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County Agent's Field Notes *!m i . K. YOPNli.About every two weeks a ease of hop: cholera presents itsel. in our county. Fortunate!) our people are enough alarmed about the disease that at the first symptoms they consult some one. and take the properprecautions to prevent its spread. Just how the disease makes its appearance on widely separated farmsis sometimes hard to explain; but itgives tfi show how very easy thegerms are carried from one place toanother If there was ever any truth in the old adage, “an ounce ofprevention is worth a pound of pure/’ it is doubly true at this time, with the cholera situation. Every onelosing hogs should, at once, burnor bury deeply all hogsdying. Manytimes when left for but a short time, dogs, cats or other animals get to them and scatter the disease to healthy hogs on the farm or to those of some neighbor.Hogs that are healthy and free from worms and lice and fed from cl* » i t oughs and floors are generally hr last to become sick, where precaution is taken to keep the disease germ away from them, Figsknown to be wormy should be treated with santonin six grains and calomel four grains or turpentine onetablespoonful, per 11Hi pounds ofhog. the former is undoubtedlypreferable. Both should be fed inheavy ship on empty stomach. The second day after treating the hogs, they should be removed to clean yards or pastures, so that they may not. be reinfested by taking up theeggs from their feces. In feeding medicine to hogs it is bent to divide the hunch according to size and onlyfeed a few together.A satisfactory mineral mixture which may be kept before the hogs at all times is, charcoal, one bushel: hordwood ashes, one bushel; salt, eight pounds; sulphur, four pounds; copperas, four pounds, and air slaked lime eight pounds.Crude oil or one of the coaltar preparations should he used a- a spray or dip where lice are found. The hog oiler surely bus a place on every farm but where many lice are present, a quicker method of extermination should be resorted to.Any sudden change in the feeding of hogs is likely to reduce their restive powers. Even starting them on pasture should be done wit h moderation.rN u in ill so w • iitiv
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Dakota City County Herald
Dakota City, Nebraska, US
Thu, May 17, 1917
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