The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-08-04
Ghe Sarmer.
Hog Cholera.

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feeding pigs, or even old hogs, all the corn
they will eat, says writer in The Dairy
man. Old hogs will stand it longer, but
in the end they will break down. The
dent corn is lighter food than the flint,
and can be fed longer, but ground or I'M
ground, an exclusive and excessive feed of
clear corn will in time ruin any hog; but
some will endure it longer than others. L
found this out years ago.
A gentleman of our acquaintance fed
a pen of ten pigs this year. He had lot
of old flint corn ground, and when the hogs
were about eight months old, having kept
them up to this time on milk, he began
to give them all the corn meal they would
eat. They eat it freely. They grew very
fast and the owner was thinking that by
New Years he would beat the town with
his pigs, when all at once they refused to
eat, and would not leave the nest.
1t was found that they were foundered,
and the result was that they had to be turn
ed out of the pen, and it took weeks for
any to get over it, and some never did.
Let it be remembered that this will always
be the case with any pen of hogs fed long
enough and kept confined When hogs
have the run of field, it is rarely the case
that they get SO feverish as to be founder
ed all over, but they will often get quite
stiff. The corn should be mixed with bran
or oats, and only half of the bulk Of the
food should be of corn, or carbonaceous
sort. When hogs are fed all the corn
meal they will eat, one third of it is vast
ed by being undigested.
ITS PREVENTION.
The Nebraska Farmer says the follow
ing rules can be applied by every farmer;
1. If there is an outbreak of cholera, re-
move all absolutely well hogs, as far as the
eye can see, to new pen, on new land
where there has never been any disease,
and leave the sick or snspiciously ailing
ones in the old pen.
2. Watch carefully at every feeding
time the hogs removed and at once take
out every animal that does not go "for his
food like hog" or which betrays the
slightest weakness in the movement.
4. Have person take care of these hogs
who does not go near to or have anything
to do with the sick ones.
5. Do not allow the farm dog to run
about free when the hogs are sick.
6. Place the new pen at such distance
from the home buildings and old grounds
where the sick hogs are, that hens cannot
pass from one to the other.
Z. Never put new hogs into places where
hogs have been sick, or have died, if you
can in any way provide new quarters, and
on no account put them in such places
under two years from the time the hogs
died, and then only when the bottom boards
of such pens have been removed and burned
and the earth under them dug out for eigh
teen inches as we'll as that of the grounds
and spread loosely over the earth outside
of the pen, the place being filled up by
new and fresh earth from another part o.
the farm.
Remember this: The pen and each Of
the yards, all hay or straw stacks, and sucf
refuse are places which preserve the caus'
of hog cholera, and that the removal o
every hog that has belonged to herd tina
has been affected is by no means proven
ton or protection from another outbreal
on the same grounds.
8. Never place hog pens or runs nea
running water that comes to you from OF
outside your own land Water your hog
from the well.
9. Never bury your dead hogs along thu
banks of running stream because it is
easier to shovel the dirt down upon then
from the bank than to dig holes and bury
them.
10. Burn them when possible.
IL. Don't sell sick or exposed hogs tt
anyone. That is civil crime, if mo-
against the animal disease laws of the state
II. Be watchful, careful, and dilligen
and you can control hog cholera.