TREATMENT OF CHOLERA 



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Water-supply. — Perhaps this is one of the most important single 

 factors in the prevention of cholera. Hogs should never be al- 

 lowed to run in a pasture where there is a running stream which 

 receives drainage from other hog lots higher up along its course. 

 It has already been shown how readily these streams may become 

 the carriers of hog-cholera infection, and we usually have no way of 

 knowing when animals are dying several miles up stream, and no 

 way of knowing whether the stream is becoming infected or not. 



Sanitary drinking troughs, preferably of concrete or metal, 

 should be provided, and the animals should have constantly before 

 them a plentiful supply of fresh, clear water, both for drinking and 



Fig. 54. — A model piggery at "The Cedars" farm, Columbus, Ohio. 



wallowing purposes. In the winter months the drinking-water 

 should be heated, so as to bring it to a temperature comfortable to 

 drink. Water is one of the greatest cleansing agents that we 

 possess, and both man and animal should use large amounts of 

 good, clear, fresh water, both internally and externally. Drink- 

 ing of plenty of fresh, clean water washes out all the tubes and 

 canals of the body and keeps them clean and free from accumula- 

 tions of disease-producing, stagnant matter. Hogs will not drink 

 enough water if it is so cold as to chill the body when swallowed. 

 Give a little attention to this small point of comfort, and the 

 animal will many times repay you by increased health and in- 

 creased results from the same amount of food eaten. 



