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Show HOG-CHOLERA LOSS REDUCED Estimated Saving of $6,000 to Farmers Farm-ers of Alabama County Brought About by County Agent. Losses by hug chcldra have been nut-lerlaliy nut-lerlaliy reduced in Bullock coimiy, Alabama, Ala-bama, us a result of the work of lire couriry ugent In training farmers in various centers throughout the county to use the serum and apparatus developed devel-oped by the United Kittles Department of Agriculture. Forty-nine cars of 'y.i' -J Vaccinating a Hog for Cholera Don't Run Risks or Waste Feed With Unhealthy Un-healthy Live Stock. bogs, 8,928 head, have been marketed from the county through co-operative work, with an estimated saving of $8,-000. $8,-000. In Houston county the department's depart-ment's representative taught 18 men to vaccinate hogs. Six sets of Instruments Instru-ments owned by the Dothan Rotary elub were supplied to the demonstrators demonstra-tors and a serum-dlstrlbutlng point was established In charge of a reliable veterinarian. More than 9,000 head of hogs were treated. In many cases It was found that sickness, other than cholera, was due to some Incidental cause, such as bad peanut meal, and balanced rations were advised. The county agent's work resulted In 32 farmers establishing pastures to keep their hogs off the open range, the land thus pasturedbeing freed from many noxious weeds by the rooting of the animals, and prepared for future cult), vation. Forty-four farmers in the county were interested In stump removing, re-moving, and about 2,000 acres of land was cleared In this movement. About five tons of dynamite was bought for the purpose largely on the co-operative plan. |