Show WAR VAR ON HOG CHO CHOLERA LERA serum developed loped by department of agriculture used 4 cleaning up of infection Is huge jobo job dut but believed can do be accomplished same as ai eradication of I 1 ticks in south beginning with a low few courtion counties in iowa and indiana tho the department ot or agriculture la Is commencing a campaign for tho eradication of hog chawa chor As this discalo la Is as widespread an aa tho the hog bog raising industry which covers tho the whole country tho the cleaning up of the infection la Is a largo order it Is be gloved however that it can be done in much tho the same way that the cattle tick le la being eradicated from tho the south before bofors the tha tick eradication work started it was waa feared that it was an impossible task taek tho experts of the department however figured out methods of cattle dipping pasture rotation and other means of control so BO that now a quarter of at the area ln in tile the south that formerly was under strict catt cap quarantine has been declared tick free and released counties adjoining tho the cleared territory have been the benefit and are taking up tho work so BO that eventually the impossible will bo accomplished complis hed and the tha whole of tho south will be ba turned into a cattle calsing country it Is thought that the same thing can bo be done with hog cholera congress last year appropriated to start the work abo beginning lin In iowa lown will be in ao operation cooperation co with the iowa state college 4 tho the method used will be tho the serum that was developed by doctor dorsett of the department ot of agriculture ture hog Ilog cholera to Is py by all odds odda tho the great oat eat scourge of the hog bog raising industry it was waa estimated that thatis it coot tho the farmers last year before the discovery of tho the serum treatment the toll was still larger cholera was regarded as inevitable and was almost always fatal there wap no protection against it except segregating tile the well hogs and this precaution was uncertain tire the injection of the serum gives immunity from attack even on close contact tho immunity Is not permanent but it lasts long enough to allow cleaning up an entire community it was waa estimated that the second year the serum serum was in uso use it saved about now many of tho the states are ara manufacturing the serum in their own agricultural labora and distribute lt it free froton on application country 40 rasto jg to cod mencer on county areas as 3 balrig dono in indiana and towa iowa and gradually spread tho the work cleaning clo aning up in circles and enting the importation of the disease by careful Quara nUne any specific local outbreak wlllie will be wiped out as quickly as it can be located loc atod it may be the work of years to get all tho the country cleaned but it la Is bo be cleved once it la Is cleaned it can be kept to BO this wilamean will mean a great increase in the hog raising industry larger profeta lad a proportionate reduction in the price of meat |