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had never heard of a case in this vicinity up to fifteen or twenty years ago. Some 

 persons say it was never known here until new breeds of hogs were introduced. 



CULLMAN. There has been less hog cholera in this county this season than for 

 several years past. There are various opinions as to the cause. Its first appearance 

 in this county, as near as I can ascertain, was in 1863. The remedies are various as 

 can be imagined. There is no prevailing disease or epidemic among any class of 

 domestic annuals. As a general thing farm stock is being better cared for than 

 formerly. 



DALE. No case of hog cholera was ever known in this county previous to 1865. 

 How it got here or where it came from, no one knows. Since that year it has been 

 continuously in the county, some years doing more damage than others. We had 

 no disease among hogs previous to that time and have none now but that. Hun- 

 dreds of remedies have been tried to no avail. For two months past the loss has 

 been heavy. Enough of pork is lost annually to feed the people in the county. No 

 preventive has been discovered as yet. 



DALLAS. As to hog cholera, I do not know exactly when the disease first canie 

 around. I remember of hearing of it in the spring of 1857 or 1858, and in the early 

 fall of the same year thousands of hogs died with the disease called by the people 

 hog cholera. I think, however, that "pneumonia" came around about the same 

 time. Both were called hog cholera. The disease has been in the county more or 

 less ever since, and sometimes to an alarming extent. It has not been so bad, how- 

 ever, since the number of hogs have been reduced. Hogs were considered to be 

 healthy previous to the appearance of those diseases. Only kidney worms troubled 

 them before the cholera. All stock is better cared for now than a few years ago. 

 Better pastures are provided and less corn fed, and a better class of stock is* now 

 raised. 



DE KALB. I have been a citizen of the county and a farmer thirty-five years. 

 My first recollection of hog cholera was twenty-eight or thirty years ago. One of 

 my correspondents says: "About twenty-five years ago a drove of hogs passed 

 through the county, and shortly after hog cholera appeared." Previous to 1858- ? 59 

 hogs were generally healthy. They were occasionally affected with "quinsy," 

 rather as an epidemic. There were occasional cases of blind staggers and a few 

 other diseases. There must be several diseases of hogs that are called " cholera," 

 or the disease must assume several different shapes. Within my observation there 

 has been diseases among hogs that were very destructive to life and called " hog 

 cholera," that at different times affected the animals very differently. I inclose 

 herewith two prescriptions for keeping hogs healthy, which, I think, is worth as 

 much as a preventive as a remedy that will cure after the hogs become sick : 



" Take 2 parts sulphur, 1 part copperas, 1 part alum, 1 part saltpeter, and 1 part 

 black antimony. Mix well and give 1 ounce of mixture to 3 to 5 hogs, according to 

 size, once a week every alternate month. Mix in slop or meal or in any way to 

 get the hogs to eat it well, and get it equally distributed, or nearly so, among them." 

 Again: ' ' Give to each hog, once a week, one~ear of corn that has been soaked twenty- 

 four hours (or longer) in strong lime water. It is easiest to manage to soak the corn 

 in the ear," 



Horses, cattle, and sheep have been generally healthy for the last year. Hogs 

 during part of the year, in some localities, were affected with what was termed 

 "hog cholera." 



ELMORE. Our hogs have been affected and many have died of cholera. It first 

 appeared in this county more than twenty years ago. Hogs were universally 

 healthy before this disease made its appearance among them. I do not know how 

 it was introduced originally. 



FRANKLIN. Generally speaking, hogs have been healthy. Some localities, how- 

 ever, report hogs dying with something like cholera. I have observed that some, 

 after having recovered from the disease, shed off the hair. In other localities the 

 symptoms are weakness in the loins, and after a day or two, while in apparent good 

 order, die. Most of these diseases prevail among hogs found around gin houses. 



GREENE. Hog cholera first made its appearance in this county, so far as I am 

 informed, about the year 1862, the animals being, previous to the invasion, in ordi- 

 nary good health. The planters in some sections of the county suffered serious 

 loss, it being just at the beginning of the war. When it would make its appear- 

 ance in a drove, of say 100 hogs, it would destroy perhaps nine-tenths of them in a 

 few days. 



HENRY. It has been about seventeen years since hog cholera was first discov- 

 ered in this county. Previous to that time hogs were healthy. A great many hogs 

 have died this year from the disease. There is a great improvement in the man- 

 agement and care of stock. Stockmen are trying to improve and raise finer breeds 

 and animals than formerly. 



