Show r CHOLERA COSTS FARMERS IHil HENSE SUM 12 w ftc L f ji casa VV isai 21 2 1 4 1 an K M 1 1 t 4 X 3 4 healthy sow and litter in fairweather fair weather paddock what la Is hog ch oleia stripped of all the big words that might be used la in describing it it is a swine disease that costs the farmers of the united states more than a standing army and involves the lungs kidneys liver and especially tho the intestines of the diseased animal says an illinois writer in farm progress it is highly infectious d and nd Is more dreaded than any other one live stock menace and there are plenty of reasons tor for this dread how do hogs bogs get it in a hundred ways A dog ranging through gli the fields may pick up the germs of the disease on his feet carrying them for five miles across country and scatter them in your hog lot A buzzard may pick up a piece of carrion from the carcass of a cholera slain porker and drop it under a dead tree in your fields or a healthy hog may get it through consuming infected food or water cholera may come down in the running water of a creek or river it may be spread by contact between hog and hog or by shipping a hog in cars used to transport diseased porkers corkers por kers there are other ways and many of them but not one is more important than that of carrying the germs on the clothes the boots the wagon tires or any other objects from one farm to another it if your hogs bogs have the cholera keep away from your neighbors premises and ask him to do as much for you under the same circumstances Is there any section of the united states where a man can go and raise hogs without having to fear cholera not one so far as is known this swine plague is about as universal as the hogs distribution it Is especially prevalent in the corn belt states but that is solely because there are more hogs there to acquire the disease it exists in the east the west the north and the south how long will hog cholera linger y in a neighborhood if carefully handled and fought as it should bo be fought with serums preventive remedies and the aid of men who are veterans in such fighting the last traces will usually disappear in about two years that Is unless a fresh source of infection coming from the outside Is established in the neighborhood when is it most acute most dangerous and most destructive look out for it in the fall it is serious enough in the summer but it Is most virulent and acute in the fall and will last on and through the winter and over into the next heated season it if left to run unchecked in winter it is often complicated by a partially understood disease that seems to center its attacks on the lungs by some this is classified as a separate trouble but others announce that it is a more deadly variation of cholera how long does it take cholera to incubate or develop in a hog after tho the animal Is exposed this varies from a few days to two and even three weeks exposure Is practically certain to result in the disease and when the hogs are arc known to have been exposed get the serum treatment started what are the early symptoms they are sadly Y familiar to thousands of farmers tremors fever marked weakness droddy appearance staggering walk labored breathing diarrhea maybe constipation and income cases convulsions are the first symptoms where the symptoms are very strong the hog may die within a few hours what preventives may be used clean up filthy quarters move the hogs out of crowded quarters use plenty of disinfectants disinfect ants in the sheds and see that the water and feed given are clean and wholesome go into the sheds and hog houses with plenty of whitewash slaked lime stock dips carbolic car bolle acid chloride of lime or any other disinfectant that is handy and use them unsparingly |