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against cholera has been discovered, which, if properly applied, 

 can be confidently relied upon to stop the disease. The serum for 

 immunization purposes can be prepared at a very reasonable cost. 

 This serum may be kept indefinitely. The supply ought to be 

 placed in the hands of every deputy veterinarian in the State, so 

 that quick action can be taken in case of any outbreak. By the 

 owner of a herd of hogs notifying the secretary of the board of 

 agriculture by telegram, and, he, in turn, promptly ordering a 

 deputy veterinarian out by telegram, an outbreak of hog cholera 

 can be taken charge of before there is time for it to spread. As a 

 rule, the deputy veterinarian can be on the ground within twenty- 

 four hours or sooner, after the owner makes up his mind to act. 

 By simply giving the sound hogs in the herd an injection of the 

 serum, requiring only a few moments of time for each hog, protec- 

 tion against cholera will be immediate and almost complete. Sev- 

 eral hundred hogs can be thus injected by one veterinarian in a 

 day. Those hogs which are injected with serum, before they show 

 any symptoms of the disease will almost invariably remain well. 

 Those that are found sick can be rounded up and either killed and 

 burned or kept in a small pen and frequently saturated with an 

 antiseptic in such manner as to prevent disease from spreading 

 from them. In this way some hogs can be saved out of the dis- 

 eased herd and the disease kept from spreading all over the neigh- 

 borhood. By being in a position to attend to these outbreaks 

 promptly all losses from hog cholera can be stopped and the disease 

 stamped out of the State. If the cholera continues in the future, 

 and there is no reason to doubt that it will, there will be ample op- 

 portunity, within the next twelve months, to save single counties 

 more money on this one proposition than the entire state appropri- 

 ation for the veterinary department for two years. This plan was 

 recommended by Dr. A. D. Melvin, Chief United States Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, at the last annual meeting of the Interstate As- 

 sociation of Live Stock Sanitary Boards and unanimously approved 

 by that association. 



FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 



Foot and Mouth disease has again appeared in several of the 

 northern and eastern states. This disease is of such a nature that 

 it can be stamped out only by killing and burning all of the dis- 

 eased and exposed cattle. It is of such dreadful sequence as to 

 make such a drastic course necessary. The law of this State is 

 deficient in that it makes no provision, whatever, for controlling 

 an outbreak of foot and mouth disease if one should occur. It is 



