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GREENE. The disease generally called hog cholera is very imperfectly understood 

 among farmers, and nearly all diseases are included in this general term. Poor 

 feed, imperfect care, and a slipshod way of tending stock generally produce disease. 



GWINNETT. Hog cholera prevails but to a limited extent in this county, and 

 losses from it are hardly worth noting. Sometimes a few hogs die, and it is gen- 

 erally charged to cholera, when it is really from some other disease. So far as I 

 have been able to learn, we have had no genuine hog cholera for several years past. 



HANCOCK. Hog cholera was not known here as a disease prior to the years of 

 1863-'64. Since then it has made its appearance almost yearly with greater or less 

 fatality, and is generally confined to, or alternating, in localities or sections. The 

 disease most generally discovers itself in the annual by loss of appetite, stupor, gen- 

 eral flabby appearance, often attended with vermin in profusion. My observation 

 is that hogs raised in forests and fed mostly on the mast till put in the field for fat- 

 tening are free from all diseases. 



HARRIS. Can not ascertain when the hog cholera first made its appearance in 

 this county, but think it was before the war, say about 1850. Some think the cholera 

 is produced from sleeping under houses and inhaling dust, but often hogs, penned 

 and fattened in open pens, have died with cholera while fat. There is much less 

 cholera among hogs now than heretofore. Various remedies are used to cure and 

 prevent it. The most universal preventive is to keep them from bedding and sleep- 

 ing under houses, and mixing tar with their food. There has been but little disease 

 among horses this year. But few sheep are kept, on account of destruction by dogs. 

 Most all our pork is brought from the Western States, but few hogs being raised. 



HART. No hog cholera prevails in our county at the present time. The losses 

 from disease among farm animals have been very light. 



HEARD. There has been no cholera among our hogs this year. Stock hogs seem 

 remarkably healthy and thrifty. As a general thing, before hogs take the cholera 

 they appear very dull and sleepy, and their eyes will run copiously. 



HOUSTON. The first case of hog cholera (so-called) that I ever heard of in this 

 county was in 1867. Since then it has prevailed more or less every year. I think 

 preventive measures are better than remedial. I had it on my place several years 

 ago and tried almost every remedy I could hear of without any benefit. After 

 burning all dead hogs, beds, etc., I got a fresh stock. Since then I have given them 

 tar water to drink, scattering llowers of sulphur in, their beds, and about once per 

 month give them copperas and common soda. Since using these preventive meas- 

 ures I have had no cholera. I think lice have much to do in producing the disease. 

 I never saw a cholera hog that was not full of them. 



JACKSON. We have more or less cholera among our hogs every year, with ap- 

 parently no remedy within reach. During the last two years the number of hogs 

 has been greatly diminished. Some farmers keep small numbers, but many none 

 at all. We have had no unusual disease among any class of farm animals. 



LOWNDES. Hog cholera made its appearance in this county in 1865, just after 

 tjie civil war. Up to that time such a disease was entirely unknown here. Since 

 then it has made periodical visits, about once in five years, and has generally cleaned 

 out the hog crop. No remedy has proved successful. It is contagious, and a hog 

 that has got over it is never worth anything. They have been exempt from the 

 disease during the past year. 



MACON. I never heard of a case of hog cholera previous to 1862. Since that time 

 it has appeared in some portion of the county about every third year, though the^re 

 are many exceptions to this rule. In 1876 I offered and had passed in our State 

 agricultural convention a resolution offering $500 reward for a complete cure for 

 hog cholera. Various antidotes from every section of the country were sent 'in; all 

 rejected, however, and the cholera still continues to scourge us. One great diffi- 

 culty seems to be that it is almost impossible to detect the disease in its incipiency, 

 and when the hog refuses to eat the animal is in the last stage of the disease, and 

 nothing can be done. To catch one and force medicine down his throat is slow 

 business. Many believe that the disease is more prevalent after a fruitful acorn 

 year. The plague with us neither spares age nor condition, the long-snouted piney- 

 woods animal falling as easy a prey as the pet hog of the lot. 



MARION. In the year 1856 I' lived in Lee County. 50 miles below here. I owned 

 at that time 400 head of hogs. I made that year a fine crop of ground peas and sweet 

 potatoes and the finest crop of corn I ever raised. I let pork hogs, pigs, sows, and 

 all run on peas, and fed liberally on corn to hasten the fattening of my pork hogs. 

 After killing all my pork hogs, which fattened easily and laid on fat better than I 

 ever saw hogs before, my pigs, which were as fine and thrifty as I ever saw, began 

 to dwindle, run off at the bowels, and in a short time out of over 100 not one was 

 left* My six or eight months' old shoats, which were fat and fine, took the same 

 disease and would" die by the half dozen a day. I cut them open and found the lungs 



