Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-27
HOG CHOLERA: ITS CURE;
EFFORTS THAT ARE MADE
II Farmers Will Do Their Part, tho
Authorities VIII Surely DO
Theirs Right Along.
MEN WHO ARE ON THE JOB
Commissioners Koiner and DR.. Hayes
at the Service OF the Swine Raisers
or Nfrginia-Thcy Have the Dope
and Information.

All OF the agricultural agencies in
Virginia and In all parts OF the United
states, for that matter. have been do
| ING good work within the last few
years In the effort to eradicate the hor
| choiera. This is n very important mat
! yer IN virginia. Just at this time when
virginia farmers are really waking IN
10 me Importance of the hog and hon.
| my doctrine. doctrine that the In
"us' iiai section OF The Times Dispatch
mas peen preaching so consistently and
so constantly for 10. these many years
| George Wellington koiner, the able and
always wide awake Commissioner Of
Agriculture, has done as much as any
mali dozen men in this good work. and
u Is no eXaRKeration to say that thou
sands of hogs have been saved In Vir-
GINA by his timely efforts i'm advising
hoe raisers as TO the dreaded disease
ana arranging to supply them with the
remedies TO prevent It's spread.
NOW there comes to his help Dr. c. H.
Hayes, veterinary field agent, who is
! WORKING in cooperation with the State
Agricultural Department and also in
cooperation with the Virginia Poly-
tcchnic Institute. DIR. Hayes is lust as
anxious as IL Commissioner Koiner that
the farmers of Virginia shall be alive
TO the danger of hog cholera at this
particular season OF the year. and that
they be inform ed s to the best method.
or preventing a spread OF the disease
should 1t break out in any given COM
munity or territory. To this end he
has issued circular which it is to be
hoped will find its way on every farm
in the state. Some suggestions from
this circu! ar are herewith given:
THE WAY TO KEEP OFF
THE DREADED CHOLERA
Dr. Hayes, whose headquarters are at
Burkeville, and who holds himself
ready to answer any inquiries that may
he addressed TO him there, writes:
Farmers themselves can do much
toward preventing the spread of hog
cholera, thus placing swine raising and
feeding on a trmer and moro profitable
basis. To this end the following sug-
EeStionS are offered:
Locate Your hog lots and pastures
away from streams and public high
ways. and do not allow the hogs to run
free range. DO not visit your neigh
Dor or allow him to visit YOU, il either
OF you have hog cholera on your
premises. DO not drive into hog lots
when returning from market or after
driving on public highways. DO not
use hog lots for yarding wagons and
farm implements. DO not place newly
purchased stock, stock secured or
loaned for breeding purposes or stock
exhibited at county fairs, with your
herd. Keep such stock quarantined at
least two weeks, and use care TO pre-
vent carrying infection from these to
other pens in feeding and attending
stock.
Burn to ashes or cover with quick
lime and bury under four feet OF earth
all dead animals and the visccra re-
moved from animals at butchcring
time because they attract the attention
| OF buzZards, dogs etc, which are liza BILE
| to carry hog cholera infection.
tOnflnc Your dogs. and do not keen
pigeons unless you confne them.
WHEN HOG CHOLERA
! APPEARS IN YOUR HERD
! III the cholera appears in your herd
then contine' your hogs to limited quar-
! ters that may he cleaned daily and
/ spray three times week with disin-
| fcctant Zone part compound cresol So
| luton to thirty parts water) until hog
! cholera has abatcd in your herd.
! Treat them Immediately with anti
! hog cholera serum, after which they
should lie kept on light diet with pure
drinking water. The serum must be adj
ministered before the disease has pro-
/ crossed far in the herd, to get best re-
| suits Post notice at the entrance OF
your farm: HOG CHOLERA-KEEP
! OUT. Notify your neighbors that your
| herd is infected, that they may take
the necessary precautions to keep hog
| cholera from reaching their herds.
10 Tlu your premises OF Infection, re-
move all manure and saturate with
! quicklme. and burn all litter, rubbish
and old hog troughs.
After the premises are thoroughly
cleaned. spray walls, floors and other
surfaces with disinfectant Zone part
! compound cresol solution TO thirty
| parts water). Where hog houses are
small turn them over. exposing interior
10 sunlight. Wallow holes and cess
pools should be filled in, drained, or
fenced of. and all runs underneath
buildings should be cleaned and dis
infected and then boarded up; and then
destroy hogs that do not fully recover,
AS they may be carriers of cholera in
lection.