New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-08

them, and the yards also, aud that
would prove to be cheap and small in
vestment in comparison with the dam
age they were likely to do if distributed
about the county. His advice was not
Regarded and Watonwan county lost the
next year 10, ,0O0hogs from that Infection.
/ Hog cholera is said by some persons to
be typhoid fever and others attribute
the disease to worms, but it is entirely a
germ. The germ is so small that mis-
croscope that enlarges 1000 times will
only make it look about one half the
size of a grass seed, while it would make
man appear to be one mile high and 64
rods broad. One square inch of injected
meat contains by estimate 100000 of
these germs, and they are capable Of
doubling their numbers every five min
utes, giving some idea of their immense
numbers and powers of production.
| Hogs must swallow the germs to be in
fected. The disease cannot be transferred
to the hog in any other manner. The
germs however, may lie carried on ou!
boots or clothing, on the hoofs of cattle
or horses, or on the wheels of wagons
that may 90 through the yards where
hogs are sick, and though the germs
will die in a few minutes of bright sun
light, they will live thlee months IN wa
ter and Tor longer time in the nests of
straw and cracks of the floors of the
houses. Hot whitewash of lime, with
carbolic acid, will instantly destroy the
germ and infected places should be dis
infected by sprinkling lime in the small
yards and plowing up the larger yards.
If the bowels of the hogs are not consti-
pated, Or if they are in vigorous healthy
condition they may escape the disease
or become immune, but though sows
may be immune their pigs are not likely
to be SO as young hogs are more liable
to the disease than mature hogs.
After infection takes place the germs
multiply on or in the small intestlnes
where they JOIN the larger ones, and
though emphatically bowel disease, as
it progresses the lungs become infected,
though the hogs may be die before they
cough, but when the lungs are infected,
they always die.
The disease cannot be carried by the
air. DR.. Salmon confined healthy and
sick hogs near each other, within wire
fences, with only few feet to separate
them, and the we'll ones did not become
diseased till placed in the pens where
the sick ones were. Dairy districts are
more liable to the disease than others,
from the fact of the more common in
tercourse of the farmers in the prosecu-
ton of their business. Mr.. Louis gave
an instance in Rock county, where a
farmer had visited his brother III Iowa at
distance of 80 miles, going and coming
On the train. The brother had sick hogs
and lost 200, and he was frequently in
the yard with them, but when he came
home he did not take the precaution to
disinfect his clothing but went immedi-
ately into his hog yard. Two weeks
from that time his hogs began to die
and he lost all of them, being the first
that were sick in that vicinity and no
other source of infection was known.
All stock yards and stock cars of the
railroads are infected places, and he
would caution farmers having business
in such places not to 60 among their
hogs soon after visiting such places with
out carefully disinfccting their clothing.
Inoculation is not practicable fol the
| farmers as no economical method has
been discovered of maxim g and furnish
ing the serum, and when any person pre-
tends to cure the disease, put him down
as fraud who only wants your money
while you will only have dead hogs. :,
The following is used as condition
powder and helps to keep hogs in such
condition as to best resist the disease:
Wood charcoal ID.
Sulphur .- ! Id. 49,.
Sult ...D- 2 lb.
Baking soda - 2 Id.
Glauber salt -: 1 Id.
Sodium hyposulphite 2 h..
Antlmony sulphate lb.
The above should be pulverized and
| thoroughly mixed. A dose is one table,
spoonful to one 900 Id. hog, once daily
in the feed. To healthy hogs which
are separated from the infected ones all
the time, it has proven satisfactory to