^28 DISEASES OF THE KOG. 



Sanitary Measures: When hog cholera breaks 

 out in a neighborhood it will be wise not to fre- 

 quent the place in case of carrying the disease, but 

 to scatter new lime over the parts where your hogs 

 frequent most and to sprinkle their sleeping places 

 with a solution of crude carbolic acid, strength one 



Figure 19. Swine Plague. 



Photograph by Dr. T. J. Burrill, with Zeiss apochromatic 

 2min. objective and number 8 ocular ; X800. 



ounce to the quart of water. Care should be taken 

 in the purchase of hogs to see that they have good, 

 healthy constitutions and that hog cholera has not 

 prevailed for some time in the neighborhood where 

 the pigs were raised. I think the best prevention 

 is to have strong, healthy hogs. Kead the intro- 

 duction to be found on the first page of this book. 

 All pigs which die of cholera or swine plague 



