190 SWINE DISEASES 



complying with the laws of hygiene, the enforcement of 

 sanitary police regulations, and by immunization of swine 

 by the use of anti-hog-cholera serum. 



The laws of hygiene of other domesticated animals 

 than swine are fairly well provided for by the stock 

 raisers. It has been the custom, and it is still far too com- 

 mon at the present writing, to consider that anything is 

 good enough for swine. Thus many men having exten- 

 sive financial interests in pork production are constantly 

 seeking fermented grain and moldy and otherwise spoiled 

 or damaged foods for their swine because such food stuff 

 can usually be purchased for less money than a clean, 

 wholesome food. But such foods interfere with the 'diges- 

 tion, thus weakening the animals and rendering them 

 more susceptible to disease. Swine that are given the 

 proper diet are not necessarily immune to cholera, but 

 they are much more resistant than swine affected with 

 digestive derangements. Swine should also receive an 

 abundance of clean, wholesome water, and not be required 

 to drink water from polluted streams or stagnant pools. 

 Many cases of what would probably have been fatal cases 

 of cholera have been nursed back to health by providing 

 good surroundings and a diet of clean, sweet milk. 



Hog pens should not be placed, as they frequently are, 

 in locations that cannot be drained properly. It 

 is not necessary for swine to have mud and filth for their 

 existence. They will thrive better when kept in sanitary 

 quarters. 



Sanitary police regulations, or general sanitation in 

 relation to control of hog cholera, have certainly not 

 received proper consideration. If rules and regulations 

 were instituted prohibiting the dissemination of hog 

 cholera, the losses could be rapidly diminished. The 

 following provisions for quarantine and shipping regula- 

 tions were recommended by the committee on Uniform 

 Methods for the Control of Hog Cholera at the meeting 

 of the United States Live Stock Association in December, 

 1913: 



1. The shipment or movement, interstate, of swine affected with 

 cholera to be prohibited. 



