Extension, Cooperative

 

Authors

L. Van Es

Date of this Version

3-1930

Document Type

Article

Citation

Van Es, L. (1930). Swine sanitation (University of Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station Circular No. 39)

Comments

ISSN 0099-5460 (print)

ISSN 2690-8034 (online)

Abstract

From the very beginning of Nebraska's agricultural development its farmers have recognized that the production of swine must of necessity accompany the growing of corn. The latter, one of the state's most important staples, cannot be marketed in a more economical manner than after having been transformed into pork, bacon, and lard. As a result the state has for many years maintained a rather dense swine population mainly divided into large herds kept on relatively small areas of land. This density of population, as well as certain practices in management and selective breeding, has brought about conditions favorable for the propagation of a number of microbic or parasitic diseases which, in a costly manner, force themselves to our attention.

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