Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-22
A WARNING TO HEED.

Prevent Hog Cholera and Save Big Money
TO Swine Raisers DIR, Porter Gives Time
Iy and Intelligent Warning.
EDITOR CENsoR:-I take my pen in
hand to write you sad letter this bean
tiful Sunday morning. I learned yes
terday that the hog cholera is abroad n
the land and is killing it's victims with
in a stones throw of your sanctum. I
appeal to the hog owners of the county,
to the health boards and everybody else
to rise up and stamp out this terribly
expensive disease. Now is the time to
do it; two weeks later will be too late
These hogs which died came from the
Viroqua stock yard. How the diseas.
there l do not know; but L am told that
hogs have died with cholera, this winter,
at or near Rising Sun. Mc. GAGS has
lost shoa5s worth twenty five dollars.
and il prompt, energetic measures are
not adopted this week or next, Vernon
county will lose twenty five thousand
dollars worth of hogs before snow fl es
next winter. 1t is nearly time for town
meeting Let every town appoint an
Intelligent man to work for the stamp
ing out of this disease. There is prac
tically no cure for it. Spend no money
for so-called cures for it will be money
thrown away. Prevention is the only
remedy
Let every hog owner remember that
this Is a germ disease; that the germs
are in the blood, dung, urine and bed
ding of the sick hog. Remember that
these germs or seeds of hog cholera
float in the air for distance. Remem-
Der that man coming from an infected
pen will carry on their boot heels these
germs and leave them in his tracks if he
walks miles, and the pig crossing bis
path may contract cholera in this way
Any man who has gone from the Viro-
qua stock yards for a week past to his
home, miles away, may have been the
distributing agent of hog cholera. The
stock yards manure hauled on the farms
around the city may he the agent Of
infection. The hungry dog and crow
that will feast on the hogs dead of the
cholera and left In some ravine to rot,
will in their excrement carry the disease
germs into many hog pens and PASTURES
L hope the authorities of our towns will
prosecute every man who leaves these
dead hogs above ground to decay. If
any agent can be depended on to check
cholera it is cold weather. Therefore
see to it that the bedding is not too
plentiful in infected pens. Such pens
should at once be cleaned out, the floors
taken up and the whole soil removed ia
and around the pens. Remove the we'll
hogs to pens at a distance, have a per
son feed them who does not go near the
sick hogs, burn or bury every dead hog
and never cart him into rsvine to rot,
because the germs may be washed down
for miles and in their passage to the
river infects other hogs. Old Confucius,
five hundred years ere Christ walked the
earth, said: do nothing unto another
that you wonld not have another do
to you" 1 trust that every owner of
sick hogs will follow this precept of the
old Chinese philosopher, and do his
level best to help save his neighbours
hogs.
1t will not be safe to put pigs in in
fected pens for four months after the
diseased hogs have occupied them
Neither will it be safe to buy pigs from
such pens during that time, for the
germs retain their vitality four months.
Don't boy any pigs for few weeks;
don't sell any; guard your hog pens;
shut the pigs into small pens away from
brooks, keep away from sick hogs and
infected pens for three months to come,
feed mixed diet and less corn. Shoot
rowing dogs and do ycur level best to
stop this scourge before it reaches You.
The man who sells hogs co stock buyers
from farm where sick hogs are is liable
to get in trouble, as great damage will
be done the buyers whose yards will be
infected for six months to come and
they may lose heavily on their ship
ments.
This is preventible disease. Pre-.
ventible diseases are stamped out by
knowledge. IL hog cholera gets foot
hold in any part of this county it can
be blotted out by turning the white
light OF science into that neigh5orhood
knowledge is power" and kno Wedge
is money in this instance.
This book on "Hog Cholera" Bureau
of Animal Industry, is the foundation of
this article, which il lived up to, will be
worth $4,000 to the hog owners of
Vernon county This year.
@. Y. PORTER.
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