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two ounces. Make into sixty capsules or powders and 

 give one, three or four times a day. The sow should 

 receive a dose about eight times the size of that of the 



pigs. 



HOG CHOLERA 



Cause: By the Bacillus Sius; contaminated food, 

 stagnant water, filth, etc., all have a tendency to aid its 

 progress. I have seen farms, although located in sec- 

 tions w^here Cholera was prevalent, not in the least 

 troubled with the malady, perhaps due to careful feed- 

 ing of clean foods, care in watering, cleanliness about the 

 pens and sheds and disinfecting occasionally, but no 

 doubt a better explanation is that those hogs received 

 tonics, containing worm expellers, at least four times a 

 year. Many a case of supposed Hog Cholera is due to 

 worms irritating and producing inflammation of the in- 

 testines, followed by diarrhoea. A person not familiar 

 with the disease calls this *^hog cholera." In other 

 cases, hogs which are fed swills from restaurants, hotels, 

 etc., containing soap, washing powders, small particles of 

 glass, etc., will die with symptoms leading a person to 

 think they had Hog Cholera, but if a thorough investiga- 

 tion is made the true cause of death can easily be discov- 

 ered. 



Symptoms: In true Hog Cholera, the temperature 

 will be elevated two to four degrees above normal. 

 There will be a loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhoea, al- 

 though there may be constipation when the hog is first 

 affected. The hog wanders off by itself to some cool, 

 quiet place and lies down. When it walks it will stagger 

 and show great stiffness in its hind parts, due to sore- 

 ness of the intestines. The hair will have a roughened 

 appearance, the back arched, the eyes inflamed and dis- 

 charging pus, red blotches will show themselves back of 

 the ears, inside the legs and on the abdomen. At this 

 stage the diarrhoea is watery, dark and tinged with 

 blood, and very offensive in odor, breath is very fast and 

 labored. The hog grows very weak and dies. 



