hog-cholera

On account of foot-and-mouth disease and of hog-cholera, strange dogs were taboo on the Kennan ranch.

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Such diseases as tuberculosis, glanders and hog-cholera are specific inflammations.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

Dr. Dorset states that more than fifty-seven per cent of the hog-cholera outbreaks are caused by visiting, exchanging work, exposure on adjoining farms and harboring the infection from year to year (Fig. 79), and more than twenty-three per cent to purchasing hogs and shipping in infected cars, birds and contaminated streams.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

At the beginning of any outbreak of hog-cholera the _body temperatures_ of the apparently healthy animals may vary from 105\260 to 108\260 F.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

De Schweinitz and Dorset in 1903 produced typical hog-cholera by inoculating hogs with cholera-blood filtrates that were free from any organism that could be demonstrated by microscopical examination or any cultural method.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

_Visiting farms_ where hogs are dying of cholera; walking or driving a team and wagon through the cholera-infected yards; stock buyers, stock-food and cholera-remedy venders that visit the different farms in a neighborhood may distribute the hog-cholera virus through the infected filth that may adhere to the shoes, horses 'feet and wagon wheels.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

If I can keep the specific micro-organism that causes hog-cholera off my place, I need not fear the disease.

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

The shipping of feeding hogs from one section of the country to another, and from public stock-yards, has always been productive of hog-cholera.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

Eminent, conscientious Christian gentlemen, leaders in religious thought, and occasionally country ministers, have accused those who maintain that the church should have a vital active interest in improving economic welfare of trying to make hog-cholera experts out of preachers, thus taking them away from their real tasks.

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Black leg, anthrax and hog-cholera vaccines are valuable agents in the control of disease.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig