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Only two of the large ones, that were apparently well when vac- 

 cinated, have died; as these died in a few days after vaccination, 

 they were probably already affected. I regret that the herd was 

 not vaccinated sooner. If I show again I shall want my 'show 

 herd' vaccinated before they go. I feel thankful to you for what 

 you did, and wish you success." 



W. Brook Cully of Bunceton, Cooper county, owner of the 

 Spring Brook Poland China herd, after losing his herd boar, "Te- 

 cumseh Perfection" (the winner of the First Prize in the class of 

 six-month-old boars at the St. Louis World's Fair), and a few 

 sows and pigs from cholera, requested us to inoculate his herd 

 with the "hog cholera serum." Several weeks later he wrote: "I 

 am glad to be able to report favorably as to hog cholera. I have 

 lost only two since you were here, and these were sick when in- 

 oculated." Forty-eight head in all were treated. 



Ross Bros., Otterville, Missouri, Poland China breeders, who 

 had cholera in their herd at the time of treatment, say: ''Our 

 thirty hogs that you inoculated on November 19 have done splend- 

 idly; they have shown no signs of the disease, though kept on the 

 infected grounds where others had died." 



Dr. G. M. Laughlin, manager of the Kinlock Farm, Kirks- 

 ville, now president of the Missouri Swine Breeders Association, 

 and a breeder of prize winning Berkshires, wrote: "Thanks for 

 the serum which you sent us. I am well pleased with the serum, 

 and am convinced more than ever that it will not only prevent 

 cholera, but will cure it if used in large enough quantities. I be- 

 lieve where failures occur, it is the result of poor serum, or in 

 cases where it is not used in large enough quantities. Our hogs 

 are all at present in good shape." 



Dr. Laughlin lost some valuable animals last year from the 

 disease, the herd becoming exposed on the show circuit. 



Mr. Thomas Richards of Vandalia, Missouri, breeder of high- 

 class Berkshires, for whom we treated hogs last June, and who 

 has since used considerable of the serum on hogs that he pur- 

 chased and put on his infected farm, wrote as follows: "All of 

 the hogs and pigs that were well when you treated them last 

 June, remained well and healthy and have been so ever since."" 

 (At the time of my visit he had lost quite a number of hogs 

 from cholera and several more were sick.) "In July I began to 

 ship in hogs and pigs and vaccinate them and turn them out in the 

 infected lots and pastures, and have not lost over 5^ of all hogs 

 treated. Have vaccinated, and now have on the farm over sixty 



