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Hog Cholera 



In cholera the lungs are often effected, especially in die winter 

 they show inflammation and more or less pus is discharged 9fo,m. the nose, 

 accompanied by labored breathing. 



The kidneys become speckled much like the brownish specks on a 

 turkey's egg. The outer surface of the stomach and inner surface of the 

 bladder may become reddened and inflamed. 



Kidney of cholera hog showing brownish speaks, simSlar to the brownish 



specks on a turkey egg. 



The inside of the small intestine and the l^lind gut often have flat 

 or oval ulcers on them from the size of a pin head to that of a quarter of 

 a dollar. To find intestinal ulcers is almost infallible proof of hog 

 cholera. Inflammation of the intestines might be due to cockle burr 

 poisoning or from worms. Either can be detected by finding them- 



PREVENTION 



I made the statement in a previous paragraph that most of the fifty 

 million dollar loss which farmers lose as an annual average ''rjn hog 

 cholera can largely be prevented. 



As far as is known, the organisms causing hog cholera do not de- 

 velop or grow anywhere in nature except in the body of swine. These 

 organisms, germs, virus, or whatever you choose to call them are thrown 

 off the body of the sick hogs with the bowel and kidney passages. From 

 all that has been learned, hundreds of them must be thrown out with each 

 passage from a sick hog. It seems to be almost impossible for a per- 

 son to walk through a cholera lot and enter a well pen immediately af- 



