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losses in that one county can be realized when it is known that be- 

 sides the breeding stock that was retained on the farms, over 

 75,000 head of hogs were marketed in one year, from which basis 

 we can estimate, with even a less per cent than that given, that 

 from twenty to twenty-five thousand pigs died. No doubt quite a 

 number of the hogs that were marketed were immature, and were 

 shipped out on account of the disease ; on these an additional money 

 loss was sustained. 



Putting the loss from hog cholera for the entire State at the 

 very low figure of 5 per cent., it is estimated that the loss in money 

 amounts to not less than $2,500,000. It will certainly not run less 

 than a half million dollars any year, and in some years four or 

 five times that amount. The prevention of such a waste of the 

 State's resources is well worth the best efforts that can be made 

 by this Department, and I am sure that the members of this Asso- 

 ciation, as well as many other farmers and stockmen of the State, 

 appreciate what we are trying to do and will give us their hearty 

 encouragement. 



If, with the meagre facilities and limited funds with which 

 we have worked, we have been able to inoculate over six thous- 

 and hogs in thirty counties, and to demonstrate to the farm- 

 ers the value of this hog cholera serum in such a convincing way 

 as to arouse their enthusiastic interest, it seems reasonable that 

 if this Department is provided with proper equipment and funds 

 so that the work can be carried on in a proper manner at all 

 seasons of the year, without interruption, the expectations of the 

 farming public in the matter of the control of hog cholera can be 

 reasonably met. Instead of operating in thirty counties in a 

 very incomplete way, the sixty-nine counties that have called for 

 aid in suppressing outbreaks of cholera should have been covered, 

 and in a thoroughly efficient manner. Instead of having used six 

 thousand doses in several months, we should have used ten thou- 

 sand doses or more in one single month during the worst part of 

 the season. 



PROPRIETARY REMEDIES. 



I think it important in this address to mention certain pro- 

 prietary remedies, which are now before the public, one of which 

 has recently been put on the market and has been tried extensively 

 by a number of the veterinarians of the country. I refer to the 

 product called Bruschettini's hog cholera vaccine. The distributor 

 (Sorby Vaccine Co. of Chicago) claims that this material is manu- 



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