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cholera had never been known. He fed them with cattle, 1 mile south of my place. 

 I looked at these hogs soon after they placed them there, and if I ever saw a worse 

 lot of scrubs I don't remember it. This was in the fall of 1873. They fed them all 

 they would eat, and as they were with their cattle they could get an abundance and 

 had plenty of water and should have fattened nicely, but they did not seem to im- 

 prove. Along in March, 1874, they commenced dying, and by May they had nearly 

 all died. There was no cholera at the time in the neighborhood, but from this lot 

 of scrubs the cholera broke out and destroyed thousands of hogs until the country 

 for miles around, in all directions, was scourged. 



CEDAR. There is a disease in this county they call hog cholera, but I very much 

 doubt it. It is more of a lung or throat disease. One man in this vicinity has lost 

 100 head. They 'died in pens. He had them in with his cattle. I find that nearly 

 all the diseased hogs in the county are among those that follow cattle. 



CLAY. The disease known as hog cholera first made its appearance here some 

 twenty years ago. The mode of its introduction is not known. There seems two 

 kinds of disease one affects the lungs, the other the bowels. Both are called hog 

 cholera. Hogs were healthy until this disease made its appearance. 



CLINTON! All remedies have been tried on hog cholera that are known to the 

 human race. My experience is that the more salt you can compel a hog to use, 

 both in feed and drink, the better it is for the hog. Last winter my hogs (about 

 100) were attacked in January. I fed and watered in a dry lot, using water from a 

 well. I used salt freely in the water trough, and ashes and salt in the pen ; lost no 

 hogs until March, when they could procure water at branch and pond. If I had 

 shut my hogs in this feed lot and continued the salt remedy I don't think I would 

 have lost any. If, in the future, I am scourged with this disease I shall try, 

 thoroughly, the salt remedy. The health of all domestic animals has been good, 

 save that of hogs, which suffered greatly from cholera last spring and summer, 

 fully one-half of crop perishing. The crop of young hogs in the county is at least 

 20 per cent, short. All other classes of stock are in fine condition. 



I)E KALB. Hog cholera for the last three or four years has been very annoying 

 in this county. But very few farmers have escaped its ravages. I will put the loss 

 at about one-third of the hogs raised, especially the last year. 



DADE. Hog cholera has never been very prevalent in this county. There are 

 entire townships where it has never appeared. I notice that where hogs have an 

 abundance of good water and plenty of range or pasture but few are ever afflicted 

 with cholera. 



FRANKLIN. Hog cholera was unknown in this county until 1868, when it was 

 introduced by the Berkshire hogs brought from the State of Illinois. In this 

 county the Berkshire and Poland China seem the most susceptible to the disease. 

 Previous to the introduction of the above-named malady disease among hogs was 

 unknown. What are left of the scrub stock (' ' hazel splitters ") are comparatively 

 healthy. A correspondent "writes : ' ' My earliest recollection of hog cholera in this 

 county was about the years 1869 or 1870. In many cases the animals, fat, lean, or 

 medium, fell dead as instantaneously as if killed by a stroke of lightning. In other 

 cases they would live hours and days, and some would occasionally recover. No 

 remedy was found, nor has any known cause for the disease been ascertained, 

 though many theories have been advanced. I do not think there is a case of the 

 disease in the county at this time, though there is a disease somewhat prevalent 

 among these animals which I think is pneumonia. The loss from this latter dis- 

 ease is less than in former years." 



GASCONADE. There are but a few sections in our county where hogs have been lost 

 by cholera. I find no other reason for this than exposure to inclement weather. I 

 myself have raised hogs for over twenty years and have never lost a single one. 

 They are kept in a good, comfortable stable and have all necessary care. 



GENTRY. The stock of this county has been remarkably healthy during the past 

 year, owing, perhaps, to the total absence of stagnant water and malaria. The hog 

 cholera disappeared about a year ago and I can learn of none in the county. One 

 correspondent reports an epidemic among some of the cattle, and a loss of about 50 

 head within a radius of a few miles. He states that the disease was black leg. 



GRUNDY. I can give no information about hog cholera that will be of importance. 

 This county has lost but few hogs for the last two years with the disease termed 

 cholera. A disease called cholera caused a few hogs to die in the eastern part of 

 this county in November, but has since disappeared. 



HARRISON. The hogs raised in this county are mostly Poland China of pure 

 breed, Berkshires, Jersey Reds, and a few Chester Whites. Hog cholera first ap- 

 peared in this county about the year 1866, and has been prevalent in the county 

 from year to year until the present time. I have no knowledge of how it was first 

 introduced. The disease is very fatal; when it attacks a drove usually from 50 to 



