Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-27
COMMUNICATION

OOEiNlOlNaCA
DO all your hogs come up to eat?
Farmers in Iowa and Illinois watch
their hogs for cholera symptoms as
closely as farmers here watch for black
rust. If there is black rust in the coun-
try it will probably soon find your field.
II there is cholera in the country it may
soon find your herd, so keep your eye on
the bunch and if any do not appear nor
NAL don't watch to see if they will die.
Look over the cholera symptoms, which
are given in nearly all farm papers, then
go and see if the sick pig shows any
signs of the disease. If one has it the
rest of the bunch will all have it in a
few days Don't cut off their tails or
slit their ears or feed them I've or ashes.
You can't get rid of it by any such
The cheapest method in
the end is to get the nearest %veterinar-
ian to estimate the amount of serum
necessary for vaccination, and to wire in
for it at once. If you act promptly when
the first one takes sick there is a fair
chance of saving all of them.
Cholera made Its first appearance in
this county last fall and those acquaint-
ed with the rapid spread of the disease
predicted an outbreak earlier this fall,
and in a more serious form. Their pre-
diction is correct. Four herds on
neighboring farms in Grey and Moscow
townships have contracted the disease in
the past two weeks. By concerted
action on the part of the farmers living
in this community it is hoped that the
disease can be stamped out before it has
spread over a larger area. Two of the
infected herds have been injected with
serum and the other two herds we're
practically cleaned out beforesteps we're
taken to check the outbreak The pres
ent epidemic finds the county with two
or three times the number ct hogs US
ually kept; it finds the most favorable
weather. conditions for the spread of the
disease, and comes at a time when pork
prices make hogs valuable property.
However, if the disease is to be pre-
vented from spreading from the district
already infected or from other localities
where it may happen to appear, farmers
must take immediate action to check
the outbreak. This means as stated
before shat the initiative herd shonld be
vaccinated by injection with cholera
serum, where the first symptoms of the
disease appear. Subsequently every
precaution should be used to prevent its
spread to neighboring farms. The germs
of the disease are usually carried by
birds, animals, water, or other like
agencies to other herds. The idea is
then to prevent any such agent so far as
possible from passing between your and
your neighbours hog lot. More speciti-
cally this means, don't visit your neigh
boris hog lot nor let him visit yours.
Conine your hogs to a small area: keep
your dog and all other dogs out of the
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riers Of the disease. Burn or bury
deeply all hogs that die. The following
OF a few of these simple suggestions may
mean a matter of many thousands Of
dollars in preventing cholera from gain
ing a foot hold and sweepin the county.
Reliable serum can be obtained at
present from DR.. Van Els at the Fargo
experiment station, at about two cents a
G. c. 1t takes from fifteen to fifty c, G..
per hog, depending on the size. ! vii
be glad to look over any farmers herd
which he thinks may have cholera, so
far as l am able.
Look out for the hogs off feed;
that lay around and show signs of fever;
that have a discharge from the nose or
eyes: that are abnormally arched IN the
back and gaunted up; for those that are
unsteady on the legs, for they probably
nave the cholera.
j.. w. HAw.
Langdon, N. D., August "a, 1914.