River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-11-06

aH'iAAAiF CDbo'lA
from Government authority the best treat
ment recommended for the prevention and
cure OF hog cholera. I have sent replies to al
requests but believe the information received
from the Agricultural Department is valua
bic that II deserves OK ended circulation. For
this reason / am sending IT TO you, for such
use, in whole Or IN part as your judgment die
tates."
Very truly yours,
JAMES a.. FREAR.
Hon James A. Frear,
House of Representatives.
Dear Mr.. Frear:
Your request Of recent date shat
the Department supply you with
specific advice as to the best ways
of coping with hog cholera, which
you state is now a serious menace
to swine in your district, l regard
as very important one. Accord
ing to the last census, hogs were an
important feature of the agricul-
tural production of your section
In 1910 in your district there we're
203, 78l swine, valued at ST, 585, 018.
1t is apparent, therefore, that un
less hog cholera can be controlled
a serious loss must be endured by
your agricultural population.
The proverb that AN ounce of
prevention is worth pound Of
cure" is especially applicable to
hog cholera, and cooperation
among farmers in combating the
disease is very important. When
hog cholera breaks out on farm
the farmers in the neiRhborhood
should join in a strong effort to
confiue the disease to the one farm
where it already exists, by institut-
ing a strict quarantine, and also,
when possible, by the administra-
tion Of the protective serum to the
droves on adjoining farms. 1t is a
mistake to neglect timely sanitary
precautions and to rely wholly on
the use of serum. The serum is
useful, not so much for curing hogs
sick with the disease, as for pre-
venting other hogs from taking it.
Every farmer should make abso-
lutely certain that no dirt or nipple.
ment is brought from an infected
hog lot into another hog lot. Hog
cholera can be carried in dirt on
shoes, on wagon wheels, or on the
feet of dogs. 1t has been proved
that pen of hogs infected with
hog cholera can be kept within ten
feet of we'll herd without commun-
icating the disease, provided no
dirt or implement or other object is
moved from the former to the latter
pen. If, however, the pen with the
uninfected hogs should be cleaned
with a hoe or shovel that has been
used in the infected pen, the we'll
herd would be almost certain to get
the disease. Dogs, crows and buzz
yards can transport PARTICLES OF
flesh from dead hogs and thus car
~ the disease.
The following precautions are
recommended for keeping the con
tagion from an unaffected drove:
(l) Do not locate hog lots near
public highway, railroad, or q
stream. The germ of hog cholera
may be carried along any one OIL
these avenues,
(2) Do not allow strangers OF
neighbors to enter your hog lots
and do not go into your neighbors
lots. If it is absolutely necessary
to pass from one hog lot into an
other, first clean your shoes care
fully and then wash them with
per cent solution of the compound
solution of cresol (U. S. P.
go Do not put new stock, eithe
hogs or cattle, in lots with here
already on the farm. Newly pur
chased hogs should be put in sep
arate enclosures we'll separated
from the herd on the farm and KEEP
under observation for three weeks
because practically all stock cars
unloading chutes, and pens are in
fected with hog cholera, and hog:
shipped by rail are therefore apt t
contract hog cholera.
(4) Hogs sent to fairs should b
ouarantiued for at least three week
after they return to the farm.
81 If hog cholera breaks out o.