The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-01-09

neighborhood; the matter should be
reported promptly to health officers
and this first outbreak should be
rigidly quarantined until it is deter
mined by competent veterinary in
spection whether the disease is either
or mixed infection of the two recog
nized contagious diseases of swine
and this quarant tine should remain il
force until efficient action is taken by
the health officers. If the epidemic
has assumed serious proportions and
is widely scattered in the neighbor'
hood the man who owns a large
herd of sound nogs should establish
a rigid private quarantine and say
to all his neighbors ''please do not &c
near my hog pens or yards" He
should have one man take care of his
hogs and this man should not be al
lowed to go where there is possibil-
ity of getting the infection. The
owner nor any member of his family
should go to the. barn where an cpl
demic swine disease has appe ared =:
neither should anyone from the farm
where such sickness has appeared,
be allowed to walk around the yards
of his neig until the matter is
cleared up. Dogs should be kept
away fro M the pens for the same rea-
son.
If hog cholera appears..during the
summer or fall when the weather is
pleasant, it is desirable to turn the
hogs out into1large yards or fields
rather than keep them closely confin-
ed in sta bles Ior barns, for in that
case the germs are SO abundant that
the hogs simply get a larger dose
of the infection. And it appears
from experiments carried on by the
Bureau of Animal:EIndustry, that
larger or smaller doses of infection
have much to do with determining
the fatality of the disease. If hogs
are allowed to run in fields or yards
each hog is exposed to the smallest
possible amount of Infection. With
herd so treated the disease may
reasonably be expected to spread
less rapidly and be somewhat less
fatal. If the herd is large and not
yet infected it may be very desirable
to divide it into three or four parts
ana separate them widely on different
portions of the farm. If the weather
is cold or wet herd where this dis
ease has appeared should be given
warm and dry as possible. If they
be turned out to shift for themselves
under conditions of such exposure
the loss is apt to be almost total;
whereas, under conditions of careful
nursing in warm, dry and we'll venti-
lated sheds reasonable percentage
may be saved. But a farmer must
not think that because he has kept
his herd under favorable conditions,
has given them plenty of good food
and kept them we'll housed he is not
liable to get the disease in his herd.
Practical experience demonstrates
that when hog cholera gets into
neighborhood the hogs which get the
incest care sometimes contract the
disease readily and die rapidly. Do
not spend money on medicines. For
treatment, except laxative food with
mild doses of linseed or castor oil, in
early stages, is useless and wasted in
either true hog cholera or swine
plague. Experience demonstrates
that it is desirable to separate the
sick from the we'll ones promptly and
to place them in temporary sheds
that may be burned when the out
break il over. It is also desirable to
keep pens where both sick and heal
thy hogs are confined thoroughly
and disinfected. For this
purpose unslacked lime is quite sat-
isfactory in all respects and easily
applied
The manure shonld be kept in
piles and disinfected layer
by layer with the lime, or by cor
rosive sublimate solution in water in
the proportion of 1:10O0, and lime,
should be scattered freely over the
floor of the pens. Good results have
been claimed for sodium hydro-sul-
phite given in dram to dram doses
twice day in sloppy food. Certainly
this remedy would do no harm, is
cheap and easily given, but the
writer has little confidence in it.
Hogs that have died of hog cholera
are sometimes thrown into streams
or buried in the sand near the edge !