
Charge Of Eradication Of Hog
Cholera.

Bureau OF Animal Industry will leave
for Idaho in a few days to begin In
earnest campaign to eradicate hog
cholera In the Twin Fails district, and
at the same time, a fifth expert will
go to the state to study the situation
and advise with farmers in other in.
fected regions. An allotment of about
$35, 900 has been made to Idaho, out
Of the 100000 appropriated recent
ly, and this sum will be expended un.
der direction of the men sent out by
the Department. The government will
furnish all the serum to be used in
the Twin Falls district. In the field
work, 1t lis intended that experts Of
the University of Idaho will cooper
ate with the federal agents. The de-
TAIL OF these experts to Idaho was
due primarily to the efforts of Sen
ator Brady, and was the direct result
of The visit to Washington OF Dean
w. L. Carlyle of the University OF
Idaho, who came at the Senator S re-
quest. Representative Addison 7.
Smith has also been active in urging
the Department to extend aid to the
farmers of the Twin Falls section.
The selection OF the Twin Falls tract
for the first exhaustive work was
made at the suggestion of Dean Car
lyle, who reported that hog cholera
was more prevalent there than else
where, and the situation more criti-
cal. The district to be covered In
cludes that section under the ditch
on the. south side of the Twin Falls
tract as far west as Salmon River;
the section lying ON the high line
ditch ON the north side tract, and the
lands lying under the high line ditch
of the Idaho Irrigation Company, to-
gether with the entire Minidoka tract.
The Department of Agriculture ex-
presses TO Senator Brady its confi-
dence that hog cholera can be COM
pletely wiped out in the Twin Falls
country, through careful application
of serum, and later, when further ap-
preparations are made, and experts
are available, the campaign viii be
carried as extensively into other agrl-
cultural sections where the disease
has been detected.
The Department of Agriculture has
advised Senator Brady that it can not
take any of the $500,00 appropria-
ton for maintaining and equipping a
laboratory at the University for the
manufacture of hog cholera serum.
fhe demand from other states for
federal aid in stamping out the dis
ease Is so great, and the situation so
critical, that the full amount on hand
must be used for field work. The
Senator, however, is urging that one
representative of the Department be
detailed to assist the University OF
Idaho in operating its own laboratory,
and If this can be arranged the out
put OF serum can be greatly increased.
Senator Brady has been advised by
the University authorities that an ap-
preparation of 900 to SIS, 900 would
equip laboratory large enough to
make all the serum needed in the en-
tire Northwest, and il opportunity pre-
SCENTS, the Senator will offer an am
endment making such an appropria-
ton.
After a long fight, Senator Brady |
has induced the Reclamation Service
to agree to furnish water, free of
charge, to the demonstration farm
at Caldwell, on condition the Boise |
Water Users Association will consen
The State University is ready to op-
crate this farm, but it has no funds
to pay for water, and for that rea-
son the Senator urged the donation
by the government. Prof. Carlyle |
VIII undertake to secure the consent
OF the. water users to the donation.
The Bureau of Soils of the Depart |
ment of Agriculture, on recommen-
dation of Senator Brady, has agreed, |
during the coming summer, to CO.
ODerafa with tho IIniyaroitx ~ Idaho