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farmers' BULLETIN 834. 



TO KEEP HOG CHOLERA FROM REACHING YOUR HERD. 



OCATE your hog lots and pastures away from streams and 



■L^ public, highways, and do not allow your hogs to run on free 

 range or highways nor to have access to canals or irrigation 

 ditches. 



Do not visit your neighbor's farm nor allow him to visit yours 

 if there is hog cholera on his premises. 



Do not drive into hog lots after driving on public highways. 



Do not use hog lots for yarding wagons and farm implements. 



Do not place newly purchased stock, stock procured or bor- 

 rowed for breeding purposes, or stock exhibited at county fairs 

 immediately with your herd. Keep such slock quarantined in 

 separate pens for at least two weeks, and use care in feeding 

 and attending stock to prevent carrying infection from these to 

 other pens. 



Burn to ashes or cover with quicklime and bury under 4 feet 

 of earth all dead animals and the viscera removed from animals 

 at butchering time, because they attract buzzards, dogs, etc., 

 which are likely to carry hog-cholera infection. 



If hog cholera appears in the neighborhood, confine your dog 

 and encourage your neighbor to do the same. 



Have all hogs treated immediately with anti-hog-cholera 

 scrum, after which they should be kept on a light diet, for a 

 few days, with pure drinking water, and confined to limited 

 quarters that should be cleaned and sprayed occasionally with 

 1 part of compound cresol solution to 30 parts of water, until 

 the disease has abated in the herd. 



To obtain the best results the serum must be administered as 

 soon as the disease can be detected in the herd. Be sure that 

 the temperature of all hogs is taken. A temperature above 

 104° F. in ordinary weather and when the animal is not excited 

 indicates the necessity for an increased dose of serum. 



Collect all manure in piles away from hogs and allow to rot. 



Burn all litter, rubbish, and old hog troughs. 



After the premises are thoroughly cleaned, spray walls, floors, 

 and other surfaces, including remaining hog troughs, etc., with 

 a disinfectant (1 part compound cresol solution to 30 parts 

 water). Where hog houses are small, turn them over, exposing 

 interior to sunlight. 



Cleanliness and sunlight help to destroy infection. 



Wallow holes and cesspools should be fdled in, drained, or 

 fenced off. 



All runs underneath buildings should be cleaned and disin- 

 fected and then boarded up to keep hogs out. 



Destroy hogs that do not fully recover, as they may be carriers 

 of cholera infection. 



IF HOG CHOLERA APPEARS IN YOUR HERD. 



TO RID PREMISES OF INFECTION. 



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