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measure, to the fact that cattle raising without a good supply of 

 hogs in the feed lots is unprofitable. 



The postmortem figures for 1911 were as follows: 



Postmortem Inspections, Fiscal Year 1911 



Here, also, we have a gain of a little over 2,000,000, but the 

 number of animals slaughtered still was over 5,000,000 below that 

 of 1909, and shows a decrease of 12.4 per cent, over the average 

 for the years 1907, 1908, and 1909. 



HOG-CHOLERA SERUM 



For the past fifty years veterinarians and stockmen of the 

 United States have been making attempts to cure hog-cholera by 

 means of various drugs and chemicals. Practically every drug in 

 the entire Materia Medica has been used at one time or another, 

 in the hope that finally some remedy would be found which would 

 be capable of checking the ravages of the disease. In many cases 

 one or another remedy has been brought forth and urged as a sure 

 cure for the dread disease. The farmer and stockman have in 

 such cases been led to purchase large amounts of the supposed 

 cure. In practically every instance the final result has been the 

 same. The supposed "cure" proves to be a miserable failure when 

 it is brought into the actual field tests. Hog raisers have spent 

 hundreds of thousands of dollars in purchasing this worthless 

 material, and, as a result, the farmer has formed the opinion that 

 practically all hog-cholera remedies are fakes. 



This long-continued deception, which in many cases was pure 

 and simple fraud, has made it difficult for the advocates of the 

 hog-cholera serum method of treatment to get a proper opportunity 

 to demonstrate the efficiency of the new agent. Farmers have 



