Hog Cholera Control. 
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this is a dangerous practice and other arrangements can be made. 
5. By shipping hogs to market as soon as they show evidence 
of cholera. This necessitates either driving them along the public 
roads to the railroad yards or transporting them in wagons. While 
en route, both before loading on the cars and after, excreta is scat¬ 
tered along the highways, spreading infection to adjacent farms. 
All railroad yards and cars used for shipping hogs are looked upon 
as infected and hogs shipped either by freight or express, save for 
immediate slaughter, should be treated with anti-hog cholera serum 
before shipping, or, in case of a short journey, immediately upon 
arrival at their destination. 
6. By feed that has become contaminated. Corn and other 
foodstuffs are sometimes hauled in a wagon that was previously used 
for transporting hogs to market. Garbage from hotels and restau¬ 
rants fed to hogs without being thoroughly cooked is a source of 
danger because of uncooked pork rinds from diseased carcasses and 
entrails from chickens kept on cholera infested farms. Hogs kept 
around slaughter houses and fed offal from cholera infected hogs 
contract the disease. 
7. By many ways too numerous to mention it is possible for 
hog cholera infection to be spread to healthy hogs, but it should be 
remembered that in the great majority of cases infection can be 
easily traced to conditions that might have been avoided, and is to 
be charged to ignorance, carelessness or indifference. 
Hog cholera should be looked upon the same as smallpox, 
diphtheria and scarlet fever, as an infection, and to be controlled 
in the main by application of the same general principles .of sanita¬ 
tion, with quarantine and disinfection as the prime factors. 
SUGGESTIONS FOR HOG CHOLERA CONTROL. 
1. By hog growers associations or other organizations where¬ 
in voluntary co-operation is encouraged, and compulsory co-opera¬ 
tion can be secured through the offices of close veterinary supervi¬ 
sion. Since the state does not provide ample veterinary supervision, 
farmers’ organizations already existing, or new ones, should take 
active and immediate measures to control hog cholera. The County 
Agriculturalist may appropriately assume leadership in this work. 
The organization should be numerically strong enough to represent 
a majority of the best farmers in a district and financially strong 
enough to employ a veterinarian for at least part of his time. 
Since the law does not provide for the appointment of deputy 
state veterinarians, it will be well to make the veterinarian employed, 
a deputy sheriff and instruct him to proceed as follows: 
