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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1924
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i68 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April II, The University agrees to furnish serum, virus, and professional veterinary service for the treatment of pigs selected, as hereinafter described, and reimburse the Estate for all losses of hogs tested with virus, in excess of two percent (2%) of the total number of such hogs. The Estate agrees to furnish from grade pigs on its farms approximately eighty (80) litters of pigs, and to permit the University to carry on the tests above described on its farms near Seymour, Illinois, and the Estate further agrees to be responsible for all losses of hogs occurring before hogs are treated with virus for thefinaltest, and for all losses, not exceeding two percent ( 2 % ) , of hogs treated, occurring after treatment with virus for thefinaltest, and for any and all losses of hogs which have not been treated with virus for thefinaltest. The parties to this agreement mutually agree that the persons responsible for the carrying out of its terms shall be the properly designated representatives of the respective parties. It is mutually agreed that the experiments provided for by this agreement shall continue until all pigs selected, as hereinbefore stated, are marketed, and that they m a y be terminated at any time previous to that date, when, in the judgment of the University, it is impracticable to carry them further. I N W I T N E S S W H E R E O F , the parties to this agreement have caused it to be signed by their duly appointed representatives, and their respective seals to be affixed, this day of Approved T H E B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F ILLINOIS H. P. RUSK Head of the Department of Animal Husbandry Approved as to legal form By By Comptroller Secretary O. A. HARKER Legal Counsel Approved THE B. F. HARRIS ESTATE By Executor J. M. DOWELL Manager Dean Mumford makes the following statement in regard to this proposed investigation: "This investigation seems worth while because of the diversity of opinion regarding the length of immunity secured when pigs are vaccinated at from two to eight weeks of age. M a n y of the farm advisers, as well as some veterinarians and investigators, are recommending the administration of serum and virus to young pigs as a means of reducing the cost of immunization; smaller quantities of both seruni and virus being necessary for small pigs than for older and larger pigs. Some veterinarians and other observers believe that immunity so secured does not last until the pigs have reached the ordinary market age and weight. This project is planned to determine, if possible, whether or not vaccination at various ages, ranging from two to eight weeks, will establish an immunity which will last until the hogs reach market weight." In regard to the probable expense Dean Mumford says: "This experiment will cost in the neighborhood offivehundred dollars if we lose no hogs. It is quite possible that we m a y lose an entire carload of hogs, which, on the basis of prevailing prices, would be an additional liability of $1500. O f course, it is not at all likely that we shall (20) The report of the Comptroller for the quarter ending March 31, 1923. lose an entire carload. If, after injecting for thefinaltest, we find a large percentage of ourfirstcarload showing clinical symptoms of cholera, we shall assume that we have established the fac t that treatment before weaning does not protect a hog until market weight is reached, and discontinue the experiment." O n m o t i o n of M r s . Grigsby, this a g r e e m e n t w a s authorized. REPORT ON PUBLICITY (19) A report on the work in securing publicity. COMPTROLLER'Sw aREPORT T h i s report s received for record.
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