The removal of Dr. Joseph G. Sallade, district veterinarian in animal husbandry, from Kinston, is a source of regret to all who have had occasion to observe the good work that he has done.
In the several years that Dr. Sallade has worked in this district, he has practically eradicated the scourge of hog cholera, which was taking an annual toll of thousands of swine, and which was so menacing that hog raising was a hazardous undertaking. The Government stationed him here and his work has been very satisfactory. No longer is cholera to be dreaded by the farmers of this section. The preventive measures which have been used and taught under the direction of Dr. Sallade have made the swine herds immune from successful attacks in the future.
Dr. Sallade goes to another field in the State, and the best wishes of his friends, The Free Press included, go with him.
From the editorial page of The Kinston Free Press, H. Galt Braxton, editor and manager, July 12, 1922
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Sallade to Locate at Asheville for Work Among Cattle
Dr. Joseph G. Sallade, since the spring of 1919 in charge of Federal and State animal industry activites in the local district, will take up work at Asheville shortly after the middle of this month, it was announced today. Dr. Sallade will head an organization in eight or ten mountain counties which will have for its object the elimination of tubercular cattle from the dairy herds in that section. Dairying has become an important industry in Western Carolina in recent years, and there are large herds in several of the counties.
Dr. Sallade and assistants have nearly eradicated hog cholera in this section. The disease was formerly prevalent, and in some localities frequently epidemic. Thousands of hogs were lost to this malady annually, and the monetary loss ran into hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. By a systematic campaign, hundreds of droves were ridded of cholera and an impetus given the pork-raising industry that has made it an important adjunct to farming in Lenoir, Greene, Jones and a number of other counties.
Dr. Sallade also encouraged the importation of blooded stock, and there are thousands of registered animals in the district now. A few years ago there was hardly a one. Sallade also has kept close tab on the tick-free territory, and the cattle business has grown in this vicinity with the eradication of Texas fever, caused by the formerly prevalent cattle tick. Many herds of dairy cattle have been freed from the disease, also.
Dr. Sallade has made many friends in this territory. He was reared in Eastern Pennsylvania and graduated from a Canadian veterinary institution. He is regarded as one of the most efficient of the corps of hard-working experts who have boosted livestock breeding in North Carolina until the State’s animals bid fair to soon be among its greatest assets.
From The Kinston Free Press, July 12, 1922
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