CHAPTER VIII 



SWINE DISEASES AND THEIR CONTROL 



Indications of disease. — One of the essentials to suc- 

 cess in any system of swine industry must of necessity 

 consist in the ability to detect and control swine diseases. 



Sunlight and dip are used to prevent disease on the farm of 

 W. W. Shay, Cruso, N. C. 



There are so many ailments to which swine are subject 

 and in which the mortality is high that it becomes im- 

 portant that we be able not only to recognize disease 

 when it occurs, but we should know the causes of disease 

 in order that we may more successfully prevent them. 



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