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is a good laxative and intestinal disinfectant. In cases where the 

 purchased animals have been exposed to the cholera, a quarantine 

 of 40 to 60 days is advisable before placing them with the home 

 herd. The quarantine pens should be thoroughly disinfected at 

 frequent intervals by spraying well with a 5fc carbolic acid solu- 

 tion, and sprinkling liberally with air slacked lime. 



When it is necessary for a farmer to go into the stock yards 

 or to an infected farm, he should disinfect his shoes by wiping 

 them off thoroughly on a grain bag which has been saturated with 

 a 5fc carbolic or creolin solution, or a strong hog dip. This re- 

 quires but a moment, and is a precaution which is well worth 

 taking. Discourage the visits of crows and pigeons to your feed- 

 ing pens by appropriate measures. Look well to the condition of 

 your fences to prevent the smaller pigs from invading the hog 

 yards of neighboring farms. Locate the hog pastures so that they 

 will not be regular passways for visitors and farm hands, who 

 may bring infection on their shoes. Do not drive your hogs to 

 market, and discourage others from doing so. Haul them in a 

 close bottom hog crate, and sprinkle the floor of same with air 

 slacked lime, or disinfect it with a 5^ solution of carbolic acid at 

 the stock yards before returning home. 



Neighbors should report the disease to one another as soon 

 as possible after an outbreak, in order that proper precautions 

 may be taken by every farmer in the neighborhood to avoid the 

 further spread of the disease. There is a law requiring such noti- 

 fication, which every one should follow without compulsion. 



It should become the practice of hog raisers and feeders to 

 remove at once from the herd every hog that becomes sick, and 

 put same in a small quarantine pen, which can be easily disin- 

 fected, and from which the barn-yard fowls should be kept by 

 means of wire netting. One sick animal, if kept a few days in the 

 herd, will scatter the virus widely over the feeding yards and lead 

 to the infection of a large number of animals. When assured of 

 the presence of the disease in the herd, if it is feasible, divide the 

 herd into several small lots and put them on clean grounds. If 

 this cannot be done, scrape the litter from the old yards and mix 

 it well with lime. Then scatter quick-lime freely over the hog 

 yard. During an outbreak of hog cholera, shut the chickens away 

 from the hog lots to prevent them from scattering the infection 

 from pen to pen. A few yards of chicken wire is an important 

 aid in controlling hog cholera. 



An attendant who has charge of sick hogs should not, if pos- 



