Show PLAN TO ERADICATE DREAD HOG DISEASE members of new mew madrid mo county farm bureau saved much money ilog hog cholera eradication Is one project of the new madrid sio mo county farm bureau it has been on the program of work for six years in that time it has saved its members by this one project the loss to the farmers of this county every year due to the ravages of title this disease was over before the farm bureau was organized and began active work for the reduction of these losses in the spring of 1923 3 the sixth annual survey surrey was made and it revealed that the total loss to the farmers was as only in the last year yea r in accomplishing this the new madrid county bureau has been instrument talin reducing the number of farms reporting cholera from in 1918 to 29 09 firms farms in 1923 in most of these caes the cholera was brought in by hogs shipped into the county and measures were taken immediately for its control in order to follow out the campaign in a systematic manner the new madrid bureau sent out questionnaires to every farmer in the county each year to make a survey of the cholera conditions in almost every instance these questionnaires were sent back to the bureau filled out with the necessary information rn in the sixth annual report sent out from the county the follon following an facts are brou brought ht out number of farms reporting cholera april 1 1918 number reporting in 1923 29 20 number reporting cholera luring during the year in 1918 in 1923 number of hol hogs s lost from cholera in 1918 2574 2 5 74 in 1 1923 value of these hogs at 8 cents a pound la in 1918 in 1923 percentage of farmers who be believe in vaccination CO per cent in 1918 82 per cent in 1923 1023 these facts alone indicate the tremendous success of the new madrid bureau in its campaign the actual savings to the members was computed at 8 cents a pound and does not take into consideration the high prices paid for hogs during the war period which would have practically doubled the savings in addition to the large decrease in cholera among the hogs bogs the pork production product lon of the county has been built up through the efforts of the new madrid bureau A recent survey shows that there are approximately twice as many hogs in the county now as there was before the county farm bure bureau att was organized |