The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1913-11-28
Hog Cholera Symptoms and the Pre-.
vention of the Disease.

The following report of a lecture
on hog cholera. delivered by DR.. w.
B. Niles, head of the government hog
| cholera experiment station at Ames,
Iowa, is taken from the Marshalltown
Times-Republican. A Copy of the
paper was furnished The Tribune by
Mr.. David Wilson of Greanleaf.
1T is not always easy to correctly
diagnose hog cholera. 1t occurs in
different forms, both the acute and the
chronic. In acute attacks the animal
dies in a few days. In chronic cases
it may linger along for several weeks
or months. Between the two forms
are ranged all graduations of the dis
ease.
First Symptoms.
Invariably the first symptom is a
temperature above normal The hog
may be apparently we'll, and this
symptom can not be ascertained with
out the use of thermometer. In any
form one Of the first noticeable symp-
toms is partial or total loss of ap-
petite. When hogs hold back from
the feeding trough, or are not eager to
get to it, or soon leave it and appear
droopy, those are pretty accurate
symptoms OF cholera.
Following the droopy condition
they usually show signs of drowsiness
and stick to the nest. Then weakness
of the hind legs develops. The animal
may be either constipated or the re-
verse. Sometimes red spots will ap
par on the ears or abdomen.
IF the disease has broken out in
your neighborhood and one, or two, or
few of your hogs, show droopy symp
toms, you can be pretty sure that you
have hog cholera in your pen.
When cholera hog is opened you
are likely to find red spots, some times
very few in number, at other times
blotches on the ears, yowl or belly.
The Emphatic glands are usually en-
larged. Red spots, frequently only
like pin points, are found on the lungs.
The spleen is often enlarged, and the
kidneys in many cases are badly con-
gested. Frequently red spots are
found in the intestinal tract. Intestinal
ulcers appear more prominently in
chronic cases, where the hog has lin
gered along for some time, than in
acute cases, where the period OF sick
ness was shorter.
When any of the symptoms de-
scribed have shown up in individuals
of your hogs don't wait to make GER
tain by one or two of the animals
dying that you have cholera on your
hands before taking steps to prevent
the disease. If you killed one or two
Of the hogs you might be able to tell
from the carcasses whether the disease
was cholera, but if there is cholera in
your neighborhood and any of the first
symptoms show on your animals you
may be pretty sure the disease is chol-
era.
1--WE know positively that the owner
of sick herd may carry the disease
into we'll herd on his fleet. The
owner of well herd should not go, or
drive his team, to where cholera exists.
We know germs of the disease are in
the litter of sick hogs. Avoid any and
all possible ways of carrying the con-
tagion from the infected premises
Anything that takes you, or your team,
or anyone from your place, into in
fected premises, furnishes means of
spreading the contagion. Don't help
your neighbor haul his hogs from
herd in which there is cholera If you
do take extra precautions not to carry
litter of any kind home from the in
fected premises.
Railroad stock yards are common