The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1913-11-28

quenting the infected pen carry the
germs away. Burn your dead hogs.
don't bury them. The chances are il
you do bury them, and have several to
cover those put last into the hole will
not be covered very deep with earth.
when buying breeding animal
from some distant point, even if YOU
think you are certain the hog has not
the disease, do not put the animal with
your well herd as soon as you get it
nome. That's quite common way of
bringing the disease into we'll herd
Quarantine the animal for a time in a
distant part of the farm. The owner
VINO sold him to you may have sold
him as hog free from cholera and not
know that he had the disease.
Medical Foods No Good.
1T is not possible, so far as we
know. to iced your hogs any medical
foods that will keep them free of cho-
era. You have to keep the germ or
virus away from them, if you want to
keep them we'll. There is no other
way we know of. You can't keep them
well by feeding lye, iron sulphate,
copperas or other things. | know these
things and other medical foods are
advertised as preventatives, but the
government does not recognize them
as such.
How Serum is Made,
This is the way ho~ cholera serum
is made. The method is a discovery
OF the governments but it is used by
| commercial serum makers. A hog that
is recovering from the cholera, or one
winch has lived through an attack, is
chosen. Say it's lO0-pound shoat.
we inject into it pint OF blood from
cholera hog. Ten days latter we
begin taking blood from the hog thus
treated. We bleed it once a week,
usually in the tail. After several bleed
lngs we kill the hog and then take
all its blood. The blood is strained
and is then ready for use. That's chol-
era serum. Twenty cubic centimeters
OF 1t injected into we'll hog, will keep
him well if he is put in with cholera
|hogs.
The injection will immunize the
hog only for few weeks Its benefits
are merely temporary. If serum alone
IS used, sometimes some animals of
the herd will be permanently immuniz-
ed, and some will be only immunized
temporarily.
The Simultaneous Treatment.
"If you inject into susceptible hogs
serum and also blood tainted with
cholera germs, you get permanent i'm
munity. That is called the simultan-
eouS treatment. In the serum there is
no hog cholera virus and THE immunity
is only temporary.
1T is possible to give hogs the
cholera by using the simultaneous
treatment. If the serum used is impo-
tent and not strong enough, and the
cholera virus is stronger than the
serum the hog will have the cholera
and will probably die.
The government has found that the |
best and most lasting results come
from the use of the serum and tainted |
blood simultaneously, provided that
the serum is good and that it is given
in sufficiently large doses.
Why Cholera is Increasing.
Its fair question to ask, why is
1t that in the Swine-producing states
that are producing the most serum
hog cholera is more widespread and |
common this year than probably any
other one year? One answer is that |
there were more hogs than ever be-
fore. Another answer is that the
chances for communication between |
herds is easier and better than it ever
was before. Thus the disease is more
quickly spread.
However true this may be there is
no question but that there has been
great saving of animals in herds
which were treated before the disease
FOE
treat your hogs with the simultaneous
treatment before they get sick they
are not likely to take the disease. If
you wait until your hogs are sick, or
stagger, or remain in the nest, you
are wasting your serum on such hogs.
The chances are they will die anyway.
IF you treat all the hogs of herd
OF say AZ, as soon as you know a
few have the first symptoms of the
disease, a rising temperature, those
you will save out of the herd will
probably correspond in number about
with those that are running fever.
IF some of the hogs are plainly
sick, and more are running a fever,
you will find if you treat them at that
stage that you will save good share
of those which have fever.
"The dose for a we'll hog that
shows no fever is not large enough
for hog that is running a tempera-
ture. The treatment will not cure
hog that is plainly sick, but it will
save a good share of those which are
just beginning to show fever.
When you hire veterinarian do
not ask him to stint the doses. Sup
pose it does cost more, 5 or 10 cubi
centimeters more may save the hog
when that much less would not save
him. Twenty cubic tentMmeters for
a lOO-pound shoat would probably
save such an animal. while fifteen Gu
bic centimeters might not be enough
to keep the hog well. 1t is better to
waste five cubic centimeters than to
lose the hog.
"A pig weighing Is to 80 pounds
may need 30 to IS cubic centimeters.
Herds and animals differ in their sus-
ceptibility to the disease and treat
ment. Pure bred hogs. that are plump
land fat, we have found. die more
quickly of cholera than do the ordi
nary farm hogs that are rougher and
less fat"
Does Not Affect Breeding.