140 Hog Cholera Prevention 



naif an hour or so. Mr. A. gets some of the manure on his shoes out of 

 the sick pen, goes home, gets in his corn crib, walks on the corn and 

 then throws the corn out to the hogs. Mr. A. looks his hogs over and all 

 of them report for feed in a healthy condition. But in 4 to 14 days, 

 Mr. A.s hogs take sick and he wonders where they got the disea^. Now 

 he went over to see Mr. B.s hogs expressly to see how those hogs acted 

 so if his hogs got sick, he'd know how they acted. In other words the 

 trip to the sick pens was unnecessary. Friendly visits may carry hog 

 cholera from a sick pen to a well herd in the same way. A stock buyer 

 may carry it from the city stock yards. It is often carried from rail- 

 road stock yards where farmers are unloading exposed hogs back to 

 farms that harbor well hogs. You haul off hogs for a neighbor, unload 

 them and tramp around in the urine or the bowel passages of sick hogs, 

 jump in your wagon, tramp in it and go straight home, tramp over your 

 corn you feed your hogs or haul the corn out in your wagon you got 

 into at the infected yards and scoop the corn, infection and all out to 

 your hogs. You may haul exposed hogs for a neighbor without giving 

 the disease to your hogs if you take the following precautions. I Bed 

 your wagon heavy. II When you arrive home kick the bedding out in 

 an isolated spot where no hogs are kept and burn all bedding. Ill Don't 

 take your wagon in your lot or go in it yourself till you have taken care 

 of the bedding, washed your wagon bed inside and out, hounds, coup- 

 ling poles, wheels, break rubbers, double trees, your own shoes and any- 

 thing that might carry the smallest dirt particle with a 10 per cent dip 

 solution. Scrub the whole business with a broom. A ten per cent sol- 

 ution is l/o gallon of dip to 5 gallon of water. Then cover all parts of 

 the bed, tongue, double trees, wheels, coupling poles, hounds etc., with 

 fresh air slack lime, as well as your own shoes and see to it all dirt is 

 off of the shoes and wagon. Then change your clothes from head to foot 

 and don't go into your hog pens with the clothes you wore to haul ex- 

 posed hogs till the clothing has been washed and boiled. Probably 

 more cholera is carried on people's shoes than by all other methods com- 

 bined. 



No stock buyer or visitor should be allowed in your hog pens when 

 cholera is any where around. It may mean the loss of many dollars to 

 you. Dogs, crows, and running water may bring the disease to your 

 pens from cholera pens, but in my opinion these cases are not as frequent 

 as the above methods. Most states have laws stating the disposition tq 



