The weekly soliphone., 1915-01-29
CHOLERA IN YEAR
 COST S65 1000, 900
Hog Disease Has Taken Enormous Toll From United States, Says
 Federal Expert.

Fayetteville, Jan. 25.-The esti- mated loss in the United States in 1913 from the cholera alone was $65, 100000, according to Dr. J. E. Gibson, veterinary field agent of the federal bureau of animal industry, working in cooperation with the Ar kansas College of Agriculture at Fayetteville.
 "At eight cents pound live weight it would mean $S25, ,000 pounds of hogs for slaughter" he says. ''At 15 cents per pound dress ed weight, it would provide 440,- 0OO,OOO pounds of pork toward re- ducing the high cost of living.
 Scientific principles are being ap- piled to the conservation of our for ests, mines and waterways, but until comparatively recent time, one of our great sources of revenue, the hog, has iaanlrge shrdlushrdluu hog has in large measure been neg lected.
 Despite this neglect the Ameri- can hog has frightened more homes, put more carpets on the floors, more sunshine in the kitchen, more music in the parlor and turned the faces of more boys and girls toward the colleges than any other one factor in our entire economic fabric.
 Tt has been shown that 90 per cent of all the losses occasioned the hog raising industry is caused by cholera.
 'The United States is now pass ing through the third serious epi- demic of hog cholera of the past 30 years and the control and eradica- ton of the disease is one of the larger questions confronting us to- day.
 "The disease has been prevalent for many years. The heaviest loss of 1 the first great epidemic in 1897 was 130 for every 1000 hogs. In the second outbreak, about 1907, the loss was about 40 per 900. The present epidemic became serious in 1911 and increased gradually until 1913, when the loss reached 107 per 1000.
 ''This loss has all been caused by preventable disease, one that can be controlled at low cost.
 "Hoge cholera can be easily and cheaply controlled, but it cannot be done by the federal government, nor by the Arkansas College of Agricul- ture. They can only act in an ad- visory capacity and render assistance by sending an expert when needed, but without the aid and cooperation of the farmer and the stock raiser all 1 their efforts will be in vain. By CO., operative and common sense meth cd the disease can be not only con- trolled, it's spread arrested, but eventually it can be eradicated from Arkansas and that is the object I sought by the United States depart ment of agriculture, the State Col lege of Agriculture and the state and county authorities.
 ul,o C+o+oe of agriculture has mapped otu various projects for the crusade against hog cholera. In Arkansas the scheme designated by the government to fight hog cholera is educational and Unconstitutional work among the farmers in cooperation with the col lege of agriculture and the state au- thorities, in order to bring about a better understanding of the disease and the most approved methods of combating it. With the proper or ganization and a systematic effort conducted all over Arkansas the disease can be controlled in a com paratively short time, and eventually can be eradicated.
 While in Arkansas l hope to go into every county, explain and dem- onstrate the governments methods of controlling the disease and assist in forming organizations for it's con trol.
 'Our idea is to have parent or ganization at each county seat or other central points, and that branch es be established in each township and extendde to communities; that we have men in every community whose duty it will be to keep con stantly on the lookout for outbreaks of the disease and to report to the proper person when cholera appears