People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17
DISEASES of the HOG
WHAT A BREEDER OF TEN
YEARS PRACTICAL
EXPERIENCE
SAYS.
How to tell Cholera ct a Glance.
now IT DAN BE STOPPED IN THIRTY MIN
UTEs AND AFTERWARDS PREVENTED
SWINE PLAGUE AND ITS sYMP-
TOMS AND HOW TO TREAT 1T.

an article on swine diseases, / take
pleasure in complying with your re-
quest, hoping 1 may In some slight way
hSlp the hog raiser who suffers occasion
ally from the loss of valuable swine.
For ten years have been engaged as
o practical swine breeder and have
closely studied the hog and his diseases,
until now feel havs learned to handle
this wonderful domestic animal sue
sessfully and with profit.
Our recent national census by the
government shows the losses to the
farmers of the country from hog dis
eases to be over twenty million dollars
annually. This is alarming and it is
only short time distant at this rate
until hog raising must be given up as a
bad Job unless the breeder can over
come the diseases.
WHAT IS HOG CHOLERA?
Hog cholera kills more hogs annually
than all other diseases combined. In
my study of the animal have paid
close attention to the cholera and find
that there are two distinct diseases
often mistaken for each other but Of a
totally different nature, requiring differ
emit treatment and succumbing only to
vigorous work on the part of the breeder.
Hog cholera proper is a bac eria, a
germ of a minute form that exists and
will continue to exist so long as nature
supplies it subsistence. 1t turks in
water, damp, sour and filthy places.
The germ begins its work with some
hog, whose sytem is passing through a
change that makes it susceptible. II
terminates inwardly only, creating a
poisonous virus which is passed off with
the dung and is taken up by others
until the whole herd becomes impreg-
mated. The fatter the hog is, the more
rapidly the disease progresses and the
quicker the animal dies. This is because
Of the fact that in the poor hog, the
circulation is not so great as in the fat
one and he sometimes cap throw off the
disease. Cholera follows wet spell
more often than dry one.
CHOLERA SYMPTOM BLANK.
70 tell hog cholera is an easy matter
If one will carefully note on slip OF
paper the symptoms and compare with
the blanks printed below. Put yes OF
NO after each point and then compare
with the blank and if they agree, your
hog has cholera. If not, compare with
the swine plague blank and you can tel
ct glance which disease it is.
Perhaps, and there are many cases
recently, the animal has that most
dangerous combination - cholera and
swine plague. In some swine these
diseases combine battling the best judges
who fail to note that the hog has symp-
toms of both. Make your notes in this
blank and send me if you are IN DOUBT,
enclosing stamp, and will answer
you promptly, giving you my best
opinion. Add any other information
you think of that would throw light on
the case. say enclose a stamp since
you can hardly expect me to answer
several hundred letters as I have to dc
every week and pay the postage besides
which would soon amount to hundreds
Of dollars.
CHOLERA SYMPTOMS.
Hogs, usually fatS Ans.......
Feet and legs coldI ........
Ears colds ........
Tail ooldP ........
Skin, chilly and cold2 .-......
Voniting2 ........
Discharge of bowels dark and
watery, sometimes of light color.
Cramping Of bowels2 ........
Hog appears chilly and cold? ........
Dropping and stupidP ........
Appetite usually good? ...,....
II any animal has died, did it
turn dark or black after death? ........
Thirst for water2 .........
This is always the case in cholera.
Do the fat ones die quickest? ......
WHAT Is SWINE PLAGUE?
Swine plague is parasite. 1t feeds
upon the system inwardly and fastens
itself on mouth, throat, head, lungs, in
testines and kidneys.
The mouth and throat become ulcer.
ated, and oatarrh sets in accompanied
BY sneezing, the intestines
become affected and diarrhoea sets in
sometimes blood being passed from the
kidneys, with the urine red and cloudy
The hog gets down and cannot get up,
The throat and feet swell and ulcers
break out on the body, head. ears and
feet. Always an offensive smell comes
from the poor creature. In some cases
all these symptoms show, in others only
a part can be seen. The disease goes
through the herd steadily and surely
and is stubborn since the parasite fastens
itself thoroughly on each animal affected
and breeds new parasites rapidly.
The eyes matter and run clogging
srou"d the lids appearing like sore eyes
In children.
The treatment naust be the reverse OF
cholera since cholera Goes not feed upon
the system. The hog affected by swine
plague must have all the strong food he
will.take, to aid nature in throwing of
Ne parasite. The more nourishment tbs
hog takes the quicker he can rally and
recover.
SWINE PLAGUE SYMPTOM
Nag leaas assh5 Ans........
Legs and feet, warm or hot? ........
Tat And ears, il" ........
gE@e1ngf ........
ThwEnping Of sidesS ........
WSane radf ........
Discharge Of bowels as diaxxhoeas.
Dwelling ef throat ........
" feete ......
liberation Of body7 ........
throat and MOUTH. .......
@aHAn dry and huskyS .......
&&4A cracking open VITA ulOersf.
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