Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — THE PIGGERY. [ARTICLE]

THE PIGGERY.

How Not to Have “Cholera.'’ Don’t leave a well hog in n plaeo whore a sick one is or has boon a moment longor than can be helped. Don’t fall to examine such soperated well hogs twice a day, and to removo any that may become 111. Don’t allow tho same person to take care of tho affocted and well hogs. Don’t allow any Intercourse of men, dogs or hens between the pens of either lot of hogs. Don’t put a now lot of healthy hogs In a pen, or upon land, where swine plaguo has boon for less than three years, unless the same has boon thoroughly cleansed of all rofuso, plowed or dug up several times, and exposed to tho air for an entire summer season. Don’t forget that closed pens, sheds, straw stacks and accumulated litter are more dangerous than open country, when swine plague has prevailed In such places. Don’t water hogs from running streams. Don’t placo your hog pens, or runs so that they can drain into running streams. Don’t forget that all such places should bo well dralnod and kept as dry as possible. Don’t bury dead hogs when you can burn them up. Don’t sell or buy sick hogs. Don’t visit your neighbors hogs whon tick or allow him to visit yours if well. Don’t forget that watchfulness, carefulness and dlllgonce will do more to prevent swine plague than all medicines. Don’t forget that without these things being adhered to, tho most practical vaccine will ever prove next to useless. —Ham and Eggs.