The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 30, 1916, Page 7

ANDING ON a long table in the ry research laboratory at cultm'g! Col of North Dakota was a- test tube | R partly filled with a brownish, yellowish B I - substance that looked ‘like ~ pudding i sauce. - Thetubewasfra-gfleasanegg ¥ Y shell and transparent as a watch crystal, Pt _and ot much larger than a blg fountain s pen. But within its frail® walls was -~ imprisoned the germ of ome.of the most deadly 'diseases to man and horses’- glanders. In other test tubés were other substances somewhat different in appear- -ance,” and ‘vastly different in effect, it BGR Tlns is one of the great works be.\ng = " done for the farmers of North Dakota in this ' research . labomtory and Serum Institute. The institute only gets $3000 '8 year (and needs double that sum) but it is doing a great 'work onfint ‘Here pahently toiling behind their white -'aprons with a multitude: of glasses of slmpes ‘and sizes, ‘with’ microscope, and’ scales ‘so. delicate they will almost weigh ox}es hreath, 4two or three scien- tific men are new. things about <. ~~the dread scourges- ‘that rob the farmers g . of thousands of dollars every year: no matter how earefully thay mny guard ‘. -againstiit. . Great piles of fla.ska sbopped w:th cot- ton xnd contmmng _ on the tables ready to go i .. -incubator. Standmg in - large as a penitentiary e bnguhfinhxmngtm b Sl A filled with the: fimshed product, was hold ing ‘the latent l'ife ‘in ch ke untxl needed though all are freighted with death and nnndzonidtheygetatla:rge. They ‘were - the germs hog cholera a.nd of = tested bottles of serum, tuberculin and ‘mallein, ‘the anti-toxins respecti " for “hog cholera, tubereulpsis in: cattle and glanders in horses. ' Not a bottle leaves ‘until it is tested and not eme bottle would leaye until testegd, even though a line: of farmers @ were waiting with clenched fists in the hall' to get their apportionment, and. save their herds. Two ‘years ago this was almost the b . that they must figl.uve on nothing higher No time was to be lost. Dr. Van Es, head of the school of veterinary science, and of the Serum Institute, had no money to buy serum. He ‘appealed.te the board of vegents for $8000, explaining the dire necessity. < The board responded at once and authorized its warrants for “that sum. Word wab sent out that the North . Dakota Agricultugal college had : '$800D ‘to invest in hog cholera serum, and the return mail brought a basket full of Save the HOW the AAntldotes for the Serlous leestock Diseases Are Developed : e et the North Dakota Agrwultural Coflege ; “From tlus refngerator go the labeled and and the money paid for this was used to meet. the interest charges on the war- rants. Thus the $8000 advanced at the request of the Serum Institute was used three times and furned back te the board - with inferest paid. That was' the worst year ,"or hog cholera that has been knewn in the state. ‘One and a quarter million cubic centi- meters of the serum were used. Dskota Agricultural college used in various ‘expériments, and par /‘contains one or two animals’ being used ‘in the ‘same ‘experime! 50 that - , the agents were told than' bed rgck prices.. The lump sum i ‘was worth ‘making: some’ sactifices for - ““and the agents shaved down their prices " before submitting bids: Their: bids were ‘most encouraging.. 'THey were told: as ‘the:second stage in the proceedings, that the bids: were quite satisfactory, but one - . thing remained: they must ship the entire ¢ amount of ‘serum to:a cold storage ‘ware- : house in Pargo.and turn it ‘over to.the C. - for testing.:-¥ it’ came _gut wctonous in the terrific tests to be given . it; & draft would: go back'by return mail leaking fhrough the! floor t be: ated to June, 1915 1270 @ D! toxins - were made from t Institute, and 769 laboratory € Amina- tions ‘were made.s These | shipments’ included;‘however,. besxdes the hog cholera " ~serum, makllein” for glande:s and tuhet-' culizt: for- chickens." The ckxckgn tuber- - culin or “avain” tuberculin a8 it is scien- “tifically “termed, went’ to expenment { stations principally. Durmg the ne).t year, there was less than' one-thmi as-much hog choleza, so completely “ had’ ythe Serum Institute ‘through its own prodnct,,aml that pur-. : .o pay:for it but if it did not meet thé\ chased, stamped out the diseage. - But * requirements, the manufacturers would . ~have to: come ‘o Fargo ‘and get their. ‘serum: and pay freight on itiback home., Several bids. - were. at ‘oncs: >w1thdra\vn\ g vanous ant1~t0x1ns ®the Institute had' its hands fuil makmg :mallein and tuberculein, and.for tho-fiseal ‘iyear that closed Junme ‘30, 1916, ‘the Institute shipped: out 1123 1s>uea df the HOW HOG SERUM AN UFACTURED. ym- them: is: now undetgomg the Tk “that “is savéd, and he. cream that is thrown‘ 0gs Al cubic ¢ centimeter is a cube about one-third of ocess of being convetted into disease~ " . % % oy