Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-06
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
BY DIR. ANDREW M. SOULE

also.
General information concerning
the nature of hog cholera and meth
DDS of prevention are necessary for
the control of this disease.
Information regarding other dis
eased conditions is also necessary
for the profitable handling of swine.
This bulletin is designed to help adj
vance the swine industry so that 1t
will become a permanent and more
general source of income to the
farmers of the state.
Hog cholera is highly contagious
disease of swine, characterized by
loss Of appetite, constipation, later
diarrhea, weakness and high death
rate.
1t is caused by what is known as
the virus of hog cholera, which is
present in the blood. urine, feces and
discharge from the eyes and noses of
hogs affected. Consequently. all
grounds. buildings, or stock cars are
contaminated with virus if hogs, sick
of cholera, have been in them. The
disease can be transmitted from a
sick hog to a healthy one by plac-
ing them together in the same pen
or by injecting some of the blood of
a sick hog into healthy one. Stock
powders will not prevent hogs from
becoming sick of cholera.
No breed of swine is naturally i'm
mune to cholera, although OCCASION
ally individual animals of any breed
may not become infected with the
disease. Immune sows do not con-
fer lasting immunity upon their off
spring, but. pigs from such sows are
generally immune nutil three or four
weeks of age. Pigs and shoats seem
to be the first in the herd to show
hog cholera infection.
Cholera is supposed to have first
appeared in this country in the state
of Ohio, in 1888, and from there it
has spread to every state in the
Union.
1t is spread from farm to farm,
from county to county and from
state to state through the shipping
or moving of diseased hogs, or stock
hogs. or stock cars which have car
ried diseased hogs. Hogs which are
not ilnmunized may become infected
by being placed in infected stock
cars or pens. while being shipped
to market for slaughter, or to fairs
for exhibition.
Purebred swine which have been
purchased for breeding purposes. or
show hogs returning from fairs.
should be held in quarantine pens
at considerable distance from the
main herd for three or four weeks
after arrival at the owners farm.
IT these hogs are infected, they are
most likely to show sickness within
this time. If no sickness appears
they may be placed with the rest
of the herd.
Hogs, sick with cholera, which are
permitted to leave their premises will
spread the disease from herd to herd,
and, in this way, an outbreak on one
plantation may soon spread to all
parts of the country.
The proper disposal of carcasses
OF hogs dead of cholera is very es-
sential to prevent further spread Of
the disease. Dead hogs should be
buried deep in the ground. or burned.
The burning of these carcasses is
probably the best method to insure
the destruction of virus.
Hogs dead from the disease, which
are disposed of by simply dragging
them off to the woods or swamps
for decomposition. are a constant
source of infection. Hog cholera
virus is spread from these carcasses
by stray dogs, buzzards, etc.
Hogs may become infected
through the food or water supply,
or a person may carry it from one
farm to another on his clothing,
shoes and overalls. The wheels of
vehicles often serve to spread the
infection.
An outbreak of hog cholera may
occur in herd of hogs so suddenly
that. the owner does not know that
ANYTHING is the matter with his