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Newspaper
Indiana County Agent
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1916
Page
1
An article discusses cholera as a major threat to hog raisers, noting spring outbreaks due to farm-to-farm contact and pigs’ susceptibility. It stresses sanitation, prevention, and the misconception that freezing kills cholera germs, warning that muddy conditions in rain spells aid spread.
Farmers urged to disinfect and sun-dry hog lots, sheds, and barns as a preventive against pig cholera. The Sun cited as a powerful germicide, with careful cleaning, vaccination, and avoiding exposure to infected farms emphasized to reduce spring outbreaks.
Alter Broyles of Delaware county stands alone as Indiana’s only member of the Hundred Bushel Club. The honor, contested by 408 farmers in 23 counties last year, requires 100 bushels per acre on a five acre plot and comes with a gold medal and profit. Purdue University experts run the contests. Hendricks county residents may contact Frank Hanna of Plainfield, Ind., for details.
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