Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-18

era and several preparations which
the makers claim will cure the dis
ease; but so far none have proven
reliable enough to depend on unless
sanitary and precautionary methods
are taken which would keep hogs
healthy without the medicine. So
then it is well to look to that part of
the process in detail.
If they are TO be fed their corn,
which is the main part of the diet,
around the lots it should be fed on
a concrete floor which prevents eat
ing too much dirt and this should be
sprinkled once or twice a month with
air slack lime. If the floor is not
convenient the corn should be hauled
out in the field or pasture and fed one
load in a place which keeps the man
ure scattered, and a clean place and
makes the hogs exercise. and If pos
sile let them eat the corn on the
ground it was grown on.
And should you be, as / am, in a
locality where you cannot grow alfalfa
and red clover without going to more
expense than it is worth, and have to
supply your protein with tankage or
meat meal, a good plan would be to
make some self-feeders and mix one
part tankage, one part ran. and two
parts shorts, and put in the feeders
dry,the amount to balance the ration
with corn. If one does not care to
feed the bran and shorts,mix the tank
age with crushed corn. The reason
for the self-feeder is threefold;-frst
the hogs cannot get into the feed with
their feet, second they can feed from
both sides and about twice as many
can eat from the same space; and
third they cannot eat so fast and more
Of the juices Of the mouth are mixed
with the food and makes digestion
better which saves feed and makes
pounds Of pork.
All sleeping quarters should be
cleaned often and given a liberal coat
ing Of air-slacked lime, and this
should be s~prinkled around the lots
and places where the hogs collect of
morning and evening. There are
many preparations on the market
in the way of dips, but we have found
the lime cheaper and more effective.
When hogs are kept clean Of ex-
ternal and internal parasites, the
chances for staying off the disease
are ameliorated to a great extent.
For the former we use a liberal appli-
cation of crude oil crude acid and coal
oil, mixed at this rate: 4 gallons crude
oil, three quarts coal oil and one quart
crude acid, about every thirty days.
When this is followed regularly, we
do not have many lice and it is the
cheapest preparation we can find.
For the latter there are many things
to be used and | have used most of
them. Copperas is good when follow
ed with a mild purgative, and crude
oil poured on shelled corn is effect
i've, which are the main ones l use.
This may be written in the manner
Of a trip to San Francisco via New
York, but it ali has a bearing on the
subject. As all animate beings are
~contending with disease germs at all
times, the more healthy we can keep
an animal the longer it can Withstand
the attack. So it becomes all hog rails
ers to see that the ration is on a bal
anee, that the sleeping and feeding
quarters are in sanitary condition,
and that the animal is cleaned of all
parasites.
When the above is followed one
need not fear a scolrrge of cholera
breaking out among his hogs until he
gets his herd exposed to the disease.
Then he is confronted with a different
proposition. Then / would use the
last resort, the serum treatment,just
as quickly as it could be got to the
herd, and only the single treatment.
There is one thing | would take a gun
and drive a man off the place for, and
that is bringing virus on the farm,
for how do we expect to exterminate
Cholera as long as we carry it in a
bottle and give it TO hogs.
A few days ago, we had an order
for six pigs provided we would give
them ten days and ship, so anyone
may guess what this would have done,
as they were to 60 through three or
four express Offices and that many
cars and put or several farms at the
end Of the road, and it would not be
a hard matter to tell what our decis-
ion was in the case, either.
Another reason for opposing the
simultaneous method is the lack of
understanding among the men who
should know. Some claim a lifetime
immunity, others say it varies from
six months to a life time. One state
law requires a quarantine for thirty
days, and the order mentioned above
was from a man who should know and
his time was only 10 days. Until some
thing more definite is agreed TO by
the ones higher up, ] for one am will
ling to let it alone.
w. 0. Smith.
Mrs. S. II. Richards is recovering
from a Sevare ANAL NJ eickneaq