EXPERIENCE
DEPA^l
•TMENT
HOQ RAISING.-No. 4.
Bog Cholera and Other Fatal Diseases
The Sanitation of Hog Baislng.
1st Premium.—Plenty of spring water
or well water are absolutely indispensable to the successful raising of healthy
bogs. In addition plenty of room and a
dry warm place to lie are next to these.
Not necessarily hog houses with floors,
glass windows, etc., but low sheds with a
wind break on north and west.
I find strawstacks better tban this however. I do not-mean strawplles.. These
become wet ahd very unhealthy. Let
yonr stook • hogs run with your stock
cattle. The cattle will eat into the stacks
and the hogs will bed there, always finding shelter and dry straw for a bed; then
the droppings from the cattle, if properly
fed, are better for the hogs than barrels
of medicine.
Always feed sufficient to keep the hogs
growing nicely, giving salt with wood
ashes that they may have it at any time.
If corn on ear Is fed, rake the cobs together when dry and burn and let them
eat the ashes.. Once a week sprinkle air-
slacked lime where tbey will necessarily
walk through it, and once a month
sprinkle them slightly with coal oil.'
Two things avoid: overfeeding and
"doctoring," Everlasting vigilance is the
thing to avoid disease. If disease does
then come rid the farm of hogs for six
months. .Mud holes or, hogwallows must
be avoided, but if you have them put
therein slacked lime and crude carbolic
acid.
When you feed take sufficient time to
watch your hogs eat, it will pay you. Remember a hog Is not a dirty animal, if he
has a chance to keep clean.
Sullivan Co.
T.K.C.
2d Premium.—Hog cholera has swept
hundreds of hogs in this State during the
past winter, and I have heard talk of hog
cholera for years, yet I have never seen a
hog that had the cholera. I do not feed
any cholera preventive as some do, bnt
feed plenty of charcoal in the slop, and
they relish it so mnch that they will leave
their corn to get it. Hogs like all other
stook, should have salt where they can
get lt at their pleasure. As a prevention
for cholera feed regularly; keep your
hogs in clean, warm and dry quarters,
with pure drink, and you will surely be
rewarded for such treatment. Olve the
hogs change of pasture. Let ringing
their noses alone and give them a large
pasture, a woody one if possible. Scurvy
may be cured by washing the affected
parts every day, for a few times with buttermilk. Kidney-worm affects hogs
sometimes, and may be easily cured by
giving two or three tablespoonfuls of lye,
made from hard-wood ashes, daily in slop.
Also place the animal in a sunny spot
and rub pine tar or turpentine upon the
loins. When lice and nits are noticed on
the hog pour a little coaloil along the
hog's back and they will soon disappear.
Mange is very oommon among hogs,
where they are allowed to run to a wet
straw stack. Remove them from the
straw stack and give them a dry place to
sleep in, and they will not be bothered
with the mange. To make hog raising a
success one must give it his whole time
and attention. So it is with any other occupation, we mnst study it, making oare-
ful experiments, and keeping account of
all our transactions. There is a lot of
truth In the saying, "The jaok of all
trades Is master of none." W. B. *
Corydon. 	
3d Premium.—1 bred and raised hogs on
the farm from 1854 to 1894, just forty
years, and during that time had no disease of a fatal character bnt twice, and
that was when I was so situated that I
could not treat my hogs as I wanted to.
■i go on the principle that one pound of
prevention Is better than a ton of cure.and
1 no not refer to the  so called hog  chol-
?,_*-Preventives and cures, for l never
used an ounce of them.
<*, y observation of cholera hogs is that
,°erei is more lost in doctoring and feeding cholera hogs than is made. So keep
your hogs healthy, not by dosing with
Patent medicine, but by rational treatment and handling. Forty to fifty years
r£° ln this vicinity the hog had wide
;!?8e and a variety of food, such as nuts,
{■°9M> charcoal, grub worms, eta, in adding corn when they needed it. But
srnT-F^y farmers try to raise hogs ln a
small, dry lot whioh is not purified once
?_V__""- "Jon have no other place .to
thfp„ywnr n°88 than a dry lot. rake up all
tS!~OD8 *nd trash each week and burn
th_»».        «•"■* ..tutu eaon   wee__   ana uurii
linim_3?vUle lo*' Md *Ive u » good sprink-
th« iWlJth cMbolio acid, and don't forget
tS-«7v-V«-*nd  troughs and Imitate na-
Rn?.^°yeMB »8° »nyour feed.
-_£"'_?? n_»*n with a farm should never
a good clover feed the year round. In
the winter let them have the range of
some grass field that you intend to break
in the spring, and that field ls the place
to fatten them, and then you get the manure.
I do not mean that you turn your hogs
into that field, either in summer or winter, withont sheds to sleep ln, for the hog
is the tenderestof our domestic animals,
and the man that turns his hogs into an
open field through the hot months of
summer without shade or shelter deserves the loss he receives, as a punishment for his cruelty to his hogs.
I occupied three different farms in that
40 years and raised about 50 hogs per
year. Two of the farms had running water, that is springs; one had wells. Keep
your hogs from -running water; that is
liable to be polluted from other farms.
Water for hogs to wallow in is all right,
if it is pure, either from spring or well.
Sanitation is the great remedy for hog
cholera
I visited a neighbor a few years ago
and he asked me to go and see a sow and
10 pigs.   He said he thought they had tne
not been so fatal In many southern counties. This may account for our Corydon
men showing so little fear of It.
Their preventives have been tried often
In this section with awful loss. Our farmers have learned to say: "1 haven't had it
this year or even for several years," but
they seldom say, "I am not afraid of it "
How in the world does W. B. keep his
hogs from rooting if he doesn't ring
them? By the way, the extensive experiments at Washington, I). C, under veterinary guidance do not sustain the popular belief that breaking the skin endangers the health of the hog.
They found It very difficult to give a
hog the cholera by forcing a teaspoonful
of cholera infusion under the skin with a
syringe.
The microbe causing cholera is well
known to medical experts. Its habits are
well known. It multiplies by division.
A band forms around it, cutting it in two,
each halt soon becoming a perfect microbe. It will thus multiply to millions
in a day or two. Its natural home is
largely in stagnant water and in the
blood of swlne.   It does not float about in
crobes in a warm infusion of hay, and a
sleepy branch in hot weather is everywhere floating leaves and trash and
touching woody drift, and is the natural
habitat for the microbe. I once got specimens of certain germs out of a creek,
and it I could find an old horse track in
touch with tbe branch and full of warm,
scummy water I could always find plenty
of specimens for my microscope.
I dwell at some length on this creek
question, because the water courses are
universally acknowledged by experts to
be very dangerous. A cloud of dust from
a distant farm may seed the creek and
the microbes may multiply to millions in
every eddy along lis course.
I have some faith in sulphur springs, or
if I had one I'd do as Judge Martindale
did, ditch it so that hogs could drink but
not wallow in it,.and use it as nearly exclusively as possible.
I do not sgree with the correspondents
that there is no possible good from medicine. Similar statements are often made
in reference to all kinds of medical aid
for lower animals. I once went with my
brother to see a valuable horse that had
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The Immense yield of corn.ac-
cbuntsln good part, for the low"
prices. There is very little
probability that more than two-
thirds the amount will be
grown the presentsea'son.
Coal miners in this country
number 365,000, of whom 135,000
tre at work in Pennsylvania.
cholera. They did look hard tmough to
have had the cholera, but it was nothing
but lice sucking tbe life blood out of
them. According to the best veterinary
doctors hog cholera is contagious and infectious, and eternal vigilance is the price
of healthy hogs. When the disease is in
your vicinity let neither man, woman or
child from affected farms wander over
your farm. And be careful you do not
visit those farms yourself,and use the shot
gun on all wandering dogs.
Marlon Co. I. N. Cotton.
I think prevention in cholera is the object, and I believe in the old saying that
■'an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure." if there is plenty of
charcoal, salt and lye soap kept where
the hogs can get it, whenever they want
it, there will be no danger of hogs having
cholera or any other disease, provided
also that they have good, dry, comfortable sleeping quarters and plenty to eat,
and at regular hours.
Quinsy is as bad as cholera, when it
gets in a gang of hogs. Their throats
swell shut and they choke to death. I
lost a lot of nice hogs in this way a number of years ago, but if I had it to deal
with now I would give the above articles
and turpentine.
"Kidney worm" is about as bad as anything among the swine, but that is easily
managed. When they give down in
their hind parts, which is the first symptom, give them some lye soap In their
slop, and rub their loins well with pine
tar and turpentine, and put them in the
sun; but if ln the winter, when the sun
has little strength just bold some fire
coals or anything hot over the loins to
bathe ln the tar and turpentine.
Mange is also bad, but If hogs are kept
in dry beds and not allowed to sleep in
wet straw there is no need of having
mange.
Lousy hogs do not thrive and lice are
worse than some disease; bnt lice can
can soon be got rid of by mixing coal oil
and lard and pouring it on the hogs. The
coal oil kills the lloe, and the lard being
with it keeps it from taking the hair off.
Remember the preventions and but
tew cures will be needed for hogs.
Corydon.          O. N.T.
REVIEW.
Prof. BIttlng's map showing  the  distribution of cholera In  Indiana, leaves
two  counties white and clear of the dis-
__nn.i;.-T"-"» »__._m suiruma...-   em  Steuben in the extreme northeast
"-wpnp his hogs; give them the range of and Ohio in the southeast.   Cholera has
the air like sports ot mold ana iu_t, or
like the germs of "grip," "plague" and
other infectious diseases.
It is found in great numbers in the excrements of cholera hogs, and multiplies
in a soil from these or from vomit. And
a stiff wind may scatter these infeoted
things over lots and pastures. But cholera is taken into the blood through the
mouth and bowels.
There are some microbes in the digestive tract of almost all hogs in a community where there are sick hogs. The
system of a healthy hog wards off many
such enemies, but if a hog should drink
water badly infected, or should eat a hog
dead of the disease his digestive tract Is
so loaded with them that they may overcome his vital resistance enough to get
into the blood. Again the food passes
quickly through the small intestine but
is checked In the colon, and If by constipation these Uttle "tracts" are held a day
or more, ln these warm, moist folds of the
bowel, they may multiply by millions
and cause abrasion and enter the torrent
of the circulation.
Liberal preventives then are suggested
Our correspondents named pur_ water.
A second Is soluble bowels, and a third
is lime. They recommended ashes and
they contain 20 per cent lime. Two per
cent of lime will kill the cholera microbe.
And lime in the feed will help to prevent
their multiplying ln the intestine. They
suggest pure water and clean feeding
places and sleeping quarters, all of which
ls tip-top advice.
Remove sick pigs immediately ' and
burn dead ones. Carbolic acid kills the
microbe when five per cent strong and is
a good disinfectant. A wallow ls a very
dangerous thing. We used to keep them
as hogs seemed to like them, but we have
fenced them off or filled them. Shade
which Mr. Cotton insists on ls a good substitute. We plant posts and cover with
rails and straw, say four feet above the
ground. We don't care how muoh it
lealfs, and make sides open for plenty of
air. I never knew a hog • fat enough ■ to
suffer much with heat, if he could get his
belly on the ground  and  have  a  good
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Prof. Bitting, of Purdue, thinks that the
most dangerous cause of cholera is running water. 'He said-he visited a farm
where hogs were siok and drank from a
creek, and*the owner said: "O, there
aren't any *sick hogs above-here" But
riding farther up Prof. Bitting found a
dead bog lying in the creek.
>   Experimenters multiply. cholsra ml-
a sharp attack of congestion of the lungs
and was suffering greatly.   He bled that.
horse till she staggered and she seemed
almost cured.
I have often seen a laxative given a
cow that had "holler horn" and "wolf In
the tall" (already) and the "horn" quit
bein' "holler," and the "wolf" had done
left her "tall' next day. But when 1 see
the popular delusions of untrained empe-
rlcal doctors, I do not wonder at the general skepticism on medical treatment for
animals.
Allow me to make tbis assertion, that if
hog  cholera  were  fatal  to   people  we •
would quarantine It, killallsick hogs and
burn them, disinfect and keep it stamped
ont. -
Medicinal remedies that are helpful are *
such as kill the microbes in the bowels,
sustain  the  system,  reduce   fever  and
keep the bowels open and the secretions
free.
We have been using tbe United States
Government prescription. (Send postal
to Agricultural Department,' Washing-
top, D. C ,for bulletin Na 10, hog cholera)
It is the result of long experimenting by
veterinary physicians, aud they claim
tbat it is not a cure all, at all, but, if used
with good sanitary conditions, will "save
the bulk ot the herd." It costs about 8
cents a pound, and any druggist can
compound it. We have had some loss
while using It, but think it helpful. But
don't take up with any "cure all" that
has little foundation in science of experiment.
Tbe very fact of there being so many
"cure alls" Is a certain sign that there is
no "oure alls."
We don't expect lt ln treating people,
bnt we do think; treatment Is helpful if intelligently directed.
"Swlne plague" is almost as fatal as
cholera, and is cans-d by a different microbe which is taken into the lungs instead of the mouth. Many of the Bani-
tary precautions are helpful with this disease that are recommended in cholera
proner.
We kill lice with the kerosene emulsion. Hard soBp \i lb, boiling water 1
?;al, coal oil 2 gals. Churn together for 5
o 10 min. Th's makes a clabber-like
mass and will keep all summer. To use,
take out of this and dilute with water,
say 10 times and spray the hogs with it;
repeating it as needed. This ls good for
all soft bodied, sucking Insects, and kills
chicken lice; we shower the whole inside
of the chicken house with it.	
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