Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-01-23 | Page 2 | Hog Cholera Growth Must Stop, Says Rideout

HOG CHOLERA MUST STOP SAYS RIDEOUT Introduces Bill to Give Control Control Con Con- trot of Disease of-Disease to State Hog cholera a a. disease comparatively el unknown In I this section of oC the tho country until r recently will vl be placed under the strict contro of the state department of ot live stock if senate nato bill hill No 36 b by Rideout Ride Ride- ou out Is passed When the old law creat- creat lug Inc the tho live o stock department was as passed there thero was wan no hog hOI cholera and therefore no provision for or Us its control was as made In the law At that time according accord accord- In ing to S Senator Rideout tho the opinion prevailed pre tha that he disease could not thrive In this hIg altitude J During th the past st summer Rummer hog hop cholera got sot Into the swine o of Salt Lake county An As a. a result toe the ruination of tile the pork Industry In this county was wa'S seriously Y threatened Thousands Thousand of dollars were lost and arid scores of or hogs were wens Wiled killed when Senator the Infection W was S discovered RIdeout Hideout says MS that probably 75 per cent of th tho hogs In th the th county wern tere atre affected t d dand and It was wa-s only through the activity or ot ortho the interest Interest In Interest in- in tho the state live lI stock Inspector and anti terest of ot the governor so and agricultural college that that- an any hogs were saved In Senator Rideout's bill tho the state live livestock livestock stock inspector Is authorized to employ deputies where necessary to Inoculate boSs hogs with tho the serum at the tho expense of oC the owners owner and to place in quarantine all districts where the disease breaks out Meat shipped from Crom Infected or 01 Quarantined districts must bear the stamp of ot Inspection ot of the state live lire stock department Senator Rideout believes the bill would result If passed In the control control of the much dreaded disease