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temperature of the hog is from looto 102. His bowels 

 may be costive or the discharges may be thin and 

 watery in substance, but usually black or dark in color, 

 emitting an offensive odor peculiar to the disease. 



The disease may be of a lingering character and 

 the animals linger for weeks, or they may die in three 

 or four days. Usually the lingering type is less fatal 

 than the more rapid forms of the disease. Hogs 

 which discharge freely in the first stages of the disease 

 are more likely to recover than when the bowels 

 remain constipated. Dark blue spots will often appear 

 under the skin. The bowels will be more or less in- 

 flamed inside ; in the small intestines and sometimes 

 in the stomach will be found ulcers ; this, however, is 

 not common in the first stages of the disease. The 

 bladder will most likely be full of a dark thick sub- 

 stance, showing that the kidneys, and in fact the whole 

 internal organism, are affected. 



If I were to say what I thought was the best thing 

 that could possibly be done when cholera appears in a 

 herd, I would unhesitatingly say, take the well hogs to 

 clean new quarters where no hogs have been for years. 

 Then if more of them take sick move them again, and 

 it is my belief based on actual experience that more 

 can be accomplished in this way than by the use of all 

 the medicine in the country. For various reasons it is 

 not always possible to move hogs, and in that case 

 treatment may be resorted to, sometimes with fairly 

 good results. The treatment should consist in separat- 

 ing the well from the sick hogs, and in dividing the sick 

 hogs according to age and size and severity of the at- 

 tack. I do not think that more than four or five hogs 



