Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-09-05
CHOLERA IN COUNTY.
NUMBER OF CASES REPORTED
From WEST STDE-INFORMA-
TON FOR HOG OWNERS

the selection of the animals and in
some cases are only using their own
hogs.
DR.. D. M. Mcdonald, a veterinary IN
the employ Of the state live stock
SANITARY board says that his depart
ment is greatly hampered in procuring
proper treatment by the vaccination
system on account OF great scarcity
OF the vaccine serum, which the state
farm is able to produce only in limited
quantities. He states that where the
accination treatment has been used it
sas proved very generally effective.
The state board warns against the
large number of quack "cures' and
.'preyentives which are being ped
died in the districts where the dis
case exists All Of them are Of doubt
full value at best and most of them
are positively worthless. He says that
in one of the counties an agent is do
ing a land office business by spraying
hogs at 81 per head, representing that
this will prevent the animals taking
the disease.
The live stock board gives out the
following inform alton relative to- the
cholera situation which will be found
valuable:
When several hogs die within short
time, it may be safely assumed that the
disease is hog cholera.
The following instructions should be
followed closely:
Reoort the matter at once to the
: health board of your township (the
town hoard).
Bury or burn at once all hogs which
have hied Of any disease.
Contine the hogs to enclosures re-
moved from the public highway.
Disinfect hog pens and enclosures
by sDrinkling with the following solu
tiou carbolic acid, crude, l ID. to five
gallons of water, or air-slacked lime
instead may be used daily.
Hogs should be kept in dry pens.
Dogs must be tied up, since they
scatter the infection.
Wagons or hog racks used to re.
move dead hogs must not be- taken on
a neshbor's farm.
Only the one whose duty it is to feed
the animals should be allowed near the
pens, this attendant to keep away from
mai eabors' hogs.
As preventive measures when the
disease exists in the neig hborhood
the following precautions should be
observed:
Do not visit your neighbours hog
pens or enclosures, nor allow any un-
anth orized person to go into your own
pens OF enclosures.
Keep your dog tied.
Confine your hogs to small, dry
pens OF enclosures.
Disinfect the troughs daily with S
co1nf;on &C. oo;1
Hogs sold for breeding purposes
not allowed in any stoekyard. The
law explicitly states that no hog may
be taken from stockyard except
for Immediate slaughter. g.
t7tgs recently purchased for breed
ing purposes should be kept isolated for
at least two weeks, before being placed
with other hogs.
Do not think your hogs are immune
fren'' either of these diseases. Every
effort should be made to follow out
the above instructions, as they are
FOR your benefit.
Intelligent prevention is much
more satisfactory than treatment.
Revised Laws or 1905 provide as fol-
lows
Section SOIL. Diseased animals
disposal Of carcasses, etc.-Every per-
SON owning or having in charge any
domestic animal that has died or been
Killed on account Of disease shall
1mn' e'iately bury the carcass thereof
at least three feet deep in the ground
o" cause the same to be consumed by
IRE No person shall sell, or give away
such carcass when the animal died or
was hllled on account Of disease, nor
convey the same along any public
road Or upon any land not his own. Nor
shall any person negligently or willfully
permit diseased animals owned or con-
trol1ed by him to escape his control or
to run at large. Every violation of
any provision of this section shall be
a misAemeanor
&c.. :2l65. Offenses and penalties.
-f:ye cry person violating any provision
o. this chapter, or any rule or regula-
tion made hereunder by the state board
~sor any local board of health, or any
order made by either under the au-
thority of this chapter shall be guilty
nlisdemeanor, the minimum pun
isEment whereof shall be fine of
twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment
for thirty days.
Sec. 215S. Authority of boards, etc.
The board, and also the local boards
within their respective jurisdictions,
nay quarantine or kill any domestic
animal infected with, or which 20. has
been exposed to, any such disease.
- Regulations
l. All persons, excepting the own
er, duly authorized attendants, or
medical advisers, are forbidden to en-
ter any enclosures where hogs are
kept on quarantined premises.
,. Hogs must be removed from any
quarantined premises, except in the
following cases: LIST, Gy permission in
writing given by the state live stock
sanitary board, and End, dressed
carcasses of healthy hogs killed under
Inspection of the state live stock
sanitary board or local board Of health.
;. No hogs, excepting those here
by quarantined and their offspring
shall be allowed upon any quaran-
tined premises until quarantine has
been officially released. During the
period of quarantine no other domes-
tic animal shall be permitted on any
nuqranfjna1 71ronicoc