Hog Cholera 393 



Wood charcoal 1 pound 



Sulfur 1 pound 



Sodium chloride 2 pounds 



Sodium bicarbonate 2 pounds 



Sodium hyposulfite 2 pounds 



Sodium sulfate 1 pound 



Antimony sulfide 1 pound 



"These ingredients should be thoroughly pulverized 

 and mixed. The dose of this mixture is a large table- 

 spoonful for each two hundred pounds weight of hogs 

 to be treated. Give only once daily." It is better 

 to give this remedy mixed with sweet milk, or in gruel, 

 or mixed with raw eggs well beaten. 



At the present time, no satisfactory protective treat- 

 ment in the way of vaccination or inoculation has been 

 devised, although the ablest investigators in this and 

 other countries have been searching for some method 

 of this kind. Some swine -raisers think that a measure 

 of protection is given by allowing the well hogs to 

 eat the thoroughly cooked flesh of an animal that 

 has died from the cholera. In trying this, be sure that 

 the meat is thoroughly cooked, as allowing them to eat 

 the uncooked meat would inoculate them with the living 

 germs. 



Many farmers who have had experience do not wait 

 for the disease to make its appearance, but, as soon as 

 it reaches a dangerous proximity, dispose of their hogs, 

 and thus avoid infecting their farms and evade the 

 possibility of selling animals that may be coming down 

 with the disease. Diseased swine must not be sold. 



In dealing with hog cholera, it must be remembered 



