The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-01-22
SPLENDID WORK Of
ERAD|CAT|NG HOG
CHOLERA IN MAURY
GREAT RESULTS ARE SHOWN IN
REPORT SUBMITTED BY
THE BUREAU.
IMMENSE GOOD ACCOMPLISHED
county ls Almost Practically Free
From the Dread Scourge to Swine
as the Result of the Systematic e.
forts of the Inspectors.

Interesting facts with reference tt
hog growing in Maury county are
presented in the report of the worE
ccomplished by the Maury County
log Cholera Association in connec,
ton with the United States deport
ment of agriculture, the state live
stock veterinarian, the county of Mau
ry and the Columbia Board of Trade
During the year 1912 there were. r.,
234 hogs raised in Maury county; in
1913 there were 67,7S7 raised in the
county. In the former year 1899 died
of cholera, in 1918 the number dying
from the disease was $3.50.
4 Headquarters for the work of Grad
ication in the county we're established
on June 5, 1914, and the first herd
was treated on July 81. Between
Jan. l, 1914, and the first treatment,
little more than six months, there
were 1884 outbreaks of cholera in the
county, and during that period there
were 2,430 hogs dying from cholera,
Since the treatment of the first in
fected herd to and including Dec. 81,
last, there were 1873 outbreaks Of the
disease in the county, and within
hat period only 1886 hogs died of
cholera in the county.
There we're, however, seVenty-three
head killed for autopsy and 355 head
that died after treatment, making the
total deaths from the time the first
herd was treated until Dec. 81, 764.
1t is estimated that during 1914 there
were 70,250 hogs in the county. On
the date of the treatment of the first
herd there were twenty-six farms in
the county on which there were sick
hogs.
These figures show the results in
the infected herds treated: Herds
reated, 1873; hogs, treated, 2,71S;
lex hogs treated, LII; hogs died
after treatment, 1854. The results in
xposed herds treated were: Herds
treated, 25; hogs treated, 443; hogs
died after treatment, one.
The report gives the following in
teresting statistics on The awy in
which hog cholera is spread:
w. Sources of infection or ways
in which hog cholera is spread (this
includes data on infected and expos
ed herds): 81
/. Exchanging labor and visiting
neighbors, % cases; 1886 per cent.
2. Exposure to sick hogs in adj
joining pens and pastures, 20 cases;
1896 per cent.
8. Infection harbored on prem
Uses, Is cases; 1912 per cent.
4. Carried by dogs, 10 cases; 6SS
per cent.
5. Infected cars, highway and
stock yards, s cases; SOC per cent.
6. Purchase of new stock, s cases;
5.O6 per cent.
Z. Contaminated stream, cases;
1878 per cent.
s. Buzzards and turkeys, 81 cases;
1852 per cent
9. Feeding of city dump, 5 cases;
3.16 per cent.
10. Vaccination work Improperly
one by inexperienced parties), 2
cases; 1.25 per cent.
IL. Indefinite, 20 cases; 1885 per
cent.
The report concludes with the fol- !
lowing observations:
This office wishes to thank the va
rious organizations cooperating with
it, for the very efficient aid they have
given US, and to, earnestly solicit their
hearty cooperation in the future.
We can promise that, with little
closer cooperation from the farm
ers in the outlying districts, thei
coming year will see marked i'm.
provement in the Hog Cholera line.
In this connection it is respect
FULLY suggested that some of the lead
ing county newspapers take up the i
practice, in vogue in other localities,
Of fostering Girls and Boys Pig
Clubs, the one best way of interest
ing the young folks in the original
mortgage litter, also that interested
parties take up the matter of form
ing clubs among the grown up boys
and girls along the same lines, it be-
ng a conceded fact that cooperation
llong these lines will make for sue
,ess where individuals fail, or at
east if they don't fail, the knowl-
edge gained by them is used in
selfish way-not given to those who
will appreciate it."