The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-02-02
HOG CHOLERA---NO. 2.
BY Or. N. II. Reynolds, Mime
sofa University Farm.

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symptoms Of Cholera. Farmers
should understand that outbreaks of
cholera differ in virulence and differ
considerably in symptoms. 1t often
occurs that different hogs in the same
herd will show very different mani
festations Of the disease Hogs af-
fected with cholera show some of the
following symptoms: The animal is
dull and refuses to eat. Diarrhoea
appears early, as a rule. The skin
turns red. and later becomes purple,
especially over the belly and TANKS.
The skin of the back may be so badly
inflamed that large sloughs of dead
tissue occur. The eyes are inf1amed,
and have a sticky discharge, espe-
cially in young pigs. The eyelids may
charge.
The walk may be irregular; heavy
hogs are apt to wobble with their hind
legs when walking, and this some
times persists for weeks in chronic
, cases. Very many cases show mild
chronic cough, noticed especially
when the hogs are forced to move
around
1t frequently occurs that the first
cases are exceedingly severe. The
disease sometimes develops so rapidly
in these first cases that hogs die be-
fore the owner is aware that they have
been sick. Such cases show little in
the way of ordinary hog-cholera symp-
toms. Later on, cases become less
acute, and develop the ordinary type
of hog-cholera, with which most farm
ers are familiar Toward the end of
an outbreak. cases become mild and
slow; hogs may be sick and drag
around for weeks. Some of these.
eventually recover; others die. AS a
rule, 1t is scarcely worth while to try
to save such slow, chronic cases at the
end of an outbreak.
The Carcass. The hog-cholera car
cass usually shows certain character
istic conditions, which will help the
farmer to know whether the animal
has had genuine cholera or some other
disease; and early information on this
point may save his herd About the
first things noticed are the red and
purple skin, and inflamed eyes and
scabby ears The fat tissues fire.
quently show small red blood-spots.
Opening the chest cavity, the farmer
will, vim most cases find very peculiar
lungs. A special form of pneumonia
is one of the features of hog-cholera.
This pneumonia may easily be dis
tinguished from common pneumonia
as rule. In hog-cholera lungs, the
diseased areas look Like liver, and are
sharply defined; l. e., the border be-
tween healthy lung-tissue and that af-
fected by the hog-cholera is sharply
defined. The healthy lung does not
shade off gradually into the diseased
portions, but we have the pink,
healthy-appearing lung1structure jut-
ting squarely up against the diseased.
Common. pneumonia usually involves
large areas or whole lungs. Hog
cholero pneumonia frequently involves
very small parts here and there When
there are other infections, with the
hog-cholera we get general pneumonia
The stomach lining is frequently in
famed and thickened, and in the slow.
er cases it shows small ulcers.
II the farmer who wants to learn,
and Who suspects he has lost hogs
from cholera, will take a pair of
shears. dull one point, and split open
the large boweI-especially at the
point where the small bowel joins
ne will find areas of intense inf1amma-
ton in the acute cases, or well-defned
ulcers in the more chronic cases The
small glands which follow in chain
along the small intestines are apt to
be intensely inf1amed