Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1911 — ALL DEAD BUT THREE. [ARTICLE]

ALL DEAD BUT THREE.

Conrad Kellner Loses 89 Head of Hogs from Cholera—Loss Over SI,OOO. All but three of Conrad Kellner’s herd of Duroc Jersey hogs, many of them purebreds, including one male hog that he paid SBS for at the state fair, have succumbed to the ravages of cholera. The three that are left are a part of the thirty-five head vaccinated by the Purdue expert. Hid the latter got to them ten days or two weeks earlier, he said, 80 per cent of the herd could have been saved. Of those treated the expert stated that it was a waste of virus on practically all, as the disease was too far advanced, but the three saved had no fever when treated and be told Mr. Kellner these would live. All but the first 17 head that died were burned, the first ones being buried but afterwards uncovered and quicklime spread over the carcasses.

The expert advised Mr. Kellner to get more hogs and go right a'head growing them, but to have them all vaccinated at once on bringing them to the place, for the next two years. Mr. Kellner has picked up all cobs and other debris from the hog lot and bought large quantities of a disinfectant and sprinkled hundreds of gallons of same on the field where the affected hogs were kept and died. He then plowed the field and again sprinkled it with the disinfectant and then planted it to corn. He thinks he ought now to have it pretty well cleared of all germs of the disease, but will take no other hogs on the place without chances for some time of putting the precaution of having them vaccinated.

His los on the 89 hogs he estimates at more than SI,OOO. One of them was the SBS male hog above mentioned, and twelve were brood sows, some' of them weighing over 500 pounds each and easily worth an average of $35 to S4O per head, as they were all full bloods and bred to a pedigreed Duroc male hog. Thirty-seven others would weigh 175 pounds each. His is probably the largest individual loss from hog cholera ever occurring in Jasper county.

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