130 Forty Years' Experience or a Practical Hog Man. 



TREATMENT FOR HOG CHOLERA. 



During the last three years, i. e., 1911, 1912 and 1913, we 

 have made it a practice on Lovejoy Farm to keep the entire 

 herd immune by the simultaneous treatment. In the 

 summer of 1913 we immuned 219 pigs at one time, using 

 the simultaneous treatment, and the loss was about two 

 per cent. This leads me to believe that our government 

 authorities and others who have been instrumental in work- 

 ing out the simultaneous serum treatment, have in it the 

 long-sought-for specific treatment for the prevention of hog 

 cholera. 



However, I am convinced that many have not fully un- 

 derstood this method of hog cholera treatment, and as I 

 had been much attracted to and pleased with an article by 

 Mr. J. L. Thatcher, I requested Mr. Thatcher to furnish 

 a serum article for publication in this book, and take great 

 pleasure in giving him full credit for the excellent service 

 he has rendered swine breeders by his contribution to hog 

 cholera literature. 



Mr. Thatcher's article follows in full, and is commended 

 to the thoughtful attention of every reader of this book, 

 with the hope that the serum treatment will be bet- 

 ter understood and more generally followed. And I firmly 

 believe that if his suggestions are properly carried out, 

 in time we can stamp out this dread disease: 



