The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-20
SOME SUGGESTIONS.

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method Of cleaning and ~disinfecunE
should be followed:
No. /. Infected Hog Houses and
Barns These places should be swept
and thoroughly c~leaned.>and the litter
nauted out and burned. The should
then be thoroughly sprayed inside and
out with a three per cent solution %
compound cresol.
No. ,. Infected Hog Lots ana Pens. |
All infected hog lots and pen should
De rahed over and sCraped and all
material collected in a pile and burn
ed. All material tina car not be
burned shoul be spread on fields
which hogs can not visit. The hog
lot should then be covered with
freshly Stacked lime. Fences and
posts should be sprayed with 4 three
per cent solution Of compound creso!.
Spaces under barns and sheds which
are accessible to hogs should be
boarded up.
No. 3. Infected Ponds and Wallows.
Infected ponds should be draine and
thoroughly covered with lime. These
injected ponds and waliowS are a
source of infection that remain for
years on a farm, and it il practically
impossible to completely disinfect
them. 1t is advised that where these
ponds can not be drained they should
be fenced hoS-tight. All wallows
should be well covered with lime and
filled in.
No. 4. Infected Straw Stacks. 1t is
an exceedingly bad farm practice to
permit hogs to lie around straw stacks
especially in the winter time, as they
become overheated and readily CON
tract pneumonia. Wher cholera-in-
fected hogs have had access to a straw
stack, the stack will remain a source
of infection for a long period of time,
and it is advisable to completely des-
troy the stack by burning. Where
impraCticable to burn the straw stack,
the straw should be raked out from
the sides and around the case and re-
moved and burned. The soil around
the base of the stack should then be
covered with ~air-slacked lime and
plowed.
No. 5. Infected Wood and Gras.
Pastures and Fields. Where cholera
infected hogs have access to largs
fields or tracts Of timber, it is impos
sible to satisfactorily disinfect same
and it is advised not to permit healthy
hogs on these infected places undo
four months.
1t is further advised. where it i
: positively known that sick animal
have lain or died. to thoroughly satu
rate the ground in and around thes
places with a three per cent solutio
of compound cresol, or cover sam
with air-slaked lime.
Methods of Prevention.
When a herd of hogs III your in
mediate neighbOrhood becomes in
d fected you can, in a large percentae
d of cases, prevent the disease fro1
coming to your farm by observing tn
Ie following regulations:
d Regulations.
IL 1. RemOVe all healthy ANNA
e to inclosed. uninfected ground or pc
le This e should be located so as NJ
u to be near a public highway, a raj
lS road or a stream
A z. Do not allow any communicate
IS between your hog lots and those
l. your neighbors, as cholera may I
carried, very easily on a person
~ shoes.
st 3. Observe cleanliness. 10Th as
n the surroundings and as regards tt
ve feed, to prevent it's becoming infecte
m Wagons that nave been used to carr
T. infected dead hogs will infect col
or other feed, and thus bring tt
US disease to your farm.
Frequent cleaning and burning
the litter in your hog pens will de
e troy any latent infection.
.st 4. Repeated n regular use of di
infectantS in your hog pens. feedil
ng troughs and buildings should be pra
at ticed, using a three per cent soluti'
&c of compound CresOl.
- D. DO not put new STOCK, eltn
dy hogs or cattle, with hogs already
YOUR farm. Newly purchased no
should be put in separate enclosur
to we'll separated from the herd now
all the farm, and kept under Observati
lot for three weeks. This is necessal
is as all stock cars, unloading chut
we and pens are liable to be infected Wi
IN hog cholera, and hogs shipped by r
are especially liable to contract t
we disease
'ht Burr up all c~arcasses of dead cat
horses, hogs. sheep or dogs on I
day they die. Do not allow do
or chickens, or hogs to ave access to
en-, dead carcass. The feeding of a p;
Mt TALLY burned carcass Is dangero
as especially of a hog that died FRI
ne cholera. a hog cholera germs exist
'op the marrow of the bones. and an {
OF tire herd may become infected in I
a way. A dead carcass that is I
)e- burned immediately attracts d
,or3c orH 6noC To NnIIr arm that ri