The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-11
PROMPT NOTICE or
HOG CHOLERA WILL
SAVE MANY LOSSES
ERADICATION OFFICE WOULD I'M.
PRESS THIS FACT ON FARM.
Frs OF COUNTY.
WHAT one DEAD HORSE CAUSED
Spread the Disease All Over a LARGE
Section Of the Glendale Community
by Being Permitted to Remain un-
disposed Of.

Or. OConnor in charge of the hog
cholera eradication work in the coun-
ty, again calls attention to the impor.
lance of promptly notifying the Office
here of any evidence of disease. He
made the following statement today:
In the face of our repeated re-
quests to the hog owners of the coun.
ty to call us at once when they find a
sick hog in their herds, and in spite
OF the published contrast between
hogs treated Immediately after chole.
ra is discovered and those treated
after cholera has developed in large
percentage of the hogs, some of the
farmers have let their hogs run on un-
til conditions, with regard to cholera,
are as bad as they have been at any
time since our work began. Now I'd
the uniformed this may appear to be
confession of failure, on our part,
to having done our duty, but before
deciding let us state few facts con-
corning conditions.
In the Glendale neighborhood one
man lost horse during the winter.
This horse was allowed to lay out and
become food for buzzards. Soon the
hogs on this place developed mild
cholera which spread as soon as the
warm weather came on, until now we
have eleven cases in the
immediate neighborhood, each one di.
rectly traceable to the first sick herd
In the second district, just off the
Theta pike, is farm on which chole-
"a has existed since our work be.
gan, the owner did not call US and has
not done so yet, but number of cases
in the neighborhood from time to tine
indicated that somewhere nearby
must be a source Of infection for these
outbreaks. Repeated questioning Of
neighbors brought to light the fact
that one man in the vicinity has had
cholera on his place since the war,
and that another one lost all his hogs
but three during the winter and
spring. Upon investigating this neigh.
borhood cholera was found upon TWEEN
ty-two farms, and in the third dis.
trict two farms, the owners of these
having purchased hogs at a suspi.
ciously low price from one Of the
twenty-five farms mentioned above.
Two days after purchase they were
made acutely aware of the reason for
the low price, and by the time the
hogs have quit dying and recovered
the loss will make the price of the re,
mainder seem high.
The foregoing will explain our 20
sition: We are willing at all times to
answer calls, and to help the farm.
ers in any way we can, but seeing
that there Is no one on this force gift.
ed with second sight or other require.
ments needed to enable us to tell by
the weather where to find cholera, it is
up to the owner or his neighbor to in.
form us Of its presence. Help to keep
down the spread of cholera by read.
ing the following instructions and by
practicing little caution:
How Cholera may come to Your Farm.
l. Purchase Of new stock. Do not
buy hogs because they are offered al
an apparently low price. Gold bricks
are sold this way)
2. Watering your hogs from a
stream coming from farm on which
cholera exists.
8. Allowing the owner of sick hogs
vi HIS Hllcu HduuS W WISH YOUR hog
lot
4. Dogs, birds, such as buzzards
chickens, pigeons, turkeys, ETC., carry
cholera your chickens and turkeys
as we'll as your neighbors' carry chol
era.
5. Any dead animal which is un
burned is source of infection, as il
attracts dogs, buzzards, ETC.
6. One of the most prolific sources
of cholera is the habit obtaining ir
this county of allowing hogs on public
highways.
How to Keep Cholera From Your Herr
1. Keep your hogs away from
roads, railways and streams.
l. 2. Do not allow strangers-ped