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 Hog Cholera 135 



HOG DEPARTMENT 



HOG CHOLERA 



{Swine Fever) 



Improperly Called (Mixed Infection) {Swine Plague) 



{Hemorrhagic Septicemia), {Pneumonia) 



Hog cholera is a very contagious disease. No breed of hogs are 

 immune or refuse to take the disease. The annual average loss from 

 cholera alone is about $50,000,000 dollars. I believe that at least 75 per 

 cent of such losses can be prevented, and I think that a majority of ex- 

 periment station men will agree. 



To date, the bacteriologists have not been able to isolate one or more 

 organisms (bacteria) and prove that they are the cause of hog cholera. 

 Until some one proves it other-wise and for all practical purposes it can 

 well be considered to be a bacterial disease! capable of exceptionally 

 rapid multiplication in the hog's body. 



SYMPTOMS 



Hog cholera is more prevalent during the late sunmier and the fall 

 months. There is no disease of hogs in the corn belt carried from farm 

 to farm that kills off hogs like hog cholera. At this very time some 

 writers of veterinary literature have a ^reat dead to say about hemorr- 

 hagic septicemia, mixed infection, pneumonia, swine plague, influenza 

 and other diseases of swine leading one to believe such diseases are of 

 as much importance as hog cholera. 



If the raisers of hogs or the veterinarian is led to believe such di- 

 seases are of importance they will become confused and not only be try- 

 ing to establish a new swine disease for his community, (which is the 

 stumbling block of both veterinarians and farmers) but a great deal of 

 valuable time will be lost while the hogs continue to die. When these 



