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to disappear as the colder weather approaches. Cattle and sheep are healthy; know 

 ef no complaint anywhere in the county. 



HUNTINGTON. The first I ever knew of cholera was fourteen or fifteen years 

 ago. I can not tell how it came here. It spread all over the county, and we did 

 not know what it was. Since the above date I have watched it carefully. It starts 

 generally from some weighing place, or from where the drovers stop over night 

 with their hogs, and spreads by contact over the neighborhood. I knew a boar to 

 break out and was gone some time, and finally came back with the cholera. I 

 knew a sow to wander three miles from home and spread the disease. The last 

 time I had it among my hogs it was caused by bringing a sow to my boar. It is 

 often spread by not burying those that have died. Before its advent here hogs 

 were very healthy. There has been such a change in the last twenty-five years in 

 raising hogs that it has affected the animal's constitution. It used to be that a hog 

 was wintered once before he wa fattened. Now he is crowded on a corn diet from 

 a pig, which makes him susceptible to cholera. The greater variety a hog has in his 

 food the more healthy he will be; the older a hog is the better he can stand a corn 

 diet. 



JACKSON. In several townships of this county hog cholera has prevailed during 

 the year. The majority of the animals attacked are from four to six months old. 

 The first symptom is a cough, followed by drooping posture of head; are disposed 

 to lie down; refuse to eat; manifest great thirst. In the last stage preceding death 

 dark spots frequently appear on the skin. . The characteristics of this dreadful dis- 

 ease vary greatly. Where animals have plenty of fresh water and access to wood 

 pastures the disease is less violent in its course and results. 



JASPER. Very little cholera among hogs in the county this year; less than for 

 four or five years past. It was brought here by hogs shipped in from other coun- 

 ties. 



JAY. We hardly know what hog cholera is here any more. I do not think fifty 

 head have died of the disease in this county during the year. Hogs were very 

 healthy previous to the introduction of cholera, which, if I mistake not, made its 

 appearance here- in 1867-'68, and for eight or ten years after that time it was almost 

 impossible to raise hogs. It has gradually disappeared, however, until the disease is 

 almost a thing of the past. A few horses have died of pink-eye, but farm animals 

 of all kinds are generally healthy. 



JEFFERSON. There is no hog cholera in this county. 



JENNINGS. During the past thirty years we have had three severe epidemics of 

 hog cholera. It has invariably been produced by hogs coming in contact with dis- 

 eased animals. A hog came to my place and died of cholera in a fallen tree top. 

 My hogs, in passing by the dead animal, took the disease, and, although healthy 

 before, I lost 70 head before the malady subsided. At another time about seven 

 years since the cholera appeared in this vicinity. My hogs were healthy, but by 

 drinking impure or contaminated water they took the disease and I lost 66 head of 

 very fat animals. I have examined numbers of them, and am of the opinion that 

 they generally die either of congestion of the lungs or of the brain. The symptoms 

 of the disease greatly vary, however. With all the remedies we have tried we find 

 nothing better than sulphur and carbonate of soda, given freely, with plenty of exer- 

 cise. I think we have been too careless in breeding to immature animals. Old ani- 

 mals, on both sides, produce the strongest and healthiest pigs. Then, again, we 

 raise too many together, and feed too much corn. If kept in small lots and given 

 a variety of food they will generally remain healthy. 



KOSCITTSKO. The first appearance of hog cholera in this section was about seven 

 years ago. Where it came from we do not know. However, it came into the county 

 from the south. A great many hogs have died of the disease. Another correspond- 

 ent writes: " I can not learn of any hog cholera in this county. There was cholera 

 in the county south of this (Wabash) about a year ago, and a few cases on this side 

 of the line, but it did not get any farther. I have not lost a hog by disease for 

 twenty years, and know of no cholera during that time in this vicinity." 



LAKE. So far as I know this county has never been troubled to any serious 

 extent by hog cholera. Some four or five years ago a few farms in one corner of the 

 county were affected with a disease supposed to be hog cholera. It seemed to spread 

 in from an adjoining county, but I have never heard of its breaking out on either 

 side of the county line since that one fall. The production of horses is on the 

 increase, that of cattle rather decreasing, while sheep and hogs remain about the 

 same. A large number of hogs are raised, but very few sheep. No prevailing dis- 

 eases of any kind have troubled domestic animals during the past year. 



LAGRANGE. No definite date can be given when hog cholera made its first appear- 

 ance in this county; probably it was twelve or fifteen years ago. Prior to that hogs 

 were generally healthy. Our hogs then were not as fine bred as at present had 



