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matter up. Every person who has a pig to recover has an infalible remedy and pre- 

 ventive, but unfortunately the next pig requires altogether a different treatment. 

 While a percentage gets over it without any treatment, many get the disease which 

 never came in contact with any other hog, while frequently half the hogs in a pen 

 will die and the rest remain perfectly healthy. So the source of the disease and a 

 remedy have not yet transpired. 



CRAWFORD. I never heard of a case of hog cholera in this county, and no dis- 

 ease seems to be affecting any other class of farm animals. 



ELK. Hogs are not raised to any extent in this county. What are raised are 

 usually kept in pens and fed on milk and refuse of the kitchens. They are killed at 

 about a year old. Their numbers are not increasing. There has never been any 

 hog cholera in the county. 



FAYETTE. I have lived and been engaged in farming on the place I now live over 

 fifty years, during which time my hogs have had what is called cholera but once, 

 that was about the year 1850. But there has scarcely a year passed in my time of 

 farming that reports of hog cholera did not reach me, although our losses were sel- 

 dom very great. Some of our distillery-fed hogs seemed to die off pretty rapidly, 

 but in the general way a few would die, and some would linger for a time and 

 finally recover, while a large percentage would escape altogether. The cause of hog 

 cholera has never been satisfactorily given, nor has there been any infallible cure 

 discovered. The disease at first seems epidemic and afterwards contagious. Upon 

 the whole hog-raising is rapidly on the decline in this section. 



INDIANA. Hog cholera was introduced into this county in the summer of 1886 

 by hogs brought from " East Liberty" (Pittsburgh) stock-yards. It has so far been 

 confined to three tow^nships and losses have not been extensive. This county is very 

 favorably located for insuring healthfulness in animals, particularly hogs. High 

 and rolling land, abundance of pure running water, plenty of woodland and shade, 

 etc. Personal observation of the disease in several instances has made it apparent 

 that healthy hogs, if not too fat when attacked, under conditions above-named, 

 will recover, at least a large percentage will. I note one instance where a herd of 

 good hogs had been liberally fed on skimmed and butter milk, and every one recov- 

 ered. The recovery was marked by loss of hair, and in some cases the hoof. Some 

 pink-eye has prevailed among horses. Cattle and sheep are free from disease. 



JUNIATA. Hog cholera is thought to have been brought into the county about 

 the year 1862. The probability is that it was introduced from the wester a part of 

 the State and from Ohio, as many hogs were brought in at that time. It is not 

 epidemic at present, and has not been for nearly a year. I can not find any one 

 who can give the cause of its appearance. Sometimes it is ascribed to an overfeed 

 of acorns, as it appears more prevalent in the years when they are a full crop. The 

 remedies tried, with at least partial success, have been common salt, and charred 

 corn-cobs, arsenic, tar, and asafoetida. 



McKEAN. There is no prevailing disease among sheep. Nine-tenths of the deaths 

 are the result of abuse and starvation. Hog cholera has never prevailed here. 



MONTOUR. Some cholera has prevailed among hogs in this county, but the losses 

 have been light. 



NORTHAMPTON. There has been no hog cholera in this county worth speaking of. 

 If farmers would adopt the plan of giving their hogs charcoal every week there 

 would be no disease among hogs. There has been no disease among horses or cattle. 

 Some of the latter have died of bloat from feeding on clover. We raise no mules 

 or sheep. I suppose the value of animals lost by disease may not have been over 



LAWRENCE. Within the last ten years I have known but of a dozen cases of hog 

 cholera, and I do not think any of them were cases of the genuine plague, which, I 

 think, is only a Western disease. Hogs are too well taken care of here to contract 

 cholera. They are raised only in small lots in our county. I imported some Poland 

 China pigs some ten years ago from western Ohio. One sow died of what at the 

 time was called cholera, but I am satisfied now that it was too fat, and died of kid- 

 ney disease. Some die of pneumonia, superinduced by close feeding in warm, close 

 pens. Some cows die of puerperal fever in consequence of being too fat when they 

 calve* Dogs kill a good many shee^>. Horses are generally healthy. More died 

 from colic and over-driving than from any disease. 



LYCOMING. Hog cholera first made its appearance here in the fall of 1,85. It 

 broke out here shortly after half a dozen car-loads of hogs were shipped into the 

 county from the West. It was not so bad in 1885, but in the fall of 1886 it was very 

 bad, but this year I have not heard of a single case. People have been feeding 

 good, healthy feed, and have been particular with their pens. Previous to the 

 cholera I never knew of any hog disease in the county. 



