| Show DISCUSS TIlE THE HOG PlAGUE Farmers and Stock Raisers Kaisers Riser Attend Meeting to Deal With Wit the Situation Sitton f Dr Fredericks formula for fo doctor docto f ff f t ing the hog plague plage f ff f Wood charcoal 1 I pound f Sulphur t 1 pound 4 4 4 Salt 1 pound f 4 4 Soda 2 Z pounds f Sodium hydrosulphate 2 pounds f I 9 Sodium sulphate 1 pound 4 Black antimony l i pound 4 I There e was a 0 fair attendance t e at the h mass mas meeting called caled by the county corn com commissioners comI missioners held at the county building yesterday for the te purpose of discussing the swine plague plage In this county A gen general general eral discussion was had and at the con conclusion conclusion elusion It was stated that the commis commissioners commissioners would take immediate steps to quarantine diseased hogs bogs and ad take other proper sanitary measures The commis commissioners commissioners commissioners will wi also cooperate with wih the var various varIous ious bus health heath officers to exterminate the the plague Among those in attendance at atthe atthe atthe the meeting were Dr H J Fredericks Federicks veterinarian of the Agricultural college and D M Woolen government inspector of the Ogden packing house Dr Fredericks Federick addressed the meeting at length and told of the first firt case that called to his attention and of was caled having made a post mortem examination of a number of hogs which had died and of finding that they showed all al the symptoms symptoms symptoms toms of swine plague plage He said the lungs lung of these animals were infiltrated with blood and that symptoms similar to those of hog cholera choler existed He then described tile the tr symptoms of the te disease and showed a diagram of the lungs lung of the animals that were Infected wih with hog cholera and said that In some of the hogs hog he had ex examined examined examined these symptoms were present present Dr Fredericks FreerIcks stated that he had taken germs from the Infected hogs to the ex experiment experiment experiment station at Logan but that they had not yet had time to develop Dr Woolen the government Inspector in n an address adress stated that he had no Idea where the originated He said that some time ago a shipment of hogs hoga had been received from the east and that three of them were affected Also that later 18 hOgs h gs were shipped from Kan ICan Kansas Kansas sas and fifteen of this lot lol were con condemned condemned condemned for swine plague t and one for foe cholera He said sad that no animals almas Infect Infected ed which han had been shipped to the th local stock yards had been turned out th and those badly affected had been tanked for soap It I was wa brought out during the discus discussion discussIon discussion sion which followed that four or five years ears ago some such disease had broken out In some parts part of the county and one instance was pointed out where seventy seventy five hogs belonging to one man had died at that time In the opinion of the ex experts experts experts at yesterdays meeting swine plague plage is contagious and In some alti aiti altitudes ali tudes will wi spread In the air also aso that animals on farms Infected by the dis disease disease disease ease other than hogs hog can carry the tre dis disease disease disease ease from one farm far to another further urther that tha owners owner often ofen carry cry It I from one farm to another and that chickens and rabbits rabbit are the only other animals susceptible to the disease Dr Fredericks said that as far as he could learn the disease was at present prevalent only In the north and west portions of Weber county and In some parts of Das county He also brought out the fact that the te experiment station staton at Washington had taken taen serum serm from In Infected Infected infected hogs and that been used In a similar way to the vaccine for small smal smallpox smallpox pox and antitoxin for diphtheria and that this virus was wa used quite quie extensive extensively ly In the east by hog raisers He gave as ashi his hi opinion that the feeding of beet pulp was not Injurious to the hogs and would In no way tend to cause plague plage |
