The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-03-30
HOG CHOLERA
AND SWINE PLAGUE.


in regard TO nog cholera, and re-
cues s for remedies that 1t is with
especial qualification that we call at
tention to Farmers Bulletin No. "a,
issued from the United states Agri-
cultural Department, copies of which
so long as the supply lasts-will be
mailed free to anyone applying. The
bulletin was prepared by RI. d. E.
Salmon, ID. ". NJ, of the department,
and is based on an extensive series of
observations and experiments. The
average farmer is apt to call any fatal
disease that may be affecting his
swine, cholera. This bulletin treats
Of two distinct and yet in some re-
spects, similar diseases. to-wit: Hog
cholera" and Swine plague, but the
sanitary preventive measures and the
treatment Of the sick animals in both
diseases is practically the same. They
are btoh caused by bacteria, these in
finitesimal organisms that Of late
years are charged with so many of the
deadly diseases that affect human life
Consequently is is a matter of small
practical Importance whether a farmer
be able to distinguish between the two
diseases, which are liable to be mis-
taken for either cholera or swine
plague, such as anthrax. But this also
attacks cows, sheep, goats and also
dogs, and is generally confined to GER
tain sections, where it appears year
after year. SO that any fatal conta-
gious disease that is confined to hogs
may be set down as either cholera or
swine plague. These latter are not
confined to any certain section, but
effect hogs in all parts of the T. s.;
and the losses have estimated to
amount to from $10OO0,O00 to $25, OO0,-
900 annually Hog cholera is practi-
cally fatal to young pigs, the old hogs
frequently escaping entirely. We have
had just that experience on our own
farm. when we lost every hog under
six months old. In such a case the
hogs escaping. serious illness are rem
dered immune" from future attacks.
The first noticeable symptoms of
both diseases are shiverings. un-
willingness to move. more or less loss
of appetite, very high temperature;
the animals appear stupid and dull
and are disposed to hide under any
litter. At first the bowels may be
normal, or even constipated, but later
a bad diarrhoea sets in and remains
to the end. The breathing is more
rapid and the skin IS ogten congested
and red over the abdomen, the inner
surface of the limbs. under the throat
and on the ears.
The remedy recommended is not
claimed as certain cure for animals
ready affected but it is relied on
more as preventive. The formula of
the remedy is as follows, and every
hog owner should "cut it OUT and
file away for future use:
Wood charcoal ,..............1 pound
sulphur COMMUNICATIONS. pound.
Common Salt 2 pounds
Common soda ..............2 pounds.
Sodium hyposulphite. .....2 pounds.
Glauber's salts. ..............1 pound.
Sulphide of anthony. ....1 pound.
Pulverize the above ingredients and
mix them thoroughly. The dose is
one large tablespoonful to every 200
pounds weight of hogs to be treated,
given once q day only Hogs affected
should not be fed on corn alone, but
they should have soft food at least
once day, made by mixing bran and
middlings and corn meal, or ground
oats and corn, stirring in the mixture
in proportions above indicated. Hogs
appetite. Such animals are sick
will not eat should be drenched with
the medicine shaken up with water.
Care should be used in drenching a
hog with drench. as it is easy to
kill one. Do not turn the drench ON
his back, but pull one cheek away
from the teeth 50 as to form pouch
into which the medicine may be slow
ly poured. 1t will flow from the
cheek into the mouth and the hog will
find what it is and swallow it.
Now for the sanitary measures;
Keep your hogs away from other hogs.
and keep them away from railroad
tracks along which hogs are trans
ported. Separate the sick from the
wlel and be careful in going from the
sick quarters to the well, to carry
noting in the shape of mud of litter
on the feet or clothing. 1t would be
safer for one man to attend to the
well and another to the sick, enforc-
ing a strict non-intercourse. When
the cholera Is ahroad in fha Oaie,,