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TH EC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 19, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A HAMPSHIRE HOG 
M R. BEN B. HUNT of Barry County, 
Michigan, sends us the picture which 
is shown on this page. He calls it a pic¬ 
ture of a Michigan-bred Hampshire boar, 
and also a Michigan-bred boy on his back. 
Mr. Hunt says he has 51 of these belted 
pigs, and he is very much pleased with 
this breed. It would be interesting to 
know in what way, aside from the belt 
and the peculiar appearance, this breed 
is superior to others, such as Berkshire or 
Poland China.' Sometimes a man who 
takes a fancy to a particular breed of 
live stock will have something of a job 
in telling why he considers it better than 
any other. It might be a good plan to 
develop a discussion along this line, and 
see how many of us can really give 
sound and convincing reasons to prove 
Good Natured Hampshire Boar. 
that our favorite breed is better than the 
one kept by the neighbor. At any rate, 
this Hampshire is a good-natured hog, 
and the boy seems to be having a com¬ 
fortable ride on his back. Generally 
speaking, however, we think it is a mis¬ 
take for children to play very much with 
these barnyard brutes, as no one can tell 
when they will turn and take advantage 
of you for an attack. 
HAMPSHIRE SWINE. 
I HAVE only been a breeder of Hamp- 
skires for two years. In my opinion 
these hogs develop faster than any 
other breed, and we have had them all. 
I sold nine last year on the market that 
weighed 202*4 pounds each at 173 days 
old. They are a distinct bacon and ham 
hog. At the International Fat Stock 
Show they did not win the prize, but they 
sold for 75 cents above what the prize 
winners sold for. As for rustlers they 
are the best and they are not always 
looking for a hole in the fence. Some of 
this breed will weigh 1100 pounds at two 
years old. The stock hog pictured will 
not be a year old until September 27, 
and he weighs close to 350 pounds. The 
sows are kind and gentle and you can do 
anything with their pigs, also the boars, 
My boy drives this one as he would a dog. 
The sows raise large litters, from nine to 
16. I have used my boar on about 12 
sows and they will average about 10 
apiece; some of the sows are not a year 
old yet. I have bred to a number of dif¬ 
ferent breeds, and half of the pigs are 
belted. I would not have any other breed 
on the place. I can get .$10 for every 
six-weeks-old pig I raise that is well bel¬ 
ted. The Hampshire Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion takes the best of care of its members. 
Michigan. ben b. hunt. 
TREATMENT OF HOG CHOLERA. 
O N page 1038 F. C. Minkler, of the 
New Jersey Experiment Station, 
makes a statement that I think may 
be misleading to many of your readers, 
and I am sure that he would not wish to 
be misunderstood. The phrasing would 
seem to indicate that he thinks animals 
fed on garbage will become immune to 
cholera, and while this may be true of the 
garbage-fed hogs of a certain locality, 
that is, there may be some hogs in a cer¬ 
tain locality that are fed solely on gar¬ 
bage and have become immune to the dis¬ 
ease, I know from the experience of con¬ 
tractors for the removal of garbage in 
Philadelphia, that cholera is as much of 
a menace to their herds as to any other. 
I know of one such man who lost prac¬ 
tically his entire herd from the disease. 
Moreover, when piggeries in “the neck” 
were prohibited and the animals disposed 
of to farmers, many herds and places 
hitherto uninfected, were infected, both 
the imported and the resident animals be¬ 
ing affected. 
I quite agree with him that something 
should be done to eradicate this disease as 
soon as may be. This State, New 
York and New Jersey, are as yet 
practically free from the disease, but if 
the prohibition of immunization by the 
virus-serum method is continued for 
long by the different live stock sani¬ 
tary boards, sane business men cannot 
be induced to take the chances of exterm¬ 
ination of their herds, particularly when 
the herds are purebred and their value 
large. The loss of one animal to a con¬ 
structive breeder may undo the work of 
years, and be a loss to the community 
that is impossible to measure in dollars. 
Cholera is menacing the meat market 
of the future. With the present world¬ 
wide shortage of all meat-producing ani¬ 
mals, and the present possibility that sev¬ 
eral cattle-raising countries w T ill be 
prevented, for some time to come, from 
supplying their own needs, every facility 
should be given to cattle and stockmen in 
every part of this country to safeguard 
their interests, and thus guard against 
a meat famine all over the world. Scien¬ 
tists admit their ignorance of the disease. 
Practical men have found a practical 
safeguard against it. Why do some au¬ 
thorities deny in some States the right to 
use a method or practice universally ac¬ 
cepted in every country in Europe, all the | 
States of the corn belt, where cholera has | 
raged and been checked, and in many i 
other States less afflicted by this scourge 
than Pennsylvania, New York, or New 
J ersey ? d. buckley, 
Secretary Pa. Berkshire Breeders Asso¬ 
ciation. 
I T was far from my intention in making 
a reply to inquiry on page 1038 even j 
to infer that the feeding of garbage 
was a means toward the end of immu¬ 
nizing hogs against cholera. I only cited 
the instance which was given me by a 
prominent serum-producing concern, in 
which they stated that they had been able 
to utilize garbage-fed hogs in the produc¬ 
tion of serum to great advantage, as they 
found it possible to inject into these ani¬ 
mals large amounts of virus without the 
use of protective serum. I am well aware 
of the difficulty experienced bv swine 
raisers adjacent to cities who utilize gar¬ 
bage as a source of feed for pigs. Of j 
course, the serum treatment is by all odds 
the safest, and since scientists do not 
seem to tell us exactly why certain 
exclusively garbage fed pigs have this im¬ 
munity, I merely advanced the suggestion 
that this condition might be due to the 
fact that such animals were naturally im¬ 
mune as results of obtaining in the gar¬ 
bage, residue pork products containing 
the cholera bacillus. There is no such 
law in New Jersey as prevails in Pennsyl¬ 
vania prohibiting the use of simultaneous 
treatment. We use virus in this State 
to establish permanent immunity with good 
results. It is exceedingly difficult to take 
the view-point of prohibitin'* the use of 
virus and not prohibiting the importation 
of hogs from other States that have been 
simultaneously treated. Just what the 
Pennsylvania authorities could do in case 
simultaneously treated animals were ship¬ 
ped into the State, I do not know. 
The cheapest insurance that I know of 
against hog cholera is the simultaneous 
treatment, provided of course, the serum 
protects. On the other hand, unless I 
was sure that cholera was in the neigh¬ 
borhood, I would not use the double treat¬ 
ment, but rather rely on the serum alone 
treatment as the first means of protection, 
if cholera did break out in tl.e herd, this 
to be followed in 10 days with the double 
treatment with such animals as are in 
the proper condition. 
Seemingly I overlooked that part of Mr. 
Cochran’s inquiry relating to the use of 
sour milk in swine feeding. Our experi¬ 
ence goes to show that in case the milk 
can be obtained sweet every day, there is 
no advantage in souring it before feed¬ 
ing it to the pigs; on the other hand, if 
there is any irregularity in the delivery 
of the milk so that one day it would be 
sour and the next day sweet, I would by 
all means sour all the milk and feed it to 
them in this same condition every day. 
It is the change from the sweet to sour, 
off and on, that causes disorder with the 
pigs’ digestive system. 
There is another phase of the hog chol¬ 
era question that seems important. If 
the proper officials were given authority 
to go in any neighborhood where cholera 
prevails and establish strict quarantine 
measures, cleaning up the premises where 
the disease prevailed, and using serum 
alone in all adjoining Lerds, I am satis¬ 
fied that the outbread could be conquered 
without the use of virus. It is a common 
practice in any neighborhood, that when 
one farmer commences to lose his hogs, 
his neighbor is apt to visit the farm, go 
into the hog lot and inadvertently carry 
away with him on his boots, the germs 
that are eventually responsible for the 
outbreak in his own herd. Strict and 
prompt measures of quarantine would, 
without doubt, be the best means of lo¬ 
calizing and eradicating the disease in 
any community. The use of virus should 
not be prohibited, but strictly supervised 
and regulated. Frederick c. minkler. 
N. J. Experiment Station. 
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