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THE RUKAb NEW-YOKE EE 
April :-U, J015. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Good Times for Percherons. 
Wars and rumors of wars may frighten 
some lines of trade into inactivity, but 
the I’ereheron breeders find war a stim¬ 
ulant for horseflesh. Wayne Dinsmore. 
secretary of the Percheron Breeders, has 
issued a circular giving useful facts and 
figures about this breed. Here are a few : 
The marvelous gain in exports of 
horses is the most marked development 
of the general trade. Total exports of 
horses from the United States to other 
countries (per data supplied us by the 
Bureau of Foreign Commerce, U. S. A.) 
amounted to but S.060 head, valued at 
•$1,286,369 for the last five months of 
1913. During the last five months of 
1911 exports totaled 78.79!) head, valued 
at $15,439,604, a gain of more than 
fourteen million dollars. Tabulated our 
exports by months for the last five months 
of 1914 are: 
EXPORTS 1914. 
No. head horses 
August . 804 
September . 7.146 
< )ctober . 18.091 
November . 28,071 
December . 30.687 
Value 
$ 96,706 
999,267 
1,918,433 
5,034,353 
7,390,845 
78,79!) $15,439,604 
The complete figures for January, 1915, 
are not yet available, but there is every 
indication that the most astounding rate 
of increase in value of horses exported 
will continue. 
The sales, both public and private, in 
the last four months show a great im¬ 
provement in the discrimination exer¬ 
cised by buyers. Animals of approved 
conformation and soundness have been 
much sought after, and higher prices 
have been paid for such animjtls than 
were paid a year ago. Percherons of 
faulty conformation, lacking in size, or 
unsound, have not been in demand, and 
very low prices have been paid—less than 
similar animals brought last year. Good 
Percherons are from $75 to $100 higher, 
and inferior ones from $100 to $200 low¬ 
er. Such keen discrimination is a favor¬ 
able sign, and promises more rapid im¬ 
provement than has occurred heretofore. 
The keener judgment manifested by 
purchasers carries a warning to breed¬ 
ers. If profits are to be expected from fu¬ 
ture operations good sound sires of A1 
type must be used, and the colts must be 
liberally nourished from birth till ma¬ 
tured or sold. Grain should be given by 
the time the colts are a month old, and 
should not be discontinued, Summer or 
Winter, until the animals are at least 
three years old. The superior develop¬ 
ment of the French colts, as compared 
with most of those reared in this coun¬ 
try, is directly traceable to the fact that 
the French feed their colts grain while 
they are on pasture, even where the grass¬ 
es are unusually abundant and nourish¬ 
ing. Half a pound of grain for each one 
hundred pounds weight of colt is none 
too much for weanlings, yearlings or two- 
year olds, even when on good pasture. 
Stunted colts never do recover their nor¬ 
mal conformation and excuses are of 
small avail when buyers are purchasing. 
Free use of the knife on unsound or 
inferior stallions is sound business policy 
under present conditions. Many stallions 
of this character have sold in the past 
four months for less than they would have 
brought as geldings. The sale of an in¬ 
ferior or unsound stallion for breeding 
purposes hurts the breeder more than any 
one else, for as long as such an animal 
is retained in the stud, the name of the 
breeder is advertised in the pedigree and 
bills to the shame of the man who bred 
him. Think twice before you retain an 
unworthy colt even for sale. 
Cholera Serum for Hogs. 
Can an ordinary farmer immunize his 
hogs against cholera without the aid of 
a veterinarian? It is sometimes incon¬ 
venient to get hold of the latter. Can 
you give instructions for administering 
the serum? Do the State or Federal 
authorities issue any general information 
along these lines? Is the serum a cure, 
as well as a preventive? Would it be 
of any benefit to inoculate a herd after 
one or two hogs had shown signs of, or 
died with cholera? H. J. I. 
Connecticut. 
The subject of hog cholera has baffled 
the energies of the best scientists in the 
country for many years and while some 
progress has been made toward the con¬ 
trol of the disease the fact remains that 
millions of dollars worth of hogs are lost 
annually from this cause alone. My ex¬ 
perience with hundreds of hogs extend¬ 
ing over a period of many years during 
which time there were three outbreaks of 
cholera proves that the immunizing ser¬ 
um cannot be relied upon to any great 
extent, although it is the best treatment 
known and where there is danger of an 
infection it should be used at once for 
what it is worth. The serum has no 
curative properties whatever and is re¬ 
commended as a preventive only. I have 
inoculated many hogs which had been ex¬ 
posed to the disease, also those which had 
not. without noticing any difference in 
their power of resistance. Under ordin¬ 
ary conditions I would not advise inocu¬ 
lation unless the disease appears in the 
herd or neighborhood in which case it 
should be done immediately. The serum 
is usually sold under the conditions that 
it must be administered by a veterinary 
surgeon. This is done to prevent any 
misuse of the serum and secure the best 
possible results. 
The process of administering the ser¬ 
um is as follows: For large hogs two or 
more men are required to hold them, 
while one man is all that is required for 
pigs. The pig is caught and placed on 
its back, the attendant holding its front 
feet with one hand and hind feet with 
the other. A barrel standing on end 
makes a convenient place on which to 
rest the pig during the operation. With 
a piece of absorbent cotton the veter¬ 
inary sterilizes a small area just inside 
the thigh where the muscle is the thick¬ 
est and injects the serum well under 
the skin with a hypodermic syringe. A 
strong solution of creolin is used to ster¬ 
ilize the place where the injection is to 
be made. The dose depends upon the 
size of the hog and the strength of the 
serum. Directions are always given on 
each bottle in regard to size of dos«'. 
After each injection the syringe should 
lx* sterilized before being used for an¬ 
other pig. This is done to prevent pos¬ 
sible contagion. The agricultural exper¬ 
iment stations for New York, Ohio and 
Kansas have done considerable work along 
this line and I would suggest that any 
one who is interested should write for the 
bulletins on the subject published by these 
stations. There is yet room for much 
study and experimentation on the sub¬ 
ject of hog cholera as our annual losses 
prove, and there is every reason to believe 
that such work will in time develop a 
method for the control of the disease 
which will be far superior to anything 
yet known. c. s. G. 
During the last G. A. K. encampment 
there was one woman amid the crowd of 
spectators on the day of the parade who 
made herself conspicuous by her noisy 
hurrahs and excited waving of a flag as 
the old veterans marched past. One of 
the bystanders told her sharply to shut 
up. “Shut ui> yourself!” she retorted. 
“If you had buried two husbands who 
had served in the war, you would be hur¬ 
rahing too.”—Everybody's. 
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