SANITATION IN THE HOG LOT 49I 



Show hogs ought to be kept in isolated quarters for at 

 least 20 da3'S after returning to the farm. The same prac- 

 tice should apply when newly purchased hogs are brought 

 in, and especially those coming from or through stock 

 }ards or from considerable distances. Isolation for 

 this length of time will determine whether disease exists 

 in any of the animals and prevent its spread to others. 



In case of an outbreak of ''cholera" or swine plague, 

 too rigid a quarantine cannot be established against all 

 neighboring farms. This should apply to dogs and poul- 

 try, as well as neighbors or casual visitors. The con- 

 tagion is easily carried, even from a road, and may be 

 brought, as has been well established, by dogs going 

 from one farm to another, or by crows, and on the 

 shoes of visitors or the wheels of vehicles that have been 

 in the infected district. The bacteria are very easily 

 carried and too much caution cannot be observed when 

 cholera is known to be in or near the neighborhood. The 

 farmer himself should not visit the farms of others 

 where disease is known to be prevalent. 



METHODS OF DISIXFECTIOX 



When one of the serious contagious diseases appears, 

 the methods to eradicate it should not be half-hearted. 

 The best methods are condensed into the following para- 

 graph from Farmers' Bulletin No. 205, issued by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture: 



"The quarters in which the sickness first appeared 

 shoukl be thoroughly cleaned, all bedding and rubbish 

 burned, and loose boards and old partitions torn out 



