The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-25

case when the disease is hog cholera.
This medicine may also be used as a
preventive of these diseases and for
this purpose should be put in the feed
| of the whole herd. Care should OF
course be observed to see that each ami
NAL receives its proper share.
Success or failure with this remedy
depends largely upon the manner IN
which it is used. II it is improperly
administered, or the hogs left out in
, cold storms and compelled to remain
day and night in mud six inches or a
foot deep, under the necessity Of search
ing through this mud to ind an ear OF
corn in order to get something to eat,
the farmer might as we'll save his
money and let his hogs die, as nothing
will have much fleet under such con
ditions. If, on the other hand, the
sick animals a. be made reasonably
comfortable, and given soft, easily
digested food to eat, the medicine Of
which we have just given the formula
may be used with confidence that it
will give as good results as any avail
able medicine.
In treatiDg hogs for these diseases, it
must not be forgotten that in nearly
all cases there is more or less infam
nation of the internal organs, and par
ticularly Of the stomach and inteetines.
To treat such diseases successfully, the
animals should be kept dry and com
Portable, and where drafts Of air will
not blow upon them. The food must
be such as can be digested by the irri
tated and infamed organs which ere
charged with this fu1ctica.
The question now arises, What dis
position should be made Of the hogs
during treatment, and what sanitary
measures should be adopted in add
ton to the medical treatments When
the hogs are first found to be effected
with hog CHOLERA or swine plague, the
lot or pens where they have been con
fued snoGId be disintecsed by busting
plentnully with dry, air Stacked lime,
or By spriDkling with a five per cent
soluti2n Of crude carbolic acid. The
animals should then all be moved to
new quarters. IL possible, the sick
and apparently we'll should be sepa-
rated before they are moved and then
puSinto different lots. This is not essen
tisI, but it is an aid to the treatment.
The hogs should be kept in dry lots, or
pens where there is no mud and, above
all, no stagnant water. 1t is well to
keep these lots disinfected by the free
use of air Stacked lime or carboltc acid.
Il is not expected by this supple
mentsry treatment that the hogs will
be entirely removed from the Influence
and attacks Of germs. That is not
necessary. The number of germs
which gain access to their bodies may
be so reduced by following their plan, ]
however, that the vital force Of the
system, assisted by the medicine, is
to overcome them
During this treatment the hogs gain
a marked degree Of immunity. No
this is the result OF attacks of
the disease from which they recover.
This recovery is in spite of the con
tinued Infection of the premises, and
even though the hogs which haze gone
through the outbreak are apparently |
well and thriving new hogs added TO
the herd are liable to be attacked. For
reason, five or six months Should
be allowed to pass before any new hogs
are purchased and brought on the
premises or before any are sold to ne
put among other lots OF hogs. Young
pigs born under such conditions IN
some cases are able to resist the infec
ton, while in other cases they may
severely or die.
II any hogs die during the progress
of the outbreak their carcaeses should |
be Immediately burned or deeply
buried, and the places where they have
lain on the ground and over which |
they are dragged should be disinfected
with carbolic zcid or lime, according
to the method already mentioned.