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Hog cholera   /hɑg kˈɑlərə/   Listen
Hog cholera

noun
1.
Highly infectious virus disease of swine.






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"Hog cholera" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Bureau of Animal Inspection, and is in the charge of the State Veterinarian, with a corps of assistants, all of whom are appointed by the Commissioner. This Bureau cooperates with the United States Department of Agriculture in Tick Eradication and Hog Cholera Contagion; and the general ...
— Elements of Civil Government • Alexander L. Peterman

... no farmer but that will become wealthy if he uses economy, industry and has the Stephen's Remedy for Hog Cholera. ...
— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus

... rinderpest, or the disease commonly called cattle plague), contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle (in this act called pleuro-pneumonia), foot-and-mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep-scab, or swine fever (that is to say, the disease known as typhoid fever of swine, soldier purples, red disease, hog cholera or swine plague).'' The Diseases of Animals Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 15) rendered compulsory the slaughter of imported live stock at the place of landing, a boon for which British stock-breeders had striven for many years. The ports in ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... good and clean, but I'd hearn of city meat givin' toe main pizen, and knowin' Josiah's fondness for meat vittles—I asked anxiously, "Are you sure the critters this meat come from hadn't got cow consumption, or hog cholera?" ...
— Samantha at Coney Island - and a Thousand Other Islands • Marietta Holley

... report from our consul at Marseilles, dated February 4, 1888, representing that for a number of months a highly contagious and fatal disease has prevailed among the swine of a large section of France, which disease is thought to be very similar to hog cholera by the Commissioner of Agriculture, whose statement ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. • Grover Cleveland



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