The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-02-14
HOG CHOLERA.

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Bulletin No. %, OF the Mississippi
Experiment station, is valuable
treatise on hog raising in the South.
We quote the following remarks on
the most dreadful disease to which
swine are subject:
Hog cliolcra is reported as prevalent
In many portions Of the S6utfi: MIcli
Of the disease reported IS Probably not
true cholera, but It's daturc Is srclt az
to require much the same preventive
measures. In the FIRST place, we wish
to state that there is positively no
known cure for hog cholera. The
man who buys cholera cures III aid
negects the hegiene OF the hog lot, is
burning lard-carned money On the
altar of his ignorance. After the dis
ease once appears, medicine az best
can odly be of palliative value.
1t is safer, cheaper and better to
take such care of the hogs as to rem:
der the introduction of cholera Inn
probable. See to it that not tf,Jrs
than twenty-five hogs are allowed to
run in bunch. Avoid dusty sleeping
quarters and by all means keep them
free from the characteristic southern
hog pool. 1t is no wonder that mud-
hole that has been polluted with ami.
NAL excretions for years should serve
as an excellent medium for the devcl-
oplnent of disease-producing germs.
These wallows, which many people
doem so essential tG.the existence of
the hog in hot weather, are his worst
enemies. In warm weather reasOua-
bly, clear water for the hog to go into
is good IA bath is good for any anmaD
but If lie has good shade, and plenty
OF pure water to drink, lie can very
well dispense with water to lie in.
BE sure that the hogs have a variety
of food, and sufficient of Of " % keep
them in good condition. Hogs that
depend on d scant supply Of corn
alone, or are compelled to get their
whole living from poor pasture, are
in no condition to resist the intrOduc!
ton of disease. Give the hogs green
food, but along with it corn or other
grain.
Keep in the pig lots, but under shef;
ter, some such mixture as the follow:
ing: Charcoal, one bushel slakcd
lime, two quarts: hardwood ashes,
one peck; salt, one quart. Break the
into small pieces with a
shovel and mix thoroughly. The hogs
ike it, and it helps to keep their dr.
gcstiyc organs in good condition.
At least once week wash and dis
infect all feed troughs. and sprinkle
lll low or filthy places in the lot with
plenty of lime or solution OF carbolic
tcid-one part of the crude acid to
twenty of water DO not permit the
ningling of other hogs with y6trs
until they have been Quarantined at
least thirty days. II cholera is 10 the
neighborhood, do not permit any per.
son to visit your lot who is not known p
to be from an uninfected place.
Keep the bowels open with feed or
suitable medicine. If the medicine Is
lsed, Glauber salt is perhaps the best.
II is also good practice when there
s danger OF infection to give, in SlOps,
zen drops of carbolic acid and twenty
grains of copperas once or twice day
20 each $50 pounds of hog.
In case cholera breaks out in the
nerd, remove the well ones, not the
'ick, to another lot, preferably to
higher ground. II Others become sick,
lgain move the well ones TO new quar-
,ers. A temporary fence can be built
It little cost, and may be the means
If saving several hogs.
Burn all the dead animals, and thor.
,ughly disinfect the place, as advised
lboye. Treatment of the diseased
hogs with any or all Of the so-called
sure cures" is useless and dangerous.
The longer they live the greater the
langer to the rest OF the herd,
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