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Mostly large, fat hogs, ready for killing, have died. No special remedy as yet has 

 been discovered. Some think burnt corn and bread crust in slop is a preventive, as 

 the hogs of some who have been trying it have e caped. 



ASHE. Hog cholera has not been very destructive in this part of the country un- 

 til the last seven or eight years. The health of hogs was generally good previous 

 to that time, with the exception of something like quinsy. A cure lias been effected 

 by the use of strychnine. 



BEAUFORT. Hog cholera has prevailed in this section of North Carolina for the 

 last twenty years, but has been much more prevalent for the last seven years. I 

 am unable to give any facts in regard to its first appearance, and can not fix the 

 precise date. The disease generally makes its appearance in the latter part of the 

 summer or early autumn, and abates during the winter. But this year it prevailed 

 extensively during April, May, and June, but has not done much damage this fall. 

 It usually spreads from the, starting point to the adjacent farms until the whole 

 neighborhood is infected. I have been raising hogs, in considerable numbers, for 

 the last twenty-five years, and did not lose any from this disease until 1884. It then 

 came from a farm lying on the west of mine, the side from which the prevailing 

 winds come. My hogs were not in contact with any that were sick, and were un- 

 usually thrifty until the disease appeared among them, which was in December. 

 For two months prior to that they had the range of a large field, in which there was 

 an abundance of pure running water, and their food consisted of corn, sweet potatoes, 

 and field peas. In a short time 54 valuable animals died, among them 7 fine brood 

 sows; several others which had been sick and apparently recovered died when the 

 . weather became very cold. Only two that were sick fully recovered. Their lungs 

 were the organs affected. In the fall of 1885 I lost about 30, and in 1886 about 60. 

 In August of this year I fed nay hogs, in their food, carbolic acid for twenty con- 

 secutive days, and 'have had but one case. That was pronounced; the hog died, but 

 the disease did not spread. The disease is less prevalent this fall than for several 

 years past. The value of the annual losses in this county for the last seven years 

 has been from $10,000 to $15,000. 



BERTIE. Hog cholera first made its appearance here some fifteen years since, and 

 was at first confined to limited localities. It has since extended to the whole county. 

 It is more prevalent during the fall and winter months, and the proportion that 

 "survive" to be of value is hardly appreciable. No remedy has been found that 

 will relieve or which cures. Thrifty, well-kept hogs are as subject to it as the weakly, 

 ill-fed, indifferent ones in appearance. I have noted that pigs from one month to 

 four months old are but little given to it. 



BLADEN. Hog cholera made its appearance here about 1861. Prior to that time 

 hogs were very healthy. As to its cause no one can give a satisfactory answer. No 

 remedy has been discovered. Prevention seems to be the best, arid this is done by 

 keeping healthy hogs from mingling with diseased ones. But this is very difficult, 

 as stock are allowed to run at large. Thoso who pasture, and thereby prevent in- 

 discriminate mixing of stock, arc more successful in raising hogs. 



BURKE. We had hog cholera hi 1864. I do not remember that we had it before 

 that time. Hogs were generally healthy before the introduction of cholera. I do 

 not know the means of its introduction. It has prevailed several seasons since. A 

 good many animals died last spring. Some thought the trouble was caused by 

 hogs eating sprouted acorns. I do not know the cause, nor do I know any remedy. 



CAMDEN. Hog cholera has prevailed only to a limited extent this year. Very 

 few farmers have lost their hogs. Farmers have learned that by the use of tur- 

 pentine and kerosene the disease can be cured. By strict and prompt attention the 

 disease is in most cases checked in its incipiency, and is not so destructive as form- 

 erly. Occasionally swine are attacked with quinsy, or something like it, which 

 is more fatal than cholera. Twenty years ago swine needed no attention except to 

 be fed, as disease was unknown. But farmers have learned that great care and 

 attention are necessary in order to raise them successfully and profitably. I think 

 the cholera first appeared in this county in 1867. No disease has prevailed among 

 stock of any kind during the year, and the death rate has been nominal. The per- 

 centage of increase is about an average, except in sheep, which is rather above an 

 average. 



CARTERET. Hog cholera was unknown to this county twenty -five years ago, but 

 about that time it raged as an epidemic here, killing a large number of hogs. For 

 twenty or more years it left us free from its ravages, but in 1886 it again appeared 

 as an epidemic and killed 75 per cent, of all the swine in the county. Its infre- 

 quency along the coast in this county has been attributed to the saline and alkaline 

 food eaten by our swine. 



CASWELL. But very few hogs or stock of any kind raised in this county. Only 

 a few deaths among hogs. No cholera of consequence. In the past we have had 



