CHAPTER XX. 



HOG CHOLERA. 



In hog cholera an ounce of prevention is worth ten pounds 

 of cure. Tim. 



More has been spoken and 

 written on. the subject of hog 

 cholera than upon any other one 

 subject connected with hogs. It 

 has ever been a fruitful source for 

 discussion at farmers' institutes 

 and an endless theme on which to 

 write. The Government has ap- 

 THE BARS THAT KEEP propriated large sums of money 

 HOG CHOLERA our. and has emp i oye d learned men 



who have labored with seeming diligence for years, and 

 yet after all these years of waiting and all this expendi- 

 ture of money we are forced to admit, whether humili- 

 ating or not, that we know but very little that is of 

 practical benefit about the whole matter. 



But two things are absolutely known about the 

 disease. One is that it sweeps unrestrained over vast 

 areas of country, leaving death and destruction in its 

 wake ; and the other is that hogs which contract the 

 disease usually die. 



1 shall not attempt to deal with this subject in a 

 scientific way, but shall deal with it rather from a practi- 

 cal standpoint. Much that I know, in fact most all that 

 1 do know, has been learned in the school of bitter ex- 

 perience, and the lessons were sometimes very costly. 



