Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-02-10
FARM and HOUSEHOLD.
ROC CHOLERA. AND PREVENTION.


In considering preyentives, the
feeding of the hogs stands first in
Importance, for just as he is fed
and cared for, so will his health
and condition be. AS before stated,
most of the hogs in this country
are fatted on corn exclusively, with
no cooling, laxative, or strengthen
ing food during the fatteniBg Pc
Rod, and his condition is to be
compared to a man who lived upon
vegetable diet for niue months ex-
clusively, and then ate salt pork
for the next three. The results as
far as health IS concerned are sim
liar. Mill feed will supply the
need ground oats and bran, bran
and middlings, or mlddlings alone,
fed 10 slop, IL connection with corn,
will in nine cases out of ten pre-
vent the appearance Of cholera in
a herd, and even when this all'im-
portant object is not considered,
this course of feeding Will pay a
large profit in the increase OF
pounds and quality of the pork
The extra expense of the mill feed
will be more than balanced by the
saving of corn and the Increased
grain. Besides this feeding a
variety of food as a preventive
there are others simple, cheap, and
easy of application. Among these
are ashes, salt, charcoal, coal, and
the medicines known as the proto-
plastics, such as carbolic acid, cop.
peras, sulphuric acid, etc. The
liberal feeding at all times in the
year of ashes, salt, and charcoal
will pay we'll in better appetite and
increased gains.
In the experience Of nearly all
farmers, cures Of hog cholera have
been unsatisfactory. Sometimes
the disease seemed TO succumb to
almost any treatment, and at
others to defy all remedies. Some
times it suddenly makes its ap-
pearance in a herd and after a week
as quickly leaves it. When 1T does
make It's appearance the farmer
falls back upon some of the various
cholera medicines sold as prOprie-
tary articles. The success which
he meets with depends upon the
state of the disease and the sur
rounding conditions. Most Of the
so-caIled medicines have the active
principles that are contained in the
salt, ashes, charcoal and copperas,
viz: a purgative, laxative, and a
disinfectant. When the disease is
found in herd, and there is no
installing it when once seen, the
sick should be at once separated
from the well-remOving them to
other quarters, also remove those
still well to higher ground if posi-
BILE, but change their sleeping place
any way. Change the feed at once.
If used to corn, give oats and water
alone. Never omit the oats, either
ground or unground. Those that
are sick should be kept warm. No
success can be made in doctoring
the cholera when the hogs are con-
stautly chilled. Those that will /
eat should be given a change, and |
give them carbolIc acid, about |
one teaspoOntul and half to the |
three hundred pounds live weight.
II they will not eat and bave to be /
drenched, the chances are slim
against their recovery. There are
various proprietary medicines for
the cure OF hog cholera upon the
and they should not be
until tested. Some
feeders have endorsed them as be-
ing highly effective, but the nature
of the disease (often dying out as
quickly as it comes) gives the rem
edy praise where there is none due
it. In my own experience l have
never found anything which excels
a change OF feed in connection with
oats and carbolic acid.-COrr. Of
Ohio Farmer