Show PNEUMONIA CAUSE OF DEATH OF HOGS WORTh Idea That Anim Animals ls Co Contracted Contracted Con Con- Influenza Ridiculed I Investigations of health conditions among animals In the north end of Davis county where prized porkers I valued at more than have died during the last week of a disease be beI believed believed be- be by farmers of the district to be I influenza contracted from human be beings be- be ings lags have disclosed the fact that the I deaths were due to pneumonia says Thomas Redmond secretary of the I state lIv livestock stock commission Dr R. R N. N Meade of Salt Lake of the I bureau of ot animal industry or of the United States department of agriculture ture is Investigating conditions in the neighborhood of Kaysville where the mortality rate was the greatest Pratt Whitesides and Isaac Adams large hog raisers of the district have lost more than hogs each in the thelast thelast thelast last week The fact that Adams had influenza in his family led to the be belief belief be- be lief hief among farmers that the hogs had contracted the disease from human be be- be ings Several cholera cases were discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered and at first it was suspected that this disease was causing the deaths but further investigation de developed developed developed de- de the fact that the death rate was caused by pneumonia The disease has been cleared up and no further trouble is anticipated re reports reports reports re- re ports Dr Meade J Investigations showed that Adams and Whitesides had been running their hogs together and that I the hogs of all sizes and all ages had j I been accustomed to sleeping In in huge i iI piles upon straw stacks In the morning morn- morn I j I I ing InS they y would come out overheated J I and steaming and contracted colds that developed into pneumonia The II fact that the hogs contracted influenza from human beings is scoffed at by bythE bythe bythe the state livestock officials Farmers are in the habit of diagnosing diagnosing I nosing every disease am among ng animals I that starts with a fever and is contagious contagious conta conta- I as influenza Dr Meade l declared I Thre ore was no Justification for statements statements statements state state- I ments that these hogs had influenza They were suffering from flom pneumonia I brought about through improper care I The idea that the hogs had contracted influenza from the Whitesides V and I Adams families now is a standing joke In the community |