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Show Vaccinate Now to Save Hog Profits Be Prepared Against Hog Cholera Outbreak By W. J. DRYDEN The ideal time to vaccinate young pigs for cholera is about two weeks after they have been weaned. There is no "panacea" for hog cholera, once it strikes. The solution is preventive pre-ventive vaccination before an outbreak out-break occurs. Hog cholera still causes an average aver-age annual loss of about 30 million dollars in the United States. Two million dollars, above what is now spent, for hog cholera virus and i anti-hog cholera serum would wipe out this loss, u followed by approved ap-proved methods of sanitation. It has been thoroughly demonstrated demon-strated that the proper inoculation af healthy swine witn potent hog i cholera virus and anti-hog cholera This youngster can now have life immunity against hog cholera. serum will result in a relatively solid and lasting immunity. This is the so-called double treatment injection in-jection of serum In one place and the virus in another. Because between 50 and 60 pigs can be vaccinated after weaning age, for the value of one market hog, and as cholera can wipe out an unvaccinated herd over night, no bog raiser can afford to let his herd remain unvaccinated. |
