The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-05-23
Serum Virus Plans
toStopHog Cholera

SJlktStpH, uiOs, way Gls--<At y Soi-
ference of the representatives Of the
farm bureaus of Butler, Cape Girar-
deau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Mad
rid, Pemiscot, Scott and Stoddard
counties, held here yesterday, resolu-
tions were passed asking DR.. d. F..
Lucky, State Veterinarian, to grant
permission for county agents to in
struct competent individuals in the
method ow vaccination of hogs for
cholera.
Xenophon Caverno, president of the
Farm Bureau of New Madrid county,
and large farmer of that county,
presided during the meeting. "It is
my belief" he said early in the meet
ing, "that this section of the State
has lost more than half a million dol
lars, due to hog cholera, in the last
year. / will make that sum larger.
It will take nearer million to cover
the loss"
The condition in this section, as was
brought out during the discussion, was
still critical. New Madrid county had
no veterinarian, and hogs in many
sections were dying. The veterinar-
ians cannot cover the ground, so prev
alent is hog cholera, and the disease
has spread widely. This section, un-
like other sections of the State, has
more land open to range and has a
large per cent of land under the ten
ant system. The farm bureaus are,
therefore, asking that county agents
be allowed to give instruction so that
the hogs may be saved.
The resolutions are as follows:
Whereas, ample provision has been
made in the agreement between the
State Board of Agriculture, the State
College of Agriculture and the Bureau
of Animal Industry for the instruc-
tion of groups of individuals and COM
munities in the method of hog chole-
ra prevention by the use of the Sc
rum-virus simultaneously treatment;
now therefore be it
Resolved, that this conference re-
quest the State Veterinarian of Mis-
souri,, DR.. d. F. Luckey, to grant per-
mission to the county agricultural
agents of the eight Southeast Mis-
souri, counties to demonstrate the Sc
rum-virus treatment for hog cholera,
and to instruct individuals and COM
munities in the methods for preven-
tion Of hog cholera as provided in the
agreement between the State College
of Agriculture, the Bureau of Animal
Industry and the State Board Of Ag-
riculture, dated January l, 1919, as
provided in Section Of said agree
ment.
Resolved further that the, authori-
ties of the Bureau of Animal Industry,
through the veterinarian assigned to
educational work, shall give instrue-
| ton and information to extension
workers, especially county agricultur-
al agents in Southeast Missouri, in
methods of prevention of animal di-
seases, especially hog cholera, by the
serum-virus treatment and assist In
educating the farmers so that they
may know how to protect their herds,
as provided in Section in the above
mentioned article.
These suggestions, if followed out,
through the various members would
prove remedy or partial remedy to
the disease that has wrought so much
havoc in this section and is still dam
gerous. 1t is so common in this sec
ton that many farmers vaccinate
their hogs as soon as possible after
birth, rather than wait until the di-
scase appears in the neighborhood or
in the herd.
DR.. R. Gresham of the Federal Bu-
reau of Agriculture and A. ]. Meyer
of the State College of Agriculture at
tended the meeting, together with A. l.
Foard, county agent for Scott county;
H. c. Hensley, agent of New Madrid
county, and W. w. Langston, agent OF
Butler county.