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Quarantine — Provision sliould be made in large herds f(ir 

 quarters wlicre liogs that have been purchased, or brought 

 home from shows, can be kept entirely separate from the rest 

 of the herd for at least three -n-eeks. The plan of using portaljle 

 pens and dividing the herd up intu small groups has a marked 

 advantage o\'er keei)ing the hogs in a large piggery, in ease a 

 contagious disease brealvs out. With the portable pens, all 

 hogs are not exposed, and it is a simpler matter to effect a 

 quarantine. 



Hog cholera is the most dangerous ciuitanidus disease that 



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Fig. 86. — A form of brood house for sow and pigs. Ea.'^il^' removed to a elean plaee 

 to prevent disease. 



the 'Swine breeder has to contend with. In case of an outbreak 

 of either cholera or swine plague in the neighborhood, a most 

 rigid quarantine should Ix' put into force. There should be no 

 visiting liack and forth hv either man or beast between infected 

 farms and those which are clear, because the vims which causes 

 the disease may lie easily carried on the boots of the persons 

 or the feet of animals. Even dogs have been known to carry 

 the disease from one farm to another. Dcigs should be tied up 

 until an outhireak of this disease is under contrdl. 



On the farm where disease breaks out, healthy animals 

 should be separated at once from diseased animals, and differ- 

 ent attendants should feed the two lots, each attendant keeping 

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