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inquiring about this vaccine, asking if there is not one that we can 

 recommend, all showing that there is a tremendous pressure for such 

 a product. 



There have been in the past some very able men working on this 

 project, but they have largely given the matter up in disgust, after 

 trying all the methods that they knew. But since that time there liave 

 been a great many new things found out about the subject of immuni- 

 zation, and now we believe that these new methods should be applied 

 to hog cholera. At present you know that Dr. Connaway is in Europe 

 and is making a close study of this matter. He is studying a disease 

 somewhat similar to hog cholera — an acute disease known as Rouget. 

 They have a vaccine for this disease which is efficient, and Dr. Con- 

 naway is making a careful stud}'' of this disease, and we hope on his 

 return he will be the best prepared man in this country to investigaie 

 the matter of hog cholera and provide some means of immunization, 

 which is so sorelv needed. 



THE RELATION OF AGE AND CONDITION TO PROFJ !' 



ABLE CATTLE FEEDING. 



(Prof. F. B. Mumford, Acting Dean, Agricultural Oollege.) 



I have been impressed with one thing in these meetings here, and 

 that is that most of the farmers and stock breeders want to know all 

 there is to be known about all of these subjects. The farmer wants to 

 know immediately whether it is best to feed corn and linseed meal to 

 hogs or some other ration. They want to know everything as soon 

 as possible. That is all right. That is what the Experiment Station is 

 for, to find out these things, and to find out the facts that the men 

 who are carrying on the business of Agriculture want to know. 



At the same time it is not so easy and simple a process as perhaps 

 some of us have been led to believe. We knew a whole lot more 

 things a few years ago than we know now — at least we said we did, 

 and were more positive and more dogmatic about it then than now. 



I have been impressed with another thing, namely, when some one 

 man has been successful in feeding animals and paid particular atten- 

 tion to some one thing, he may attribute his success to that one thing, 

 but at the same time he fulfilled all the other conditions necessary 

 for successful feeding. The longer we experiment with feeding cattle 

 for the production of beef, the more difficult the question becomes 

 and the more complicated the problems involved. It is a much simpler 



