The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-05-15
SERUM TREAT ENT
IN RAISING OF HOGS

Raising hogs without cholera"
Well, it is no easy job. | have been do
Ing 1t ever since ! was old enough to
own hog, writes Ii. l.. Faulkner In
the Kansas Farmer. Some might say,
"You don't raise enough hogs or you
would get the cholera" and for their
benefit wish to state that for the past
six years or more | have been selling
about 400 head each year for breeding
purposes besides 100 or more that go
to the packers.
Do you know that there is no live
stock on the farm that will show the
effects of good treatment and feed
quicker than hog? If you raise
hogs successfully you must give them
good treatment. such as proper shelter
and feed, and then keep their surround
ings clean. The first thing that | do in
my practice of raising hogs without
cholera is to keep them free from
worms 1t is as natural for our Mis-
souri, hogs to have worms as it is for
the Kansas grasshoppers to hop. L
succeed in keeping them free from
worms by feeding them a good worm
eradicator. I begin feeding this 10 the
pigs when they begin to eat, and after
| have them clean on the inside | look
after the outside.
| keep them free of lice by using
good dip. l dip all the smaller ones
and spray the larger ones. | am
great believer in using plenty of good
dip and | would not try t. raise hogs
without 1t. No man in Missouri-or
Kansas either-can raise very many
hogs together and get the best results
without good dip. I know all about
the coal oil for lice. I have tried 1t to
my own satisfaction. 1t vii kill the
lice all right and the hogs too. | dip
my hogs every two or three weeks eX-
cept during about three months in the
severest cold weather.
Another thing that is done as regu-
larry as the dipping is the cleaning up
of the lots, houses and feed ways. All
of the litter and trash is raked and
burned, and after dipping the hogs the
dip material is used to disinfect these
lots and houses by throwing it about
the lots, through the barn and by
washing out their houses with it. The
feed barrels and troughs are washed
with it. This dip not only kills the
lice, but it is death TO every living
parasite.
never did hear of cholera breaking
out in herd of hogs that had been
we'll taken care Of. 1t always breaks
out in the herds that are not given
much attention. and from these 1t
spreads throughout the neighborhood.
AS n further precaution when cholera
gets in my neighborhOod | keep my
hogs immune by vaccinating them
with the state serum. They are vac
cinated every seventy to ninety days
when cholera is aging close by. This
keeps them immune. though all Of my
neghhors who join farms with me are
losing their hogs with cholera. Some
of their diseased hogs have been on
my farm with my hogs. and there new
er is anything lut q woven wire fence
to keep them out ut any time.
To raise hogs without cholera you
will have to he on the job all the time.
You can't raise hogs in Missouri or
Kansas and live III Texas with very
much success. Give the hogs proper
feed and shelter Keep their sur
roundings clean. and when cholera
shows mp in your neighborhood have
them vaccinated with the serum alone
and keep 1t M at proper intervals as
long as the disease is Gle e by. If you
do this Mr. HOG Raiser Won can raise
hogs without cholera.