The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-05-28
FURTHER PROOF OF
VALUE OF TREATING
EARLY WITH SERUM
COMPARISON OF RESULTS OBJ
TANNED IN HERDS OF MUIR
PLY AND BELL.
FORMER LOST ALMOST NO HOGS
Latter Waited Until Nearly His En-
tire Herd Had Become Infected
With Disease Before He Notified
the Doctors of Its Presence.
!, (By DR.. ]. p. o'Connor.)

The attention of the hog raisers of
Maury county is called to a compare
son between the herds of hogs treat
ed for A. e, Murphy and the one treat
ed for ]. K. Bell. Mr.. Murphy's hogs
were treated on the 18th and Mr..
Bells on the 10th or the same month
with entirely different results AS
soon as Mr.. Murphy found sick hog,
he called this Office with results en-,
tirely to his satisfaction, in fact, these
results would have satisfied the most
exacting farmer of our acquaintance,
while Mr.. Bell had sick hogs for some
time before sending us word, and
when he did start the word to our
Office it was done in such way as to
bring no result. He hailed a strang-
er passing his home on horse back,
asking him to tell us to come to his
place. This would have been all
right had we gotten the word, but the
stranger either did not know us or for
got his promise to Mr.. Bell, with the
result that when we did arrive, his
hogs were about all sick. Had we
been called earlier, the results of
treating this herd would have been
more like those of Mr.. Murphy in
consequence of which there would
would have been different story told
at the Farmers Short Course last
winter.
A letter from Mr.. Murphy comment
ing ON his results is offered, with the
record of his herd and that of Mr..
Bells:
"Dr. 0'Connor. Dear Sir:-Here-
with / give you an accurate expe-
rience | had with you and your CO.
workers in graduating hog cholera
from my farm. On November IL,
1914, my herd consisted of AZ head of
hogs. On that date ] discovered two
sick hogs. l Immediately isolated
those two hogs and notified the gov
eminent men, One called at once but
could not determine positively what
allied the sick hogs. The next day Dr.
O'Connor and two of his co-workers
came and we posted one of those
sick hogs and found well defined
case Of hog cholera, ! burned that
hog Immediately.
The next morning early Drs. Willis
and Fry came out and we vaccinated
the entire herd. With the exception
Of the one remaining sick one, there
were none others sick in my herd nor
have there been to date.
To those / was to dispose of with
in the next sixty days we gave the Sc
rum alone treatment, and to my stock
hogs the simultaneous treatment.
Among others these consisted of four
brood sows due to farrow within thir-
ty days. | had no bad results what
ever from vaccinating those sows. In
due time they narrowed normally.
With their advice killed the other
sick hog SO as to destroy source of
infection. had no assesses, and in
due time under the supervision of
County Stock Inspector Erwin clean
ed and disinfected my premises and
have had no hog trouble since.
One of the pleasant features among
the many unpleasantnesses of having
hog cholera on my premises was the
kind, courteous and considerate treat
ment Of Dr. O'Connor and his co-work.
ers. Respectfully,
(Signed) A. E. MURPHY.
Secy Maury County Farmers Associ-
alton.
Name of owner, J. X. Bell, Colum.
bia, Route 9. Number of hogs in
herd, q; number not treated, i'm
munes, /; number not treated, too
sick, /; number killed for autopsy, /;
number treated, "a; number sick at
time of treatment, %; number we'll
hogs died after treatment, 0; number
not treated died, 1; number sick
when treated that died, 81.
Name Of owner, A. E. Murphy, Co
lumbia,, Route 8. Number of hogs
in herd, 46; number not treated, i'm
munes, 0; number not treated, too
sick, /; number killed for autopsy, /;
number of well hogs died after treat.
ment, 0; number not treated died, l.
number sick when treated that died,
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