Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-27
Farmers Ca,, Do
Much to Preuent
Spread of Cholera

To keep hog cholera from reaching
your herd locate your hog lots ant
pastures away from streams and public
highways, and do not allow your hogs
to run on free range or highways mol
to have access to canals or irrigation
bitches.
Do not visit your neighbours farm nor
allow him to visit you If he has HOG
cholera on his premises.
Do not drive into hog lots after driv-
ing on public highways.
Do not use hog lots for yarding
wagons and farm implements.
Do not place newly, purchased stock
stock procured or borrowed for breed
ing purposes, or stock exhibited at
county fairs Immediately with your
herd Keep such stock quarantined in
separate pens for at least two weeks,
and use care in feeding and attending
stock to prevent carrying infection
from these to other pens.
Burn to ashes or cover with quick
lime and bury under four feet Of earth
all dead animals an dthe viscera re-
moved from animals at butchering
time, because they attract buzzards,
dogs, ETC., which are liable to carry
hog cholera infection.
If hog cholera appears in the neigh
borhood contine your dog and encour-
age your neighbor to do the same.
Mango, lice and worms lower the
vitality of hogs, rendering them more
susceptible to disease.
II hog cholera appears in your herd
have all hogs treated Immediately with
anti-hog cholera serum, after which
they should be kept on light diet, with
pure drinking water, and confined to
limited quarters that should be cleaned
and sprayed three times week with
"one part of compound cresol solution
to thirty parts of water" until the dis
ease has abated in the herd
To obtain the best results the serum
must be administered as soon as the
disease is detected in the herd. Be sure
that the temperature of all hogs is
taken. A temperature above lO4 de-
grees F. in ordinary weather and when
the animal is not excited indicates in
lection, and such hogs require an in
creased dose Of serum.
To rid premises Of infection, remove
all manure and mix it thoroughly with
quicklime.
Burn all litter, rubbish, and old hog
troughs.
After the premises are thoroughly
cleaned, spray walls, floors, and other
surfaces, including remaining hog
trOughs, etc. with a disinfectant Zone
part compound cresol solution to thirty
parts water). Where hog houses are
small, turn them over, exposing inter
ior to sunlight. Clean premises, prop
erly exposed to sunlight will not retain
infection any great length of time.
Wallow holes and cesspools should be
hlled in, drained, or fenced off.
All runs underneath buildings should
be cleaned and disinfected and then
boarded up to keep hogs out.
Destroy hogs that do not fully re-
cover, as they may be carriers Of chol-
era infection.
Never buy anti-hog cholera serum
known that he has a permit to sell or
to use anti-hog cholera serum and
virus in the state of Iowa, Is the
warning the veterinarians at Iowa
State College give out. No serum
company can lawfully sell serum and
virus IN the state without having
permit from the state biological lab
oratory at Amea, giving them s.that
privilege. In case Of doubt it Is best
to write the laboratory for informa-
ton.