The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-20

a meeting Of your neighbors and have
tnem join in a. call for a township
me citing.
All join in seeing that no hogs from
farnms where there is cholera are
driven or hauled along the highway
It Is contrary to the laws of most
states to haul them along the high
way, and this law should be enforced
strictly during the epidemic of hog
chalera. 1t seems hard for one man &c
lose his hogs, when he might sell thern
if he could deliver them in town, bu:
it Is a mighty sight worse for the
community to have the disease scat
| tered along the highway to be picked
up on the feet of people. horses. dogs
and other animals, and carried to the
farms. If all or three-fourths Of the
people in a township viii get together
end 60 right after the matter they can
do a whole lot to keep cholera out OF
1t,
n Hog Cholera-What?
Put at your gate a hog cholera sign
so your neighbors may have an op"
portunity to take extra precautions
Notify your neighborhood or township
organization. Tell the local editor to
put it in the paper. Give your neigh
bors every chance to protect their
herds.
Be Careful When You Vaceinate.
This is a much discussed question
Some results have been disastrous,
but where the work has been done in
time, with good vaccine. n by SKILL
ed men. 1t has been remarkably sue
cessful. But to be of practically any
value the vaccinattng must be done
before the hogs treated show any signs
Of having the disease, The excitement
of catching, holding and v~accinatlng
after they are sick is as injurious as
the treatment generally Is beneficial
This Is one eason why you should
kill and carefully examine the first
hog that shows any Of the symptoms
Of having cholera. If you find that he
has 1t. you can vaccinate the oIners
before they get sick.
Two Methods of Vaccination.
Two materials are used in the work.
One is called serum. 1t is the material
that counteracts, or holds in check the
cholera germs in the hog, when he gets
tnem in his system.
Serum is a portion of the blood from
the veins Of a hog that has had the
cholera so severely that he is what Is
called immune; that Is, will not lave
I SUI Al SASONt ia SAAt N%~G@
injected into the veins of a hog not
yet sick, has the effect Of fighting off,
or overcoming in some way the effect
of the cholera germs in the same hogg,
for a period Of about four weeks after
the hog is ~Vaccinated with the eru
But 1t Is not safe to rely on 1t for
more than four to six weeks. Then
vaccinato again with more serum I'M
less you use the two treatments de-
scribed later.
Properly prepared serum eve
causes cholera, and never can.
Nor does the serum cause ulcers,
sores or lameness. but If injected
through a filthy syringe, or without
cleansing the skin before sticking the
needle in, or if the hog gets into g
heals, sores Or lameness may result,
but the serum does not cause such re-
suits.
Caution in the Use Of Virus.
The other material which you can
use at the same time you use the
serum is called virus.
Virus is blood from a hog that is
sick with cholera. Remember, If you
bring the virus on your farm 1t is sim
ply many germs of cholera condensed
in small space. If, in using it, even q
drop is spilled. put a strong disinfect-
ant on it at once or the germs may
live for months and give cholera to
the next crop of pigs.
Simultaneous Treatment.
Virus is never used except when it
is used with serum. A quantity Of
serum is injected in the neck or back
of the point of the shoulder. The
germs in the virus give the hog the
cholera, and the serum c~ounteracts,
that very seldom a hog that is prop
erly treated with good materials be-
comes dangerously sick, and generally
RECEIVERS quickly. Virus should never
be used except by a graduate veterin-
airy or a man who has had special
training in veterinary surgery. A
farmer ought not use the serum until
he has helped a trained man vaccinate
herd, but after he has done SO he
can use 1t successfully, If he has the
and Is careful.
The treatment with serum alone is
called the serum treatment" or single
treatment. When serum and virus are
used at the same time, 1T is called
simultaneous treatment" or double
method.
Hog cholera is fast coming under
state and federal control, and there
Is NJ doubt that in a short time there
will be ample laws for handling this
disease, and that it will be largely
stamped out. This is proven by the
fact that in some counties in eastern
states where they have been making
efforts, the loss has been re-
duced to only a fraction of what 1t was
1t is simply up to the farm
ers Of the northwest to study this sub
ject from every angle possible. and
take advantage Of all the information
that Is available.
Hogs properly housed and cared for
less susceptible to this disease, and
pasture with good water and
clean Yards and sheds are among the
means available to every farmer who
to avail himself of them.
There are bulletins published by the
state agricultural colleges and the de-
partment OF agriculture that are free
for distribution. The agricultural ex-
tension department of the harvester
company has also prepared a bulletin
on this subject, which will be distrib-
uted free to anybody making inquiry.
This article has been prepared be-
cause of the fact that hog cholera has
not been very prevalent In this sec
but last year there vas consider
able loss. At the International farm.
near Grand Forks, seventy head OF
shoats were bought last fall from a
half dozen farmers in the vicinity.
After these had been In the pens about
a week several of them were noticed to
be ailing. AS hog cholera had not
been heard Of in this vicinity no at
tention was paid to it until one Of
them died. This was examined and
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