The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm StockBurkett, Charles William
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The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm Stock
Burkett, Charles William
Veterinary medicine
It was a very interesting study to follow the resulting outbreaks; but a
very serious matter for the owner and for that entire portion of the
state. Practically every farmer who bought hogs at this sale, and very
many of those who walked around the yards looking at the hogs, but
without buying, had hog cholera on their farms in a very uniform period
after the sale. Surely the moral of this tale is so self-evident as to
need no further suggestion.
=Cleaning Up.=--Troughs and feeding floors, at least, and, if
practicable, the hog house also, should be kept clean and frequently
disinfected during an outbreak. When the outbreak appears to be over,
the owner must decide as to just what he will do in the way of
disinfection and cleaning up, or whether he will stay out of the hog
business for a year and allow the infection to die out. This is, of
course, without regard for the possibility of putting in vaccinated and
immune hogs. Feeding troughs and feeding floors and the hog house in
general, may be disinfected if of reasonably good construction, by a
thorough cleaning and then by one of the methods suggested under
prevention. If the sick hogs have been kept in an old straw shed or in
an old hog house that is about ready to fall down anyway, by all means
the best method of disinfection is by burning. Without disinfection or
burning the owner cannot be safe in putting in susceptible hogs within
much less than a year after the last hog died or recovered. The slow old
chronic cases that go dragging around at the end of an outbreak should
usually be killed and safely buried, for it is rarely profitable to put
such hogs in shape for market. It might possibly be worth while to hold
such a one over and nurse them along, in case of valuable brood sows,
for hogs having recovered from cholera are usually immune for life.
Brood sows which have had the disease and recovered usually give
something more than natural immunity to their offspring. But the degree
of immunity so conferred is so variable in degree and uncertain
otherwise that it cannot be depended upon as a routine method of
establishing immune herds. Yards may be practically disinfected by
plowing or by burning off a good layer of straw.
=Hog Cholera Vaccination.=--Generally stated, this vaccine consists of
two parts: (a) Blood serum from the body of a specially immunized hog;
and (b) virulent blood serum from the body of a hog about to die from
cholera. The general theory upon which this double vaccine is used is
that of giving the animal an infectious disease and at the same time a
treatment which enables the animal to resist the infection. When the hog
is through with it he is in exactly the same condition as though he had
gone through a natural exposure and recovered.
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