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disinfectant at the rate of from a pint to a quart per bar- 

 rel. There can be no question that such a use of disin- 

 fectant is useful in preventing or destroying worms and 

 germs in the intestinal tract, and so warding off cholera 

 and other enteric diseases. It also is legitimate to use 

 other simple correctives with the hope of preventing in- 

 digestion, and these may include salt, charcoal, wood 

 ashes, stone coal, epsom salts, glauber salts and lime 

 water. Strong irritating medicines should be avoided 

 and no medicine the exact composition of which is un- 

 known should be used. One cannot afford to trust to 

 the other fellow^'s intelligence or integrity when it comes 

 to treating hogs for disease or attempting to prevent its 

 ravages. For the latter reason, and the fear of contamina- 

 tion, it is a wise policy to keep the hog-cholera-patent- 

 dope peddler off the place by any means necessary." 



HOG CHOLERA AND SWINE PLAGUE 



The latest and perhaps the most informing presenta- 

 tion of the subject of hog cholera, and incidentally swine 

 plague, is that by Dr. M. Dorset, of the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, 

 in Farmers' Bulletin No. 379, issued November ly, 1909, 

 from which the following is condensed. This bulletin 

 "was prepared especially for the use of the practical 

 farmer in order that he may be enabled to recognize the 

 disease and to deal with it effectively" : 



"Hog cholera is an acute febrile disease w^hich, so far 

 as is known, affects only hogs, and wdiich is character- 

 ized by extreme contagiousness and a very high death 

 rate. It is usual to speak of two forms of this disease. 



