TREATMENT OF CHOLERA 191 



the imports of cattle into the country has prevented its reintro- 

 duction. 



All that is required to produce equally efficient results in con- 

 nection with hog-cholera is a thoroughly determined effort on the 

 part of every farmer in the United States. If a co-operative effort 

 is made by all the farmers and stock raisers of the United States, 

 backed by the efforts of the State Live Stock Bureaus and the 

 United States Bureau of Animal Industry, there can be no question 

 as to the outcome. We have the weapon now at our command 

 with which cholera can be forced out of the land. Under the 

 direction of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Doctors 

 Dorset and Niles, of the Bureau Force of Veterinarians, have per- 

 fected a method of manufacture and administration of serum which 

 will give us a weapon in our fight against cholera which cannot but 

 throw the balance of power in our favor. 



Serum. — Hog-cholera serum is the weapon that has been 

 needed for years to wage a successful war upon cholera, and it now 

 only remains for us to get this weapon in sufficient quantities to 

 carry on the campaign. It is the duty of every hog raiser, and 

 every individual who profits directly or indirectly from the hog- 

 raising industry, to see that our state legislatures and the National 

 Congress appropriate sufficient funds to estabUsh and operate 

 serum-manufacturing plants of sufficient capacity to supply the 

 necessary quantities of serum for immunization purposes. 



In connection with the use of the serum there must be a 

 co-operative effort on the part of every hog raiser in the entire 

 country to stamp out the disease. Proper sanitary regulations 

 must be made by, and enforced under the police powers of, the 

 State Live Stock Commissions or State Veterinarians of the various 

 states. In every community it is usually the case that we will 

 find one or more individuals who are opposed to any new movement 

 which is intended for the pubhc good. This rule will hold equally 

 good in the campaign against hog-cholera. One or two such 

 farmers, who will insist upon allowing their dead animals to lie 

 exposed to the attacks of buzzards, or who will allow their dead 

 cholera animals to he along the banks of a running stream, can 

 scatter more cholera in a community than the efforts of all their 

 neighbors can eradicate in a year's time. If success is to crown 



