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salt, sulphur, and ashes (either wood or coal) mixed, no trouble is experienced. Ex- 

 clusive diet of corn predisposes the system to disease. Sniut kills ng cattle, but too 

 much dry stalk and husk without salt and water will. 



WALLACE. There is no general disease prevalent among any class of our farm 

 animals. A few hogs recently died of a disease said to be cholera. A few horses have 

 also died from local causes. 



WASHINGTON. In the last thirty years hog cholera has cleaned me out twice, 

 once in Atchison County some twenty-three years ago, and in 1875 here in this 

 county. I commenced in 1875 to give my hogs all the disinfectants I could think 

 of, such as sulphur, soda, copperas, salt, etc. The disease appears to affect the 

 throat, bowels, and intestines. Any remedy good for worms wnich infest the in- 

 testines sometimes helps when given in the early stages. I look upon the disease 

 as partly catarrhal. Indigestion and impaired intestinal dyspepsia would produce 

 worms of itself. It will produce the same result in the child or adult. The plague 

 is present in a few places this year. It was brought here first from thoroughbred 

 Poland China hogs shipped from Nebraska; but the full-blooded Berkshires died as 

 well; the only ones that survived were cross or half breeds. The Poland China have 

 been inbred until they have no vitality, and my experience is that the Red Duioc is 

 the hardiest of all, and that remedies such as gentian, sulphate of iron, etc, , that im- 

 proves digestion and gets rid of the worms, are the best. More grass and greasy food 

 in summer and less dry corn. (A fat hog is plethoric enough to die of itself.) Texas 

 fever was brought into this county in May, 1887, through cattle shipped from Ar- 

 kansas and the Indian Territory in July. They were quarantined by the State au- 

 thorities, and on the line of travel all native cattle during the summer feeding over 

 their trail took sick and died. The quarantine continued from December 1. As 

 many as 30 head of cattle a day would die in one pasture or herd. As health officer 

 of the county I saw that they were buried, and the sheriff with posse attended to 

 the same. They were then covered with lime. Lime, salt, and sulphur was given 

 freely to the cattle as a disinfectant. 



WOODSON. No cholera prevails among the hogs of this county. Twenty hogs, 

 supposed to be suffering with hydrophobia, have been killed. Four or five head of 

 cattle, supposed to be affected with the same disease, have been destroyed. 



KENTUCKY. 



BALLARD. It would be impossible for me to state how hog cholera was intro- 

 duced into this county. Hogs have been remarkably healthy this year; not a case 

 of the disease has been known in the county for nine months. All kinds of farm 

 animals are in fine condition, owing to the mild winter so far. 



BATH. Cholera in hogs first appeared in this county about 1860, and has been 

 here to a greater or less extent ever since. Heavy losses have been sustained from 

 it. Many farmers have quit trying to raise hogs on account of it. Many claim to 

 have remedies, but I doubt the efficacy of any of them. 



BELL. Hog cholera made its first appearance in this county about the year 1860. 

 There was no disease among the hogs up to that time, except quinsy, and it was 

 not fatal. The mode of introduction of cholera into this county is not known. 



BOONE. Hog cholera made its appearance in our county about the year 1855, 

 since which time we have had more or less of it. Sometimes it is very fatal, killing 

 nearly all it attacks. In some sections of our county it has been prevailing for the 

 last two months, proving very fatal, some farmers losing nearly all. At the dis- 

 tillery hi Petersburg!! it has prevailed to a considerable extent. I am unable at this 

 time to give the number that have died. Two of my assistants report no cholera 

 in their neighborhoods, while the other lives in the section where it is prevailing, 

 and reports the loss at 400 head, but mostly young hogs worth about $2 per head. 

 It is still prevailing there. Various remedies have been tried, but without much 

 success. 



BtrLLiTT. The best information I can gather concerning hog cholera is that it 

 made its first appearance in this county some time in the year 1856. No one can 

 say, positively, the cause of its origin, nor in what manner it was first introduced. 

 Hogs were generally healthy previous to that time. All classes of stock are going 

 into the winter in a good, healthy condition, excepting young horses and colts. 

 Distemper has been prevalent throughout the northern portion of the county. Have 

 heard of no deaths from the disease. 



CARTER. The past season is the first one in three or four years that we have had 

 cholera among our hogs. This year it has been very destructive, some farmers 

 having lost all the hogs thejr had. As to the cause of the disease we can not tell. 

 We have no remedy, that is, none that is reliable. Other classes of animals are 

 generally healthy. 



