Show VACCINE FACTS babl ml 11 bu I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 IW I 1 JO 10 BE remembered the following article was sent to us ua for or publication by F far ar welch who ata stands ads ready at all times to give our cat caillo tic raisers the needed advise in preventing knotner visitation of blackleg amongst our herds cattle it if they will acquaint him with the facts in each case thai Is what ho he lb ib employed for and it Is easy to seo see that a trained nian man knows more about the treatment of this d disease I 1 8 than do the bo majority of 0 our cattle raisers who have never liever atud studied led the malady from a calenti point the article Is a very long one and will necessarily have to run it in ill sections so watch for it each issue and read it carefully and it may bo be that it if your are raising cattle yo you u will avoid future flossea the use ot of blackleg vaccine as a preventative measure has resulted ac cording to a recent publication tiou of the department on this subject in laduc ing tile the loss from blac blackleg klet to less than one halt half of 0 one per cort cert whore where this disease Is allowed to preva prevail tile the losses to cattle from rom it frequently frequent ly ox celd those from all other causes coni com billed and in certain lindly badly infected regions havo have amounted to moro more than 10 per cent of tho the annual call calf crop ctol in tho the eighteen years in which the vaccine has been distributed nearly doses have beeri been sent out and it Is es estimated that thai at least 20 animals have boon vacillated blackleg or as it Is somo sometimes times called black quarter occurs practically in the united states witt will the exception of the southern atlan lc ic al and id 1 61 ault ff states the greatest losses however take place on tho large ranges of the west and young animals between ho he ages of six and 18 months are the most susceptible to tile the disease ral al though some are arc attacked attack od at an earlier ago age after they are 2 years old lt it Is unusual mauHl iii for cattle in ili this couii try to contract tho disease df and somo some authorities state that after ahree yeats A t ago age he animal la Is immune i A further characteristic ot of the tile aso which to lu a ablo extent its economic a the fact that it attacks chiefly high grade stock it Is a noticeable fact that in ili titis tills country blackleg ha haa been on an tile tho increase ever since stock block owr own ors ora began to improve lin prova their cattle it it has haa also been noticed that tile the animals in ill the best condition in the hord herd aro are tho the roost most likely to bo be attacked tho the blach blackleg log virus to Is not only wilds 11 spread pread over the country bt but it it to Is ox trombly persi persistent stant once a pasture has become infected there Is no known roeana meana 0 of making it ly safe for tho the usual method 0 at preventing infection fro ro owing lt it self by permitting pasture stobo me used is not practicable in the case of blackleg instances have been record ed in ili which outbreaks have occurred in pastures lias tures after a lapso lapse of 11 years in alow of this fact tho the only practical method of co controlling li trolling the dis ease caso appears to bo be through the tha goni oral uso use ut of tile tho preventive prevent jve vaccine TO ro BE |