998 DISEASES OF THE HOG. 
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 
2mm. 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 net 
prevailed for some time in the neighborhood where 
the pigs-were raised. I think the best prevention | 
is to have strong, healthy hogs. Read the intro- 
duction to be found on the first page of this book. 
All pigs which die of cholera or swine plague 
