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WRIGHT. Hog cholera has never made its appearance among our hogs. No de- 

 structive disease of any kind has prevailed among any class of farm animals in this 

 county during the current year. 



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A MITE. Horses are affected occasionally with glanders and hogs with cholera, of 

 which they generally die. Cattle are very healthy. Al5out one-third of those at- 

 tacked by disease die. 



BOLIVAR. The cuckle burr causes great fatality among hogs, due to the fact that 

 the seed contains two germs, one sprouting the first year and the other the year 

 after. The succulent sprouts are devoured by the hogs and the rough rind adheres 

 to the throat, thus often killing a great many. The unrotted lint on cotton seed 

 also is very destructive. After overflows the pools of rotted fish cause great disease 

 among the hogs, but this is not very serious if they are liberally salted. 



CALHOUN. Hog cholera has prevailed in this county this fall. It has proved fatal 

 in every case that I have heard of. I have seen but one animal that was affected, 

 and it died in about thirty minutes after I saw it. It came by me on the streets of 

 Pittsborough, panting as though it had been running, and crept under a house and 

 was dead in a few minutes. The disease does not prevail over the county generally. 

 It made its first appearance about 1869, when it made a clean sweep of all the hogs 

 in the county. But since that time we have lost but few with the disease. One 

 man has lost eighteen pork hogs this fall, but his is an isolated case. 



CHICKASAW. Hogs in this county were affected a year ago with a disease that 

 was not understood by any one here. The animals became drowsy, were inclined 

 to stand about in warm, sunshiny places, and in about seven days would break out 

 in little pimples or blotches, and within about ten days from the first symptoms 

 would die. The few that recovered shed all their hair, leaving a smooth, hairless 

 surface. No remedies proved effective. Since then hogs have been quite healthy. 



CHOCTAW. For several years past I have been studying the disease known as hog 

 cholera, and have come to the conclusion that no such disease exists. A careful 

 analysis of many after death has revealed the following: The smaller intestines, in 

 nine cases out of ten, have been found to be literally eaten up with worms. Find- 

 ing this to be the case, I have quit trying to cure cholera, but have doctored them 

 for worms, and I find in every case, after getting the worms away, they thrive and 

 do well. Corn boiled in lye soap and given once or twice a month will clean the 

 worms out and cure what is termed hog cholera. 



COAHOMA. I have lived in this county for twenty years, and the hog cholera was 

 here before I came. We do not have it every year, nor does it often, if ever, pre- 

 vail in all parts of the county the same year. I have never had it enough to notice 

 until last year, when I lost 90 or 95 per cent. My hogs were in pastures and lots, 

 and were fed on corn most of the time. I have a neighbor who lives some 5 miles 

 back of me, and who has nothing but the virgin forest all around him for miles. 

 His hogs ran in the woods and he lost all he had but two. I know of no cause or 

 remedy for hog cholera. It has been worse the last few years than formerly. 



CoviNGTON. We have been comparatively free from hog cholera the past year. 

 The present year, however, has been ushered in with a serious outbreak of the dis- 

 ease. Hogs are now dying rapidly in various parts of the county, and our losses 

 will do doubt be great. 



DE SOTO. Hog cholera has prevailed very little in this county this year, though 

 it is quite fatal whenever it makes its appearance. Mr. Pace, of Olive Branch (one 

 of my assistants), says: " Some years ago a mysterious disease resembling the quinsy 

 or throat disease appeared among hogs, arid quite a number died. A great many 

 persons thought they died from eating bitter mast." 



HINDS. The cholera among hogs has prevailed to a certain extent in sections of 

 this county for several years. It is not known how nor when it first appeared, but 

 it is known to have prevailed more or less every year for some years. Some years 

 it is quite fatal, while in other years there is but very little fatality. Several reme- 

 dies have been used, but none have been found to effect a complete cure. It is be- 

 lieved to be more in the feeding and general good management by some farmers 

 that they succeed so much better than others. However, we know that a great 

 many losses occur by death, but the causes are not so well known. 



GREENE. I have no means of investigating the disease of hogs, but it is thought 

 they die of cholera. Other classes of stock are doing well, and there are no diseases 

 among them. 



ISSAQUENA. There has been no hog cholera in this county. Some disease pre- 

 vailed among pigs during last spring, usually attacking them at the age of four or 

 six weeks. Older ones were not affected. I presume freedom from disease may be 



