The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-09-30
HOG CHOLERA.
DR.. Neeson, Of Clemson, Tells How TO
Manage an Outbreak.

To the Editor OF The State:
Every year there are numerous out
breaks of hog cholera and swine plague
in South Carolina, and several have
recently been reported to this office.
/ wish to Call attention Of hog owners
to the disease and recommend some
simple measures by which the losses
may be reduced.
Hog cholera and swine plague are
so similar and as they often occur to-
gether they may be regarded as the
one and the same disease, in fact
about the only serious contagious dis
ease of hogs in this State. It is easy
to diagnose and most farmers recog-
nize it at once when the hogs refuse
to eat, appear dull and lie about
crouched in some secluded spot. When
made to move they walk with the
back arched up and generally have a
dry hacking cough. Constipation may
be present but more frequently there
is black diarrhea with considerab e
bad odor. Ii the under side Of TIT
body be examined it will show pink.
ish or purple hue, especially marked
about the tianks, belly. behind tie
shoulders and back uf The ears. Often
the first symptom Of its presence is a
dead hog, but they often live a week
or more.
The easiest way to diagnose the dis
ease is by post mortem examination.
Cut the dead hog open, separate the
large coil Of inteStnes and follow it
back to where the small one goes inte
it at the caecum or blind pouch =
There split the large intestine open
and look on the inside of it for red
spots in the early stages or button
like ulcers on the surface in old cases.
These ulcers have a dark centre, vary
in size from that Of a pinhead to q
quarter, stand up above the lining OF
the Intestine and are Of d yellow or
brown color. Some may be found il.
other parts Of the digestive track
The lungs should also be examined
carefully as they are normally OF q
gray color and in this disease are ofteD
as red as the liver as result OF con-
gestion and seem solid instead OF
spongey. Only one lung or part OF
it may be affected in this way, but is
sufficient to cause the cough.
The disease is specific contagious
disease affecting hogs only, and is
transmitted by streams flowing
through infected lots to unlnfectt q
lots down the stream, by buzzlrds eat
ing the dead hogs and communicating
other premises visited, by dogs,
wagon wheels carrying infected mua,
feet OF horses and men, p 'ultry, rats
and any other means Of carrying the
infection. The germ is very persist
ent and an infected lot should not be
used for wei! hogs inside OF six months
or a year according to Soil and loca-
tion. 1t dies out sooner on sandy
lands than on clay or bottoms. is
very persistent in mudholes where
hogs wallow and in pondy places.
To avoid the disease keep hogs
away from public highways, keep the
lots dry and give pure water in clean
troughs, and give plenty of shade. ASK
all visitors il they have been about
hog cholera before showing them to
your pens. shoot all "yaller dargs
that stroll about the place and-but
YOU know there is a law against
killing buzzards, II the disease exists
in the community insist that all dead
s.oys be buried three feet deep or
burned to crisp. (Sea law requiring
burial OF dead hogs DO not spend
money for hog cholera cures. but 60
to a reliable druggist and get some
nonpoisonous d!sinfectant such as Gre
olin, chloro-uaptholeum or zenoleum,
make ) per cent. solution and apply
all about pens and Jroughs with a
sprinkling rot. Lime is also valuable
in small quantity.
Success can only be had by keeping
the direase out aS it is incurable and
fatal 10 IS to 80 per cent. OF the hogs
affected. II it gets into your lots dis
infect daily as above directed, sprinkle
all well hogs with the solution and at
once remove them to new pen: pre-
ferably out in field and allow no
communication with infected lots
AS soon as any more are taken re-
move the we'll ones to another new
place and SO on till you get them
away from the infection. Report all
outbreaks TO me with full particulars
as to number affected. number dead
and owners names.
G.. f. NEsoM.
State eternarian.
Clemson College.