252 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



MISSOURI. 



AD AIR. The number of farm animals annually raised in this county are about 

 as follows : Horses, 3,700 ; cattle, 12,500 ; sheep, 7,000 ; hogs, 20,000. Number of 

 hogs lost by disease during the year, about 1,000, valued at .$5,000. The first case of 

 hog cholera I have any recollection of in this county was in 1861. The hogs that 

 spread the disease were brought here from Iowa, and "were claimed to be a highly 

 improved stock. I have no knowledge of any disease that killed hogs prior to that 

 time, though there might have been such disease in existence. We are not often 

 troubled with swine diseases. Where we are it seldom spreads much, but is con- 

 fined to a small territory. 



ANDREW. Our hogs are healthy except when the contagious hog cholera comes 

 into the neighborhood. My adjoining neighbors have lost 100 head the past year. 

 I have resided here twenty years and have never suffered from the disease. Tkeep 

 my hogs more isolated than most farmers. Have never known the disease to arise 

 except as it comes gradually from a distance. I believe it only arises from conta- 

 gion ; dogs and buzzards carry the germs of it. I think it similar to typhoid fever 

 in man. Have made a number of post mortem examinations. Sometimes I found 

 the lungs, and at other times the liver, affected. There were no constant lesions. 



ATCHISON. Hog cholera appeared in this county about the year 1870. It was 

 introduced by hogs brought in from the southern part of the State which were 

 affected with the disease. The disease has been spread in various ways since, by 

 diseased hogs coming in contact with well ones, by farmers visiting diseased herds 

 and carrying the contagion in their clothing to non-infected animals, etc. I believe 

 the disease is also carried by crows. The carcass of every diseased hog should be 

 burned as the safest mode of preventing the spread of the disease. Hogs in this 

 county were healthy previous to the introduction of cholera. 



AUDRAIN. The first cases of hog cholera known in this county were in 1852. 

 The disease was introduced from the southwestern part of this State, so testifies one 

 of the oldest settlers in this county. Before that time hogs were generally healthy. 



BARRY. Hog cholera has prevailed in this county to a greater or less extent for 

 twenty years. Hogs were generally healthy before its appearance. For several 

 years it was (like Texas fever in cattle) confined to certain localities, hence in other 

 neighborhoods the animals were healthy. It still operates about the same way 

 but at times has prevailed over the entire county. Hogs fattened on floored pens 

 have generally escaped, and its further spread among the same lot has been secured 

 by putting them up on floored pens. It has prevailed to a considerable extent for 

 the last four months here. 



CAPE GIRARDEAU. Hogs have died more or less on creeks and low lands, usually 

 after having a good mast for several years previous. But the disease never became 

 general over the county until the fall of 1885, and the spring and summer of 1886. 

 The county lying north of ours was troubled with cholera, and it seemed to cross 

 over into this county, moving south, and traveled very slowly, taking about six 

 months to spread over the county. The result was that but few hogs were left. 

 After this wave passed over hogs became comparatively healthy, and no disease 

 exists among them now. We found no remedy that seemed to be of much value. 

 No disease prevails among horses or cattle. 



CALBWELL. I can not ascertain when hog cholera first appeared in this county. 

 It has been prevalent here during the ten years I have resided in the county, and 

 until within the past two years has proved very destructive, but the past two years 

 the disease has been restrained considerably by the means and remedies used to 

 prevent and cure it. Hogs were healthy in this section before the introduction of 

 cholera. I do not know how the disease was brought here. The losses during the 

 year were 5,000 head, valued at $20,000, The general condition of live-stock in this 

 county is good now, considering the fact that water was pretty scarce during the 

 summer months. All stock, including hogs, is comparatively healthy at this time. 



CASS. Hog cholera "was almost unknown here until about 1870, when the country 

 became settled up and the hogs were shut off the range and improved breeds intro- 

 duced. We know of no certain remedy. 



CHARITON. This question of hog cholera is one with two sides to it, for when it 

 first made its appearance in this county all agreed it was imported with the fine 

 stock of hogs introduced from other States. This seemed to be the accepted belief 

 by every one in 1857, the year of its first appearance. My neighbor. S. D. Elleng- 

 ton, was so satisfied that that theory was correct that he would not allow any fine 

 stock on his farm. He fenced a woodland pasture with great care to prevent any 

 of the fine stock getting with his hogs, but in a few years the cholera got into his 

 herd and killed almost every hog on his farm. Another case : Drake & Collins 

 bought in southwest Missouri and in Arkansas about 150 head, in a locality where 



