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The cover of the July, 1930, issue of "The Allied Veterinarian, honored the developers of the immunization for hog cholera. Pictured from left to right are: Dr. William B. Niles, Dr. Marion Dorset, and Dr. Charles N. McBryde. The serum for the immunization was developed at the U.S. Hog Cholera Research Station which had been established by Dr. Niles in 1901 in Sidney, Iowa, and moved to Ames in 1905. Located on the east side of the Skunk River south of Thirteenth Street, this research station was the precursor of the U.S. National Animal Disease Center. The journal had this explanation of its cover: "The world has never fully acknowledged its debt to Drs. Dorset, Niles, and McBryde, originators of hog-cholera immunization. It is doubtful whether hog raising could today be successful in any part of the world without the process these men originated. Quiet, unassuming, going about their daily tasks, satisfied to have done their work; we consider it an honor to be able to accord them this slight recognition."