hog cholera
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hog cholera
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Statistics on hog cholera discloses an average loss of $30,000,000 a year for 40 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Department of Agriculture is watching for any outbreak of African swine fever, a disease deadlier than anthrax or hog cholera.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last month Rockefeller sent two experts to Brazil with 250,000 cubic centimeters of vaccine to combat hog cholera.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this idea they immunized pigeons against hog cholera.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the treatment of hog cholera and other diseases which in the majority of cases prove fatal, the author’s original and extensive investigations have thrown considerable light on many points hitherto but little understood.
From Home Pork Making by Fulton, A. W.
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