408 REPORT OP THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



bought by Mr. Graham ; or each animal, on an average, consumed abont 

 three-fifths of a pound. 



January 17. — Mr. Graham had been obliged to remove from the in- 

 closure in the orchard (out of the forty-nine) one decidedly sick animal. 

 Among the forty-eight thus left several were coughing* and looking 

 rather gaunt, but most of them were doing very well. 



January 19. — ISTearly all of the forty-eight hogs and shoats are doing 

 well, and only a few show symptoms of disease, while most of the others 

 (those found to be sick on January 12) are dead. A heavy rain con- 

 verted the ground of the inclosure into mud and made it very uncom- 

 fortable for the animals. Mr. Graham, therefore, with ray consent, en- 

 larged the inclosure and took in a larger piece of the orchard. The 

 treatment otherwise remained the same. 



January 24. — Went again to Mr. Graham's. Of the original forty-nine 

 hogs and pigs, forty-four were yet in the inclosure ; four sick ones had 

 been taken out and removed to the barnyard, where a. few other sick 

 ones were kept. In all forty-six of the original forty-nine were alive ; 

 five had been removed, and of these two were still living. Of the others 

 only a few were yet alive. Eleven or twelve dead hogs and pigs were 

 piled up in a heap close to the barn and two others were lying in a 

 fence-corner. I would have insisted on their burial or cremation, but 

 the whole premises were already about as much infected as possible, 

 and I thought that by allowing things to go on in the same way it 

 might make the test of the hyposulphite of soda more severe and more 

 valuable. 



My next visit was on January 27. Found a few animals among the 

 forty-four in the orchard still coughing. The dead pigs were still lying 

 unburied. 



January 30. — Found everything unchanged. The forty-four pigs in 

 the orchard were doing well. 



My last visit was on February 4. Found the forty-four hogs and pigs 

 in the orchard all doing very well 5 those that had been coughing or 

 showing other slight symptoms of disease were recovering, and all 

 others had gained in flesh. When called up to be fed in my presence 

 every one responded with alacrity and appeared greedy. Of the origi- 

 nal forty-nine, forty-five were alive and doing well 5 five had been sepa- 

 rated, and of these four had died. Of all others two or three were 

 alive, except two boar pigs, which had not been with the herd, but had 

 been kept in a separate pen and had not become afi*ected. The dead 

 shoats were still lying around in the same places, and one pig which 

 had died two days before was even lying in the barn. I therefore urged 

 Mr. Graham to burn every dead animal at once and not wait any longer 

 for the " dead-hog man" to come around. I learned afterwards, by let- 

 ter, dated February 16, that one more of the sick pigs had died, while 

 no new case of disease had occurred. 



Several other herds of swine, either diseased or reported to be dis- 

 eased, were visited, partly for the purpose of selecting suitable herds for 

 experimental purposes, but principally to obtain all the information 

 possible by my own observation and from what the owners might have 

 to communicate of their experience. 



At Mr. Cortleyou's place I found one dead hog, and 2i>post mortem ex- 

 amination was made, which, however, revealed nothing new, except that 

 the lungs adhered almost everywhere to the walls of the chest. The 

 plumonal and costal pleurae were, at several j^laces, so firmly united as 

 to make it impossible to open the chest, and to remove the ribs without 



