CONTROL OF HOG CHOLERA. 15 
rangement the duties of Federal and State officials may be outlined 
as follows: 
DUTIES OF UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The United States Department of Agriculture should supply a 
corps of trained veterinarians, one or more to be assigned to each 
State, where arrangements for cooperative work can be made. The 
duties of these field men would be to work in direct cooperation with 
the constituted authorities of the States in organizing the farmers, 
making addresses on cholera and means of control, and explaining 
and demonstrating the best methods of applying serum. These Fed- 
eral field men should not remain permanently in one locality, but 
after working over a selected area should proceed to another and 
work there with State authorities as in the first, the idea being for 
them to help in organizing and coordinating the work, but ultimately 
leaving the administration entirely in the hands of State authorities. 
The department should continue to inspect and supervise estab- 
fishments engaged in the preparation of anti-hog-cholera serum for 
interstate shipment, the prime object of such inspection being to 
insure, in so far as supervisory inspection may accomplish that end, 
the purity and potency of the products which farmers will be 
encouraged to use. 
DUTIES OF STATE AUTHORITIES. 
The State authorities should supply a corps of veterinarians who 
are particularly skilled not only in matters pertaining to hog 
eholera, but in the art of teaching and organizing. ‘These men 
should work directly with the Federal officers and along the same 
lines, except that their work should perhaps go, more into detail 
and their contact with farmers and farmers’ organizations should 
be more intimate than would be the case with the Federal em- 
ployees. They should also lend their cooperation to representatives 
of the live-stock sanitary board or chief veterinary officer of the 
State, so as to promote the observance of the sanitary rules which 
may be of the greatest assistance in limiting the number of out- 
breaks to be dealt with. 
The State live-stock sanitary board or the State veterinarians 
should promulgate regulations designed to reduce the channels 
through which cholera may be spread. but framed at the same time 
with the idea of avoiding serious interference with the hog industry. 
At the same time a campaign of education relative to sanitation 
should be carried on in cooperation with the State college and the 
Federal Government. A force of men sufficient to attend to this 
