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pounds weight of hogs to be treated, and should not be given oftener 

 than once a day. This medicine can not be relied upon to prevent 

 the occurrence of disease, except in so far as it improves the general 

 health of the hogs. Therefore, even though this remedy be used, 

 strict attention must be given to quarantine and sanitary measures if 

 the disease is to be warded off when in the neighborhood. (F. 

 B. 379.) 



Again referring to the adage, "Prevention is better than cure," 

 every means available should be used to prevent cholera from gaining 

 access to the herd. Especial care should be exercised in the buying 

 of animals with the assurance that they come from clean premises 

 and all new animals should be isolated for two or three weeks so that 

 if infected the disease may show itself before they are brought in con- 

 tact with the remainder of the herd. Carcasses should be burned or 

 buried deeply and covered with quick lime, while the pens should be 

 thoroughly cleaned and disinfected by saturating with a solution of 

 5 per cent carbolic acid. 



With these measures of prevention coupled with the control of 

 the disease by the serum method, it is believed that this profitable 

 branch of the live stock industry will in this State assume much 

 larger proportions in the near future. (S. C. B. 152.) 



The feeding and the care of hogs have much to do with the pre- 

 vention of the cholera. Clean, dry pens, regular and proper feeding, 

 comfortable sleeping quarters, plenty of sunshine, the pens cleaned 

 and disinfected regularly, the hogs themselves dipped every few 

 weeks when the weather is fit, all help in keeping up their vitality, 

 and in this way warding off troubles of all kinds. Many hog raisers 

 feed at regular intervals some of the Government Hog Remedy to 

 aid digestion and circulation and to prevent worms, especially where 

 the animals are confined to a small lot. 



After shipping a hog it should be dipped as soon as removed from 

 the crate and kept away from all others for several weeks, and then 

 dipped again before being allowed to come in contact with the rest. 

 If a hog shows signs of sickness it should be at once removed and 

 kept by itself until well. 



In September, 1909, a breeder of high-class hogs, living several 

 miles from the college, noticed three head sick, one almost dead. A 

 post-mortem was held by members of the Veterinary Department of 

 the college and the disease diagnosed as acute cholera. The remain- 

 ing hogs were thoroughly dipped and removed to new, clean quarters 

 and everything disinfected, and no further cases developed. Prompt, 

 vigorous methods in this case saved the herd. (Kan. E. S. B. 163.) 



For the prevention of cholera and swine-plague the first and 

 most essential thing is by every means possible to avoid infection 

 from diseased hogs. The observations made during the past two 

 years have shown that the principal ways in which these diseases get 

 spread in this locality are all in some measure at least preventable. 

 These are: Allowing hogs, both healthy and diseased, to escape from 

 the farm where they belong and on to the public roads; infection 

 conveyed by the drinking water polluted by dead and diseased ani- 



