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cholera. Your customer twenty miles away and your customer 

 over the State line deserves fully as much consideration as a 

 customer in Canada demands in these matters of the sanitary 

 condition of your farm and neighborhood. 



The veterinary and the farm management departments of 

 the University have formulated some of the specific things that 

 are most important for the farmers to put into operation. These 

 plans have been put to a practical test in two counties with such 

 gratifying results, from the point of view of controlling the dis- 

 ease at small cost, that we feel justified in advocating and work- 

 ing for a state-wide application of the plan. The importance of 

 this plan is that the control and eradication of hog cholera is not 

 considered to be a purely nor primarily veterinary problem, but 

 is largely a problem to be solved by improved hog farm manage- 

 ment. The principal things that are advocated are things that 

 every farmer should do as a part of a proper system of hog rais- 

 ing, even if he should have no hog cholera to deal with. The 

 control and eradication of hog cholera thus becomes an incident 

 in a system the main purpose of which is to raise more hogs and 

 better hogs on more farms and at less cost. In fact, where this 

 plan is being tried out the number of calls for serum have been 

 greatly diminished. Moreover, the need for official quarantine 

 measures is not so urgent. The anti-hog-cholera sentiment that 

 has been cultivated through this co-operative plan will make 

 enforcement of official quarantine measures easier and more 

 effective than in the past if such measures at any time are 

 necessary. Under this plan the State hog cholera serum labora- 

 tory will be amply able to supply all the serum that is needed 

 for every legitimate use in controlling and eradicating hog 

 cholera. And the veterinary police work of the State Board of 

 Agriculture will be greatly simplified so far as hog cholera is 

 concerned. 



The members of this association cannot serve themselves, nor 

 the breed of swine in which they are particularly interested, nor 

 the swine industry as a whole, better than to take an active inter- 

 est in this "anti-hog-cholera" movement as it is planned and is 

 being put into operation. As the details of this plan were dis- 

 cussed quite fully yesterday at the meeting of the Farm Manage- 

 ment Association, I will not speak further on the matter at this 

 time. Most of you, I think, are members of that association 

 and will get the published report. Besides, Dr. Gingery in his 

 paper has touched upon some of the essential points included in 

 the plan. 



