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Identifier: hogcholera01tenn (find matches)
Title: Hog cholera
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Tennessee. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Classical swine fever
Publisher: Nashville : Foster & Parkes Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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o runwith the other hogs. Running Streams.—Running streams, such as rivers, creeks andbranches, spread cholera by washing the infection down stream fromhog cholera outbreaks above; hence it is unsafe to endeavor to raisehogs where they have access to running water. Public Roads.—Public roads are disseminators of hog cholera.Hogs affected with cholera are liable at any time to be passing andrepassing on these public highways; hence it is unsafe to allow hogsaccess to public roads. Public Stock Yards.—Every public stock yard in Tennessee andevery other State is permanently infected with the virus of hog cholera,hence no man should ever think of removing hogs from a public stockyard for breeding or feeding purposes. Whenever a hog goes intoone of these public stock yards the only safe place for him. is directto the abattoir for immediate slaughter. The Turkey Buzzard.—Aside from public stock yards, I considerthe turkey buzzard directly responsible for most of the outbreaks of -11
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— 12- hog cholera in Tennessee. If you drag the carcass of a horse or cowor that of any other animal which has died of pneumonia, colic, orany other disease out on the farm and allow this carcass to be con-sumed by buzzards, the same buzzards which flock there in droves todevour this carcass may have come directly from a hog cholera carcassfifty or even one hundred miles away, bringing the infection to yourfarm, and starting an outbreak of cholera among your own hogs.This emphasizes the importance of burning or burying all dead ani-mals on the farm. Many of the Southern States afford the buzzard legal protection.This accounts in part for their great numbers. At one time the buz-zard was protected by law in Tennessee. At that time anyone killinga buzzard was liable to arrest and fine. Of course when the law waspassed no one had any idea that the buzzard was such a spreader ofdisease. Some people are under the erroneous impression that the buzzardat this time has legal protection in T

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