Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-06-07
dog cholera. and Prevention.
Ohio Farmer.

Hog Cholera and Prevention.
Ohio Farmer
In considering preveutiyes, the feeding
OF the hog stands first in importance, tor
just as he is fed and cared tor, 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 strengthening food
during the fattening period, and his con
ditlon Is to be compared TO a man who
lived upon vegetable diet for nine
months exclusively, aud then ate salt
pork for the next three. The results as
tar as health is concerned are similar
Mill feed will supply the need. Ground
oats and bran, bran and middlings or
middlings alone, fed in slop, in conuec-
ton with corn, will in nine cases out of
ten prevent the appearance of cholera in
herd, and even wheu this all i'm portant
object Is not considered, this course of
feeding will pay large profit in the in
crease of pounds and quality of the pork.
The extra expense of mill feed will be
more than balanced by the saving of corn
and the increased gain. Besides this
feeding variety of foods rs preventive
there Are others simple, cheap, and easy
of application. Among these are ashes,
salt, charcoal, coal, and the medicines
known as protoplastics, such as carbolic
acid, copperas, sulphuric acid, etc The
action of ashes, salt, ana charcoal upon
the digestive organs is very beneficial in
somuch as the ashes act as purifier, the
salt as q laxative, and the charcoal as an
absorbent, taking up the impurities and
passing them out through the eXcrement.
The amount of charcoal which hogs will
consume when fattening is wonderful.
have known one hog TO eat over three
fourths of peck day, aud its appetite
for its fattening food seemed to increase
with the amount of charcoal il ate. When
using the disinfectants, copperas ant
carbolic acid stand first in efficiency ano
cheepness. When using the copperas
care should be taken not TO feed 1t toe
strong, as it will salivate and prove fatal
to young pigs. Carbolic acld sh suld be
given III slop and in proportion To one
half teas poonful TO three hundred pounds
live weight. The frequency that a pre-
ventiye, like the two named above, should
be fed, must of course, depend upon the
condition of the hegs and the distance
from cholera. The liberal feeding at all
times of the year of ashes, salt and char
coal will pay well in better appetite and
increased gains.
In the experience of nearly all farmers
cures have been satisfactory. Sometimes
the disease seemed to succumb to almost
any treatment, and az Others TO defy all
remedies. Sometimes it suddenly makes
its appearance in herd and after week
rs quickly leaves it. When it does make
its appearance the farmer falls back upon
some of the various cholera medicines
sold AS proprietary articles. The success
which ne meets with depends upon the
state of the disease and the surrounding
conditions. Most of the so called medi
cines have the active principles that are
contained in the salt, ashes, charcoal and
copperas, viz: purgative, laxative, and
disinfectant. When the disease is found
in herd, and there is no mistaking II
when once seen, the sick should bs at
once separated from the removing
them TO other quarters, also remove those
still well to higher ground If possible, but
change their sleeping place anyway.
Change the feed at once. If used TO corn
give oats and water alone, Never omit
Those that are sick should be kept warm.
No success can be made in doctoring the
cholera when tho hogs are constantly
chilled. Those that will eat should be
gwen a change, and give them carbolic
acid, about one teaspoonful and halt 20
the three hundred pounds live weight. If
they will not eat, and have TO he drenched,
the chances are slim against their recov
cry. There are various proprietary
medicines for the cure of hog cholera
npon the market, and they should not be
condemned INFESTED. Some feeders have
endorsed them rs being highly effective,
but the nature of the disease (ofteu dying
out rs quickly as it comes) gives the
remedy praise whore there is none due it.
In my own experience have never found
anything which excels a change of feed
in connection with oats and carbolio
acid.