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more cholera than in the last year or two, How it first came here I have no idea. 

 It never was very bad here. In fact, we raise but very few hogs. No special dis- 

 ease has been among the horses or cattle; but few deaths have occurred, only from 

 old age or worn-out horses. The same as to the cattle. Can not give anything like 

 a correct idea of the number raised, of those that have died, or the value of the 

 same. 



CHATHAM. Hog cholera has prevailed in this county more or less for the last 

 twelve years, being at times much more fatal than at others. Especially was this 

 so on its first appearance, when it was more fatal and destructive than it has ever 

 been since. The nature of the disease has remained all the while a mystery, no 

 remedy ever having been discovered that was infallible. "With my own hogs thus 

 infected I have found nothing that does so "well as drenching them with a heavy 

 dose of salts, repeated until looseness of bowels is shown. 



CHEROKEE. Cholera first made its appearance among hogs in this county about 

 the year I860, many farmers losing nearly their entire herd. The cause of its first 

 coming was unknown. It makes its appearance now every few years, destroying 

 nearly all the hogs during its visitation. Other farm animals are free in a measure 

 from all disease. Hogs were generally healthy before cholera first made its appear- 

 ance. 



CRAVEN, Hog cholera appeared here about twelve years ago. All classes of 

 farmers have suffered from it. No remedy of universal, or even moderate, success 

 seems to have been found. The writer is convinced, from observation and experi- 

 ence, and also from the testimony of many reliable men, that the danger can be 

 reduced to a minimum, at small expense and trouble to the farmers, by the follow- 

 ing plan: Take 1 bag salt, 1 ban-el hard- wood ashes, and 3 pounds sulphur, mix 

 and keep a supply of it in a bed or trough, under cover, accessible to the hogs every 

 day in the year; also place charcoal where the hogs can get it. This will prevent 

 an attack of cholera. It will not cure it, but will prevent it. 



CUMBERLAND. Hog cholera has net been very prevalent in this county this year, 

 but was very fatal last year, and the stwk has been so reduced that the lost per- 

 centage has not been regained. We think the hogs of this county are in a very 

 healthy condition, but most of them are quite small because young. Hog cholera 

 began in this county many years ago, and during 1880 and 1886 was very destruc- 

 tive. 



DARE. Hog cholera first broke out here in 1877, having been brought in from 

 Camden County, N. C. It killed about one-third the hogs in the county. It broke 

 out again in 1883, but not so bad as before. Since then we have had none except 

 among hogs which stay on the beach and get their own living without shelter. 



DURHAM. We have had no hog cholera in this county for four or five years, or 

 at least very little. The writer is unable to even approximate the date of the first 

 appearance of the disease in this part of the State. We had a disease among hogs 

 before the war, called distemper, which prevailed at certain seasons of the year, 

 along in July and August, Our people do not raise more than one-fourth of the 

 pork that they consume. They are now trying to raise more. When our hogs died 

 of cholera several years since no successful remedy was discovered or used. Many 

 think that one of the best remedies used was something to keep their bowels open. 



EDGECOMBE. Hog cholera made its first appearance in this county about 1863, and 

 since that time it has made great ravages among our swine, often killing as many 

 as 90 per cent, of a lot & fattening hogs. Pigs and sows have not been exempt. 

 It has been very disastrous in some sections. It attacks old and young indifferently. 

 It is considered by some that it is not so severe and general as it has been in the 

 territory where there is no-fence law, because farmers are required to give their 

 stock better attention. Being compelled to keep them from running at large, they 

 naturally look after them with more care. If this should prove so it will be fortu- 

 nate. The coming year will throw more light on it. Have found no specific cure 

 for the cholera. 



GATES. Hog cholera made its appearance in this county about 1870, and it has 

 not abated in its severity since. At least one-half of all the hogs or pigs in the 

 county die of the disease. Hogs seem to be more liable to be attacked when about 

 six months old, although some die when quite young and others when grown and 

 ready for market . How the cholera made its appearance here has never been ascer- 

 tained. 



GASTON. I know of some hog cholera in this county, but it is not serious or 

 wide-spread, 



GRANVILLE. Hog cholera made its first appearance in this, county about 1858, 

 but has never done much damage. Occasionally one or two farms would suffer, 

 but it has never been general over the county. It is thought by some to be typhoid 

 fever, produced by the filthy manner in which most hogs are fed, and it is said that 



