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been discovered for the disease, or a preventive against its spreading. It is a con- 

 tagious disease, but moves slowly from farm to farm. On some farms it does not 

 leave a live hog on the premises. The disease is more fatal in the summer than dur- 

 ing any other season of the year. 'On a close investigation I find that there are two 

 varieties of the disease. One is an affection of the bowels, whilst the other is a cu- 

 taneous disease, the skin of the animal sometimes turning red, and at others of a 

 bluish cclor. A disease called rot has caused some deaths among sheep, 



DOUGHERTY. Hog cholera made its appearance in this part of the State thirty 

 years ago. At intervals since then it has appeared and prevailed with great vio- 

 lence, at times destroying almost the entire hog crop. 



EARLY. Hog cholera made its first appearance in our county ift 1$6&, and has pre- 

 vailed to a greater or less extent ever since. Its cause was generally attributed to 

 the introduction of sorghum cane. It was discovered on those large plantations 

 when sorghum was first grown. A few attributed it to the large increase in the 

 number of hogs and the increased feeding, as provisions were the only things raised 

 during the last two years of the war. More or less sorghum has been raised since, 

 less now than at any time, yet cholera prevails in different localities every year. 

 Your neighbor may have it this year and you may be exempt, but the next year it 

 will be your turn and your neighbor escapes. There were a ^reat many wild hogs 

 in this county when the cholera first appeared. They soon disappeared, and there 

 are none now. Before then a sick hog was a rare thing. They did well all the time. 



ECHOLS. Hog cholera has been in some localities of this county nearly all the time 

 during the last two years, though the disease is not so fatal as it was several years 

 back. Some hogs die, and a great many of them get well. I Can not give the num- 

 ber that die or the value of the losses. 



EMANUEL. It is the opinion of my aids, as wetflas myself, that very few hogs die 

 of cholera. It is noticeable that hogs that a.re not fed about the house lot, nor suf- 

 fered to lie up in the lanes and around the lot and lanes, are pretty much exempt 

 from cholera. Hogs in this county that stay in the woods and are fed there, and 

 not suffered to come up and lie around in the lanes and dusty trash piles, are rarely 

 diseased in any way, 



FANNIN. Hog cholera first made its appearance in this county in the year 1S74. 

 This was one of the last counties in the State to suffer from this disease of hogs. 

 Its altitude and its remoteness at that time from railroads were causes of preven- 

 tion. Since its advent thousands of hogs have died almost every year, amounting 

 in the aggregate to thousands of dollars. I have, however, not heard any complaint 

 of cholera this year. 



FULTON. Hog cholera made its appearance in the whiter of 1845. The first out- 

 break was in a drove of hogs driven in from Tennessee or Kentucky, several of 

 which died during the spring of 1846. A large number in tha immediate neighbor- 

 hood took the disease, one-half of which died; Hogs were in good condition when 

 they took the disease. 



GILMER. There has been very little loss this year from hog cholera. It generally 

 6omes in its worst form every two or three years. I do not know how it was brought 

 into the county. Hogs were generally healthy before the disease was known, which 

 was about 1867. t The only trouble before was what was called blind staggers and 

 Quinsy, a wheezing in the throat. When the cholera attacks hogs they take it in 

 the mountains and wild range as well as on the farms. 



GLASOOOK. The disease known as hog cholera was not known twenty-five years 

 ago in this part of Georgia. Its cause is unknown. There have been many conject- 

 ures but no reasonable conclusions arrived at concerning it. As to remedies, there 

 have been many tried, but none found effective, When a hog takes the cholera it 

 takes a disease that is incurable. If it happens not to die it is worthless, if it should 

 live a year afterwards, from the fact that'it can not be made fat. The only remedy 

 is to prevent, if possible, the disease from infecting hogs. This may be done bv 

 giving them regular feed, pure water to drink, plenty of common salt and charcoal, 

 and once or twice a month a small dose of sulphate of iron or sulphur, one or both. 

 !' v attention to the abovd preventives somd say they have never had a case Of hog 

 Cholera. 



GrORDON. One assistant writes that his first recollection of hog cholera was in 

 18c>5, after the introduction of so many improved breeds from the Northern States. 

 It was known before the war. Another says all of his hogs died in 1856, of cholera 

 (so-called). One assistant recommends soda as a remedy as well as a preventive. 

 I Irnow nothing of the disease. Have handled hundreds of hogs for thirty-five years. 

 Have lost but a very few from what I am satisfied wfts cold Or pneumonia. I use 

 salt and ashes freely. They will devour the ashes and coal when in good health. 

 For lice use kerosine oil freely, and they will have no Cholera. The breed I fcave 

 handled is the " Essex," the hog for Georgia. 



