Hog Cholera. 9 



come down with the disease, if allowed to run at large on the com- 

 mon or in the mountains may carry the disease. This same effect 

 often results from transporting breeding animals into an infected 

 neighborhood for service and then returning them to their home 



Disinfecting shoes before leaving cholera infested farm. 



pens. Hogs bought at fairs and stock shows, may look well and 

 hearty but may have been exposed in the cars in which they were 

 shipped or in the pens in which they were exhibited, and when 

 taken home without being in quarantine for three weeks, will in- 

 fect the' home herds. Small streams running through and drain- 

 ing infected yards are common carriers of disease. Dead carcasses 

 of hogs are often times the means of infection, when taken to the 



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Dogs will carry the disease from one farm 

 to another 



