Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-17
Scattering Of Hog Cholera.

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It is important to remember that
the especially infectious thing about
a hog sick with cholera is the manure.
This, according to DR.. Reynolds, vet
erinarian of the Minnesota Expert
ment Station, communicates yards,
pens, feeding-hoors and troughs.
A person walking through a pig pen
or yard may easily gather enough in
lection on the shoes and clothing to
start other outbreaks on farms sub
sequently visited. Visitors from
farms where the hogs are healthy
should carefully avoid pens and yards
where sick hogs are confined on neigh
boring farms.
Wagon racks frequently serve as a
source of spread. A farmer whose
hogs have not been exposed will some
times haul for neighbor whose hogs
are beginning to die. This is to get
the neighbours hogs to market as soon
as possible. The farmer then drives
into his own barnyard and the rain
washes off manure from the wagon
box or hog racks-or in some other
way the infectious material is re-
moved from the rack and possibly to
his pens. In about two weeks his
hogs are sick.
Hog-cars and stock-yards must be
considered as always Infectious. Many
outbreaks OF cholera have been spread
by hogs wandering from infected
farms along the road and to a neigh
boring place.
It is never safe to ship in hogs by
rail from a distance even from a
neighboring state where hog cholera
has not prevailed for many years be-
cause the cars into which such hogs
are loaded are probably infected. The
hogs then contract this disease in
transit and in turn infect hogs already
on the purchasers farm.
Running streams may serve as a
source of spread when dead hogs are
thrown into them or when they re-
ceive drainage from an infected barn
yard. Unquestionably birds may
serve to spread this disease, but the
doctor believes most outbreaks can
be traced to other causes. Dogs
roaming about from farm to farm fire.
quently start new outbreaks of chol-
era by bringing home pieces of dead
hogs.
What the farmer should do. The
doctor says there are certain things
which the farmer may do who has
we'll hogs in a cholera neighborhood,
and certain other things which he
should not do, and the same may be
said for the man who has sick hogs
in neighborhood where there are
unaffected hogs.
The herd not yet affected should be
taken care of by some one man ex-
clusively and he should be very care
full not to 60 where there is oppor-
tunity of getting infection upon his
shoes or clothing. Visitors, especially
stock buyers and Neutrality-suspicious.
crews, should be kept out of the hog
yards. The owners family should
avoid going into yards and pens where
there are sick hogs.
Public stock yards should always be
considered as infected and the man
who has a herd of well hogs at home
should therefore keep out of public
stock yards.
It is important to bear in mind that
this disease is usually contracted by
feeding; i. e., through the mouth and
stomach, and therefore II the. food
and drink are not contaminated from
infected troughs, yards, or feeding
floors, there is very little Prospect OF
hogs contracting the disease.
In case the disease appears some.
thing may usually be gained by NOV