A treatise on swine; their care and management, diseases and remedies by Vaniman A. W

Author:Vaniman, A. W., [from old catalog] comp
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Swine. [from old catalog]
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., Commercial publishing co.
Published: 1885-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

not only the best safeguard against the special disease under notice, but as going far toward the prevention of other diseases to which the hog is subject. Yet in view of the neglect and even positive abuse with which pigs are treated throughout the land, it is well that breeders should understand the fearful consequences liable to result from carelessness, which, in matters of such vital importance, is closely allied to criminality.

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The Death Rate. —The losses which follow the introduction of this disease into a herd are, as a rule, very heavy. The younger the animals the greater the proportional losses. If pigs not more than three months old are attacked, the loss will run from 90 to 100 per cent; in six months old pigs the mortality is usually from 75 to 95 per cent; while in full-grown hogs the loss is generally from 40 to 50 per cent, but under exceptionally favorable circumstances may fall as low as 25 per cent. Death may take place early in the disease, often during the first twenty-hours in young animals. In older animals the disease is not usually rapidly fatal; and the patient may live along for two or three weeks even. If the animal recovers, he is of little value, for he does not thrive, and generally it costs more to fatten him than he is worth. In no disease to which the lower animals are subject can preventive measures be adopted with better results than those which may be secured in connection with the swine plague.

Treatment of the Disease. —When this disease makes its appearance on any premises, the most rigid of suppressive measures should be adopted at once. No time should be lost in attempting treatment, for while this is being done others become infected, and the disease is soon beyond control. Kill the sick the moment they show signs of the dis-

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