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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1940-11-6, Page 7or. THE BRUSSELS POST moompai %10•1111/ moworrommor.• gmalimiMMIIIMMOMMONN HOG CHOLERA —A MENACE' Active Co-operation of every Ontario Farmer is Necessary to STAMP 12' OUT ONTARIO has a really serious outbreak of Hog Cholera. This deadly infectious disease of swine has reached alarming proportions in the counties ef Essex and Kent, with smaller outbreaks in Lambton, Elgin, Norfolk and Haldimand. If the disease is not controlled it is certain to spread to neighbouring counties. Every precaution must be taken. The Ontario Department of Agriculture is actively co- operating with the Federal Department of Agriculture and farmers in their efforts to stamp out this disease. If the spread of Hog Cholera is not checked NOW, every pig raiser in Ontario stands to lose. Only the immediate and wholehearted co-operation of every Ontario farmer will stamp out this menace to the hog industry. .4 HOW TO PREVENT HOG CHOLERA The Departments of Agriculture strongly recommend every pig raiser to take the following precautions: 1 Confine ail hogs to pens or yards that have been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with an approved disinfectant. 2 In centres of heavy infection, 0 possible, keep hogs away from straw'stacks as this is a place usually frequented by birds such as starlings, sparrows, and pigeons, which may have come direct from an infected barnyard. Destxoy as many pigeons, sparrows and starlings as possible. 3Keep dogs out of the pig pen. Keep your " a. under control in the daytime and tied entering the pen can disinfect his shoes, AND INSIST ON ITS USE. 8 Keep livestock trucks off your farm—if you have stock to ship, load up at the end of the lane. Disease -bearing refuse dropping from the bottom of the truck might easily be carried to your hogs. " 9 DO NOT PURCHASE "FEEDER HOGS" except from dependable sources within a clean district, 10 Isolate newly purchased breeding stock for at least three weeks before permitting up at night. Keep stray dogs off your farm. them to run with hogs already on the premises. 4 Burn any dead pigs or bury them so deeply 11. In areas where hog cholera exists be that stray dogs will not dig them up. .9:trerqel.y Reeved about breeding outside Bowe with y'Our boar. ..-U,..,31ANt; 2,BERVI*.we4 q Keep all doors closed and protect the win - Where hogs are serum treated, follow to dows so that no dogs or birds can enter the A.As pens. the letter instructions given by the Vet- . erinary Inspector of the Federal Department of 6 Do not visit neighbourshog gene Agriculture. nor allow neighbours to visit yours. 7Always have a pan of strong disinfectant " solution just inside the door so that anyone Hog Cholera is highly contagious and can spread very rapidly. The above precautions, put,into practice, TODAY, will do much to prevent the spread of this deadly disease. ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE W. R. Reek Deputy Minister. 13 Feed only carefully balanced rattons. Well-fed hogs have the strongest resis- tance to disease. ONTARIO Hon, P. M. Dewan Minister of Agriculture • BIP Poultry Processing Prevention of Loss In the 'preparation of dressed poultry for market, anuell loss Is considered the minimum necessary of quality and from labour cost, • where proper equipment to net available or where the processing room or equipment is badly ar- ranged. To help poultrymen pre- vent this loss, the Marketing Sal - viae, Dorainion. Department of Agri - 'culture, has issued a series of illus- trations showing the equipment and arrangement considered practical in operating large or small rooms for poultry killing and plucking, and tor 'grading and packing. [Much more elaborate equipment for Iffillug rooms might be employed, but the illustrations .ot the equipment and its arrangement represent what Is• considertel tre minimum necessary tor efficiency in operation. Hileest quality of the birds will thus be pre- served and labour costs reduced to 'the laweist. The illustrations whicls are issued In folder form speak for thenaseivee, lout a note is mad e with regard to .the use of water. for cooling. Where cooling rooms are located some 115. tance away from the killing room— and for this reason birds are not placed in the cooler immediately after kilkling—it is pointed out that it is advisable to place the birds in 10e -cold water immediately after they are killed and plucked. The let -cold waiter should be changed often and kept clean, The birds should not be lett in the 'water Or More than two tours and then they should be hung nie in tre cooler la the usual manner. Empha,sis is. placed on the act that all poultry should be hung up in the cooler in temperature imendaitely after kill PH,ON F. 72 leg and placating. The foldee-bue letin cot:Intuits the illustrations of Viral FREE S1RVICE OLDAISABbED OR DEAD i. H °TS OR CATTLE remove Maptly,ancl efficiently. SintlstypbonePOILLECTula WILLIAM STONE SONS LOAM PHONE 21 . INGERSOLL, BRUSSELS .5 General Machine Work Feed Chopper Chopper Plates Ground Brake Drums Machined Motors and Generators Repaired Exclusive Agent for Electric and Transmission Equipment LISTOWEL MACHINE SHOP Mill Street Phone 177w the processing rooras may Wedneedele Neveneber 6th, 1940 veeeepeeeefeefferseneeneeleeleseeesteseffeseeeseeeffe Hog Cholera Spreading Rapidly in Pigs —r— Premier Hepburn Alarmed:— Orders Warning Be Sent. To All Farmers every litter becteme ill at about true Weeksof age. The mortality was, not high but the pigs failed to pet 4n weight and remained In very poor —X—maition. During winter months a Alarmed over' the rapid spread or number of cases of sows losing lit- hos cholera, which is said to twee kers a day or two atter birth mole. eel neceeseteted the shooting of thous - Anil death was due to septi ande of hogs in Kent county alone, • Premier nePliurn gave inetruetions "PleaXtiaoncet all eases the feel had been, poor in 5551114',the for warnings to be sent out to abeeace of vitamin A being Mist ;farmers of the province to eeercise • ceuse for the lack or resistance. the .greatest oars ereventlpg tee spread of eontagion, The Premier mminuelcated with Butter and Potatoes non. P. M, Dewnn, Ontario Minister at Agriculture, suggesting. action Give farmers Concern Farmers will be warned that ehe • disease on be communicated by a • (By Rusticus) Comer from an affected area visit - 1g a farni In. another area. The Farmers are nearing the tima ot Premier expressed tear that the year when• the most necessary of bog -raising industry of tho province the hum work ge romided 110. may suffer irreparable avanage, and Some may wonder why we would Canada's anueb-needed bacon supply saY "the most necessary." Wily to Beitain have to be curtailed it ,be not all the Mum work? Truth is cholera is not ch'eoked. that the work on the farm is never According to Dr. F. W. Schofield all done. Olb, for a day when we and Dr. R. T, Ingle, of the staff of could efuthfully say: "1 •don't know the 'Ontario Veterinary 'College, what I could find to do today." ' Ur Guelph, hog cholera, which has been most days we hardly know where Ir prevalent in pigeries in. Weetern On 'tart, among the piles of work that tarso this year and neeessetated lie a•bont, te., Mee letie::-..euteL7 slaughtering most of the prize berd of the 0, A. C., was chiefly spread thnough the medium of small pig sales. "Oirearreaks of this disease occur' red at mem points in the Western part of the pravince, and in mane instances the outbreak was the tint recorded for that garticular area, The disease was chiefly spread .through the medium of small pig sales wheel in recent years bave sprung ispall over the proyince, "OPeating in conj'unctionwita the sales are the livestock truckers who become effective ,agents In spreading the disease. Many a farm- er bought pigs from truckers only to find out in a day or two that the pigs were diseased and that hog cholera ha thbeen introduced to the Premises," the veterinarians report. During the past few years di - eases of swine have become a matter of ever-increasing import' ancee Most farmers now realize that pigs raised in a scientific man- ner may be quite a profitable under - telt -leg. They are also alert to the serious nature of disease and aro usually willing to co-operate in methods of control and Prevention However, the ceterinarian is great' ly handicapped by an inadequate knowledge of the common diseases •of these animals, it was stated. 'Swine erysipelas is definitely on the Increase and is occurring among swine to a mauch greater extent than is at present recognized. In one outbreak the owner lost ten oat of twenty pigs, and most a the re- maining pigi. exhibited a dry gang- rene involving the skin of the back and extending from the tail to tee ears. Hemorrhagic •lesions in the skin, or presence of numerous have like elevations of the skin with or 'without stiff or painful joints- are the symptoms most frequently seen, and the infection seems to persist for a long time in a piggery, the re- port stated. "Acute and fatal infection of swine with hemorrhagic septicemia does undoubtedly occur in ooth young and mature swine. The o: banisin le by far the most common to be found in cases of chronic Pig pneurreollia. Available evideu ce would indicate that it is not eel- Ponsible fel• aoute outbreaks of 11 - seam anteing swine, With anything like the frequency attributed to it. The practice of inocaleting swine with anti -hemorrhagic septechaia bacterin has become widespread among fariners. it is purely empiri- cal and should :lot be eimouraged, 'Only a few cases of genuine ealanouella intectioa has been re- corded, but 'Swine flu hes beeu quits common end in one large piggery be oh* ;Mined by .writing to the Publicity and Extension Division Dominioa Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. Offers Special Prizes At International Show omit. Dept. of Agricuettre en- courages provincial grain growers to send exhibits to Ohicago—Write Dept. ot Information. Ontario growers of high gualitY seed. will »have an opportunity or advertising Slier products; at the international Grain and Hay Show at Chicago November 30 to Decem- ber 7. To ateourage oatarto growers to participate tne Ont, Dept. of Agri- culture offers speolal prizes of $15. each to Ontario exhibitors winning a first prize and, $6. each to Ontario exhibitors winning highest awards in the various cia,sses providing suet exhibitors aid not win a first prize in the same ele:ss. These prizes .are to addition to the regu- lar prizes of the shone A win et Chicago places growers in a better position to dispose of surplus seed and is also a good advertisement for the province emited States turners have em op- portunity of seeing what Ontario produces anti bY consistent wins Ont. growers are betiding a reputa- tion tor thee:Melees as •producers of high quality seed, Any growers having seed of high quality should steet immediately to prepare it for the International, ad. vises J. a MacLeod, Ont. Dept, of Agriculture, Toroato. All entries must reach Chicago tot later than Nomember loth, Write the DroPs, Seeds and Weeda Branch, Ont. Dtpt. of Agricalture, Parliament Duitcltage, Toronto for tirtha information. emaimesteneellelsterelleillisi "eteeTeeeeee, e'.efeee.efleateteelaltere.'; Bean Harvest Has Many With the exception of a few daye early last week, the ;weather has Setbacks been ideil for the Fall work during the last while, and those reputed to Bean harveeting this season, has be weatherwtse predict a continua- I been one of the most discouraging tion of fine weather during tile 1 operatione that anyone could isa- e TbOre are hundreds of acres of beans still in the beds through- out the country and most of the lbeaam that have been harvested have been garnered in under very tricky weather. A few days of nee *weather have been followed by rens. In. the fine weather, beans have been pulled and 'bunched in the fields, and then came the rains and the beaus have had to be turnet. Men and women have repeatedly gone into the fields with pitchforks and turned over tile bunches 10 Prevent tha beans from rusting and tootling, living in hope that the dne weather would continue long enough to allow the crop to be har- vested. Quite a number have bean, •fortunate in striking it lucky aad or many others it has been most discouraging.. The price at beans has been quite attractive this being one reason why farmeers are anx- ious to harvest a good crop. month of November. We hope thev are right, and we also hope they ars right when they reelect an °Pea Winter. These first ten months or 1940 have •been quite enough to satisfy us with Canadian weather at its worst, for many years to come. . •• * * * What is new down on the farm? What do farmers talk about these days? Fact is farmers are too busy to do much talking these times. The crowds at auction sales and plowing matches are not oven up to the usual mark, Either the weather is not good enough to go out or is too fine, so that tarra. ers can go on with their work. The tweathenman has been rather kind to the governments, packers, and other manufacturers thls Sununor. He has been so coneistently "bad" that men ot the soil have had little time to Cuss any of their other "enemiest" imaginary or real. Wheu butter recently advanced to somewhere near the cost of pro- duction e. slight smile may have be- gun to appear on the face of the face Of the dairyman, and for a time we almost thought that the threat- ened government investigation would go unnoticed by farmers. The sun shone for a few days and we heard about the government's lot:- template:1 action, and only a day or two ago we were referred to a re- port from London, Ontario, where civic and other bodies were asking the government M. investigate the price ot butter. Farmers: ask only one question: Why are we not en- titled to cost of production at least? A little profit would be appreciated. of course. * * * Looking across the table. here we notice a tem paper, the corer of which tens us that the leading ar- tiele deals with the toad value 0 potatoes. Bight now we want to to express our synivathyto those to express our sympathy to those years complained of being unable to buy good cooping potatoes. For- tunately, in other years, our home- grown potatoes bave 'been good cooking' and we ate plenty Of them. This year like most farmers, w,i shall have to buy our supply, and those we have bought so far, while graded No, 1, ere many of them uneersIzed and taste more like we imegine leather would taste than 'the potatots VG have had in other Yam% Prom a financial standpoint we hated to see the potato eroP fail; but if what We have had to date is going to be a stmtple of the potatoes we must eat this zeason the finanoial end of it is going to be by no means the most serious. . There is something Mr framers te eltink alibut. These potatoes are distinctly marked No. 1. Sully .25 Per coat, of theist are under the required size far this grade. We wonder if our fellow-tarmere Would feel a bit different about the grad- ing regulatione it they halmened te be on the buyieg• end of malty lean. motions. involving &arm proditee. We realize that only a small Der- deletagee11 fill'elere are guilty of editing undergrade Or bad farm pro - tines, and it is Untortiinitte that - these tett sleittld Iteetesee the spread beiween prancer and Con - Sumer Prieeot, moo ••clientt 'Do rut guarantee thIS hair-restoter7 Hairdresser: )3otter than that, sir, We give e comb with every bottle. 04••414e-ite•••••••••••••••••••• MONUMENTS High-class Workmanship Designs that are different W. F. Kernr• AUCTIONEER (Licensed) dales conducted Anywhere to Ontario phone 38 Listowel i Wagon in the Lane See the hay -load billow high lefusky-seveet with min and rain? There's a man against the sky On a wagon in the lane, There's a woman in the door, With her blue dress blowing now—' He is bringing in the summer For the old bern's dueky MOW - And the pigeons preen and strut And the swallows dart and dive, And tbe bees store clover honey In the apple orchard hive. 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