The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-18
JUST WHAT THE MOVEMENT 10
DOING IN HERDS OF THE
COUNTY.
GETS A VALUABLE SERVICE FREE
Ultimate Object to Get Rid Entirely
Of This Great Menace to the Big
Swine interests-Co-operation 10
Much Needed.
(By DR.. O'Connor.)

to the hog owners the Dement'S 10 pc
derived from early application Of the
serum treatment to hogs, especially
those in danger Of cholera, that Is,
those ON farms surrounding another
farm on which cholera exists, those
on a creek or branch coming from a
cholera infected farm, and also the
farms containing hogs supposed to
be exposed to cholera.
The method practiced in this dem.
onstration Is as follows:
When we are called to farm ana
find hogs sick with cholera, we, Of
course, apply the Dorset-Niles serum
treatment. II there are not too many
sick hogs in the herd the serum-simul-
taneous method of administration Is
practiced. This consists of applying
a small amount of hog cholera virus
with a protective dose of serum to
the well hogs in the infected herd,
while those hogs which are already
sick receive serum alone as there is
a large quantity of Virus already in
the blood. This amount of virus de-
ponds entirely on the length OF time
the hog has been sick. If at the time
we are called, large proportion OF
the hogs are sick, it is difficult to
maintain that any of the apparently
we'll hogs have not already picked up
the disease from associating with the
sick ones, in which event the virus
is not used, the serum alone method
being deemed advisable. If virus
were injected into these APPARENTLY
we'll hogs there would be grave dan
ger of increasing the number of
deaths.
When the treatment of the herd is
finished, the owner is asked to give
the names of owners of any hogs that
might be exposed to the sick herd and
the names of farmers whose places
surround his. To each of these is
mailed an official copy of official order
10, a pamphlet containing advice on
how to put hog lots in sanitary con-
dition, another pamphlet telling how
hog cholera may come to his farm
and methods Of preventing this, to-
gether with a letter telling him on
whose farm the cholera exists, which
enables him to avoid having his herd
become infected, and asking him to
call us at once If his hogs do become
SICK.
All this was begun with the object
in view of the ultimate eradication
of the hog cholera scourge from Mau.
ry county with the assistance of the
farmers. The prevailing idea through
out the county of the object Of our
work seems to differ in minor details
with each man, though one detail Is
that we should treat every hog in the
county, and the average farmers idea
of looking after his hogs is to do
nothing until they are sick, take no
precaution whatever, subject them to
every danger Of exposure and then to
feign surprise when he finds cholera
among them. On several occasions
upon asking farmer why he paid NO
attention to our advice as to how to
prevent cholera, we have been told
that it was our business to treat his
hogs II needed and that he did not
have the time or the inclination to do
the things needed to help himself.
Many instances occur where farmer
deliberately subjects his hogs to ex-
posture thereby producing cholera and
having his hogs treated, thus ending
his worry over them. In another case
two brothers on adjoining farms have
one pure bred boar between them.
when one finds cholera and before
Treatment. he sends the boar to his
brother so he can have his herd treat
cd.
Maury county is getting a valuable
service free, something no other eoun'
ty in the state has at present, but II
the above is a sample Of the cooper
alton afforded by the benefited indi'
vidual, 1t might not last long, and
many to whom these conditions have
been explained, have expressed much
regret over them, and considerable
surprise that the work should be al
lowed to continue. This is not coop
Grafton, and cooperation is what we
must have to accomplish eradication
cooperation with the individuals, the
neighborhood, the district and with
the people as whole. When we gel
this we can give you free county
and not until then.