Show Hog Cholera Disease Difficult to Control Sanitation and Preventive Serum Are Urged Prepared by br the tho United States Department of ot A Agriculture Approximately 4 per cent of or th the tha ho hogs s on farms in the United Staten State died of hog cholera last year This appraisal of the ravages of hog bog cholera cholera cholera chol chol- era Is made b by the bureau of animal Industry United States Department of Agriculture for the year ear ended April 80 SO 10 1023 3 and Is based base 1 on estimates of the bureau of agricultural econom econom- Ics Losses were heaviest lest In Iowa Nebraska In Indiana Missouri Illinois Ohio Geor Georgia ln Minnesota nn and 1 South Dakota In the or order named Each of these states lost more than head of swine from the disease during the year ear assuming that SO per percent percent percent cent of the deaths from all causes causee among hogs is due clue to cholera The total number of ot swine lost logt from hol hog cholera exceeded ed valued 1 at approximately The lightly highly contagious nature of hog hOl cholera makes the he disease d difficult cult t to treatment treatment treat treat- control The preventive pre serum ment combined with strict sanitation and thorough of premises after rafter outbreaks are the most effective e control measures The losses losse reported for last year are not so great as In 1913 1013 and 1014 1914 when the disease ap- ap appeared ap eared particularly prevalent but they hey were larger than department exerts ex- ex experts experts ex ex- erts consider they should have been considering that swine growers havet haen have ha n 1 t preventive pre treatment which Is effee effectual If used properly before the nfl nl become sick |