The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-12
FIGHTING HOG CHOLERA
A. T.. CHAMBERLAIN WITH AL
FALFA TRAIN DISCUSSES PRE-
VENTION AND CURE.

In the agricultural campaign now
being carried on by the people of
South Dakota with the cooperation
of p. G.. Holden, director of the Agri-
cultural Extension department of the
International Harvester company,
great stress is being laid on hog chol-
era and the best methods of checking
and wiping out this scourge that has
devastated many herds i'm the north
west.
In doing this Prof. Holden has en-
listed the aid of A. K. Chamberlain,
of Minnesota. Mr.. Chamberlain is
one of the best known authorities on
live stock and has combatted hog
cholera under all conditions. He has
written a booklet on hog cholera that
is being given to farmers wherever
meetings are held.
He shows that hog cholera is car
ried from farm TO farm i'm many WAYS
by owners of diseased hogs visiting
other farms or by owners of well
hogs visiting farms on which there
are diseased hogs; by the purchase
of new stock; by dogs. cats and 9TH
er animals, and by pigeons, crows,
buzzards and other birds: by pastur-
ing well hogs close to sick ones; by
infected streams; by hunters, hog
buyers and visitors, and on the
wheels of vehicles.
The methods given for preventing
hog cholera from reaching a herd are
based on common sense sanitation.
The first thing to do is to clean UP
the hog pens. Experience of hog
no SCnrG Chpyrc that +Iz hox - s-4 =.
clean as any other animal if he is
given a chance to be clean. After
cleaning up the pens it is necessary
to purify them with lime and to pro-
vide wood ashes, slaked lime, salt or
other coal for the hogs to eat. If
your hogs have cholera, stay at home.
If your neighbors' hogs have it, stay
away. Keep the hogs from running
streams when cholera is in the neigh
borhood. Have a dipping vat and use
it regularly, there is no greater safe
lguard Of the hogs health. Have a
bath for the hogs too-a platform
bath tub containing a disinfectant.
This will also do away with the wal
low'-something that is not needed
by any clean. healthy hog.
If a hog is sick and cholera is sus-
pected, Mr.. Chamberlain urges the
farmer to get him away from the
we'll hogs at once; kill him and have
a veterinary examine him for cholera.
If il is cholera, burn the remains of
the hog. Then try to save the rest of
the herd by vaccinating them with Sc
rum furnished only by laboratories
Operating under government inspec-
ton. He urges caution in the use of
the double treatment"-serum and
virus together-saying that ii should
only be applied by a man trained to
lgive it. Serum counteracts or holds
in check the cholera germ. Virus is
really condensed hog cholera. The
use of both together in the double
treatment" is advised only when
there is danger of the whole herd be-
ing stricken with cholera.
When a hog is sick put up a sign.
Sick Hog" he urges. If there is
cholera on your place use a sign,
Hog Cholera" This warns others
and prevents the spread of the dis
ease. Mr.. Chamberlain says that this
is the only fair, square thing to do by
ones neighbors. At his meetings
many farmers have pledged them
selves to do this and help save their
neighbors' hogs from cholera.
All along the route taken by the
Especial train there is remarkable en-,
I~thusiasm. Farmers are turning out
by hundreds to hear the agricultural
Ileaders-men who speak from a prac'
Itical knowledge of farming and from
observation of conditions in many
parts of the country.