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black, and I then thought they had lung disease, but my old and experienced neigh- 

 bors said it was pea disease brought on by eating rotten peas and pea roots. Up to 

 that time I had never seen any disease among hogs except inange, and a disease 

 brought on by eating cotton seed, which killed pigs and hogs that had nothing else 

 to eat. I moved to Marion County in the fall of 1857, with an improved big Guinea 

 stock of hogs finer than the Essex, Berkshire, or any other breed I could find. 

 They continued in perfect health until the summer of 1859, when one of my neigh- 

 bor's hogs that were in a fine wheat, oats, and rye pasture began to die, and nearly 

 all died, leaving three-fourths of the grain not eaten. After his had stopped dying 

 for three or four weeks mine were still in perfect health, but had eaten out my pas- 

 ture. He proposed to let mine have the run of his grass fields to finish eating the 

 grain. In ten days my hogs began to die. They were similarly affected to his and 

 nearly all died, although I took them out of his pasture as soon as they began.dying. 

 Their hair would slip and peel off just as if scalded; lungs black, intestines highly 

 inflamed; discharged a watery, thin, jelly-like mass. I tried turpentine, soda, sul- 

 phur, salt and ashes, blue stone, and everything that was suggested even calomel 

 but all to little purpose. Again, since the war, after I had recuperated my stock, 

 and had them crossed with Essex and Berkshire and had them as fine-haired and 

 sleek as race-horses, one of my neighbors had the cholera to destroy nearly all his 

 hogs in the fall. They run out in the woods and intermingled with my stock hogs, 

 which fact I did not discover until mine had the disease. It spread and killed all 

 my pigs, three-fourths of my shoats, and I also lost several of my pork hogs. I 

 killed all that seemed healthy, or probably I would have lost all of them. Symp- 

 toms were similar to those above described. Again, in 1883, I lost all my pigs and 

 40 or more shoats, breeding sows, and fat hogs; caught the disease this time from a 

 negro tenant's hogs. 



McDuFFiE. Hog cholera was here in 1850, brought here from Tennessee, and 

 killed nearly all the hogs in the county. Since then we are troubled with it every 

 few years. The best preventive I have ever tried is to keep a trough full of hick- 

 ory ashes, mixing salt and copperas with it, where the hogs can eat of it every day. 

 Let them have access to pure water, and give them a mash of wheat bran and corn 

 meal, mixing spirts of turpentine with some once every week. I have used the 

 above preventive and have kept my hogs healthy while my neighbors have lost all 

 of theirs. 



MITCHELL. Cholera among the hogs of our county was not known prior to the 

 year of 1863, when a gentleman, a farmer, of Alabama, near Eufaula, bought a 

 plantation 6 miles west of this place, and drove some 50 hogs for slaughtering. 

 Cholera was then and there introduced into our county, and has since that date 

 prevailed to some extent nearly every year. Some years the per cent, of loss has 

 been very great, say 83; other years not more than 5 per cent., perhaps making an 

 average of 10 per cent. 



MORGAN. I have been farming in this county thirteen years, and have never 

 known a genuine case of hog cholera to occur. Heard an old farmer of long experi- 

 ence say once that he never knew a farmer to have cholera among his hogs who 

 raised goats on his farm. His idea was that the odor of the flock of goats acted 

 as a disinfectant. I don't know* whether there is anything in this or not, but he 

 never had hog cholera among his hogs as long as he had goats, and I have never 

 had a case of it, but I have had a flock of goats running with my hogs ever since I 

 have been farming. 



MURRAY. Hog cholera made its first appearance here about thirty years ago. 

 Since that time it has assumed different types. The first appearance was attended 

 with scours; since then it has made its attacks in different ways with fever, vomit- 

 ing, and eyes red: they live a few days and die. Two years ago it visited this sec- 

 tion and raged fearfully for a short time. Since then it seems to have died out. My 

 opinion is that cholera is brought on by too sudden changes of feed. I have tried 

 many remedies without any avail. I had one to get well without any medicine. 

 All the outside skin peeled off. The mode of its introduction into this section is 

 not known. It raged in Kentucky and Tennessee some time before it made its ap- 

 pearance in this section. 



NEWTON. We have had what is called hog cholera in this county for fifty years. 

 No one knows how or when introduced. We now believe that hog cholera is pro- 

 duced from several causes. First, lice; second, sleeping indoors in dust; general 

 neglect in food, water, and bedding. 



PCONEE. Hog cholera made its appearance about the year 1858. The means of 

 its introduction are not known. Hogs were very healthy before its introduction. 

 No disease was known among hogs previous to 1858. 



OGLETHORPE. Hog cholera is common in this county, and prevails every yqar 

 more or less. Some years the loss is very great. 



