The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-09-30
CARE OF HOGS.
In Case Hog Cholera appears In
Our Midst.

at St. Anthony Park, met the super
visors Of the different townships of
this county and few from Renville
county, at the court house last Satur-
day afternoon, for the purpose of in
structing them in the best ways to
treat hog cholera and swine plague in
their different localities. III. M.
Brackin, who was the first to speak,
told what the laboratory, which the
State Board had, was for. He had
with him several instruments used by
the board, which they sent out to per-
sons who thought their hogs had
cholera, by which germs or blood we're
taken from the animals and sent to the
labratory, and the disease diagnosed
Mr.. Brackin stated that the Board
succeeded in having the legislature
pass some very good laws at it's last
session, and also succeeded in getting
a small appropriation, though it was
not sufficient.
Prof. Reynolds, at the conclusion of
Mr.. Brackin's talk, spoke for short
time on hog cholera and swine plague.
Hogs, he said, might be sick with
either or combination of both. Chol-
era is disease of the bowels, while
swine plague is disease of the lungs.
The latter disease is just as serious as
the former except that the germs are
easier killed, in fact the wind kills
them. The germs of swine plague
come from swill pals or barrels which
have been allowed to stand without
cleaning a long time. =,
Hog cholera, he said, was caused by
a little plant, so small that large num-
bers of them live in one drop of blood.
The seeds of this plant are carried on
the feet of man or animals, or in most
anyway, and thus the disease is
spread. The disease, he said, would
never appear as long as their seeds
were kept off the farm. The only way
to prevent the spreading of the dis
ease was to keep men, dogs, and hog
racks away from the pen. The thing
to do in case sickness appears is to re-
port it to the town supervisors and if
they do not do anything see to it
yourself. u
Mr.. Reynolds advised the farmers
to kill the hogs as soon as they find
out they are sick. The law prescribes
that if a man wishes to bury the car
cases they must be buried three feet
deep. A better way, he said, was to
burn the carcasses as that is the most
efficient means of destroying the germs
of the diseases. The manure should
be placed in compact piles and disin.
fected layer by layer with lime or cor.
rosive sublimate dissolved in water in
proportion of rs grains to the pint
As soon as the disease appears all the
we'll hogs should be moved from the
sick ones. They should be put in pens
with plank floors, and the floors should
be covered with lime.
Mr.. Reynolds spoke on the mistakes
of farmers in dealing with cholera Of
swine plague. He said it was a mis-
take for farmer to ship in breeders
It does not make any difference where
they come from, the car in which they
are shipped may have carried load
infected with cholera and the germ
would be carried to the hogs. If {
farmer should buy some hogs they
should be put in separate pen anc
kept there two or three weeks. This
gives the disease time to develop. Mr.
Reynolds, advice to farmers was tc
breed and ship out, not in, during the
cholera or swine plague season. The
worst months, he said in answer to {
question, were September, October
and November. Another mistake, he
said, was for one farmer to go to g
neighbours pen where cholera is prev
alent, and then go home. Hog buyers
should not be allowed to go into the
pens of different farmers. He advised
the farmers not to let their hogs anc
cattle run together, as the cattle are ;
means of scattering the germs. Straw
stacks sometimes become the wors
means of infection. Hogs that have
been killed should not be buried neal
stream. In disinfecting a pen j
should be cleaned, white-washed ane
the ground plowed. A farmer, who
has lost all of his hogs by cholera
should not buy any for six months.
|