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Show Hog Flu Attacks Take Heavy Toll Each Year Attacks of hog flu on brood sows and fattening shoats take a heavy toll every year with the coming of cold and stormy weather. Unlike cholera investigations, studies of flue In hogs have not yet revealed the exact cause of the disease. Live stock specialists find from observation ob-servation and experience that certain precautions in caring for the herd will greatly lessen the danger of sickness und death from flu. One of the common com-mon troubles on many farms, these men find. Is overcrowding In the hog house. Hogs compelled to pile up become too hot and the building will likely be damp and steamy. When the animals go out into the cold the following fol-lowing morning they suffer chills, their resistance to disease is lowered, and they are more susceptible to organisms or-ganisms ever present In the respiratory respira-tory system which Investigators believe be-lieve spread hog flu. |