Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-03

The following is a quite complete
report of the excellent talk on hog
cholera given by DR.. w. b. Niles, head
of the governments hog cholera ex-
detrimental station at Ames. before an
audience of farmers in the east court
room Saturday afternoon.
DR. Niles said in part AS follows: TT
is not always easy correctly to dag
nose hog cholera. 1t occurs in differ
ent 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 gradations OF the disease.
First Symptoms.
Invariably the first symptom is a
temperature above normal. The hcg
may be apparently we'll, and this
symptom can not be ascertained with
out the use OF a thermometer. In any
form one Of the first noticeable
symptoms is a partial or tota! loss OF
appetite. 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.
Folio wing the droopy condition they
usually show signs of drowsiness and
stick to the nest. Then u weakness of
the hind legs develops. The animal
may be either constipated or the re-
verse. Sometimes red spots Will APP
pear on the ears or abdomen.
Watch for Croopy Hogs.
IF me disease has broken out in
Your neighborhood and one, OF two, or
a few of your hogs, show droopy symp>
toms. you can be pretty sure that you
have hog cholera in your pen.
When a cholera hog is opened you
are likely to find red spots, some times
very few in number, at other times
spotcheS on the ears, jowl or belly. Inc
lymphat!c glands are usually enlarged
Red spots, Frequently only like pin
points, are found on the lungs. The
spleen is often enlarged, and the kid
neyS IN many cases are badly con-
gested Frequently red spots are
found IN the intestinal tract. Intestine
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.
Don't Wait Too, Long.
When any Of the symptoms de-
scribed have shown up in individuals
Of your hogs don't walt 10 make GER
tain by ore 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 neighoorhood and any Of the first
symptoms show on your animals you
may be pretty sure the disease is chol-
era.
Disease Spreads Rapidly.
I'VE know positively that the owner
of sick herd may carry the disease
into a we'll herd on his feet. 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 a
herd in which there Is cholera. If you
do take extra precautions not to carry
litter of anykind home from the in
fected premises.
Railroad stock yards are common
source of contagion. Dogs and crows
! by feeding on the carcasses Of nogs
which died of the disease. or by fire.
quenting the infected pen carry the
|
don't bury them. The chances are if
you do bury them, and have several tc
cover those put last into the hole viii
not be covered very deep with earth.
when buying breeding animal
from some distant point, ever if you
think y6u are certain the hog has not
the disease. do not put the animal witt
Your Well herd as soon as you get il
home. That's a quite common way Of
bringing the disease into a we'll herd
! Quarantine the animal for time in q
distant part of the farm. The owner
who sold him to you may have solo
him as a hog free from cholera and not
know that ne had the disease.
Medicinal Foods No Good.
ut is not possible, so far as we know
to feed your hogs nay medicinal food:
that Will keep them free Of cholera
You have to keep the germ or viru:
away from them, if you want 10 keel
them well. There Is no other way WE
know Of. You can't keep them we'll bl
feeding I've. iron sulphate, copperas oil
other things. / know these things ant
other m edicinal foods are advertised a!
personalities, but the government does
not recognize them as such.
How Serum is Made.
This is the way hog cholera serum
is made. The method is a discover,
Of the governments but it is used b,
commercial serum makers. A hog tina
Is recovering from the cholera or on
which has lived thru an attack, i
, chosen. Say its 100 pound shoa,
We inject into it pint Of blood from
a cholera hog. Ten days later we begin
taking blood from the hog thus treate'
We bleed it once a week, usually in tn
tail. After several bleedings we kill til
hog and then take all it's blood. Tn
blood is strained and is then ready 70