The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-09-29
To Prevent Hog Cholera

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will not say that no hog, under
the conditions ] shall name, will
ever have the cholera, but / do as
sert that the cases Of cholera and
all other diseases as we'll will be re-
duced to the lowest possible mini
um by such conditions.
My position is this: The hog, to
be healthful and sound, must be sur
rounded by healthful condition.
This applies to all domestic ami.
mails, and it is the violation of this
rulo that entails disease upon stock
and loss to tho owners.
Hogs that are permitted to range
at will over the commons, gather
ing n large part of their food indis-
criminatly, feed on wild fruits and
roots, snakes, mushrooms and dead
animals, perhaps a dead horse or
cow, itself dieased, and minglipg
with the hogs of the entire neigh
borhooh, all perhaps following the
same life, and perhaps more or less
tainted with disease, and receiving
but little attension of any sort from
their owners and none as to their
sanitary condition, are certainly
more apt to imbibe the germ Of dis
ease than hogs that are reared un-
der better conditions and excluded
from such unfavorable surround
ings. True, the hog needs exercise
and variety of food, but its range
should be restricted to its own past
ures, and each herd should be is-
olated from all others, and only
such food should be allowed it as is
known to he conducive to health
and the formation of solid muscle
and flesh and good fat. Not in con-
! finement in small yards, where the
animals has not room to exercise
its limbs, and not upon an exclusive
diet of slops, and swill, can hog
be reared into n healthy specimen
of good pork, or resist the, attacts
disease, should disease germs be
conveyed to it by winds, by dogs
poultry, cats or rats, by water, or
by contact with other hogs that are
diseased.
To prevent disease is better and
cheaper than to have to cure it
after it once assumes virulent
form. The way to prevent
hog cholera is to haye every farmer
keep his own herd isolated from
all others, and supply them with
variety of food such as is conducive
to sound health. Inclose land con-
tanning some open pasture, some
meadow, and some upland or wood
ed hillside, and adjacent to the fields
of the farm, or to orchards of apple
peach, plum and other fruits; also,
if possible, to groves of white oak,
chestnut,or other nut-bearing trees.
A living stream of water is desid-
eratum. Sow rye, clover and field
peas, and grow such trucks rs tur-
nips, squashes, cucumbers, melons,
cabbage, &C., for the hogs,and have
a large iron boiler, set upon brick
work, to cook the later for them.
AS often as seems to be necessary
put into their cooked mess Il dose
of condition powders, of which
there are several brands in
the market, or else coperas or qui-
nine, or powdered red oak or dog
wood bark. Look daily to their
sanitary condition, and suffer them
to eat no unhealthful foods. Keep
off lice by smearing them often
with any sort of grease. Hogs that
eat greasy, cooked food are never
infested with vermin. Change them
about frequently from woodland to
meadow. from meadow to orchard,
and from orchard to clover or grass.
Give daily very small quantity of
sound corn-just enough to form
bono and harden the flesh.
With these precautions and such
common sense conditions rs will
suggest themselves to every farm
er, and for which no must always
be on the watch, disease among
hogs would be rare indeed.
! Good sanitary regulations, va
riety of the natural food of the hog,
and isolation from other herds, and
from sick animals of your own
herd, will insure exemption from
disease, If anything will. When
cholera breaks out it is better to
kill all diseased animals, burn their
bodies, and change the range to
new ground.
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