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now hog cholera has been quite prevalent in many parts of the State 

 of Missouri. I have received notices from the various public stock- 

 yards of the receipt of 441 shipments of hogs from the State of Mis- 

 souri which were affected with hog cholera. The disease began by 

 the importation of stock-hogs into the State from the southern and 

 western states to which to feed our enormous corn crop of 1902. 

 Anticipating the outbreak of hog cholera I made a lecture on the 

 subject at Palmyra at the first farmers' institute that was held during 

 the fall of 1902. The lecture was made on August 27, and gave the 

 warning that the promiscuous importation of stock-hogs into the 

 State would result in severe outbreaks of cholera among the hogs of 

 the State, and advised that feeders be careful in the selection of stock- 

 hogs, that they disinfect the car in which the shipment was made, and 

 that such imported hogs be kept isolated and in quarantine for 30 

 days before being exposed to any other hogs. I furnished copies of 

 this advice to all of the agricultural papers of the State, and to the 

 market reports, in all of which it was published in full. The regular 

 biennial appropriations were not sufficient to allow the veterinary 

 service of this State to take hold of the situation as should have been 

 done, and during the session of the Legislature of 1903 I asked for 

 $6,000 extra appropriation with which to control hog cholera. I 

 know of single counties that I could have saved ten times that 

 amount if that appropriation had been made, yet when the attention 

 of the members of the Legislature was called to this bill they simply 

 passed it up without apparently giving it any thought. 



The breeders of this State ought to be in such close touch and 

 sympathy with all veterinary and agricultural departments that when 

 such a request is made of the Legislature that it would be promptly 

 granted. I estimated that with an appropriation of $6,000 the hog 

 cholera could have been controlled at that time. Since then the dis- 

 ease has become so prevalent that its control is out of the question. 

 A judicious expenditure of $100,000 during the next six months would 

 not stamp hog cholera out of the State of Missouri. 



OUR CALLING. 



(S. p. Emmons, Me.\lco, Mo.) 



Good farming and good live stock ; good reading and right living; 

 these couplets will not only insure a competency in temporal things, 

 a full storehouse here, but tend to give us an inheritance that is eternal 



