TREATMENT OF CHOLERA 239 



Less than two weeks later three or four of the animals were 

 noted to be off feed and scouring, with a black-colored, very 

 nasty diarrhea. In less than a week there was a full-fledged 

 outbreak of cholera in this herd, which nearly wiped out the 

 entire drove. 



Roadside pastures are also likely to infection in another manner. 

 This is by the carrying of infected htter and dust from the roadway 

 over into the hog pastures by wind. This danger, while relatively 

 unimportant, is nevertheless well worth considering, and offers 

 another good argument why hog pastures should never be located 

 along a public roadway. 



In the first-mentioned outbreak there is another interesting 

 fact worthy of notice, that is, the ease with which the young pigs 

 became infected. In these roadside pastures it is especially the 

 pigs that are liable to go through small openings in the fences and 

 get out upon the road. It is also the pigs which are most easily 

 made sick by cholera infection and, therefore, the more likely to 

 contract the disease. 



Where any systematic effort is made to dispose properly of the 

 dead cholera animals, burial is perhaps the most commonly resorted 

 to in the hog-raising belt, although in the past five years farmers 

 have come to realize the advantages of burning, and more animals 

 are being burned every year. 



Burial of cholera animals has a number of disadvantages, not 

 the least of which is the fact that it is most disagreeably hard 

 labor and takes a large amount of time. It is no child's play to 

 go out and dig a pit 6 feet deep and 8 or 10 feet long on a hot 

 summer day to bury animals which represent a dead loss. The 

 tendency is bound to develop to let them accumulate for a few 

 days and then make one job of it, and this is certain to result not 

 only in allowing the dead bodies to remain exposed to the attack 

 of buzzards, but it also causes the accumulation of such a big 

 amount of work that a shallow trench is dug and the dead hogs 

 rolled in and covered with a foot or so of loose earth. Such burial 

 as this is about the next thing to leaving the carcasses exposed, 

 as they are quickly dug up again by dogs, skunks, and other 

 animals. 



Burial, to be properly done, should place the animals at least 



