DISEASES OF SWINE TREATMENT 257 



Important Symptoms Found in Post-Mortem. 



Red spots on the skin. 



Bloody spots in the kidneys, on the surface of the heart, in the lungs, or 

 the outer and inner surface of the stomach and the intestines. 



An enlarged spleen. (The spleen is found on the right har.d side as one 

 views the hog on his back. It lies a little below and to the ~2ght of the 

 stomach). 



Reddened lymphatic glands. (These glands are easily recognized by the 

 farmer. The ones to be examined are in the fat immediately under the skin 

 of the abdomen near the center between the hind legs). 



Ulcers on the inner lining of the large intestine. 



All of the above indications are seldom found in a hog that has died 

 from cholera. In acute cases the hog may show only an enlarged spleen or a 

 bloody condition of the lymphatic glands, while in chronic cases there may 

 only be the button-like ulcers in the large intestine. 



Preventive Treatment. Hog cholera is easier to prevent than it is to 

 cure. The preventive measures to be followed are : Keep all newly purchased 

 stock away from the herd for at least thirty days, give the hogs clean, dry 

 sleeping places, keep the feeding and drinking troughs clean, scatter slaked 

 lime about the lots occasionally and disinfect the troughs and buildings with 

 a compound solution of cresol (U. S. P.) or carbolic acid, do not put hogs 

 that have recovered from cholera with susceptible ones for at least two 

 months after complete recovery and then dip them in a disinfectant solution 

 first (compound solution of cresol 1 to 100), protect the hogs from hot, reeking 

 beds of manure, keep away from all places where the disease exists, a man 

 may carry the germs on his shoes ; keep all persons away from your place who 

 have been where the disease exists, separate the well and diseased animals; 

 burn, or if buried cover with lime, all dead bodies; do not leave slop or water 

 in the troughs for the hogs to wallow in ; keep the animals in good vigorous 

 health. 



Many farmers have kept their hogs from getting cholera by using one of 

 the following receipts; 



Two pounds each of Copperas, Sulphur and Madder, one-half pound each 

 of Saltpeter and Black Antimony, and two ounces of Arsenic. This quantity 

 is enough for 100 hogs. It is put in the slop allowing one small tablespoonful 

 to each full grown hog once a day. This receipt was recommended by a 

 prominent farmer in Illinois who writes that every time he tried it he had 

 about fifty head of hogs and that not one of them died that could walk to the 

 trough and drink the preparation. 



Thoroughly dissolve one pound of Copperas in three gallons of water. 

 Apply this as a wash to the affected hogs whenever the skin begins to look 

 scaly and rough, or of a dark red color. Have the wash about milk-warm and 

 apply by dipping the hog into a barrel containing the solution or rubbing 



