Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 7, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 January 1941 — HEALTH HINTS for LIVESTOCK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HEALTH HINTS for LIVESTOCK

POIPARID BY AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL MRALTN

SWINE SANITATION A VITAL NEED All too often we hear someone advise the practice of “Swine Sanitation”, without giving specific details on just how to perform this all important phase ms husbandry. | First of all, hog houses should have smooth, hard-surfaced floors that can be easily swept and washed dowm with hot lye water. Removable floors are especially desirable. The walls and

ceilings should be.fra from dust, dirt and cob webs Sows should be confined and the udd m> washed with rich soap 'suds ..just before farrowing and, as soon a- p;--- ;>ie, both sows and pigs should hi' moved, to clean pasture where individual or colony houses have been cb arr-d and riFin -cited pjrior to their arrival. A common oversight is failure to semi, feed end water troughs before they are moved from old lots to clean pastures j Mudholcs should be filled around an tomatic water is, ~nd low places fenced

pff to prevent “loblollies” after each rain. Holes under old corn cribs or other buildings should be boarded shot to keep young pigs from dusty, dark hideouts. If permit, a cement feeding platform for adult swine Is a good Investment. | Old straw piles may harbor the May beetle grubs which carry thornhead worms, while manure plies may spread pig lungworms through infested earth worms. Partly decomposed horse or cattle carcasses or their skeletons may carry deadly disease germs to growing pigs.

| Deep dust in hog sheds is one of the most prolific sources of pneumonia and other trouble Such-sheds should have the floor spaded out and refilled with . clean clay, tamped and rolled. Surveys by government field work ers have clearly shown that pigs raised under sanitary surroundings gained as omuch as a fourth'of a pound per day more; and consumed less feed than pigs on unclean premises.’ This alone should be argument enough for good swine sanitation to say nothing of losses from bacteria and parasites.

The "hog pullman” -a good way to transport pigs to clean ground and avoid contamination.