Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1879-08-28
X sEplNG SWINE IN GOOD HEALTH

Diseases of Swine, like diseases
common to other domestic animals
become more prevalent as We increase
their numbers and production. The
causes of disease, although various
are in the majority of cases, the re-
suit Of inattention and neglect. Dur
ing the primitive years Of our u
try's improvement, little was known
of "hog cholera" This was because
of the limited number Of hogs, and
the varied and extensive range Of
pasture, exercise and diet which they
enjoyed. ! AS the country became
more thickly settled and better Guilt
vated, the range allotted TO hogs was
necessarily compressed, and their
food restricted to a sameness of diet,
viz: corn. Improvement in the breed
Of hogs does not induce more sensi-
tive and delicate constitutions. On
the contrary, it has been proven that
those hogs that are finely bred and
well kept, are more exempt from the
ravages of disease.
By being "well kept" is meant
that they have a variety Of clean
food, pure water, and all the exercise
they will relish. We may feed hogs
all they will eat Of one kind of food,
and yet fail to secur good results,
simply because the hog, like its owner,
is %omniverous, and to have sound
health and good digestion requires
variety in food, and regularity in
meals. A serious cause of hog cholera
is the result OF stock men allowing
hogs to follow CATTLE" This practice
must be severely condemned, if we
expect to raise healthy hogs and eat
palatable pork; for, subsisting on the
undigested corn in the excrements of
the cattle, they not only inhale but
eat the fecal impurities which pass
from the bodies of the cattle. Swine
should not be restricted from enjoying
and exercising their fond proclivity
for roofing. To ring hogs noses may
keep our PASTURES smooth, but will
no doubt be disastrous to the general
welfare Of u porkers. The soil is
full of insects and worms, particular
ly earth worms, and cut-worms, which
the hogs will p~ersistently hunt and
deyour if allowed to root, thereby
beneftting the farm, whilst obts;ring
food moot necessary to their Welfare.
Another cause of fatality among
swine, is the neglect to protect them
from the burning rays of the sum
mer's gun. They are frequently
turned into an enclosure so hard and
dry that they cannot root to get fresh
earth to lie in, with neither tree nor
shed for shelter, nor fresh water to
cool them. 1t is just as essential 10
protect stock from the heat Of sum-
mer as from the cold of winter, and
in fact the effects of the heat proves
far more injurious and fatal. To
remedy this. let the swine have moist
earth to root if possible. Free access
to shelter, pure water to drink, and
it is charitable to allow them a pool
to wallow in, so they ma have pro-
lection from flies.
Lice and kidneyworm are maladies
of less serious consequence, and in
the Southern States only is any trou-
BILE encountered from lice. A cheap
and easy remedy is to iced sulphur
oace a week and keep the hogs in
cleared land allowing them to wal
low in mud. For kidneyworm, feed
sulphur and salt in regular and mod
crate quantities. Salt, alone, is gen.
orally a sure remedy, and is relish'
by NO stock more than by hogs. A
remedy for cholera has been found
in a severe fly blister applied to the
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