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will oftentimes be brought in in this way. No animal should 

 come upon any farm without being thoroughly disinfected 

 and then quarantined for two or three weeks before being 

 allowed near the rest of the animals. In this way should the 

 animal be affected with any disease, it will have plenty of 

 time to develop the same. Many men have brought hog 

 cholera and other very disastrous diseases upon their farms 

 in this way. They have purchased a hog from what was 

 supposed to be a healthy flock. They have taken the same 

 home and put him with the rest of their swine. In ten 

 days or two weeks the animal will show symptoms of sick- 

 ness. This is usually followed by other hogs showing the 

 same symptoms. By a little carelessness in this way often- 

 times an entire herd of swine has been wiped out by hog 

 cholera. The hog in question may have come from a healthy 

 farm, but in being shipped over some railroad may have been 

 exposed to cholera, thus contracted the disease. A hog which 

 has been brought upon the farm, thoroughly disinfected, 

 quarantined for three weeks and then appeared to be in 

 perfect health, can safely be introduced into the herd. 



On each and every farm there should be some provision 

 made for dipping swine. This not only proves to be an 

 easy and effectual method of disinfecting animals which are 

 being brought upon the farm, but it also furnishes a good way 

 for disposing of lice. Every swine herd should be dipped 

 at least twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. There are 

 very few herds of swine that are not affected at some time 

 or other with lice. Some recommend sprinkling or spraying 

 for lice. This is not a very good way to overcome the dif- 

 ficulty, as the lice are usually found on the head close to the 

 ears, under the arm pits, and in other secluded places where 

 spraying could not in any way reach them. Swine thus 

 affected, when put through a dipping tank will be free from 

 all trouble. There are several patent dips on the market, 

 such as Zenoleum and Chloro-Naphtholeum, which give good 

 results. 



In addition to all that has been said in regard to the im- 

 portance of having clean quarters, of feeding the right kind 

 of feed stuffs, of giving an abundance of exercise, of keeping 

 the hogs in small numbers in one place, of providing means 

 for killing worms, of quarantining animals which are to be 

 introduced upon the farm, and of dipping for lice and other 



