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Show HOW TO PREVENT HOG CHOLERA. i Professor Hillings Think That Inoculation Inocula-tion Will Suppress the Disease. i The average man will smile at a propo- ' sitiou to vaccinate all tho hogs in Amer-iea. Amer-iea. But that is what Dr. Frank S. Billings, Bil-lings, who has conducted a long series of investigations into animal diseases nnder the patronage of the University of Nebraska, Ne-braska, jrro)oses. i It is estimated by Professor Billings that the loss from hog cholera in Nebraska Nebras-ka alone is $.1,000,000 annually. It is believed be-lieved to be fully as great in Iowa and Illinois, and the estimato for the whola country is put at $50,000,000 per year. Although he had no particular theory when he began his investigations, Dr. Billings now holds that hog cholera is a germ disease, and he maintains that ha has discovered the gorm itself. He captured cap-tured the bacteria more than two year ago, almost by accident. Since then ha has been "cultivating" the little wrig- ! glere and experimenting with them. He lias inoculated swine with his cholera virus. As a rule a hog can catch the cholera but once. When inoculated it haa a mild form of the disease, and is thereby J. w DR. FRANK S. BILLINGS. protected from fnrther attack. Many tests, under all sorts of conditions, hav proven the efficacy of this treatment, mid Dr. Billings is now giving his discovery dis-covery to the publio as an established fact. Thousands of farmers in the west aro using it among their swine, and tha professor receives gratifying reports from them. Dr. Billings, when a lad, made his j father a proposition to take a certain I Bum, leave home and "do" tho world. The father accepted the oiler, and the ! son visited many foreign lauds by ship- j ping as a sailor and using his allowance j-to j-to see the ports at which he touched. On his return, beiug Boston born, he took to the study of social science. Then his attention was attracted to animal ani-mal diseases, and he has been an enthusiast enthu-siast on that subject since. Ho went to Berlin to study veterinary science. lid I was ignorant of German when he began, but his earnestness enabled him to con-1 (pier the language and graduate with a ! high standint;. Eis practice in America i wJi interrupted by repeated trips to Europe to study under specialists. In 1888 the doctor was called to Nebraska Ne-braska by the state university to establish estab-lish a laboratory and make a thorough investigation of animal diseases. Tha discovery of the cholera germ led him to give most of his attention to the m:(l-adies m:(l-adies of swine. Unfortunately for his work, the state university of Nebraska became a bone of contention in the leg-1 islaturo. The attacking party, among j other things, ridiculed "the hog doctor." i Professor Billings vindicated his dignity by resigning. Since then he has been pursuing his work under the patronage of a wealthy friend. Two years have brought a change, and the present legislature legis-lature is being petitioned to erect a laboratory lab-oratory for the especial purpose of investigating in-vestigating animal diseases. '" .A' V'r-- |