The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-03-22
CHOLERA CAMPAIGN
TO SAVE THE HOGS
HOG RAiSERS SHOULD STUDY
CONDITIONS OF THEIR HERDS
LOCAL AGENT WARNING.

County Demonstration Agent John
son has begun a campaign to prevent
cholera among the herds of hogs all
over the county. He is urging the
farmers to do their full duty and has
made his paper on this subject as sim
pie as it can possibly be made with
view Of getting better results.
His communication follows: ,.
Lets give the hog crop its dues as
we are getting the other crops started
off i'll god style. The most efficient
remedy for the lice, (and these things
eat a mighty lot of corn for great
many of u.s. is the cheap crude oils
which can be secured from the Oil deal
ers or the hardware stores. Get a
quantity of it and mix enough kero-
sene to make it run well and give the
lice dose Burn old beds. Give these
corn robbers chase for their exis-
tence.
Try to wage a greater war on hog
cholera. Although the disease isviru-
lent and spreads swiftly, lit may be
controlled Successful war may be
waged against it when it is understood.
Prompt recognition of hog cholera
is of greatest Importance Delay may
mean heavy losses. Prompt action
makes it possible to stamp out the
disease with only small losses. Every
sick hog should be looked upon with
suspicion and studied until there is
no doubt about the cause of it's sick
ness. 1t might be added here that no
one can determine accurately by eX-
ternal symptoms that cholera is among
hogs When there is the least doubt
about the disease being cholera, that
should be settled promptly by killing
one of the sickest pigs and examining
it's carcass. This is sure method.
Proper sanitation is important to
prevent cholera from making its APP
pearance in a community or in herd
and it is important in driving it out If
it has made its appearance. There
can be no successful anti-cholera war
that does not recognize these facts.
Just how vital sanitary measures
like cleanliness, disinfection and quar-
antine are, becomes clear on consider
ing the nature of hog cholera. 1t is
caused by germ or microbe which
finds it's way to the blood Of the sick
animal. This germ is SO small that
it has never been seen, through oven
the most powerful microscope, and it
is known solely by the evidences of
what it does. From the blood it makes
its way to the cxcretions; it is to be
found particularly in the urine OF SICK
or exposed animals and to some extent
in the faces Natural infection gener-
ally proceeds from such excretions to
the digestive tract of other animals,
although they may also become in
fected through eating the flesh OF dead
cholera hogs. 1t is a most persistent
and virulent germ which will continue
to live under most adverse circum-
stances from one season to another.
Winters cold will not kill it and it
may be carried far without losing any
of it's disease giving power. .4
perhaps the cause of the greatest
loss of hogs in the south is worms. II
hogs are already wormy, turpontine
can be given in the slop each morning
for three mornings, at the rate OF one
teaspoonful for each so pounds OF live
weight. One of the best preyentives
measures is to keep a mixture of char
coal, ashes, lime, salt, sulphur, and
copperas where the hogs can eat it at
will. Mix in the following proportions,
charcoal, l bushel; hardwood ashes.
/ bushel; pounds of salt; s pounds
of air-slacked lime; 4 pounds of sui
phur; 2 bushels of pulverized copperas
mix the lime, salt, and sulphur
thoroughly and then mix with the char
coal and ashes. Dissolve the copperao
in one-half gallon of hot water and
sprinkle over the whole mass, mixing
it thoroughly Store in barrel under
shelter. but keep some OF it III shall
low box for the hogs at all times.
IAN ounce of preventive is worth a
ton Of cure"