. Boone County Recorder . T, Veterinar-ian of Missouri Experiment Station.) The control and eradication of hogcholera Is a matter of education rath-er than vaccination with hog choleraSerum. Hogs must have pure water. Hogcholera is like typhoid. The Englishcall it pig typhoid. Last Summer,when it was so dry and the poolswere low and stagnant, the diseasewas spread by the great number of•hogs that drank from ponds. Thefarmers that gave their hogs wellwater had the least cholera on theirfarms. Hogs often become permanent car-riers of the disease germs after theyhave been cured, and will spread t
. Boone County Recorder . T, Veterinar-ian of Missouri Experiment Station.) The control and eradication of hogcholera Is a matter of education rath-er than vaccination with hog choleraSerum. Hogs must have pure water. Hogcholera is like typhoid. The Englishcall it pig typhoid. Last Summer,when it was so dry and the poolswere low and stagnant, the diseasewas spread by the great number of•hogs that drank from ponds. Thefarmers that gave their hogs wellwater had the least cholera on theirfarms. Hogs often become permanent car-riers of the disease germs after theyhave been cured, and will spread theInfection. Doctor Connaway also saysthat pigeons carry the hog choleragerms from one farm to another. The buildings where hogs are keptshould be disinfected with air-slackedlime. It is cheap and you can seewhere you put it Disinfect the hoglot also. Where proper sanitary con-ditions exist there Is little danger ofbog cholera. Hogs should not be fedIn the mud, but on hard ground or ona brick or concrete floor. ><. PROGRESS OF DAIRY BREEDS Long Line of Ancestors of Good Char-acter on Both Sides of Familyla Quite Sufficient. ( GILBERT.) Although the general run of dairycows are of no definite breeding, theyare not necessarily the worse for thatGood dairy quality la a natmalacteristic which is hereditary In aneminent degree. A long line of an-cestors of dairy character on bothsides of the family tree is quite suffi-cient to insure good dairy quality ofthe offspring. Dairy character has been developedby careful selection. It la not a qual-ity originally inherent in any onebreed, although some breeds provethemselves more amenable to the in-fluence of selection than others. Dairy farmers are fully alive to theimportance of heredity In this respect,and although they favor cattle of cer-tain breeds, they fight shy of cattleof those breeds from pedigreed is because they have found thatpedigree bulls lir many instances getcalves far inferior In dairy quality toth
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