OCR Text |
Show Control For Jog-Cholera On farms that are freo of Infection, Infec-tion, It is well to remove all manure and clean the hoe yards by scraping together the corn cobs and hauling them to tho fields to bo plowed under; un-der; all wallow holes should be filled; fill-ed; the hog houses and cots should bo sprayed with a disinfectant. Those precautions should bo taken before tho arrival of warm weather. If there has been hog cholera Infection In-fection on tho farm during the last Bevernl months, It Is necessary to practice more rigid precautions In ridding the premises of tho disease. All litter such as manure, cobs and straw piles should bo burned or hauled haul-ed to a field whero thcro Is no danger dan-ger of spreading tho Infection. It Is not advisable to scatter It over the field, as there Is dangor of brds distributing dis-tributing tho cholera infection to tho neighboring farms. If plied up for a few months and mixed with chloride chlor-ide of lime, It Is than safe to scatter the manure over tho field. All wallow holes should bo filled In. Tho fences about tho yardB, Iota and log houses should bo sprayed with a threo per cent water solution of a crcsol disinfectant. disin-fectant. A small quantity of llmo may bo added to tho disinfecting solution so-lution so that tho sprayed surface appears ap-pears whlto and tho danger of falling fall-ing to spray tho entlro surface Is avoided. Quick llmo should bo scattered scat-tered about the yards. If tho abovo precautions nro practiced following an outbreak, tho yards may be safe-, ly restocked In two or three months with hogs. It is well to treat all hogs in nn Infected herd, that aro not showing serious Bymptoms of hog cholera, with nntlhog cholera scrum. Tho healthy hogs In tho herd should bo vaccinated by tho simultaneous method. meth-od. The sarcaBses of hogs dying of hog cholera should bo burned. All hogs on farms that adjoin premlsos whero there Is an outbreak of hog cholera, or that have been directly exposed to tho diseaso should bo vaccinated by the slmultaucons method. meth-od. Wo consider this a necossary control measuro because of tho nttl-tudo nttl-tudo of tho average farmer toward tho quarantine measures recommended recommend-ed by health o dices. Utah Farmer. |