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hog, but any agent that might carry
particle of dirt from the pens or
yards may be means of spreading the
disease
Sick hogs running on the commons;
purchasing new hogs that have been
exposed to the disease before the
purchase; returning hogs from fairs
or stock shows where they have been
exposed; hogs shipped by rail coming
in contact with contaminated cars,
public sheds, yards and along the pub
lie highways, may be the means OF
causing an outbreak of the disease.
The only safe plan is to place all
newly-purchased hogs in different
lets or pens entirely away from the
healthy sheds, and give them their
own attendant, separate feed and the
use of separate utensils for at least
thirty days.
After hog cholera has visited farm
the houses, lots, feeding troughs, uten-
si1s and cleaning implements have all
become contaminated. and if new hogs
are placed In such quarters they will
surely contract the disease. This be.
ing the case, the quarters should be
thoroughly cleaned, all dead hogs
be burned or buried deep with lime,
all litter, troughs and utensils used
by sick hogs should be burned and
lime scattered over the ground All
filth and litter under the pens should
be cleaned out and lime scattered
about. The filth should be disinfected
with solution of eresol, lone part to
twenty parts of water. The house
should be thoroughly whiteWashed in
side and out with twenty parts Of
whitewash to one part cresol. By
using rigid precautions and thorough
ly disinfecting 1t might be possible to
bring new hogs into these pens with
out any serious results in about three
months; but, unless the above precau
tons are adhered to closely it would
not be advisable to return hogs to
these pens inside of one year.
The symptoms of hog cholera are
first noticed when one or two hogs re-
fuse to eat and before the owner-r real
ICES the situation other hogs are at.
tackled, and the disease is spread
through the Wholesherd in a few days
1t is characterized by the loss Of ap
petite, high fever, coughing, brown
tcelored exudate around the eyes
sometimes constipation, or there may
be diarrhea. On examining the skin
there may be purple areas on the sur
face of the abdomen, on the inside Of
the legs, and around the ears and
neck. If the above symptoms are OBJ
served and the disease has spread
through the herd in a contagious man
ner, it is very likely hog cholera il
present; but I'M order to be sure post
mortem examination must be made.
In treating this disease experience
shows that medicine is not a cure Of
even preventive, in a true sense o.
the word, but good condition powder
mixed with the feed wiQl help the hogs
in good many cases In Farmers
Bulletin No. "a, by DR.. D. E. Salmon
is the following formula which was
used for many years ASA preventive
Wood CHARCOAL Id.
Sulphut-l 10.
Sodiumt, Chloride lbs.
Sodiumi hypo-sulphite- 2 lbs.
Sodiums bicarbpnate-2 lbs.
Black aantimony--1 lb.
These powders are mixed with thu
feed in the proportion OF one large
tablespoonful once day to every twt
hundred pound weight of hogs. Ever
though this remedy be used, strict at
tention must be given to combining thu
animals, and tos the sanitary measures
If the disease is to be kept from
spreading overt the neighborhood.
The only really satisfactory mean
of controlling the disease is t,
immunize the healthy, hogs by inject
ing into themsa prepared hog choler;
serum. This unjust be applied by
veterinarian, and may be secured fron
the United States department of agri
culture. It us hoped that arrangement
may be made so that the West VII
ginia Experiment station may max
this serum and have it available 70
the farmers of the state.
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